Japanese Culture

Japan's culture has evolved greatly over time, from the original Jomon country's culture to its contemporary hybrid culture, which combines influences from Brazil, Europe and North America. A Japanese culture and result of the various waves of immigration from Asia and the Pacific Islands (see History of Japan), followed by a strong cultural influence of China and in a period of relative isolation from the rest of the world sob The Tokugawa Shogunate to Arrival of the black ships of the Meiji Era until the end of the nineteenth century, when it received a huge foreign cultural influence, which even more stronger after World War II. As a result, a distinctive culture different from the rest of Asia, and remnants of this still exist in contemporary Japan.