My first topic for Japans culture is the food. It tells about working to gather food. In Japan they collect lots of rice and herbs. Almost all families in Japan eat Rice. Rice for the Japanese people is like hamburgers and hotdogs for the Americans. About 70% of what they harvest are rice, which requires a lot of work and effort. The people of Japan are used to the long, hard hours of work that is put into growing food. Another thing that is often used is tea. In Japan, people drink tea in the hopes of eternal beauty and extension of life. In most meals tea is the drink and rice is included in some way. The basis of all cooking is around rice and tea. Dumplings are also a main food in Japan but is not eaten as much as the regular rice.

In the story, Dragon Princess Tasuko, the people work very hard for their food and don't take much for granted. This reflects the life of the Japanese very much in a

Like the first story, The Fox Wife, it has a lot of culture from Japan. In this story I am focusing on the topic of clothing. In Japan the people wear a verity of clothing. Everything from traditional wear to things Americans wear. The businessmen in the country wear suites and ties usually. The women are mostly the people to enforce traditional wear. All of the family will dress traditionally at special occasions. The children wear the clothing like Americans do. Jeans and name brand clothes are very popular in Japan. The Japanese are usually mistaken bye the Americans, most of us think that they all wear silly clothes and walk around collecting rice, even though some of that is true, they are regular people just like you and me. The men are just like or businessmen with the suites.

The story, Dragon Princess Tasuko, is about a girl that wanted to be beautiful forever. She was the most beautiful girl in all of northern Japan, but like any young person she did her share of working in the rice fields. One day when Tasuko was gathering rice she knelt down to drink some water and saw herself and noticed that a strand of hair was out of place and thought of how beautiful she was and if she actually was that beautiful. From that day on she would not do anything else but sit deep in thought. She sat and watched the fires gleaming. She thought how everyone

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