•Japanese and Aborigines•By: Vivian Le

Aboriginal and Japanese History•Aborigines are natives to Australia and

Tasmania. They have lived there for about 35,000 to 70,000 years. Their skin and hair are both dark. There are about 500 recorded tribes, some of which are Aranda, Bidjandjadjara, Gurindji, Gunwinggu, Kamilaroi, Murngin, Tiwi, Wailbri, Wurora, and Yir-boron. Aboriginal tribes didn't usually stay in one place for long, moving to watering places and setting up camp there.

Aboriginal and Japanese INTRO!

The Japanese world is highly made over 6 000 islands and 70% mountain. It is an Island/country in Eastern part of Asia. Japan is located in the Pacific Ocean. It’s situated to the east of Russia, China, and Korea. Out of Japan’s 6 000 islands, there are four major or really big ones.

Facts of the Rising Sun. The Capital of Japan is Tokyo. The highest mountain in Japan is Mt.Fuji. 10% of the world active volcanos are in Japan. Japan experiences three earthquakes almost everyday.

We refer to as Aboriginals as aborigines or indigenous Australians. Their name comes from the Rome mythology. The aborigines clamed Australia over 400,000 years ago.

Aboriginal and Japanese Clothing

Japanese were a traditional piece of clothing called a Kimono. This loose long robe of cotton or silk is tied around the waist with a belt like ribbon called and obi. Kimono are rarely worn because they are very expensive to buy. Long before the 1970’s, Japanese men and women wore a special kind of shoe called Geta Sandals. A Geta Sandal is a mix of a clog and thong. Geta Sandals are worn with traditional kimono’s and Western clothing during summer. Sometimes Geta Sandals are worn in snow and rain to keep who ever is wearing them, their feet dry. Geta Sandals are impermeable. Impermeable mean whether in ain or snow the wetness will not go in or through the shoe.

Aborigines usually walked or went every were naked. They loved to have freedom of movement. Aborigines had no need to wear clothes most of the year. When it was winter, in the south east and west of Australia they wore cloaks made out of kangaroo, wallaby, or possum fur.

Aboriginal and Japanese Food Japanese people eat over 350 pounds of fish a year. Japanese

are the ones who came up with the food we eat today called sushi. It contains of sweet sticky rice, seaweed, fish, and some different types of vegetables. Japanese usually uses chopsticks to eat. Before eating a meal, Japanese families “ Itadakimasu,” which means “I receive this food.” This phrase expresses thanks to the person who made it. When the meal is done Japanese families say “Gochiso- Samu” which means to give thanks for this delicious meal.

Traditional Japanese meals are eaten on a really low table.

Aboriginal people usually eat fruit, fish, animals, and bugs found in bushland or bodies of water. The women pick fruit and find bugs, whilst the men hunted for fish, and animals like, kangaroo, wallabies, etc.

Aboriginal and Japanese Languages

Japanese is a language spoken by over 130 million people. Japanese is an “Agglutinative Language,” which means most of the words are morphemes joined together. Morphemes are really small linguistic nits that have symbolism meaning.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called Kanji, and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana and katakana.

There were more than 500 aboriginal languages. These Languages were used since before the first European settlement. . Different Aboriginal tribes often spoke different dialects. Dialects are a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

Aboriginal and Japanese Sports/Recreation

There are a lot of different sport in Japan. There’s soccer, football, sumo wrestling, baseball, karate, judo and tae kwon do.

Japanese recreation are either played inside or outside. Kids play lots of activities like spinning tope, baseball, building wooden or clay models or watching TV.

The Aboriginals of Victoria part took in a game called Marn Grook, a type of football played with a ball made of possum hide.

Aboriginal and Japanese Habitat/Environment

The largest island in Japan is Honshu wish makes up of at least 227,414 square kilometres of Japan. Honshu has many small plains and lowlands scattered along the coast. A lot of volcanoes can be found along the coast as well.

There are many places in Australia that aboriginals call their own. Some aborigines live in the largest area in central Australia called Arnhem land. Most aboriginals live on a so-called “fringe.” a body of land they call their own.

Aboriginal and Japanese Schooling

Japanese children must at least attend school for nine years. After six years of primary school and three years of Secondary school, they can if they want to attend University for three years. To attend University they must pass an examination.

Education for and Aboriginal children is provided throughout the country. A growing number of children are taught by an aboriginal teacher to grasp new symbols and new concepts of life.

Aboriginal and Japanese Art There are so many different kinds of art in Japan. There is

painting, sculpting, theatre, architecture, and flower arranging.

Painting began as an expression of Buddhism, sculpting was created for Buddhist temples, Theatre created two kinds of drama- no and kabuki, architecture emphasized harmony between building and nature, and flower arranging was made to seek to express nature in a ideal way.

There are so many kinds of aboriginal arts. There is painting and carving, corroborees, and dances.

Paintings and carvings are found over a wide area of Aboriginal Australia, corroborees is an art including dancing, singing and dramatic performances. Dances were usually quit simple in basic patterning.

Aboriginal and Japanese Music Traditional Japanese music may sound tuneless

to western ears. The usual instruments include gongs, drums, flutes, and samisens (a banjo like instrument.) The traditional music came from China and India and is played at court ceremonies and religious services. Today, it may be heard at classic drama dances and at festivals.

Music is both vital and complex. Aboriginals excelled in harmony, rhythm, and melodic patterns. Some men, especially, were magnificent singers.

Aboriginal and Japanese Laws/Government

Japan is divided up into 47 prefectures, which in some ways are like states. The voters in each prefecture elect a governor and assembly.

Aborigines don’t have laws they have rules. The rules are based around two major subjects “religion” and “kinship.” The rules for religion basically said how women should collect food , how men should hunt, what the should hunt for, and how they should share the food. The rules for kinship involved learning more rules about responsibility. A lot of those rules were very complex or hard.

Aboriginal and Japanese Traditions/Customs

Christmas was introduced in Japan by the Christian missionaries, and for many years the only people who celebrated it were those who had turned to the Christian faith. But now the Christmas season in Japan is full of meaning and is almost universally observed. The story of the Child Jesus born in a manger is fascinating to the little girls of Japan, for they love anything having to do with babies. In the scene of the Nativity they become familiar for the first time with a cradle, for Japanese babies never sleep in cradles. Many western customs in observing Christmas have been adopted by the Japanese.

When a death occurs in the camp the men and women throw themselves on the ground, run a few paces, and prostrate themselves again, beating their heads with shells and stones,--the men using the ends of their throwing-sticks, in each of which is set a piece of flint for cutting purposes with Spinifex wax called "Bulga." It is quite usual to see streams of blood pouring from their heads. They lie upon the body to signify they would like to restore life. The near relatives cut off and keep the deceased's hair, often dressing their own hair and beard with it.

Aboriginal and Japanese Family Structure

Family in Japan is called “ie” in Japanese. The Japanese family is based on the line of descent. In any given period of history, all family members have been expected to contribute to the perpetuation of the family, which is held to be the highest duty of the member.

Traditional Indigenous family groups follow the ‘hearth’ group system, where an extended family group shares the proceeds of a hunt and the same camp fire – in other words, an extended family lives together.

Aboriginal and Japanese Developmnet

As its economy matured in the 1970s and 1980s, Japan gradually shifted away from dependence on foreign research. As early as 1980, the Science and Technology Agency, a component of the Kantei (office of the Prime Minister) announced the beginning of "the era of Japan's technological independence.“

The word "aboriginal" means "the first" or "earliest known". The word was first used in Europe to describe people who lived there, natives or old inhabitants, not newcomers, or invaders.

Aboriginal and Japanese Beliefs

In Japanese mythology, the gods display human emotions, such as love and anger. In these stories, behavior that results in positive relations with others is rewarded, and empathy, identifying oneself with another, is highly valued. By contrast, those actions that are antisocial, or that harm others, are condemned. Hurtful behavior is punished in the myths by ostracizing the offender.