1. Issue
Kabuki for Japanese people-Why Japanese people prefer other country's culture to Japanese traditional culture?
2. Importance of the Issue
There are a lot of culture in Japan. However, especially Japanese young people like Western culture and Korean culture. If the number of people who are interested in Japanese traditional culture has decreased, the culture will be declining. One of the problem is decreasing people who inherit their traditions. We need to protect them as a Japanese.
3. Connection to me
I have watched a TV program about foreigners who love Japanese traditional culture. They appreciate them more than Japanese people. I knew that Japanese traditions are evaluated highly around the world. However, Japanese people including me do not seem to understand them deeply. For example, when foreigners asked me what "kabuki" is, I did not explain it well. I need to be aware of their importance as one of Japanese culture.
4. Questions
(1) Why do Japanese people like other country's culture?
(2) How do foreigners evaluate "kabuki"?
(3) How do Japanese people evaluate "kabuki"?
(4) Is there some gaps of evaluations between Japanese people and foreigners?
(5) What are serious problems of Japanese kabuki?
(6) Is it enough to learn Japanese traditions in a school?
(7) What should be done to protect "kabuki"?
5. Sources
(1)Interview: Kabuki star Danjuro cries out for future
The Nikkei Weekly 04/26/2010 Edition
(2)My Nippon/ More Japanese than the Japanese
The Daily Yomiuri May 23, 1998, Saturday
(3)Reinvigorate traditional performing arts
BYLINE: Yomiuri
SECTION: Pg. 2
How should Kabuki change or how should it be promoted more effectively in order to increase its popularity and be preserved as form of theater for future generations of Japanese?
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