SevenAngel Hollins Due the week of December 6. Kusunoki Masashige was a samurai from the 14 th century who fought for the emperor against the Kamakura.

SevenAngel Hollins

Due the week of December 6

Kusunoki Masashige was a samurai from the 14th century who fought for the emperor against the Kamakura Shogunate.

In the Yayoi period (300 B.C.) Japan took many new technologies from china.

In the 1100s Taira and Minamoto fought for control over Japan.

In Japan rice balls are very popular. The rice come in the shape of a triangle, not a ball.

In Japan meals are traditionally held on a tatami floor around a low table. Sitting on the floor is also customary during the tea cermony and other traditional events.

Today, Japan eats food from around the world notably from Europe, North America and Asia.

Japan has four main islands and more than 6,800 smaller islands and the total land area of Japan is 377,719 square miles.

The rainy season in Japan begins in early June and continues until about the middle of July.

The average winter temperature in Japan is 5.1 °C (41.2 °F) and the average summer temperature is 25.2 °C (77.4 °F)

FAMILY/CUSTOMS Hanami (flower viewing) is a Japanese

traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers.

In a traditional family in Japan fathers provide the monthly income while mothers raise the children, supervise education, do the housework, and home accounting.

Sitting on the floor is customary during the tea ceremony and other traditional events.

The traditional dress of Japan is a kimono which is worn on special occasions.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many girls would tan their skin dark, bleach their hair, wear silver makeup and wear tie-dyed sarongs with a mini-skirt and platform shoes which they would call a "Ganguro" fashion.

Cosplay is "costume play," which is essentially dressing up as a character from a movie, musical group, comic book or cartoon. Most often seen in Tokyo on the weekends and cosplay conventions.

Japanese children enter the 1st grade of elementary school after they turn six.

In Japanese schools children are divided into small teams for many activities.

In middle school many students go to judo clubs.

Starting Feb.6th through Feb.12th is the Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan. During the festival people come to Odori Park to admire or create giant ice and snow scupltures.

During the Water-Drawing Festival monks draw water from the well and offers it to the public.

The Nango Summer Festival is a festival held every year where artists from all over Tohoku come to Nango to perform.