List of Japan-related topics - See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Japanese) Wikipedia:WikiProject Japanese prefectures Wikipedia:Wikiproject Japanese districts and municipalites Wikipedia:Tips for Japanese Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Japan Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese characters Kanji Reference:Index Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # .hack, .hack//SIGN, 0 Series Shinkansen, 100 Series Shinkansen, 100-yen shop, 1964 Summer Olympics, 1998 Winter Olympics, 200 Series Shinkansen, 23 special wards, 2ch, 300 Series Shinkansen, 400 Series Shinkansen, 47 Ronin, 500 Series Shinkansen, 55-year system, 64DD, 700 Series Shinkansen, 800 Series Shinkansen A A City With No People, A.I. Love You, Abashiri, Abashiri subprefecture, ABCL/1, ABCL/R, ABCL/R2, Abe clan of Mikawa, Abe Iso, Abe Masakatsu, Abe no Hirafu, Abe no Seimei, Abe Nobuyuki, Abeno Plain,.
Japanese American Internment - Japanese American Internment The Japanese American internment refers to the exclusion and subsequent removal of approximately 112,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans, officially classified as "persons of Japanese ancestry", from certain parts of the United States during World War II to temporary relocation camps in the nation's interior. The government of the United States officially apologized for this action in the 1980s and has paid reparations, and claims for about 60 years to survivors. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Terminology 2 History 3 Compensation 4 Terminology: Internment vs. Relocation 5 Conditions in the camps 6 Criticisms 7 Other camps 8 Legal Legacy 9 List of internment camps 10.
Japanese language guide - Japanese language guide This page is intended to give the reader a feel for how the Japanese language is used. This entry is written using romaji for the benefit of English readers. A limited Japanese vocabulary is assumed. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Japanese Basics 1.1 Examples 2 Parts of Speech 3 Basic Grammar 4 Introductory Conversation 5 Example of Basic Japanese Sentence structure 6 See also Japanese Basics The most basic sentence in Japanese consists of a topic (not necessarily the subject), the topic marker wa, and a predicate. The predicate can be in the form of a noun or adjective combined with a copula, or a verb. Examples Watashi wa utsukushii desu. I am beautful. (Literally, "As for me, I am beautful"). Okaasan wa.
Japanese American - Japanese American A Japanese American is a person of Japanese ancestry or origin who was either born in or is an immigrant to the United States. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Immigration 2 Internment 3 Farming 4 Soldiers 5 Japanese Americans today 6 See also 7 External Links Immigration People from Japan began migrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. Particularly after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants were sought by industrialists to replace the Chinese immigrants. In 1907, the "Gentlemen's Agreement" between the governments of Japan and the U.S. ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U.S. The.
Japanese Wikipedia - Japanese Wikipedia Wikipedia Japanese edition is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia. As of November 2003 it had around 19000 articles. History It seems that Wikipedia started being multilingual in May 2001. According to the announcement [1], May, about 12 non-English editions have been created, including a Japanese one. The original site address was http://ja.wikipedia.com and all pages were written in latin characters, or Romaji, as the software did not work with Japanese characters. The first article was named "Nihongo No Funimekusu" (though incorrect, it was probably intented to mean onso taikei (phonemics.) and was written in entirely romaji. RoseParks, who was one of the initial members of Wikipedia, posted it in late March to early April. It seems the site had.
Japanese language - Japanese language The Japanese language is a spoken and written language used mainly in Japan. The Japanese name for the language is 日本語 (Nihongo) 日本語 Spoken in: Japan Total speakers: 125 Million Ranking: 8 Genetic classification: Language isolate Official status Official language of: Japan Regulated by: Language Academy? Language codes ISO 639-1: ja ISO 639-2: jpn SIL: JPN Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History and Classification 2 Geographic distribution 2.1 Official status 2.2 Dialects 3 Sounds 3.3 Vowels 3.4 Consonants 3.5 Phonology 3.6 Syllabary 3.7 Japanese Pronunciation 3.8 Double (Geminate) Consonants 3.9 Long Vowels 3.10 Intonation 4 Grammar 4.11 Politeness 5 Vocabulary 6 Writing system 6.12 Early Writing System 6.13 Written language reforms and Western influence 6.14 Modern Japanese writing system 7 See also 8.
Chobits Media Information - 1591821533 English Chobits Volume 6 Tokyopop ISBN 1591822572 English Chobits Volume 7 Tokyopop ISBN 1591822580 English Chobits Volume 8 Tokyopop ISBN 1591824095 Japanese Chobits Volume 6 講談社 (Kōdansha) ISBN 4-06-334590-4 Japanese Chobits Volume 8 講談社 (Kōdansha) ISBN 4-06-334632-3 Japanese Chobits Anime Guide Volume 7 講談社 (Kōdansha) ISBN 4-06-310172-X Japanese Chobits Anime Guide Volume 8 講談社 (Kōdansha) ISBN 4-06-310173-8 Theme Songs Opening "Let me be With You" by ROUND TABLE and Nino Ending "Raison d'Etre" (Reason to Be) by Rie Tanaka (eps. 1-12) "Ningyo Hime" (Mermaid Princess) by Rie Tanaka (eps. 13-25) "Katakoto no Koi" (Awkward Love) by Rie Tanaka and Tomokazu Sugita (ep 26) Episode List Chii Awakens Chii Goes Out Chii Remembers Chii Goes Shopping Chii Finds Chii is in Trouble Chii Works Chii is Perplexed Shimbo and Sumomo Talk.
Culture of Japan - Japan Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Japanese culture and language 2 Japanese popular culture 3 The culture of Japanese management 4 To be covered 5 See also 6 References Japanese culture and language Japan endured intermittent periods of relative isolation from external influences, ending at the arrival of the "Black Ships" and the Meiji era; and with economic, cultural and religious influences from neighboring Asian states, produced a unique culture of its own. Ruth Benedict asserted in her now-discredited study "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword," that Japan has a shame culture (external reference standard) rather than the guilt culture (internal reference standard) that is more familiar in the West. Again in Japan, inter-relationships between people are heavily influenced by "obligation" and "duty" in a way that is no longer true in.
Japan - nomination. Nippon 日本国 (In Detail) National motto: None Official language Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Independence 660 BC Prime minister Koizumi Junichiro Area - Total - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 km˛ 0.8% Population - Total (2003) - Density Ranked 10th 127,214,499 335/km˛ GDP (base PPP) - Total (2002) - GDP/head Ranked 3rd 3,55 trillions $ 28,000 $ Currency Yen Time zone UTC +9 National anthem Kimi Ga Yo Internet TLD .JP Calling Code 81 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Politics 4 Prefectures 5 Geography 6 Economy 7 Demographics 8 Culture 9 Miscellaneous topics 10 External Links 10.1 Official 10.2 Other Introduction Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本, literally "the origin of thesun") is a country in Far East Asia located between the Pacific Ocean and the.
Internment - Internment The word Internment is generally used to refer to the imprisonment or confinement of people without due process of law and a trial. United States In a reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan in 1941, United States Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 allowed military commanders to designate areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded." Under this order all Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry were removed from Western coastal regions to guarded camps in Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, Germans and Italians were removed from the East Coast, and roughly 1/3 of the US was declared an exclusionary zone. Almost 120,000 Japanese Americans and resident Japanese aliens would eventually be removed from their homes as part of the.
Soja - Soja Sōja (総社市; -shi) is a city located in Okayama, Japan. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 56,755 and the density of 295.20 persons per km˛. The total area is 192.26 km˛. The city was founded on March 31, 1954. External Links Official website in Japanese.
February 2003 - some of the photographic evidence that Mr Powell had presented. Tariq Aziz of Iraq meets with Pope John Paul II Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, is euthanized well short of her natural lifespan because of a progressive lung disease. February 13, 2003 Austria bars USA military units involved in the attack on Iraq from entering into or flying over its territories without a UN mandate to attack Iraq. United States military officials anonymously confirm to the Washington Post that two Special Forces units have been operating on the ground inside Iraq for over a month, making preliminary preparations for a large-scale invasion. [1] U.S. Senate Democrats continue to threaten to filibuster the candidacy of Miguel Estrada for the D.C. Circuit Court. The Democrats argue that Estrada is too.
Knights of the Zodiac - the Zodiac Knights of the Zodiac or Saint Seiya is 1980s Japanese Anime about a group of bronze knights who adopted constellations as their totem. It is based on the manga of the same title (Saint Seiya) drawen by Masami Kurumada. The main characters are: Seiya (Pegasus) Shiryu (Dragon) Ikki (Phoenix) Hyoga (Cygnus/Swan) Shun (Andromeda) Notable antagonist: Saga, Master of Sanctuary (Ares) who also posseses Gemini gold cloth. Kanon, Saga's twin brother, who cursed him. Hades, King of the Hell. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Summary 2 Other Information 3 External Link Summary The episode began with a tournament among bronze knights to decide the new rightful owner of Sagittarius gold cloth, when suddenly a group of dark knights led by Ikki stole its nine parts. As the saga advance, they.
Korean Buddhism - attention of Western scholarship rather late compared with Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, it still lies, with its deep store of untouched resources, almost fully open for exploration. And while early ignorance regarding the Korean Buddhist tradition lent to some degree of uninformed glossing over from preconceptions drawn from models in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, scholars of East Asian Buddhism nowadays are generally becoming aware of the important role of Korean Buddhism in the East Asian religious/philosophical sphere. The most distinctive general characteristic that can be seen in the Korean Buddhist tradition is the tendency for its most noted thinkers to be holistic in the interpretation of doctrine and to be exasperatingly thorough in the resolution of doctrinal and "loose ends" passed on from Buddhist predecessors. Korean scholars and monks not only.
Education reform - Asian and European primary schools are excellent, although this is commonly disputed by East Asians and Europeans. This is thought to occur by continuous improvement of the programs of rigidly-controlled centralized state-run schools. However much dissatisfaction focuses on the lack of tertiary education for moderately gifted persons and "late bloomers." In some of these societies, higher education is state-paid, and only available to the small fraction of students that, in the U.S., would qualify for full scholarships. Also, tertiary education in these nations, while good, is often lower than U.S. standards. In the U.S., the political conflict over primary and secondary education has two positions. One position wishes to remake U.S. education in the image of the European and Japanese, with central standards and control. The other position wishes to emulate.
Enigma machine - methods, but based on different specifics. First, the German Army had changed their practices (more rotors etc), so the Polish techniques no longer worked without modification. Second, the German Navy had always used more secure practices, and no one had broken any of their traffic. One new attack relied on the fact that the reflector (a patented feature of the Enigma machines) guaranteed that no letter could be encyphered as itself, so an A could never turn back into an A. Another technique counted on various common German phrases, like "Heil Hitler" or "please respond", which were found to likely be in this or that plaintext; successful guesses as to the plaintext were known at Bletchley as cribs. With a probable plaintext fragment and the knowledge that no letter could be.
USS New Orleans (CA-32) - and was once more in the Pacific early in 1937. Aside from winter training in the Caribbean early in 1939, she served out of California ports until joining the Hawaiian Detachment, 12 October 1939, for exercises, training, and, as war drew close, vigilant patrol. Moored in Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, New Orleans was taking power and light from the dock, her engines under repair. With yard power out during the attack, New Orleans' engineers fought to raise steam, working by flashlight, while on deck men fired on the Japanese attackers with rifles and pistols. Though guns had to be worked by hand, within 10 minutes all her AA batteries were in action. A number of her crew were injured when a fragmentation bomb exploded close aboard. The cruiser convoyed troops.
USS Wasp (CV-7) - Norfolk, her three escorts in company. After another week at sea, the group arrived back at Norfolk on 14 August. Underway again on 22 August, however, Wasp put to sea for carrier qualifications and refresher landings off the Virginia capes. Two days later, Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, Commander Cruisers, Atlantic Fleet, shifted his flag from Savannah (CL-42) to Wasp, while the ships lay anchored in Hampton Roads. Underway on the 25th, in company with Savannah, Monssen (DD-436) and Kearny, the aircraft carrier conducted flight operations over the ensuing days. Scuttlebutt on board the carrier had her steaming out in search of a German heavy cruiser, Admiral Hipper, which was reportedly roaming the western Atlantic in search of prey. Suspicions were confirmed for many on the 30th when the British battleship.
Discrimination against non-Muslims in Iran - declares that the "official religion of Iran is Islam and the doctrine followed is that of "Ja’fari (Twelver) Shi’ism." The Iranian government restricts freedom of religion. Iran's religious minorities--including Baha’is, Jews, Christians, and Sufi Muslims--reported imprisonment, harassment, and intimidation based on their religious beliefs. At least four Baha’is were among those still imprisoned for reasons related to their faith, while eight Jews remained in prison. Society is accustomed to the presence of non-Muslim communities, some of which predate Islam. However, government actions create a threatening atmosphere for some religious minorities, especially Baha’is, Jews, and evangelical Christians. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Religious Demography 2 Status of Religious Freedom 3 Restrictions on Religious Freedom 4 Abuses of Religious Freedom 5 Societal Attitudes 6 Views of the US Government Religious Demography The country.
USS Wasp (CV-18) - Marshall Islands and at Majuro Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery's newly formed Task Group 58.6 of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 58). On 14 May, she and her sister carriers of TG 58.6, Essex (CV-9) and San Jacinto (CV-30), sortied for raids on Marcus and Wake Islands to give the new task group combat experience; to test a recently devised system of assigning - before takeoff - each pilot a specific target, and to neutralize those islands for the forthcoming Marianas campaign. As the force neared Marcus, it split, sending San Jacinto north to search for Japanese picket boats while Wasp and Essex launched strikes on the 19th and 20th, aimed at installations on the island. American planes encountered heavy antiaircraft fire but still managed to.
