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WebRecords of men who have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan.Though these relations had existed in Japan for millennia, they became most apparent to scholars during the Tokugawa (or Edo) period.Historical practices identified by scholars as homosexual …

WebChinese mythology (simplified Chinese: 中国神话; traditional Chinese: 中國神話; pinyin: Zhōngguó shénhuà) is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature in the geographic area now known as Greater China.Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions. Much of the mythology involves …

WebThe Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the post-World War II 1947 constitution and subsequent formation of modern Japan. It encompassed the Japanese archipelago and several colonies, …

WebBonsai (Japanese: 盆栽, lit. 'tray planting', pronounced ()) is the Japanese art of growing and training miniature trees in pots, developed from the traditional Chinese art form of penjing.Unlike penjing, which utilizes traditional techniques to produce entirely natural scenery in small pots that mimic the grandiose shapes of real life scenery, the Japanese …

WebJapan began competing in the Olympic Games in 1912. The country has hosted the Olympics three times: the Summer Games in 1964 at Tokyo (the first time the Olympic Games had been held in Asia) and the winter games in 1972 and 1998, at Sapporo and Nagano, respectively. Japanese athletes have excelled in many sports and have been …

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WebChina is regarded as one of the world's oldest civilisations. Archaeological evidence suggests that early hominids inhabited the country 2.25 million years ago. The hominid fossils of Peking Man, a Homo erectus who used fire, were discovered in a cave at Zhoukoudian near Beijing; they have been dated to between 680,000 and 780,000 years …

WebJapan has a high population concentration in urban areas on the plains since 75% of Japan’s land area is made up of mountains, and also Japan has a forest cover rate of 68.5% (the only other developed countries with such a high forest cover percentage are Finland and Sweden). The 2010 census shows 90.7% of the total Japanese population …

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