A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

Adjacent to the pool is a sauna executed in a rustic style, alluding to both Finnish and Japanese precedents.

Hachijō-daiko is a unique style of Japanese drumming originating on Japan's Hachijo Island ( Hachijō-jima ), located in the Pacific some 287 kilometers south of Tokyo.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

In the written style known as kanbun, which is the Japanese approximation of Classical Chinese, small marks called kunten are sometimes added as reading aids.

Japanese hardcore, particularly GISM, is also mentioned by a number of originators of the style.

In Japan, hearses, called " reikyusha " ( 霊柩車 ), can come in two styles: " Foreign " style, which is similar in build and style to an American hearse, or a " Japanese " style, in which the rear area of the vehicle is modified to resemble a small, ornate Buddhist temple.

" Foreign " style hearses are mostly similar in appearance to their US counterparts, although their exterior dimensions and interiors reflect the Japanese preference for smaller, less ornate caskets ( this in light of the national preference for cremation ).

image: Tomioka Tessai Two Divinities Dancing. jpg | Tomioka Tessai, ( 1837 – 1924 ), Nihonga style, Two Divinities Dancing, 1924, Japanese

Ogura Yuki, ( 1895 – 2000 ), Bathing Women, Nihonga style, 1938, Japanese

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

Donburi, a combo of an entrée on a big bowl of rice, is another familiar category of dishes, but in Japan these are standard fare served at the shokudō or " Japanese style cafeteria / cheap restaurant ".

Breakfast at a ryokan ( Japanese inn ), featuring grilled mackerel, Kansai style dashimaki egg, tofu in kaminabe ( paper pot )

Japanese style traditionally abhors different flavored dishes touching each other on a single plate, so different dishes are given their own individual plates as mentioned, or are partitioned using leaves, etc.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Modern Japanese style training emphasizes the psychological elements incorporated into a proper kokoro ( attitude ) such as perseverance, fearlessness, virtue, and leadership skills.

The French term Boxe pieds-poings ( literally " feet-fists-boxing ") is also used in the sense of " kickboxing " in the general meaning, including French boxing ( savate ) as well as American and Japanese kickboxing, Burmese and Thai boxing, any style of full contact karate, etc.

The knee and elbow techniques in Japanese kickboxing, indicative of its Muay Thai heritage, are the main difference that separates this style from other kickboxing rules.

It was during the 8th century, however, that Chinese fashions came into style among the Japanese, and the overlapping collar became particularly women's fashion.

The Japanese team proposed a winding road up the mountain, not unlike the approach to the NCAR building in Colorado.

The Japanese islands are the summits of mountain ridges uplifted near the outer edge of the continental shelf.

Central Japan is marked by the convergence of the three mountain chains — the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains — that form the Japanese Alps ( Nihon Arupusu ), several of whose peaks are higher than 3, 000 meters.

There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island whose dialect are descended from the Eastern dialect of Old Japanese.

A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning " a mountain standing up shapely as an ear ( ho ) of a rice plant ".

" Fujiyama " is an erroneous reading of the Japanese characters used to spell the name of the mountain.

Japanese speakers refer to the mountain as " Fuji-san ".

Other Japanese names for Mount Fuji, which have become obsolete or poetic, include Fuji-no-Yama ( ふじの山, the Mountain of Fuji ), Fuji-no-Takane ( ふじの高嶺, the High Peak of Fuji ), Fuyō-hō ( 芙蓉峰, the Lotus Peak ), and Fugaku ( 富岳 or 富嶽, the first character of 富士, Fuji, and 岳, mountain ).

The mountain is mentioned in Japanese literature throughout the ages and is the subject of many poems.

A few examples are the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Canada, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana, the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall, London, the Verbier Festival in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland, and the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.

During the early period of Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang ( KMT ) rule the terms Shandi Tongbao 山地同胞 " mountain compatriots " and Pingdi Tongbao 平地同胞 " plains compatriots " were invented, to remove the presumed taint of Japanese influence and reflect the place of Taiwan's indigenous people in the Chinese Nationalist state.

A lesser-used name is shānjiāo ( 山椒 ; literally " mountain pepper "; not to be confused with Tasmanian mountain pepper ), which is also the root of the Japanese.

Separated from the principal Japanese centres of commerce, politics, and population by several hundred kilometres and the Ōu and Dewa mountain ranges to the east, Akita remained largely isolated from Japanese society until after the year 600.

Japanese troops began firing their mountain guns, and finally succeeded in demolishing part of the gate.

As the fire-bombing campaign took effect, Japanese war planners were forced to expend significant resources to relocate vital war industries to remote caves and mountain bunkers, reducing production of war material.

Many Japanese surnames derive from geographical features ; for example, Ishikawa ( 石川 ) means " stone river ", Yamamoto ( 山本 ) means " the base of the mountain ", and Inoue ( 井上 ) means " above the well ".

Hatsumi claims that ninjutsu was developed by Japanese mountain clans, using " esoteric skills and philosophies " brought to Japan by Tang Dynasty exiles.

Even today, it is common for mountain Japanese castles to have dry moats.

The term yamanba derives from Yama-uba, the name of a mountain hag in Japanese folklore whom the fashion is thought to resemble.

A representative sampling of Japanese folklore would definitely include the quintessential Momotarō ( Peach Boy ), and perhaps other folktales listed among the so-called: the battle between The Crab and the Monkey, Shita-kiri Suzume ( Tongue-cut sparrow ), Hanasaka Jiisan ( Flower-blooming old man ), and Kachi-kachi Yama mountain.

Dense forest around the mountain provided bases for Korean armed resistance against the Japanese occupation, and later communist guerrillas during the Korean War.

Yamabushi, Japanese mountain ascetic hermits with a long tradition as mighty warriors endowed with supernatural powers, sometimes use as their symbol a torii.

Japanese name: 黄檗, named for the mountain where the founder had lived in China