, or Kiminozo for short, is a Japanese adult visual novel developed by Âge and released on August 3, 2001 for Windows.

The producer and head planner for Kimi ga Nozomu Eien was Hirohiko Yoshida, the executive director of Acid, the publishing company that Âge is under.

Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

In works aimed at adult Japanese speakers, furigana may be used on a word written in uncommon kanji ; in the mass media, they are generally used on words containing non-Jōyō kanji.

Japanese courtesans had another form of flirting, emphasizing non-verbal relationships by hiding the lips and showing the eyes, as depicted in much Shunga art, the most popular print media at the time, until the late 19th century.

is a media franchise based on the Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

As with other forms of Japanese pop-culture media, publishers of erotic media target material to specific demographic groups.

The first milestones in the Japanese media history were newspapers in the Meiji period, the first being the Nagasaki Shipping List & Advertiser, founded 1861 in Nagasaki, with the telegraph and telephone following suit.

Standard Japanese has become prevalent nationwide ( including the Ryūkyū islands ) due to education, mass media, and an increase of mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration.

Japanese TV channels decided to broadcast, simultaneously to the ceremony, his Museum in Tokyo, in what was at the time a unique media homage.

Japanese media giant Nintendo released 9 out of the 10 top selling games of the 2000s, further establishing the company's dominance over the market.

In Envisioning the " Tale of Genji " Shirane observes that " The Tale of Genji has become many things to many different audiences through many different media over a thousand years ... unmatched by any other Japanese text or artifact.

The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them, while the yakuza call themselves.

They are very prevalent in the Japanese media and operate internationally with an estimated 80, 900 members in 2009, the last year for which an estimate is available.

Ninja appear in many forms of Japanese and Western popular media, including books ( Kōga Ninpōchō ), television ( Ninja Warrior ), movies ( You Only Live Twice, Ninja Assassin, The Last Samurai ), Satire ( REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book ) video games ( Tenchu, Shinobi ), anime ( Naruto ), manga ( Basilisk ) and Western comic books ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G. I.

Mass clusters are clusters of suicides in time but not space, and have been linked to the broadcasting of information concerning celebrity suicides via the mass media Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired suicide clusters include Ruan Lingyu, the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and Hide, and Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August month.

The Mitsubishi group of companies form a loose entity, the Mitsubishi Keiretsu, which is often referenced in Japanese and US media and official reports ; in general these companies all descend from the zaibatsu of the same name.

also known as Boys ' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male sexual relationships, usually created by female authors.

The Japanese news media also made a documentary movie named " Nanking " that recorded Nanking just after its fall.

, also known by the wasei-eigo construction, is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media.

He was voiced in the Japanese version by Chikao Ōhtsuka, who also portrayed the Disney incarnation of the character in Japanese media, particularly in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

* " Episode 0: First Contact ", the fourteenth television special of the Japanese media franchise Lupin III

In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American Depositary Receipts ( ADRs ), which are traded over-the-counter.

* Akita Shoten, a Japanese publishing company

* Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix

In January 1989, the old affiliate company Capcom Co., Ltd. merged with Sambi Co., Ltd., resulting in the current Japanese branch.

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

* Canon ( company ), a Japanese imaging and optical products corporation ; produces Canon cameras

Pocket sized devices became available in the 1970s, especially after the invention of the microprocessor developed by Intel for the Japanese calculator company Busicom.

* Canopus, a Japanese drum company.

In 1975, the Japanese company Yamaha licensed the algorithms for frequency modulation synthesis ( FM synthesis ) from John Chowning, who had experimented with it at Stanford University since 1971.

* 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $ 3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

Later, the Japanese Prime Minister arrives with Takuya's ex-wife, Masako Tezuka, and offers him to explore an island in the sea with Masako and Marutomo company secretary, Kenji Andoh, and become a free man.

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

The Latin script is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text into a computer.

After outsourcing the production to a Japanese company for most of his replacement parts, del Rosario and his friends started seeing similar systems with Japanese names being sold in major Asian cities, even in Manila, Philippines.

* Kirin Brewery Company, a Japanese brewing company

* Kyowa Hakko Kirin, Japanese pharmaceutical company

* Key ( company ), a Japanese visual novel studio

A manga artist ( mangaka in Japanese ) typically works with a few assistants in a small studio and is associated with a creative editor from a commercial publishing company.

Ford's increased influence during the 1990s allowed Mazda to claim another distinction in history, having maintained the first foreign-born head of a Japanese car company, Henry Wallace.

For the Japanese company, see Molten Corporation ; or see Molton or Moulton.

is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics company located in Kyoto, Japan.

The Japanese parent company was concerned that it may be viewed as a " Japanese Invasion " by forcing Japanese community standards on North American and European children.