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All Nippon Airways launches the CRAFTSMANSHIP website to increase foreign visitors

| Culture and Society News, News, Transportation News, Travel and Tourism News | 06/15/2018

IS JAPAN COOL?" - "CRAFTSMANSHIP": Japanese armor-maker

ANA’s “IS JAPAN COOL?” Introduces New Theme “CRAFTSMANSHIP” – Focusing on country’s traditional artisans

Date: June 13, 2018
Source: All Nippon Airways (ANA)

TOKYOAll Nippon Airways (ANA) announced today the launch of a new website theme that celebrates “CRAFTSMANSHIP” as part of its “IS JAPAN COOL?” program, which helps promote Japan to international visitors. This new theme will have two features, including interviews with seven traditional Japanese artisans and the SAMURAI AVATAR.

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A Living Sengoku Busho(Daimyo) List! – Introducing “Omotenashi Busho-tai (Hospitality Samurai Lords)” existing in various places of Japan

| Japanese Culture & Traditional, Reports | 06/11/2018

Sengoku Bushotai in Japan

The “Omotenashi Busho-tai” is operated by local organizations, cities, prefectures, etc. as a tourism business to promote local tourist attractions and enhance regional economies, and expanded rapidly in various parts of Japan around 2010. Omotenashi Busho-tai offer a dancing, commemorative photographs and sing a song to tourists.

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21st Century Yoroi – Samurai armor for modern Japan

| Japanese Culture & Traditional, Reports | 05/08/2014

Samurai armor for modern Japan

21st Century Yoroi – Samurai armor for modern Japan
Source: Highlighting JAPAN – by Nayalan Moodley

Samurai are recognized around the world as iconic emblems of Japanese culture. Their modern image is striking and romantic: powerful, honorable warriors clad in magnificent armor, finely honed katana in hand. And while the katana may be the foremost symbol of the samurai, no less distinctive is their trademark armor, or yoroi.

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