Contemporary Japanese culture is of a hybrid variety and has been influenced over time, by its Asian neighbours, Europe and North America. Although it has become the melting pot of many other cultures owing to migrations, invasions and the like, it still has managed to maintain its inherent flavour owing to the relative isolation from the outside world under the Tokugawa shogunate. Japnese architecture’s shoin windows, tokonoma and the gabled roofs are famous the world-over, Japanese food is now finding newer experimentative taste-buds. The language has got its own ardent learners. The kimono is universally popular. Martial arts have takers all over the globe! Japanese art and theatre have forever enthralled one and all.
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