🎓 Entrance Exams
大学入試の自由英作文・長文で出る日本文化のテーマ
365 entries (page 4 of 7)Tap a title to open the full entry: three lengths of English explanation, the questions people actually ask, ready-made phrases and audio.
- Home & LivingStandard machiya町家the narrow deep townhouse of an old merchant quarter
- Home & LivingStandard nagaya長屋the Edo row house where many townspeople lived
- Home & LivingStandard butsuma仏間the room traditionally set aside for the family Buddhist altar
- Home & LivingStandard mokuzo kenchiku木造建築why Japan builds in wood
- Home & LivingStandard mokuzo jutaku木造住宅why Japanese homes are rebuilt, not resold
- Life EventsStandard omiaiお見合いan introduction with marriage in mind
- Life EventsStandard osoushikiお葬式a Japanese funeral
- Life EventsStandard shonanoka初七日the memorial service held on the seventh day after death
- Life EventsStandard seijinshiki成人式the coming-of-age ceremony
- Life EventsStandard nakodo仲人the go-between who arranged and formally witnessed a marriage
- Life EventsStandard fufu no sei夫婦の姓why couples must share one name
- Life EventsStandard rikon離婚how divorce works in Japan
- MannersStandard keigo敬語the honorific levels of Japanese
- MannersStandard ayamaru謝るwhy Japanese people apologize first
- MannersStandard dogeza土下座kneeling with your forehead on the floor
- MannersStandard meishi kokan名刺交換exchanging business cards
- MannersStandard yusenseki優先席seats set aside for those who need them
- Modern JapanStandard kuru bizuクールビズthe summer campaign to work without a jacket and tie
- Modern JapanStandard jenda gyappuジェンダーギャップwhy Japan ranks low on gender equality despite high education levels
- Modern JapanStandard shatta-shotengaiシャッター商店街a shopping street where most storefronts are permanently shuttered
- Modern JapanStandard mai nanbaマイナンバーthe national identification number
- Modern JapanStandard hikikomori引きこもりlong-term withdrawal from society
- Modern JapanStandard karoshi過労死death from overwork, and the law Japan wrote because of it
- Modern JapanStandard kaigo介護long-term care, and the insurance system behind it
- Modern JapanStandard gaikokujin rodosha外国人労働者how Japan brings in workers from abroad
- Modern JapanStandard kakutei shinkoku確定申告filing your own tax return
- Modern JapanStandard akiya空き家empty houses left standing across Japan
- Modern JapanStandard genkin shakai現金社会why Japan still runs on cash
- Modern JapanStandard koban交番the neighborhood police box
- Modern JapanStandard kyoshujo自動車教習所driving school, the required path to a license
- Modern JapanStandard shaken車検the mandatory vehicle inspection
- Modern JapanStandard josei no shugyo女性の就業where women's employment in Japan stands
- Modern JapanStandard jinko gensho to kaso人口減少と過疎a shrinking, aging country
- Modern JapanStandard dendo kikku bodo電動キックボードthe electric scooter now allowed without a driver's license
- Modern JapanStandard hanko判子the personal seal used instead of a signature
- Seasons & NatureStandard umi to gyogyo海と漁業how Japan eats from the ocean
- Seasons & NatureStandard kyureki旧暦the old lunisolar calendar Japan used until 1872
- Seasons & NatureStandard shinrin no kuni森林の国how much of Japan is forest
- Seasons & NatureStandard kawa to hashi川と橋Japan's short steep rivers
- Seasons & NatureStandard senjo kosuitai線状降水帯the linear rainband that causes Japan's worst flash flooding
- Seasons & NatureStandard nihon retto no chikei日本列島の地形a long mountainous chain of islands
- Seasons & NatureStandard ume梅Japanese apricot blossom
- Seasons & NatureStandard satoyama里山the managed woodland between the village and the mountain
- PlacesStandard yokohama横浜the fishing village that became Japan's door to the West
- PlacesStandard koyasan高野山the mountain monastery where you can stay the night
- PlacesStandard Shikoku hachiju hakkasho四国八十八ヶ所the 1,200-kilometer circuit of eighty-eight temples
- PlacesStandard Nihon Sankei日本三景the three famous views of Japan, chosen in the seventeenth century
- Pop CultureStandard otakuオタクsomeone obsessively into a hobby
- Pop CultureStandard yonkoma manga四コマ漫画a four-panel comic strip
- Pop CultureStandard kamishibai紙芝居the paper theater a storyteller carried on a bicycle
- Pop CultureStandard nihon eiga日本映画Japanese cinema, then and now
- School LifeStandard undokai運動会school sports day
- School LifeStandard gakkyukai学級会the class meeting where pupils decide things themselves
- School LifeStandard tannin学級担任the homeroom teacher who teaches everything
- School LifeStandard gassho konkuru合唱コンクールa school choir contest between classes
- School LifeStandard juken受験the entrance exam system
- School LifeStandard shugaku ryoko修学旅行the school trip everyone goes on
- School LifeStandard juku塾the private school you go to after school
- School LifeStandard nihon no eigo kyoiku日本の英語教育why Japanese people study English for years and still cannot speak it
- School LifeStandard nyugakushiki to sotsugyoshiki入学式と卒業式the formal ceremonies that open and close a school year