* Alnus japonica — Japanese alder, Japan

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

Originally published in Japanese as So-dai sho-gyo — shi kenkyu -.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Many faiths around the world — from Japanese Shinto and Chinese traditional religion, to certain African practices and the faiths derived from those in the Caribbean, to Native American beliefs — hold that ancestral or household spirits offer daily protection and blessings.

It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U. S. ( mostly in the West ) and was used against those with " Foreign Enemy Ancestry " — Japanese, and Korean, who were considered to have Japanese nationality ( since Korea had been under Japanese rule since 1910 ).

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom.

Many languages — for instance Japanese, Spanish, and Hebrew — already distinguish " existence "/" location " from " identity "/" predication ".

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

Imperial Seal of Japan | Japanese Imperial kamon — a stylized chrysanthemum blossom

However, a true sequel to the game was announced on March 18, 2011. is being developed by Miracle Kidz for a Japanese release on WiiWare in 2011.

* Japanese — Osamu Shimizu: Moonlight and Pierrot Suite ( 1948 / 49 ; male chorus ; text by Horiguchi Daigaku ).

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

* Japanese — Shinichiro Watanabe: Cowboy Bebop ( 1998 anime ; twentieth episode, “ Pierrot le fou ”, references both the character and the Godard film above, this section, under French ).

* Japanese — Kōtaro Isaka: A Pierrot a. k. a. Gravity Clown ( 2003 ; a film based on the novel was released in 2009 ).

* Japanese — Norio Suzuki: " Pierrot Clown " ( 1995 ; women's chorus ).

* Japanese — Közi often wore a Pierrot costume while a member of the visual rock band Malice Mizer ( 1992 – 2001 ); Pierrot was a rock band active from 1994 to 2006.

Pierrot is a Japanese loanword for clown, adopted from the classical character of Pierrot.

Pierrot ( stylized as PIERROT ) was a Japanese visual kei rock band, originally founded as Dizy-Lizy in 1994 by Kirito ( then going by his real name, Shinya ) and Jun in Nagano.

In late 2009, Bandai created a webpage in Japanese showing a new game to be released in 2010 called Digimon Story: Lost Evolution, which uses the same engine as their predecessors Digimon World DS and Digimon World Dawn and Dusk and was released on July 1, 2010.

In 2009, Japanese researchers identified a urinary marker called phenylacetylglutamine that could be used for early diagnosis.

* 2009 Release of Japanese guideline for diagnosis and treatment of interstitial cystitis

* 1962 – Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese wrestler ( d. 2009 )

* In the anime adaptation of the 2009 Japanese visual novel, Steins ; Gate, the character Yūgo Tennōji, aka ' Mr. Braun ', uses the pseudonym ' FB ', after Karl Ferdinand Braun.

Since the 1950s, manga has steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, representing a ¥ 406 billion market in Japan in 2007 ( approximately $ 3. 6 billion ) and ¥ 420 billion ($ 5. 5 billion ) in 2009.

Some 500, 000 motorcycles were estimated to be operating in Mali in 2009, with two thirds of them inexpensive Chinese made cycles, known locally as " Jakarta " s, which boast better fuel economy but fewer safety features than more expensive Japanese or Western brands.

However, Neopets announced on 1 January 2009 that the Italian, Japanese, and Korean areas of the site would no longer be updated.

A new Japanese government that came to power in 2009 froze the relocation plan, but in April 2010 indicated their interest in resolving the issue by proposing a modified plan.

* 1910 – Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player ( d. 2009 )

Super Mario Kart was re-released on the Japanese Virtual Console on June 9, 2009, and later in North America on November 23, 2009.

* 1895 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

Category: 2009 Japanese television series debuts

Category: 2009 Japanese television series endings

Street Fighter IV, which incorporated online multiplayer modes, was released in early 2009 to critical acclaim, having garnered praise since its release at Japanese arcades in 2008.

This has often included the national SF awards of the host country, including the Japanese Seiun Awards as part of Nippon 2007, and the Prix Aurora Awards as part of Anticipation 2009.

In 2009, Japanese roboticist Tomotaka Takahashi developed a robot that can jump three inches off the ground.

* May 4 – Hisaya Morishige, Japanese actor ( d. 2009 )

* September 18 – Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian who would become the last living man born in 1895 ( d. 2009 )

** Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast ( d. 2009 )

** Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler ( d. 2009 )

The most recent commercial iterations of the SPARC processor design are the Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd .' s " Venus " 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx introduced June 2009, which is used in the 8 petaFLOPS Japanese supercomputer " K computer ", and the SPARC T4 introduced by Oracle Corporation in September 2011 ; both are 8 core devices running at 2. 0GHz and over 2. 5GHz respectively.

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

* Hotel Chelsea ( 2009 ) A horror film about a Japanese couple staying at the hotel.