This thesis discusses hotaru no sato (firefly villages) and the various ways in which they relate to fireflies and regional revitalisation. Fireflies have long wielded the imaginations of Japanese people, from featuring ...

The aim of this thesis is to explain the observed case-alternation occurring with the three Japanese predicates suki 'like', kirai 'dislike' and hoshii 'want' from a Cognitive Linguistic standpoint. These three predicates ...

Japanese language presents a wide range of first-person pronouns, all glossed into “I” in the English translation. This study focuses on the first-person pronouns watakushi, watashi, atashi, atai, washi, jibun, boku, ore, ...

The aim of this thesis is to find how frequently the feminine sentence ending particles are used in the translation of English literature into Japanese and to compare its frequency to that of the real-life speech by women ...

This thesis consists of an analysis of two Japanese picture books about death of a loved one during the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11th, 2011. I apply a broad theoretical framework to place the picture books ...

It is a well known fact that the contemprorary Japanese is written with hiragana, katakana and the Chinese characters. There is a theory that claims that an ancient alphabet existed in Japan before any of the aforementioned ...

One of the most exciting aspects of literature is how literature deals with subjects and topics in the real world. In this thesis I will examine how Ôe Kenzaburô's novel The Silent Cry deals with the topics of remembering ...

In this thesis we will examine the localization of the American RPG-title video game Undertale, a video game created and published by Toby Fox in 2015, in the context of language phenomenon in Japanese fiction and translation ...

In this thesis we will follow the snow crab on his adventures across the globe. It is a thesis with significant weight placed on discussions regarding the agency and interpretations of the snow crab’s role in different ...

The following master’s thesis Representations of China in Japan - Portrayals of China in the 2014 National Diet is a study of the rhetorical role that China inhabits within the discourse of the Japanese National Diet of ...

During the period of the so called "1955-system", which covers to bulk of the period analysed in this paper, and to some extent also after 1993, the LDP has been described as "a coalition of factions", factions which in ...

In today's globalised society English is vital to international communication and cooperation and English education therefore holds a central spot in education systems worldwide. In this thesis I look at the history of ...

This thesis studies the current debate surrounding moral education in Japan, choosing to focus on the criticism of the Abe administration s proposed educational reform. Moral education has received criticism for being ...

The aim of the thesis is to explore ways to represent the rich and detailed person images/speech characters that are evoked from non-standard language in the Japanese work in Norwegian language. In Japanese fictional works, ...

This thesis explores recent changes in the conjugation of the Japanese verb chigau. These changes have resulted in the emergence of several innovative forms based on conjugational formants and auxiliaries normally reserved ...

Summary Described in in a few words, yabusame is a form of mounted archery that in the modern period, and up until very recently, served exclusively as a shrine rite and warrior ceremonial, performed almost as exclusively ...

This thesis explores a rather new and somewhat colloquial style of polite language in Japanese, which will mostly be referred to as the semi-polite or nai desu form. In most grammars and textbooks we are usually taught ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å se på gammeljapanske plantenavn og hvordan de kan bidra til vår helhetlige forståelse av gammeljapansk, og spesielt det folketaksonomiske systemet, og navngivningsmotivene bak plantenavna i ...

The focus of this thesis investigates the development and modernization of one of Japan s oldest moral systems known as bushido (the way of the warrior) and its incorporation into the Japanese school system during the ...

Japanese women s language is a concept encountered daily in Japanese society and, perhaps most interestingly, in Japanese language studies. Students are informed that there are such concepts as women s language and men ...

This paper seeks to demonstrate that the contemporary practices of Japanese traditional tattooing are a living continuation of its practices in the past Edo period and post war era through the 80’s It does this by focusing ...

Denne oppgaven handler om høyrepopulism i Japan

This study is based on the Japanese novel Grotesque (Gurotesuku) by Natsuo Kirino. I use Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity and interpellation as a framework to analyze the four main female characters, the ...

This paper investigates the possibilities of significant links or similarities between Norwegian and Japanese. Twice 100 pages from two Norwegian novels were paired with their Japanese translations and investigated for ...

The Japanese and Korean vocabularies include several thousand symbolic words and they are nearly the only native vocabulary not penetrated by Sino-Japanese or Sino-Korean. Symbolic words (including onomatopoeia) are used ...

This thesis seeks to investigate changes and continuity in the Japanese musical genre enka. Enka is a form of sentimental ballad music which is said to sing the heart/soul of Japan. An enka song is made to sound very ...

This thesis seeks to investigate how notions of learning are expressed in the Oslo copy of Kannonkyô Hayayomi Eshô from 1739. This book was a popular text that sold very well during the Edo period, when printed books spread ...

In the Edo period, there was an increase in people who started to question what it meant to be Japanese. This kind of cultural identity can be seen in thoughts on Japan as “Shinkoku” (“the land of the kami/gods” or “Divine ...

Eg vil med denne oppgåva freiste å vise og gjere greie for eksistensialismen i den tidlege forfattarskapen til Ōe Kenzaburō1 2 (1935-) generelt, og skissere dynamikken mellom det aktive og det passive politiske3 mennesket ...

This thesis seeks to investigate how collective identity and community are imagined through a book called Eitai Setsuyō Mujinzō. This is a book in the so called setsuyōshū genre, a kind of household encyclopedia/dictionary ...

The topic of this Master Thesis is about Ainu - a group of indigenous people from the northern part of Japan. The focus is on Ainu aged in their late 20’s and early 30’s and how and to what extent their people’s dismal ...

Selv om det er enighet rundt det faktum at en elidert (slettet) verbfrase (VP) må være lik sin antesedent (syntaktisk referent), finnes det få om noen tilfredsstillende formuleringer av hvordan ellipsis foregår. Denne ...

Japanese cinema has always been valued by film theorists as an alternative filmic expression of the highest quality. Nevertheless, Japanese cinema is never described with the same respect as European and American filmic ...

This thesis sets out to explore how Japanese attitudes toward North Korea have changed since North Korean leader Kim Jong-il admitted that North Korea systematically abducted Japanese citizens during the 70s and 80s. The ...

Partikler i Japansk språk viser gramatiske og semantiske forhold mellom substantiver, men i muntlig tale mangler ofte partiklene. Noen forskere påstår at dette fenomenet er bare “particle drop”, mens andre hevder at det ...

Due to the continuous language exchange between China and Japan in a long history period, the loanwords from Japanese can often be seen in modern Chinese. As a widespread sociolinguistic phenomenon, it is confirmed that ...

When Japanese children learn about human rights at school, it appears to be focused on duty rather than human rights. The Confucian Philosophy influences the way of Japanese thinking related to human rights. This thesis ...

Denne oppgaven handler om boligens betydning i Japan. Japan ble et samfunn av boligeiere i årene etter andre verdenskrig, grunnet en målrettet offentlig boligpolitikk. I dag er boligen et av velferdsstatens viktigste goder, ...

Det Internet-baserte leksikonet Wikipedia er en potensielt veldig nyttig informasjonskilde, men det er naturlig å være skeptisk til et leksikon der alle kan gjøre endringer. Flere undersøkelser har vært gjort for å finne ...

I denne oppgaven har jeg valgt å ta for meg på hvilken måte japanske eksperimentelle musikere forholder seg til krav om autensitet. Det finnes ingen klar definisjon på autensitet, og inneholdet i ordet kan i stor grad ...

No matter which languages a literary translator handles, he or she is bound to encounter words that represent objects or concepts specific to the source language culture. In most instances, such an element will be unknown ...

After several years of development aid being ruled by conditionality, the international trend in discussion revolving around development co-operation and aid efficiency has gradually shifted focus towards the concepts of ...

This thesis is an investigation into the phenomenon of acute social withdrawal in Japan, a phenomenon popularly referred to as 'hikikomori'. In both Japanese and international media, the phenomenon has received much attention ...

De fleste har hørt om riksrevisjonen, men de færreste vet kanskje hva en riksrevisjon faktisk gjør. En riksrevisjons rolle er å kontrollere hvordan den utøvende myndighet anvender statelige midler på veiene av nasjonalfo ...

This thesis is an analysis of the Japanese novel Child of Fortune (Chôji) that was written and published in the late 1970s. The author Tsushima Yûko is relatively unknown to the Western public although she is considered ...

This study is about the words used for women’s work within the home, in Japanese and English. The aim is to see whether there is something in the language used which undermines respect for the women who performer the tasks ...

Ôe Kenzaburô (1935) is one of the most influential and significant Japanese writers of the postwar period. In 1994 he became the second from his country to receive the Nobel Literature Prize, an event which increased ...

For det Japanske samfunnet markerte det politiske maktskiftet i 1868 starten på store omveltninger. I løpet av få år ble landet endret fra et føydalt samfunn til en enhetlig moderne stat. Det ble gjort store forandringer ...

The status of marriage as an institution in modern sociology: A comparative study of Japan and Norway with a focus on gender equality. This research looks into the modernization process of marriage and how it has been ...

Traditionally, coercion and permission are regarded as prototypical functions of Japanese causatives from both a theoretical and a pedagogical point of view. With nine years of experience as a Japanese language teacher, ...

SAMMENDRAG Temaet for oppgaven min er relasjonsbygging mellom japanske og norske bedrifter. Jeg har lenge interessert meg for hvordan vi kommuniserer og kommer overens med representanter for kulturer som persumptivt er ...

Japans bistand til Burma Japans bistand til Burma startet i 1954, da de ble pålagt å betale krigsskadeerstatning til Burma. Burma er etter hvert blitt et av de landene som Japan gir mest bistand til, og det er ingen andre ...

BUTOH: ON THE EDGE OF CRISIS? A Critical Analysis of the Japanese Avant-garde Dance Form in a Postmodern Perspective Butoh was part of the Japanese post-war avant-garde art movement, but what role does the avant-garde ...

Abstract In this thesis I investigate the meeting between Western art and the art of Japanese painting and calligraphy. Based on the question of what impact the meeting of modern art has had on the development of modern ...

The Japanese comics industry is several times larger than that of comparable nations, and in the past ten years, it has made inroads in the west. This paper analyzes the reasons for the vast success of the Japanese comics ...

The main focus of this thesis is the legalization of Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem of Japan in 1999 and its connections to what seems to be an atypical Japanese form of postwar nationalism. In the ...