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Young couples now prefer to live apart from their parents, and men are gradually reducing after- hours socializing, in order to spend more time with their family. The steady increase in the divorce rate and the larger number of women who remain unmarried are other indica- tions of changes taking place. The latter is often a decision on the part of Japanese women who cannot find partners with the right credentials.

Thus, what might appear to be a contemporary Western-driven tendency, or an expression of feminist awareness, is a reflection, to some degree, of orthodoxy. Japanese homes often have both state-dependent Buddhist and Shinto altars.

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Confucianism population, looms. More women choosing Lion mask to ward off evil moral code and tool for social organization not to marry. Cramped spirits, Takayama than religion proper, it has had a profound living conditions and influence on Japanese thought since its the need for parents to provide offspring introduction in the 6th century.

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Traditionally, most improve quality of life for employees. Men aimed to climb the corporate ladder, seeing their work as integral to their identity, and many would socialize exclusively with their work colleagues.

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Faultlines, however, have appeared in this monolithic structure, as younger voices question the benefits and value of self-sacrifice. Japanese tourists, long used with the institutions and prevailing to sightseeing in their own country, began ideologies of the day, there has been a to travel abroad in unprecedented numbers.

Despite the hard- oversee the economy, and politicians, ships suffered by the unemployed and who merely co-opt, accommodate, or those forced into early retirement, and the head off the opposition groups. It also prompted implicated. Contentious toward long overdue economic reform economic stimulus packages, an unpopular and a greater opening of its markets to consumption tax, and more scandals international trade.

The Liberal Democratic Party LDP eventually lost its year-long grip on power in , ending almost four decades of political hegemony. The govern- ment was forced into potentially unstable coalition arrangements. Traditional Baseball, a popular sport in Japan both charms and sports, in par ticular, perplexes the visitor. Sumo, the national patch under the trees.

The cherry, as sport of Japan, originated as an oracular the Japanese see it, is a felicitous symbol ritual linked to but also a poignant reminder of the prayers for a evanescent beauty of this floating world. Having refined pleasure and sadness from the a similar appeal contemplation of a flower. Most travelers goers, sumo return home with the impression, in ranks many non-Japanese among its fans.

Professional baseball attracts an even larger and more devoted following. The islands themselves were pushed up from the ocean floor by earth movements. Evidence of this activity can be seen in the sharply defined mountain ranges rising from the plains, in smoking Eurasian Plate volcanoes, and in hot mineral waters that well up from the Pacific ground. The Japanese take earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, Plate.

Modern cityscapes see pp28—9 contrast greatly with the seasonal beauty of Philippine Plate the relatively undeveloped mountainous interior, and the national parks, the largest of which are in Hokkaido. This are relatively causes over a thousand obvious undeveloped, earthquakes though some remote each year peaks are used as the in Japan. Maple, birch, cypress, and cedar trees are among the most common woodland mixes on the hillsides, creating stunning fiery colors in the fall.

Typical View of the Land This idealized representation shows the typical landscape features of central Japan. The plains next to the sea are densely populated, while farther inland thickly forested hillsides rise up steeply to snow-covered mountain peaks and the craters of both dormant and active volcanoes. Freshwater lakes such as Lake Biwa in Western Honshu see p are utilized for industry, irrigation, and recreation.

Faultlines run beneath the sea and land, showing up in some places as a rift in the landscape. Many of these, such as Sakurajima see p , smoke and steam constantly. Explosive eruptions of lava and pyroclastic rock-flows take place every few years. The high, snow-covered mountain areas, such as the Japan Alps near Matsumoto see p and parts of Northern Honshu and Hokkaido, have been developed as ski resorts.

Rising from the plain is the near- perfect cone of a dormant volcano, the supreme example of which is Mount Fuji see pp—5. Heavily built-up and Natural Hot Springs industrialized plains Geothermal activity at thousands of sites in Japan has created natural hot springs either at ground level or just below the surface. The mineral content of the waters varies; some are declared to have therapeutic benefits for humans, especially for diseases of the nervous system and intestines.

The Japanese have bathed in the springs for centuries and have also used them for purification rituals. Many have been developed as spas, or onsen see pp—7 ; the Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama Most of the major Japanese is over a thousand cities, such as Tokyo, Osaka, years old see p The water of some Land suitable for building is at springs must be such a premium that artificial cooled before it is Monkeys bathing in the geothermal waters peninsulas and islands have suitable for bathing.

Modern Japan Perhaps nowhere else does the modern world of high technology and constant change show itself more poignantly than in Japan. For some people, modern Japan is an anathema, a kitsch distillation of the Western world that destroys traditional culture. Few urban buildings are more ten million vehicles each year. In some premium, the small car is king. A forest of neon characterizes the shopping and entertainment districts of cities that strive to be modern, such as Tokyo, Fukuoka, and here in Osaka.

Vast television screens and public announcements over loudspeakers add to the audio-visual tumult. The Sony Showroom see p70 displays the latest inventions before they The Yamanote train line reach the shops. High-Tech Toys and Games Japan has a proud tradition of video games and toys, beginning in the late s with arcade classics like Space Robot robotto Invaders and Pac-Man. Today the industry technology continues to flourish, and companies like was exported Nintendo, Sega, and Sony have developed to Japan from generations of powerful home entertainment the US in systems with sophisticated graphics and Today, audio.

Some are delightfully zoomorphic. Modern Architecture An eclectic mix of contemporary building styles can be seen in Japan. Kenzo Tange — , who built the Olympic Stadiums in see pp98—9 , still casts a shadow over younger designers. Foreign practitioners, too, have been influential. International architects have designed some of their most ambitious projects in Tokyo. Modern Cityscapes Shinjuku district in Tokyo, shown here see also A modern house, designed by Tadao Ando pp94—7 , epitomizes the modern Japanese — , allows light to seep through in unusual urban labyrinth.

Buildings are constructed ways, such as through glass slots between ceiling wherever land becomes available, using such and walls. One of the foremost contemporary materials as aluminum, steel, and concrete. Its glass-walled popular in Japan, especially atrium, supported the genre of narrative by elegant comics called gekiga, which columns and emerged in the s. The bars, is widely content is diverse — politics, considered to baseball, romance, martial be a master- arts, and pornography are piece of all popular.

There are lesser and greater kami, worshiped at thousands of shrines jinja erected on hills and along waysides. These gateways greatest gods, said to be his ancestors. Shinto was the state mark the entrance to the religion from the s to s.

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Today, few Japanese are sacred precincts of a purely Shintoists, but most will observe Shinto rituals shrine. Many are made of alongside Buddhist practices. Many Japanese habits, such vermilion-painted wood; some are constructed in as an emphasis on purification and an austere aesthetic, stone, even concrete. All are derived at least in part from Shinto. Miscanthus grass thatch. The shimenawa is a rope made of twisted rice straw. It is hung over entrances within shrine precincts to separate sacred and secular places.

It is also set above doors of houses to ward off evil and sickness. Izumo Taisha see p has many examples of shimenawa, some of them immense. The treasuries, to the west and east of the main structure, house ceremonial regalia, silks, and paper. Inari shrines, identifiable by the bibbed stone foxes Ise Inner Grand Shrine standing guard within them, are dedicated to the kami The home of the spirits of all past emperors, the Grand of cereal crops. The Shrine at Ise see p is the most venerated Shinto site. It is not open to the public.

The complex of Kyoto, and is completely rebuilt every 20 years, most recently in , 30, others following a tradition begun in AD The Shinto priesthood kannushi tended to be transmitted through families, and important families shake are still connected with some shrines.

The kannushi, who usually wear white and orange robes, perform purification ceremonies and other rituals. In the main sanctuary honden of a shrine is an object shintai believed to be the abode of the kami to whom the shrine is dedicated. Usually only the head priests enter the honden; the hall for worship haiden is often separate. Metallic caps cover Forked finials, chigi, the exposed grain of are used in traditional the timber.

Japanese joinery to secure timber frames. Worshipers stand in front of the haiden hall, pull on a bell rope, toss money into a box, Straight roofline clap three times to summon the resident kami, then stand in silent prayer for a few moments. Ise Shrine has its own style of architecture, called yuitsu shimmei-zukuri, which has been imitated at just a handful of other shrines. Posts are set directly into the ground. Fertility is a major concern of Shinto. Some shrines have statues depicting phalluses, lovemaking, childbirth, or milk-engorged breasts.

Couples will ask the spirits for conception About 13, cypresses are used to rebuild the and good health for shrine every 20 years on alternating, adjacent sites.

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