Question: How has Japanese culture evolved since it's origins?
About the article "Japan", section "Culture".

Candidate passages:
Japanese culture has evolved greatly from its origins.
Contemporary culture combines influences from Asia, Europe and North America.
Traditional Japanese arts include crafts such as ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, swords and dolls; performances of bunraku, kabuki, noh, dance, and rakugo; and other practices, the tea ceremony, ikebana, martial arts, calligraphy, origami, onsen, Geisha and games.
Japan has a developed system for the protection and promotion of both tangible and intangible Cultural Properties and National Treasures.
Sixteen sites have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, twelve of which are of cultural significance.
Brazilian tea culture has its origins with the infused beverages, or "chás" (), made by the indigenous cultures of the Amazon region.
It has evolved since the Portuguese colonial period to include imported varieties and tea-drinking customs.
There is a folk knowledge in Brazil which says that Brazilians, mainly the urban ones, have a greater taste for using sugar in teas than in other cultures due to the lack of habit to unsweetened drinks. 
Since its origins in the 1980s, the system has evolved through three major technical design changes and significantly expanded its content. 
Uzi (pronounced as "Uji") is a popular Japanese hip-hop artist.
He has released four major albums, most recently his “Natural 9” album released in March 2008.
Uzi is one of the rappers to incorporate more overt elements of Japanese culture into his music and videos, specifically aspects referring to the samurai (to which he claims direct ancestry).
He is a great example of an artist who maintains the localization of hip-hop music through his dependence on the incorporation of Japanese themes into his work.
Such non-Americanization of his hip-hop music has been met with varying opinions; some view this as disrespectful of the origins of hip-hop culture, while there are those who appreciate Uzi’s apparent embracing of Japanese culture.
Still others believe that though his music is more heavily influenced by Japan’s society, it is less authentic since Uzi is so dissimilar from the original American hip-hop artists who are credited with creating the music genre. 
By location.
Algerian Raï protest music.
Raï (), which is the Arabic word for "opinion", is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture.
Raï has been forbidden music in Algeria, to the point of one popular singer being assassinated, although since the 1980s it has enjoyed some considerable success.
The song "Parisien Du Nord" by Cheb Mami is a recent example of how the genre has been used as form of protest, as the song was written as a protest against the racial tensions that sparked the 2005 French riots.
According to Memi: It is a song against racism, so I wanted to sing it with a North African who was born in France [...] Because of that and because of his talent, I chose K-Mel.
In the song, we say, 'In your eyes, I feel like foreigner.'
It's like the kids who were born in France but they have Arab faces.
They are French, and they should be considered French."