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Both volumes of Annual Events in Japan are an excellent resource for foreign residents of Japan as well as others around the world who are Students of the Japanese language. The thousands of Japanese children who now live abroud with their parents will gain a better understanding of their own cultural trafitions and be better equipped to explain them to their friends and classmates.

 

Volume 1 - Spring and Summer - includes additional pages with lists of important historical events and dates which continue to have relevance in modern Japan. This information will give speakers of English a deeper understanding of the many colorful events described in the books.

 

Volume 2 - Autumn and Winter - has at the end a useful map of Japan as well as an explanation the very old system adopted from CHina for counting days, months and years as well as auspicious and inauspicious days and geographical directions. The 12 animals of the zodiac are a familiar aspect of Chinese culture adopted by Japan and are explained as they relate into larger systems. (Verlagstext)