(ot) 'Kenminsei'
- From: "D-Chance." <dchance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:20:25 -0500
http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/kenminsei.htm
"Have you ever wondered why Japan has an emperor?
If we're going to be completely honest about it, four islands
really isn't much of an empire, is it? The reason for all this
'empire' talk of is that way back when, Japan was a collection
of dozens of tiny kingdoms and even after the country was
unified in somewhere around the third century BC, it took
a really long time to get local authorities to start thinking of
their territories as 'prefectures' instead of 'countries'. The
Japanese interest in 'kenminsei', which can be roughly
translated as 'the unique characteristics of people in various
prefectures' is a vestige of this way of thinking. Books like
Kenminsei No Omoshiro Daigimon and Kenminsei No Ningengaku
are hot sellers in Japan right now, and there are literally
thousands of homepages on the internet devoted to the
subject. Here are a few of some of the more well-known
quirks of character and regional peculiarities:"
<rest of article at above link>
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