Comparative Analysis of Gaze Behaviors of Japanese Residents, Japanese Visitors, and Non-Japanese Visitors

Visitors' engagement and authenticity: Japanese heritage consumption

Understanding the sense of authenticity of heritage attractions is important for tourism management and marketing because presentation, interpretation and verification has a direct bearing on motivations to visit and engage with heritage tourism sites. This paper establishes relationships among the concepts of culturally specific motivation, perception of authenticity, engagement and attendant ...

Japanese Garden as a Physical Symbol of Japanese Culture

A’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. Garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. Thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

Japanese and Non-japanese Perceptions of Japanese Communication

Comparative Evaluation of Some Properties of Chicken and Japanese Quail Eggs Subjected to Different Storage Methods

This study investigated the potential effects of egg quality indices at 95% confidence level in order to minimize quality loss during different storage conditions. The chicken and quail eggs’ quality indices including weight, albumen index, yolk index, Haugh index in fresh eggs as well as after storing in moist sawdust, oil, and refrigerator were measured for six weeks. The results revealed tha...

Comparative study of Japanese kumiko art and Iranian Masouleh Gereh-chini

Japan and Guilan being located in similar climates have experienced same architectural and artistic characteristics such as Kumiko art and gereh-chini. Due to the fact that so far no research has been conducted on the similarities and differences between Kumiko and gereh-chini, the present research will try to investigate the components forming the two arts. With the aid of comparative studies,...