Some characteristics of Japanese culture

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE CULTURE Assoc Prof Dr Mai Ngoc Chu College of Social Sciences and Humanities Vietnam National University, Hanoi Generally, it can be seen that Japanese culture has the following characteristics: - Japanese culture is a consistent one - Japanese culture has comprehensive power combining especially Shinto, Buddhism and Confucianism beliefs and religions - Japanese culture is not only an opened but also a closed culture To be more specific, it is logically close-opened: Japanese culture preserves and develops positive traditional cultural factors, at the same time it adopts foreign cultural factors selectively, combining the traditional and contemporary culture Originally, as the other Asian cultures, the Japanese culture contains ruralagricultural identity, however, it quickly gets out the purely agricultural culture frame and accesses industrial culture The characters of Japanese - the owner of Japanese culture are the love to nature, recilience, patience, hard working, highly disciplined, solidarity tO ad an Japanese culture contributes unique features to the world culture such as Sumo struggle, Dao tea, Noh Drama, Kimono, fish rare, seaweed, sake alcohol