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Akirame あきらめ 諦め: (renunciation, resignation) it is a popular phsychology  that is important in behavioral concept in the Japanese tradition wherein they intented to emphasize the virtue of enduring pain and desposition with patience."Pain is Followed by Pleasure".

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Amae あまえ 甘え: a word that can be translated as "dependency wishes" this is a feeling oh helplessness, defenselessness and need to be loved.

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Ancestor worship そせんすうはい 祖先崇拝: it is a practice where Japanese conduct a rituals and ceremonies on behalf of their dead households to comfort the dead. They offer ritual prayers, candles,incense, flowers and food.

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Animals in Japanese Culture 日本文化での動物 :Japanese entertain about animals and plants where in through the course of a year have provided a natural calendar and offered themselves as subjects for work of arts. The cycle is broken into subcycle of 12, each year that represented of each animal. Even today the Japanese think of the date of their birth in terms of the year in the sexagenary cycle (“Year of the Dragon” the year of the tiger”, and so forth) in addition to the date according to the Gregorian calendar and to the imperial reign date.

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Batsu ばつ 罰: a group with common ties bared on istitution, geographic region, family, or connection to the same person. It is basically heirarchical and paternalistic and frequently controls lining, proromoting and granting of political business favors.

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Bigaku びがく 美学 a unique feature of tradition aesthetics thought in Japan was the tendency to value symbolic representation more highly than realistic delineation.

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Bun ぶん 分: which means status or role, it is a position and set of duties assigned to each member society in relation to other members. The term is used in two terms which are: (1) Independent noun, as in bun o wakirimaeru know your place
(2) As a part of a compound noun like mibun means (social standing)

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Nihonjin no shizenkan にほんじんのしぜんかん 日本人の自然観also means concept of nature ”shizen means nature" Ancient Japanese people recognize every phenomenon as a manifestation of the kami (god or gods) Such term as amestsuchi (heaven and earth) and (ikotoshi) ikerumono (living things) were the closest to a comprehensive word for nature in their language.


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Dangou だんごう 談合: means consultation or confference. It is believed to be most common in bidding for public or semi public projects for industries such as construction.

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Enryo
えんりょ 遠慮 : 
(reserve, constraint) is funadamental principle conduct in Japan. this explains on the folowing situation, one may keep silent among certain people or keep one's distance toward a specific person out or enryo.
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Ethics, Eastern and western: east consider ethics as the study of the community while in the western ethics is as the study of personality or subjectivity. In Japan during classic period, the individual was inseparable from its status in the community and in ancient Japan, by banishing from the stained and impure heart they held to the ideal of a pure and beautiful heart as the highest state of humanity.

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Gaku batsu がくばつ 学閥: are group based on the college or University from where one has graduated; academic or alumni cligues. A powerful influence to large corporations and goverment bureaus where memeber of teh same alumni receiver preferential treatment.

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Gambaru がんばる 頑張る:
means to persist, to hang on, to do one's best. It is commonly used to exhort enthusiasm, encouragement, and hard work toward a group objective.
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Giri and ninjo ぎりとにんじょう 義理 と 人情  refers to the obligation to act according to the dictates of society in relation other person and is also consider as indication of high moral worth. Ninjo broadly refers to the universal human feelings of love, mercy, pity, kindness, sorrow, and the like which one "naturally" feels towards others, as in relationship between parent and child or between lovers.

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Habatsu はばつ 派閥: a group of faction synonyms for the word bastu but often refers to to factions within political parties, business corporations and trade unions. The term refers to the struggles of the internal power for leading position within the organization.

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Haji はじ 恥 : which means shame.  According to the of the anthropologist Ruth Benedict she described Japanese culture as typical shame culture. On her deffinintion, shame culture is when people feel bad only when caught in the act, rather than feeling guilty in an obsolute sense. This also concludes that in a sahme culture relies on external sanctions for good behavior, not on an internalized conviction of sin.

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Harakiri はらきり 腹切り: a Japanese ritual suicide by self-disembowment wherein seppuku  is the preffered term. Hara means abdomen is the target of the suicidal knife because it is believed that it is the place where the soul resides and the source of action-derived tension.

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Hara
 はら  腹: 
( Abdomen, stomach, womb, belly) this terms are important concept in Japanese interpersonal relationship. The word hara is used in a number of Japanese idioms having to do with emnotions, thoughts, intentions, or characters.
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ie いえ 家 : means household is also defined as Japanese Family System. The "ie"  is considered to consist of grandparents, their son and his wife and their children.  

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Ikigai いきがい 生き甲斐 :
from the word "iki" (living) "kai" (value, effectiveness, meaning) .That is , life is worth. It's popularly used in discussions of individual goals and a frequent subject of public opinion surveys.
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