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	Kappa (mythical creature) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kappa are also said to be afraid of fire, and some villages hold fireworks festivals each year to scare the sprites away.
		Japanese parents sometimes write the names of their children (or themselves) on cucumbers and toss them into kappa-infested waters in order to mollify the creatures and allow the family to bathe.
		The name "kappa" may be derived from the term for "robe" used by the Portuguese monks who arrived in Japan in the 16th century; they called this garment a capa, and the monks' appearance is not unlike that of the similarly named Japanese sprites, from the loose, shell-like cloaks to the tonsured hair.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kappa_%28Japanese_literature%29 (1027 words)

	Kappa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A type of mischievous water imp in Japanese mythology, also referred to in the Harry Potter novels: see Kappa (mythical creature).
		Cohen's kappa coefficient, a measure of inter-observer agreement in statistical classification data.
		Kappa, Illinois, a very small town in central Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kappa (221 words)

	· Darkness > Japanese Demons
		Kappa are dangerous pranksters, known for dragging people into the water and then pulling their intestines out through their anuses.
		Kappa love cucumbers and sumo wrestling--but if you are challenged to a bout, and value your life, you had best let the kappa win.
		The name "kappa" may be derived from the term for "robe" used by the Portuguese monks who arrived in Japan in the 16th century; they called this garment a capa, and the monks'; appearance is not unlike that of the similarly named Japanese sprites, from the loose, shell-like cloaks to the tonsured hair.
	forum.darkness.com /lofiversion/index.php/t13404.html (10301 words)

	Deep North Gothic
		As a result, Japanese consumerist capitalism, hand in hand with the mass media, planned to re-shape the desire for travel and self-rediscovery among women of the younger generation, and to devise images that promise to fulfill those desires.
		For the Japanese who developed their culture on the basis of agriculture, it was the Ainu hunters who seemed the radical Others; the "Yamabito" in Tono were men who lived in the mountains.
		This point is demonstrated in the third legend representing a rape narrative involving the "kappa," a repulsive frog-like humanoid with a water-filled depression in his or her skull.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/english/clf/n5_a1.html (4458 words)

	Japanese History, Culture, & Education
		Education in medieval Japan (1185-1600) is examined through both the impact of Buddhism as a religious and educational force, and the development of samurai domination of both the polity and the pedagogic realm as well.
		Readings and discussion of excerpts from important texts and documents informing various traditions in religion, literature, philosophy, and history are meant to to provide students with a specifically textual sense of the themes, assumptions, and attitudes underlying contemporary Japanese cultural perspectives.
		As always, by means of the study of other cultures students are expected to develop a greater awareness of who they are, and the extent to which their own culture shares or can share perspectives with those often considered to be wholly different.
	core.ecu.edu /hist/tuckerjo/kyoiku.htm (1225 words)

	The RM: The Role of Literature in College EFL Reading Classes in Japan by Toshiyuki Takagaki
		I believe the reading of literature has a vital role to play in teaching foreign language readers that it is a living, rich language and that literary works such as novels, poems, dramas, and short stories are full of feelings and emotions, along with imagination and creativity.
		Her literature classes dealt with such topics as symbolism, romanticism, imagery, elements of literature, the structure of texts, and the language and tone of text, but "a text was discussed as if it had nothing to do with the real world and people" (p.
		In order for Japanese students to develop a more positive attitude toward English, what we can learn from both L1 and L2 reading research is that we do not want to teach English literature as Fu experienced it, that is as a detachment between text and the human experience.
	www.readingmatrix.com /articles/takagaki (2440 words)

	Japanorama's Modern Japanese Fiction
		Japanese names are in Japanese order: family name + given name.
		Born in Tokyo, Akutagawa (1892-1927) studied literature at Tokyo Imperial University.
		American journalist and novelist who, with the help of his Japanese wife, became the first Westerner to deeply understand the Japanese culture, which he introduced to Western readers in numerous English books and articles.
	www.japanorama.com /fiction.html (1052 words)

	EALC Boulder — Japanese Undergraduate Program
		The Japanese Language and Literature major at the University of Colorado is a combined major in language, literature, and culture.
		Japanese majors will learn to speak Japanese sufficiently for most situations in daily life, to read various types of texts in modern Japanese, to understand something of the Japanese literary and cultural traditions, and to express that understanding in written English.
		A knowledge of a foreign language in general, and Japanese in particular, is extremely useful in business, engineering, industry, commerce, the civil or foreign service, law, library science, the media, the natural sciences, economics, public administration, journalism, government, the social sciences, and teaching at all levels.
	www.colorado.edu /ealld/Manuals/UndergradJapanese.html (4728 words)

	Guardian lit. \| Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AFTER RECEIVING the Nobel prize for literature in 1994, Kenzaburo Oe, committed "novelistic suicide" in a postmodern version of a tradition among 20th-century Japanese writers.
		An Echo of Heaven, Oe's "last" novel, homes in on the matter of suicide, and in this case the suicide is especially poignant and shattering because it is of two disabled teenage brothers, one mentally retarded and the other in a wheelchair.
		The reality, of course, is that times have changed, and if there was a time when young, aspiring artists such as the character Asao actually thought they could accomplish something more than a career move by making a movie, I missed it.
	www.sfbg.com /lit/reviews/suicide.html (738 words)

	Wittenberg University -- Department of Languages
		Amy G. Christiansen, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Japanese, a specialist in classic, premodern, and modern literature, and in narrative theory, teaches courses in Japanese language, Japanese literature, and Japanese literature in translation and is director of Women's Studies.
		A recipient of Phi Beta Kappa research awards and Japanese government scholarships, her research and professional papers have focused on contemporary Japanese women writers and the metaphoric use of figures from Japanese folklore in contemporary fiction.
		She taught elementary and intermediate Japanese at Michigan State University as a teaching assistant for four years and currently teaches first-year and fourth-year Japanese courses at Wittenberg.
	www.wittenberg.edu /academics/lang/faculty/japanese.html (251 words)

	Tanuki - Japanese God of Restauranteers
		In Japanese folklore, the kitsune (fox) and tanuki are considered masters of transformation, as is the Tengu, the bird-man goblin of the forest and mountain who is revered as the slayer of vanity and pride.
		The Tanuki is said to love Japanese sake (rice wine), and is often depicted with a sake bottle in one hand (usually purchased with fake money made from leaves) and a promissory note in the other (a bill it never pays).
		The Japanese tanuki and the fox (kitsune) are the most popular animals attributed with magical powers.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/tanuki.shtml (1853 words)

	Haiku and Beyond: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The goal of this literature study is to involve fourth-grade students in comparing and contrasting the literature of Japan while learning the elements of culture, history, and geography through hands-on literacy activities.
		Begin the literature study with haiku, a form of poetry that is considered to be a traditional Japanese style and reflects the Japanese concern with nature.
		The literature genre should include the essential elements that are appropriate for the piece.
	www.smith.edu /fcceas/curriculum/stokely.htm (3240 words)

	Distinguished Teaching Awards 2004
		A specialist in pre-modern Japanese literature, he is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including in 1996 the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award.
		The field of Japanese literature is one of the fastest developing disciplines in all the humanities.
		Students complete the program with the recognition that what is old now was new once, and that the literature of those now gone will, through the comparisons it invites, shed as much light as any modem cultural inquiry into the increasingly complex and diverse nature of our new millennium.
	teaching.berkeley.edu /dta04/horton.html (477 words)

	Japanese Literature Reading List
		She continued to be a force in Japanese society well into the 1980s.
		Senoh Kappa A Boy Called H. Senoh’s memoir of the war years in Kobe shows us an inquisitive, lively boy growing up in an era when no one was supposed to ask questions.
		A former soldier in the Japanese Army in Burma returns as a monk in order to understand the war and the past.
	www.asij.ac.jp /hslibrary/booklists/japnlit.htm (1173 words)

	JAPAN BOOKSTORE: Literature Aisle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Anthology devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900.
		Japanese reporter Sohei Toge returns to his homeland, where he finally learns the secret that led to his brother's brutal murder at the hands of the Gestapo.
		The narrator is on a solo journey that begins as a simple mountain trek and turns into an intense confrontation with otherworldly forces, including a ghost in a hotel and overwhelming memories of a lost lover and her terrible demise.
	www.ohayosensei.com /books/lit.html (5505 words)

	Malignant lymphoma in patients with rheumatic diseases other than Sjogren's syndrome: a clinicopathologic study of five ...
		It is well known that the development of malignant lymphoma in the thyroid and salivary glands is closely related to a background of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Sjögren's syndrome respectively (1,2).
		The original histologic diagnosis in the literature was converted to the terminology used in the Working Formulation (36).
		A summary of the 26 cases reported in the Japanese literature is shown in Table 3.
	jjco.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/full/27/2/84 (3332 words)

	Utada Hikaru
		She may not be the most good looking Japanese girl who walked the earth or even close to being one, but she had been pre-determined to change Japan?s music scene forever.
		Now, she commutes between the two countries, as she is a freshman at Columbia University, N.Y. Because Utada was born and bred in America but also raised occasionally in Japan, she is fed with both the eastern and western cultures.
		Being the first Japanese artist to be chosen for the MTV Unplugged series in Japan, it proves that Utada's vocals is not to be dismissed as a common teenager with squeaky innocent pre-adolescent voice.
	www.geocities.com /icac83/Allan.html (1788 words)

	Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
		1) " Kappa" -- As to Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
		A type of mischievous water imp in Japanese mythology, also referred to in the HarryPotter novels: see kappa (mythicalcreature).
		3) " Theta" -- As to Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
	www.altvetmed.com /face/37768-kappa-alpha-theta-sorority.html (877 words)

	Howard University'
		Alrivy is a native of Los Angeles, Calif. He is a Phi Beta Kappa who graduated magna cum laude from Occidental College in 1994 with the bachelor of arts degree in politics and languages and a minor in women's studies.
		She plans to explore the themes of cross-cultural influences on Japanese literature and culture.
		Montgomery, a graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, was born in Lagos, Nigeria.
	www.howard.edu /newsevents/Capstone/2001/may/profile.htm (1163 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Yamashita, Karen Tei
		She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with degrees in English and Japanese literature and spent her junior year in Japan as an exchange student at Waseda University in Tokyo.
		She lived in the city of Sao Paolo for nine years, and it was in Brazil that she met Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira, a Brazilian architect.
		The novel follows the origin, duration, and eventual decline of a Japanese colony called Esperanza, whose colonists "came to create a new civilization based on the ideas of Christianity and freedom of religion" (97).
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/yamashita_karen_tei.html (1998 words)

	Report for 1995 Asian Studies Development Program and NEH Institute on Japanese Culture and Civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The attached bibliography in Japanese Literature, besides being a helpful classroom tool in the classes that I already teach, will be particularly useful in developing these courses since the form used by the Curriculum Committee requires an attached bibliography.
		One would be "Classic Japanese Literature," and it could focus on a variety of topics or texts from the Heian to the Medieval period.
		But since this literature is from two very different cultures, another goal is that you learn to appreciate the differences, not only between your culture and China's or Japan's, but also the cultural, social and historical differences between them suggested by the readings.
	library.kcc.hawaii.edu /external/asdp/lit/easian/japan/mcneal.html (5208 words)

	Akutagawa Ryunoske - Japanese Writer
		Akutagawa Ryunosuke (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) was a Japanese writer.
		Akutagawa wrote no full-length novels, focusing instead on the short story as his main medium of expression.
		Akira Kurosawa directed the film Rashomon based on Akutagawa's stories; the majority of the action in the film was actually an adaptation of "In a Grove".
	www.japan-101.com /art/akutagawa.htm (197 words)

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		The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature, She quotes a translation of a ghost folktale that Yanagita collected.
		This may be seen as another example of the blurring of mystery and horror genres in Japanese popular literature, but Yokomizo started as a full out mystery or detective novel writer.
		Here is a cross breeding of the “ancient curse” of gothic literature with the modern genetic inheritance common in Japanese
	www.angelfire.com /sk3/asianhorror/y.html (1846 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kappa
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		A work of literature by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927): see Kappa (Japanese literature).
		Cohen's kappa coefficient, a measure of inter-observer agreeement in statistical classification data.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kappa (226 words)

	NYU > FAS > Faculty > J. Keith Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ph.D. 2000 (Japanese literature), M. 1995, Columbia; B. 1990 University of Kansas.
		Major Interests: modern Japanese literature and popular culture; queer theory; psychoanalytic theory; globalization and sexuality; history of translation and language reform.
		Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright IIE Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, 1994-1996; Mellon Fellow in the Humanities (1991 cohort); Graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Highest Honors from the University of Kansas in 1990; Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) Fellow 1990-1991.
	www.nyu.edu /fas/Faculty/VincentJ.html (162 words)

	The China Institute: Members
		She focused how the Dutch influenced Japanese art when Japan was practicing isolationism.
		Her current research is on the Westernization of Japan during the nineteenth century.
		Courses he has taught, in his own department and in the Department of Asian Studies, include Modern Asian Literature, Modern Chinese and Japanese Literature, The Chinese Short Story, Classical Chinese Literature, and Women in Modern Chinese and Japanese Literature.
	www-rohan.sdsu.edu /~csi/members.htm (2036 words)

	UVa Library Etext Center: Japanese Text Initiative
		An interactive search interface lets you search online in Japanese or English for any characters or words in individual texts or in all the texts together.
		The Japanese Text Initiative is part of the online library of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
		For further information on the Japanese Text Initiative, please send e-mail to: the Electronic Text Center's mailbox; the Japanese Text Initiative's coordinator, Sachiko Iwabuchi; or the Initiative co-directors, Kendon Stubbs at the University of Virginia or Sachie Noguchi at the University of Pittsburgh.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /japanese/whatsnew.html (342 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Books, Criticism & Writing > Japanese Authors
		Yugoslav literature, both pre- and post-civil war (although, post-civil war, it isn't technically Yugoslav lit any more...)is incredible, and highly underrated.
		When I was a bookseller, two hapless young Yugoslavs wandered into my store in search of literature from their homeland.
		There's a wonderful understanding of the Japanese written language (the one that isn't phonetic) is also portrayed in the book and you often don't get that from actual Japanese literature because it's just taken for granted.
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=7675 (1037 words)

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