Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
In the era before the internet and smartphones, people who were considered knowledgeable, whether due to their extensive knowledge or exceptional memory, were highly valued in companies, schools, and local communities. In a time when methods for finding information were…
Nights in cities used to be much darker than they are now; the level of darkness can be best described as pitch black, where it was impossible to see even an inch ahead without moonlight or starlight. Street lights are…
The word disaster is composed of dis and aster (from medieval Latin dis-astro), and refers to something bad that occurs away from a good star. The word is said to have originated from the ancient astrological belief that an unlucky…
Sakoku (locked or closed country) refers to the isolationist policy implemented during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shogunate shogun, Iemitsu (1604~1651), in the Edo period (1603~1868), which restricted Japanese travel abroad and the arrival of foreign ships with the…