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Japanese noun—日本 n (almost always used) ()Examples:the Mukden or Manchurian railway incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext annex Manchuria—the Mukden or Manchurian Railway Incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext annex Manchuria—konnyaku (in Japanese cooking), solidified jelly made from the rhizome of devil's tongue—shamisen, three-stringed Japanese musical instrument—Ishihara Jintarō (1932-), Japanese author and politician, governor of Tokyo since 1999—Heian Period (794-1192), period of Japanese history ruled by Kyoimperial court—Kurosawa Akira (1910-1998) Japanese movie director—Kamakura bakufu 1192-1333, the first Japanese samurai shogunate—KOIZUMI Jun'ichirō, Japanese LDP politician, prime minister 2001-2006—Taisei Yokusankai, Japanese fascist organization created in 1940—Meiwa (common name for Japanese companies or schools)—KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991—otaku, a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests such as anime, manga, and video games—harakiri (formal Japanese: seppuku), a samurai's suicide by disemboweling—Nikkei Shimbun, Japanese equivalent of Financial Times—subject-object-verb SOV or subject-object-predicate sentence pattern (e.g. in Japanese or Korean grammar)—Doraemon, Japanese manga and anime series character—TOMONAGA Shin'ichirō (1906-1979), Japanese physicist, 1965 Nobel prize laureate with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger—HAMADA Yasukazu (1955-), Japanese defense minister from 2008—Jyōmon period of Japanese prehistory, with rope pattern pottery—Oukubo Toshimichi (1830-1878), Japanese politician—photobook (loanword from Japanese), generally sexy portraits of an actress or model—used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc—Unkei (c. 1150-1224), Japanese sculptor of Buddhist images—Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922)—Turtwig, Japanese comic character, turtle with seedling growing out of its head—Mita, Sanda, Mitsuda etc (Japanese surname or place name)—Mothra (Japanese モスラ Mosura), Japanese movie monster—also known as sakura (Japanese) or Yoshino cherry—uncle (Japanese loanword, respectful appellation for any older man)—Wadati Kiyoō (1902-1995), pioneer Japanese seismologist—ITŌ Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese Meiji restoration politician, prime minister on four occasions, influential in Japanese expansionism in Korea, assassinated in Harbin—kyōgen (a form of traditional Japanese comic theater)—Li Ying (1963-), Japanese-educated Chinese documentary film director—Owari or Owari-no-kuni, Japanese fiefdom during 11th-15th century, current Aichi prefecture around Nagoya—Yasukuni Shrine, Shintō shrine in Tōkyō Japanese war dead, controversial as burial ground of several Class A war criminals—Shanghai incident of 28th January 1932, Chinese uprising against Japanese quarters of Shanghai—used as second component of Japanese names with phonetic value -shima or -jima— |