Intercultural Encounters

For our individual assignment under the Intercultural Communication course, Dr Massila instructed us to pick a country and analyze its culture in the intercultural context. Each week, we had 2 to 3 students present the country they chose. Masaya Ono, our Japanese exchange student, chose his home country - you can view his presentation in the video above.

By Masaya Ono In 2020, Olympics is going to be held in Japan. You will see so many Japanese news or culture on media. You may already know about japan or have some knowledge through movie or other media, but it could be different from current Japanese culture. So many food, culture, and full of hospitality are in that country. It has 4 seasons in one year and each season has different enjoyment: cherry blossom bloom on spring, lots of beaches open on summer, red leaves cover mountain on autumn, and it snows on winter. Japan is created with several islands and spreads north and south. Each part has different weather, nature, and dialect, so many things to discover there. However, Japan is a country that is known as one of the most expensive country in the world. Their average income of 20's is around JPY 2,700,000(MYR109,000). It's ranked on 11 th of highest living fee in the world. Average living fee is aroun...