Japan was first settled around 35,000 years ago. The Jomon people developed between 10,000-300 BC and were hunter-gatherers. The Yayoi people arrived around 300 BC from Korea and introduced new technologies like metallurgy and rice cultivation. The Kofun period from 250-538 AD saw the rise of powerful clans and adoption of Chinese customs. Buddhism and the Chinese writing system arrived in the Asuka period from 538-710 AD. The imperial court flourished during the Heian period from 794-1185 AD, producing art, poetry and prose. The samurai warrior class also emerged.

1. HISTORICAL
BACKGROUND
OF JAPAN
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2. Japan was settled about 35,000 years ago by Paleolithic people from the Asian
mainland. At the end of the last Ice Age, about 10,000 years ago, a culture
called the Jomon developed. Jomon hunter-gatherers fashioned fur clothing,
wooden houses, and elaborate clay vessels. According to DNA analysis, the
Ainu people may be descendants of the Jomon.
The second wave of settlement by the Yayoi people introduced metal-working,
rice cultivation, and weaving to Japan. DNA evidence suggests that these
settlers came from Korea.
The first era of recorded history in Japan is the Kofun (A.D. 250-538), which
was characterized by large burial mounds or tumuli. The Kofun were headed by
a class of aristocratic warlords; they adopted many Chinese customs and
innovations.
HISTORY

3. Buddhism came to Japan during the Asuka period, 538-710, as did the
Chinese writing system. At this time, society was divided into clans. The
first strong central government developed during the Nara period (710-
794). The aristocratic class practiced Buddhism and Chinese calligraphy,
while agricultural villagers followed Shintoism.
Japan's unique culture developed rapidly during the Heian era (794-1185).
The imperial court turned out enduring art, poetry, and prose. The samurai
warrior class developed at this time as well.
HISTORY

4. JAPAN IN MAP
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JAPAN IN MAP

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Japan is one of the largest and most developed economies in the world. It has a
well-educated, industrious workforce and its large, affluent population makes it
one of the world’s biggest consumer markets. Japan’s economy was the world’s
second largest (behind the US) from 1968 until 2010, when it was overtaken by
China. Its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016 was estimated to be USD 4.7
trillion, and its population of 126.9 million enjoys a high standard of living, with
per capita GDP of just below USD 40,000 in 2015.
With its phenomenal economic revival from the ashes of World War II, Japan
was one of the first Asian countries to climb the value chain from cheap textiles
to advanced manufacturing and services – which now account for the majority of
Japan’s GDP and employment. Primary industries, including agriculture, account
for just 1 per cent of GDP.
ECONOMY

6. BIOGRAPHY OF BANANA
YOSHIMOTO

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Banana Yoshimoto, née Yoshimoto Mahoko, is one of Japan’s most famous
contemporary novelists, second only to Haruki Murakami. She changed her
name to “Banana” because she loved banana flowers and thought the name was
“cute” and “purposefully androgynous.”
Yoshimoto was born in Tokyo on July 24, 1964, to a family well-versed in the
arts. Her father Takaaki Yoshimoto was a critic and poet, her mother Kazuko was
a haiku poet, and her sister Yoiko Haruno is a manga artist. Yoshimoto also liked
drawing but knew her sister was better, so she turned to writing and decided to
become a novelist. She said of her time in school, “I didn't do much sports, just
stayed up until late, writing novels. As a result I was dozing in class every day. In
addition to that, booze came into my life at university [College of Art at Nihon
University, Tokyo]. It's almost like I went to university to learn how to drink. Still I
have no regrets about those days though I wish I had studied a bit harder then.”

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Yoshimoto began her writing career while working as a waitress at a golf club
restaurant, in 1987.
Her debut work, Kitchen (1988), had over 60 printings in Japan alone. There have
been two film adaptations: a Japanese TV movie[4] and a more widely released
version titled Wo ai chu fang, produced in Hong Kong by Ho Yim in 1997.[5]
In November 1987, Yoshimoto won the 6th Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize for
Kitchen; in 1988, the novel was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize, and in 1989,
it received the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New
Artists.[6] In 1988 (January), she also won the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature,
for the novella Moonlight Shadow, which is included in most editions of Kitchen.
Another one of her novels, Goodbye Tsugumi (1989), received mixed reviews but
was made into a 1990 movie directed by Jun Ichikawa.

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- Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto, 1988
- NP - Banana Yoshimoto, 1990
- Amrita - Banana Yoshimoto, 1994
- Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto, 1989
- Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto, 1993
- Dead-End Memories Stories - Banana Yoshimoto, 2022
- Moonlight Shadow - Banana Yoshimoto, 1988
- Kanashii Yokan - Banana Yoshimoto, 1988
- SLY - Banana Yoshimoto, 1996
- Daisy's Life - Banana Yoshimoto, 2000
- Him Her That - Wisut Ponnimit, 2013
- New Japanese Voices she Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan 1991
Utakata/Sankuchuari Banana Yoshimoto
- Lullaby Supermarket - Yoshitomo Nara
- The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories (2018)
PUBLISHED BOOKS

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In 1987, Yoshimoto won the Kaien Newcomer Writers Prize, for Kitchen.
In 1988, she was awarded the 16th Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature, for Moonlight Shadow.
The following year, she earned two more accolades:
the 39th Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (for the fiscal year
of 1988), for Kitchen and Utakata/Sanctuary, and the 2nd Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, for
Goodbye Tsugumi.
In 1995, she won the 5th Murasaki Shikibu Prize for Amrita, her first full-length novel.
And in 2000, she received the 10th Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, for Furin to
Nambei, a collection of stories set in South America.
Outside Japan, she has been awarded prizes in Italy: the Scanno Literary Prize in 1993, the
Fendissime Literary Prize in 1996, the Literary Prize Maschera d'Argento in 1999, and the
Capri Award in 2011.[14]
The Lake was longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize.
AWARDS

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