Kinbaku is a Japanese style of bondage or BDSM which involves tying up the bottom using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope ( often jute, hemp or linen and generally around 6 mm in diameter, but sometimes as small as 4mm, and between 7m-8m long ).

The Beauty of Kinbaku ( Or everything you always wanted to know about Japanese erotic bondage when you suddenly realized you didn't speak Japanese .).

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

The Japan That Can Say No ( Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-671-75853-5, ISBN 4-334-05158-8 in Japanese )

Hajimete No Wadaiko Ensō Japanese Taiko Performance.

* " An Introduction to Taiko Drum Music in the Japanese No Drama.

Nyūmon Nihon No Taiko: Minzoku Dentō Soshite Nyūwēbu Manuel of Japanese Drums: Folklore, Tradition, and the New Wave.

* Tenko: Oguchi Daihachi No Nihon Taikoron Oguchi Daihachi ’ s Theory of Japanese Drums.

Wadaiko Ongaku Ni Mieru Nihon No Rizumu: Ma, Omote Ma, Ura Ma Rhythm as Seen in Japanese Taiko Music: Space, Fore-Space, Back-Space.

* 1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U. S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2.

Built around a quasi-Japanese pentatonic scale, the music contrasts Japanese contemplation (" There is No Other Way ") with Western ingenuousness (" Please Hello ").

In particular, variations of " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty ) and " Bibo No Aozora " ( from 1996 ) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story ( 2003 ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel ( 2006 ), respectively.

* Japanese Story ( 2003 ) – featuring " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty )

In 1970, a Japanese layman, Yukio Nemoto ( 1925 – 1988 ), created a sedevacantist group called Seibo No Mikuni.

The song title itself was used as the title for the Japanese video game No More Heroes created by noted Punk music fan Goichi Suda, also known as Suda51.

In 2009, YMCK remixed the No. 1 hit song Days by Japanese mega-star Ayumi Hamasaki.

Case 5 of John Magee ( missionary ) | John Magee's film: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but 2 Chinese of 11 in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou.

:" Case 13 – December 18, 4 p. m., at No. 18 I Ho Lu, Japanese soldiers wanted a man's cigarette case and when he hesitated, one of the soldier crashed in the side of his head with a bayonet.

* Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi " The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest Debate: War Guilt Amid Fabricated Illusions, 1971 – 75 ", The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 26 No. 2 Summer 2000.

* ' No massacre in Nanking ,' Japanese lawmakers say

While the ROC continuously ruled Taiwan after the government was directed to Taiwan by the General Order No. 1 ( 1945 ) to receive Japanese surrender, there has never been a meeting of the ROC National Assembly in making a territory change according to the ROC constitution.

This is particularly true for films that are remade from films produced in another language, such as: Point of No Return ( from the French Nikita ), Vanilla Sky ( from the Spanish Abre los ojos ), The Magnificent Seven ( from the Japanese Seven Samurai ), A Fistful of Dollars ( from the Japanese Yojimbo ), The Departed ( from Hong Kong's Infernal Affairs ), and Let Me In ( from the Swedish film Let the Right One In or Låt den rätte komma in ).

** Japanese Green Woodpecker, Picus awokeraGreen Woodpecker searching for insects, depicted in Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885

* Akan ( あかん ) is a Japanese Kansai dialect phrase meaning " No way "

A single release in Japanese (" Kokoro No Sasae "/" Shiawase E No Tabiji ") is also reported on his discography.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

It sounded as if the man were calling him: `` Hey, Japanese hey there, Japanese ''.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

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.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

and after that the Japanese cherries.

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

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27,000 people and swept away 10,000 homes.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

American chemists, seeking to increase exports of soybeans, have adapted modern techniques and fermentation methods to improve their use in such traditional Japanese foods as tofu and miso and in tempeh of Indonesia.

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.

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.