🎓 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 5 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.
- School LifeStandard bukatsu no intai部活の引退leaving your school club after the last tournament
- ShintoStandard Gion Matsuri祇園祭the month-long Kyoto festival that began as a rite against plague
- ShintoStandard tamagushi玉串the evergreen sprig offered at a rite
- ShintoStandard shinto to shizen神道と自然the animism at the heart of Shinto belief
- ShintoStandard Tenmangu天満宮と学問の神shrines of the deity of learning
- ShintoStandard Nihon shinwa日本神話the myths in Japan's oldest books
- Work CultureStandard harasumentoハラスメントworkplace harassment and the law against it
- Work CultureStandard harasumento taisakuハラスメント対策workplace harassment law in Japan
- Work CultureStandard shukatsu就活と新卒一括採用hiring an entire year group at once
- Work CultureStandard josei kanrishoku女性管理職how few women hold senior posts
- Work CultureStandard shokunin no kokeisha busoku職人の後継者不足the shortage of successors for traditional craftspeople
- Work CultureStandard shinjin kenshu新人研修training for new graduates
- Work CultureStandard jinji ido人事異動internal transfers decided by the company
- Work CultureStandard sogoshoku and ippanshoku総合職と一般職career-track and clerical-track hiring
- Work CultureStandard taishokukin退職金the lump-sum retirement payment
- Work CultureStandard chusho kigyo to shitauke中小企業と下請けsmall and midsize firms and the subcontracting pyramid
- Work CultureStandard tenshoku転職changing jobs mid-career
- Work CultureStandard nenko joretsu年功序列pay and rank by length of service
- Work CultureStandard haken派遣社員agency temp workers
- Work CultureStandard hiseiki koyo非正規雇用non-regular employment
- Work CultureStandard fukugyo副業holding a second job
- Work CultureStandard yukyu有給休暇paid leave, and why people don't take it
- Work CultureStandard rodo kumiai労働組合the labor union
- ArtsAdvanced iemoto家元the head of a school of a traditional art
- ArtsAdvanced gagaku雅楽the court music of Japan
- ArtsAdvanced kodan講談storytelling of battles and heroes, told from behind a small desk
- ArtsAdvanced kodo香道the way of incense
- ArtsAdvanced shoin-zukuri書院造the room style that modern Japanese rooms come from
- ArtsAdvanced shinden-zukuri寝殿造the palace style of the Heian aristocracy
- ArtsAdvanced kumiodori組踊Okinawan musical theater, created for Chinese envoys
- ArtsAdvanced nihonga日本画painting in traditional Japanese materials
- ArtsAdvanced no能classical masked drama
- ArtsAdvanced biwa琵琶the lute that carried Japan's war tales
- ArtsAdvanced bunraku文楽puppet theater with three operators to a puppet
- ArtsAdvanced Hojoki and Tsurezuregusa方丈記と徒然草the two other great Japanese essay collections
- ArtsAdvanced Makura no Soshi枕草子The Pillow Book
- BuddhismAdvanced shojin ryori精進料理Buddhist temple cuisine
- BuddhismAdvanced nenbutsu念仏calling the Buddha's name
- BuddhismAdvanced hoji法事a Buddhist memorial service
- BuddhismAdvanced mikkyo密教esoteric Buddhism in Japan
- Martial ArtsAdvanced kyudo弓道Japanese archery
- Martial ArtsAdvanced kemari蹴鞠the Heian court game of keeping a ball in the air
- ClothingAdvanced kimono no kaku着物の格the ranking that decides which kimono may be worn where
- ConceptsAdvanced mono no awareもののあはれthe sadness of passing things
- ConceptsAdvanced ishin denshin以心伝心understanding without words
- ConceptsAdvanced kachofugetsu花鳥風月flower, bird, wind and moon
- ConceptsAdvanced amae甘えdepending on another person's goodwill
- ConceptsAdvanced giri義理social obligation you cannot refuse
- ConceptsAdvanced isagiyosa潔さaccepting defeat cleanly
- ConceptsAdvanced sanpo yoshi三方よしgood for the seller, the buyer and society
- ConceptsAdvanced shu ha ri守破離the three stages of learning a traditional art
- ConceptsAdvanced jukyo儒教Confucian ideas as they took root in Japan
- ConceptsAdvanced shoshin wasuru bekarazu初心忘るべからずnever forget how you began
- ConceptsAdvanced iki粋the understated stylishness of Edo townspeople
- ConceptsAdvanced yaoyorozu no kami八百万の神the eight million gods
- ConceptsAdvanced yugen幽玄depth that is felt rather than shown
- Annual EventsAdvanced ebisu koえびす講the merchants' festival for the god of business
- Annual EventsAdvanced nagoshi no harae夏越の祓the midsummer purification
- Annual EventsAdvanced hanamatsuri花祭りthe Buddha's birthday
- Annual EventsAdvanced go-sekku五節句the five seasonal festivals of the old calendar