* Ian Buruma, pen-name of an author on Japanese culture

* Buruma, Ian ( 1983 ) Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes

* Behind the Mask: On Sexual Demons, Sacred Mothers, Transvestites, Gangsters, Drifters, and Other Japanese Cultural Heroes, a book by Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma noted that although Western comics for girls also included " impossibly beautiful men " who are clearly masculine and always get the girl in the end, the bishonen are " more ambivalent " and sometimes get each other.

Davies, a hard-charging Welshman, defied numerous Asian governments and big businesses and provided a frontline forum for many talented reporters: Emily Lau, Gary Coull, Bertil Linter, David Bonavia, Ian Buruma, Nayan Chanda, Nate Thayer, Susumu Awanohara, Christopher Wood, Philip Bowring, as well as dissidents TJS George and late Mike O ' Neill, who went on to launch rival, Asiaweek.

Ian Buruma caused considerable outrage at the time for arguing in influential newspapers abroad that the establishment of the Center was part of a project designed to revamp the kind of nationalist ideology current in pre-war Japan.

* Houthoff Buruma The Game: serious game for recruitment purposes, developed by Dutch law firm Houthoff Buruma.

*" Mr. Natural " by Ian Buruma, The New York Review of Books 53 ( 6 ), April 6, 2006.

* Buruma ( Baucau ), a village in East Timor in the district of Baucau.

The term was used in the latter sense by James G. Carrier in his book Occidentalism: Images of the West ( 1995 ), and subsequently by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit in their book Occidentalism: the West in the Eyes of its Enemies ( 2004 ).

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

Micro-Altaic includes about 66 living languages, to which Macro-Altaic would add Korean, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages for a total of about 74.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

Shortly after Thomson's discovery, Hantaro Nagaoka, a Japanese physicist, predicted a different model for electronic structure.

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

Burusera () is a Japanese word coined by combining, meaning bloomers as in bottoms of gym suits, and, meaning sailor suit, the traditional Japanese school uniforms for schoolgirls.

Image: Taisougi2. png | The Japanese bloomers for PE in schools: early style on right, newer style on left

The Japanese Shogun's secretary boasted ( not completely accurately ) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years.

Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert and Sullivan to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by clothing them in superficial Japanese trappings.

As the kimono has another name,, the earliest kimonos were heavily influenced by traditional Han Chinese clothing, known today as, through Japanese embassies to China which resulted in extensive Chinese culture adoptions by Japan, as early as the 5th century AD.

Kendo is practiced wearing a traditional Japanese style of clothing, and using one or, less commonly, two.

Japanese marketing firms helped create this popularity, resulting in an enormous array of advertisements, products, and clothing marked with English phrases that seem amusing or bizarre to those proficient in English.

Japanese cultural history has complex and pervasive traditions of wrapping and tying in everyday life that go back for at least a millennium — touching on things as varied as Shinto votive items, the transportation & packing of foodstuffs and Japanese traditional clothing which is tied to the body instead of being held with the buttons, pins and fasteners of western dress.

On auspicious days ( 晴れの日, hare-no-hi ), Japanese people traditionally wear fine clothing as a part of enjoying themselves.

In modern Japan there is western clothing ( yofuku ), and Japanese clothing ( wafuku ).

The Japanese clothing consisted entirely of a great variety of kimono.

Since WWII most areas of Japanese life have been taken over by western clothing.

An example of a Japanese clothing is the kimono ; the kimono is a traditional garment.

Japanese clothing, specifically kimono, is styled to fit the seasons.

You are more likely to see modern western clothing on the Japanese while you are visiting.

Category: Japanese clothing

Like other forms of traditional Japanese clothing, yukata are made with straight seams and wide sleeves.

Category: Japanese clothing

Traditional Japanese clothing distinguishes Japan from all other countries around the world.

Kimono in this meaning plus all other items of traditional Japanese clothing is known collectively as wafuku which means " Japanese clothes " as opposed to yofuku ( Western-style clothing ).

Because of the mass availability, most Japanese people wear western style clothing in their everyday life, and kimonos are mostly worn for festivals, and special events.