When people communicate, speakers and listeners use information shared by both the parties, which is referred to as ‘context.’ It is believed that there are cultural differences in the degree of ...

Hosted by the National Museum of Ethnology under the patronage of UNESCO, and co-organised with the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, the event was a follow up to the 20 th jury meeting of the UNESCO ...

JAPAN'S LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WEST by Sukehiro Hirakawa. Folkstone: Global Oriental, 2005, 557 pp., £50 (cloth). Rudyard Kipling, one of the most popular writers in the English tongue of his ...

This June 20, 2025, file photo taken in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward shows Gunma Gov. Ichita Yamamoto. (Mainichi/Kentaro Ikushima) Japan is facing major debate regarding policies related to foreigners, ...

Introduction: Japanese Communication -- 1. The Context of Japanese Communication. 1. Cultural Myth, Self, and Society. 2. Relationality and Communication. 3. Competing Orientations within ...

ROME — From food, memes and small talk, seven Japanese college students took a crash course in American culture when they traveled to Georgia to visit Berry College.

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Imperial Japan’s declaration of surrender on Aug. 15, 1945, brought an end to World War II. It also marked the beginning of the rebirth of Japan as ...

The term “intercultural communication” is often used to refer to the wide range of communication issues that inevitably arise within an organization composed of individuals from a variety of religious ...

Coming up next semester, Skyline College students will be able to travel abroad to a number of different countries to learn ...