In fact, in many occurrences the manipulation of horror presents cultural definitions that are not accurate, yet set an example to which a person relates to that specific cultural from then on in their life .< ref name = Carta > The visual interpretations of a films can be lost in the translation of their elements from one culture to another like in the adaptation of the Japanese film Ringu into the American film The Ring .< ref name = Holm > The cultural components from Japan were slowly " siphoned away " to make the film more relatable to an American audience.

* 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.

* Key ( company ), a Japanese visual novel studio

* Maya ( musician ) ( born 1979 ), vocalist of Japanese visual kei band LM. C

* 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.

* Circus ( company ), a Japanese visual novel studio

* 13: 39 The Japanese Combined Fleet gains visual contact with the Russian Baltic Fleet, and sends up the battle flag.

One of the most striking frames of the whole series features Delirium lying on a hotel bed with a bottle of bubble-blowing liquid, blowing bubbles in a variety of impossible shapes-diamonds, crosses, cats, and what appears to be Totoro from the Japanese animated feature My Neighbor Totoro ( this is probably a visual joke on the part of artist Jill Thompson ).

* I / O ( visual novel ), a Japanese science fiction visual novel by Regista

* Ram ( company ), a Japanese visual novel studio

Even at this stage, attention was still paid to visual and aesthetic concerns in the tying method as well as to the cultural needs of Japanese society.

Also during the 80s, Japanese metal and rock bands gave birth to the movement known as visual kei, represented during its history by bands like X Japan, Buck-Tick, Luna Sea, Malice Mizer and many others, some of which experienced national, and international success in the latest years.

In 1982 were formed some of the first Japanese glam metal bands, like Seikima-II with Kabuki-inspired makeup, and X Japan who pioneered the Japanese movement known as visual kei, and became the best-selling metal band.

* Psycho le Cému, a Japanese visual kei rock band

One of these studies was conducted on Japanese adolescents who reported visual episodic illusions with macropsia and showed that illusions are three times more likely to occur in association with migraine.

* Hooksoft, a Japanese visual novel studio

* Steins ; Gate, a 2009 Japanese visual novel

The infusion of kawaii into other world markets and cultures is achieved by introducing kawaii via modern art, audio visual and written media and the fashion trends of Japanese youth, especially in high-school girls.

* To Heart, a Japanese adult visual novel

Besides being one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent label, the group is widely credited as one of the pioneers of visual kei, a movement among Japanese musicians comparable to Western glam.

* Minato Soft, a Japanese visual novel studio

* Accel World, a Japanese light novel series by Reki Kawahara.

* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.

" Ministry spokesman explained the novel decision as an attempt to help people in other countries to understand Japanese anime better and to deepen their interest in Japanese culture.

In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

In 1879, his Ernest Maltravers was the first complete novel from the West to be translated into Japanese.

The Japanese Takarazuka Revue produced a musical adaptation of the novel.

* Toaru Majutsu no Index, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series

* MM !, a Japanese novel, manga and anime series

* Out ( novel ), 1997 novel by Japanese writer Natsuo Kirino

* Ring ( Suzuki novel ), a 1991 Japanese horror novel by Koji Suzuki

Later in the novel, he is returned to the field for one operation, electronically bugging the aircraft of the Japanese Prime Minister in Mexico City.

* 1021 – Lady Murasaki Shikibu writes her Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji.

* The Japanese horror novel Another is set in the fictional town of Yomiyama, Japan during 1998.

Pioneers at the Japanese facility RIKEN were the first to use a giant gas catcher and novel electric fields to do this, which is becoming the standard technique.

Leone's film elicited a legal challenge from the Japanese director, though Kurosawa's film was in turn probably based on the Dashiell Hammett novel Red Harvest ( 1929 ).

The Tale of Genji became a favorite subject of Japanese woodblock artists for centuries with artists such as Hiroshige, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro illustrating various editions of the novel.

Sixth Column, also known under the title The Day After Tomorrow, is a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, based on a story by editor John W. Campbell, and set in a United States that has been conquered by the PanAsians, a combination of Chinese and Japanese.

The 1994 award-winning novel, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, contains many scenes and details relating to Japanese Americans from the Puget Sound, Washington, area and their incarceration experiences at Manzanar.

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

In 1988 Dark Horse Comics released a six-issue limited series, Godzilla, which was an American adaptation of the Japanese manga adaptation of The Return of Godzilla.

The story follows the hero and the young heroine as they attempt to thwart the Dark Lord of Glaive ( Shadow Knight in the Japanese version ) and his sorcerer assistant, Julius, from destroying the Tree of Mana and dooming their world.

The hero ( named Sumo in the original Japanese version ), a gladiator whose parents were killed by the Dark Lord, is imprisoned by him and forced to fight daily for the Dark Lord's personal entertainment.

The fourth volume was released on October 15, 1997 ; volume 19, which Dark Horse numbered " 19 / 20 " and which ended on the same chapter as the Japanese volume 20, was released on January 19, 2005.

Dark Force ( Dark Falls in the Japanese version and sometimes romanized as " Dark Falz ") is an evil ancient being and recurring enemy throughout the series.

A raw is still required, but unlike the fansubbers who relied on laser discs, most raw sources comes directly from recordings off Japanese TV, which are widely available via Japanese peer-to-peer programs such as Winny, Share, or Perfect Dark.

Dark Horse Manga is an imprint for Japanese manga.

* Perfect Dark ( P2P ), a Japanese successor to Share

As with other Dark Horse manga releases like Hellsing or Trigun Maximum, the Japanese reading format, from right to left, is preserved in the English release ( sound effects are untranslated in earlier releases, though this started with volume 12 ) at the author's request.

* Perfect Dark ( P2P ), a Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing ( P2P ) application designed for use with Microsoft Windows

" Jane Mayer, author of the Dark Side, quotes Zelikow as predicting that " America's descent into torture will in time be viewed like the Japanese internments ," in that "( f ) ear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.

He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring ( 1998 ), Ring 2 ( 1999 ) and Dark Water ( 2002 ).

Yugi's deck is well known for the Dark Magician ( Black Magician in the Japanese versions ).

The 2-disc Dark Chronicle soundtrack was released to the Japanese market in late 2003.

For example, the " Black Magician " in the original Japanese was changed to the " Dark Magician " in English, which reduced its association with black magic and the card " Trial of Hell " was changed to " Trial of Nightmare ".

She is also best known for voicing Sailor Uranus, Kurama and Shinji Ikari as well as playing Yugi Mutou / Dark Yugi in the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh which aired in 1998 and also Yukito Tsukishrio / Yue in the Japanese version of Cardcaptor Sakura as well.

The Japanese, like their counterparts in China, developed espionage programs by linking secret societies with ultranationalist aims — such as Genyosha ( Dark Ocean Society ), Kokuryu-kai ( Amur River Society )-- and organized criminal enterprises — such as Yakuza crime syndicates.

Dark Ocean founder and Black Dragon mentor Mitsuru Toyama, as well secret society links to the Japanese Kempei Tai, a functional equivalent to Hitler's Gestapo that relied upon the secret societies for manpower and support.

During the Japanese launch weekend, Perfect Dark Zero became the second best-selling 360 game with roughly 15, 000 units sold, behind Namco's Ridge Racer 6.