In 2004, NHK ( Japanese public TV network ) produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005.

From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

They have a long history in Japanese folklore and art, and more recently have appeared in Japanese anime and manga ( see examples cited below ).

* In the anime Kuroshitsuji ( Japanese for Black Butler ), Ciel Phantomhive as a child had a black borzoi named Sebastian.

" Southern Cross " is the Japanese title of the Orange Crew, a group of Gym Leaders who preside over the Orange Island archipelago's league and are featured in the Pokémon anime.

The Robotech Masters series itself was an English dub of the Japanese anime Super Dimensional Calvary Southern Cross.

* Cleopatra ( 1970 film ), a 1970 Japanese anime film

is a 1998 Japanese anime series developed by Sunrise.

Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

This implies that much anime is not specifically Japanese and therefore lacks a distinct national identity.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and an Asian franchise.

" 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 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Doraemon as the first anime cultural ambassador.

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

When the comic switched to the Tamers series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly ; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime ( such as Mitsuo Yamaki's past ) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies ( such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005 ).

The 1990s and 2000s are considered to be " Japanese Cinema's Second Golden Age ", due to the immense popularity of anime, both within Japan and overseas.

In anime, Hayao Miyazaki directed Spirited Away in 2001, breaking Japanese box office records and winning several awards, followed by Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and eroge.

Cowboy Bebop received widespread critical acclaim and became a commercial success both in Japanese and international markets, most notably in the United States.

* 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 ).

* A. P. U Studio, a Japanese recording studio which has worked on anime series such as Cowboy Bebop

A cover of " Cowboy Song " appears on " Sound of White Noise " by Anthrax as the bonus track for album's Japanese release.

* In the Japanese anime ' Cowboy Bebop ', characters Fay Valentine and Spike Spiegel both exhibit card sharping skills.

She has recorded with Japanese composer Yoko Kanno for the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, performing Adieu and Flying Teapot.

In the Japanese animated series Cowboy Bebop, the main character Spike Spiegel is seen making a prairie oyster to help with a hangover in the episode Heavy Metal Queen.

" Cowboy Style " is regarded as being one of Minogue's rarest singles ( the other one being " GBI: German Bold Italic " featuring Japanese DJ Towa Tei ).

Television presenters invariably use polite language, and it is the form of the language first taught to most non-native learners of Japanese.

English television presenters Ant & Dec extend this continuity to almost all their appearances, with Ant almost always on the left and Dec on the right, as does the Japanese pop duo Puffy, with Yumi Yoshimura on the left and Ami Onuki on the right.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987.

The genre covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game show or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, Japanese variety shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s ( such as Gaki no tsukai ), to surveillance-or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother.

Due to the shift in the Big Three's strategy, many long-running cars like the Ford Taurus, Buick Century and Pontiac Grand Prix fell behind their Japanese competitors in features and image ( relying more on fleet sales instead of retail and / or heavy incentive discounts ); some were discontinued.

The Big Three were slower to adapt than their Japanese rivals in producing small cars to meet growing demand due to inflexible manufacturing facilities, which made it unprofitable to build small cars.

Media and his relatives claims that Gathmann invented the German 42-cm Big Bertha howitzer, as well as the ordnance the Japanese employed at the Battle of Tsushima have no foundation in fact.

Krupp's Director of design, Professor Fritz Rausenberger, designed the Big Bertha, while the Japanese naval guns were built by the British ( as were their battleships ).

Large areas of the western plain were subject to large land rents called Huan Da Zu ( 番大租 — literally, " Barbarian Big Rent "), a category which remained until the period of Japanese colonization.

* The Big Bento Box of Unuseless Japanese Inventions, Kenji Kawakami, trans.

In another mainland Chinese television series, The Shaolin Warriors, set during the Ming Dynasty, Hung played Big Foot, a Shaolin warrior monk joining General Qi Jiguang's marines to help defend the nation against Japanese pirates.

In November 2008, The Vines were announced as being part of the lineup for the 2009 Australian Big Day Out, but on 14 November the band cancelled all forthcoming live appearances, including Homebake 2008 and their Japanese tour, citing the deterioration of Nicholls ' mental health during the course of their October tour in Australia as the reason.

Pat, Connie and Big Stoop still made occasional guest appearances as marine commandos, while the Dragon Lady and her pirates became Chinese guerrillas fighting the Japanese.

* Big Bang Blow: Japanese Jazz selected By Nargo, M. Kitahara & Gamo of TSPO-2003

The original name for the Macross project was Battle City Megarodo ( or Battle City Megaroad, as the Japanese transliteration to either " L " or " R " gives the title a double meaning in reference to the story line: Megaload, referring to the spacecraft containing an entire city of people ; and Megaroad, referring to the long journey through space back to Earth ); however, one of the sponsors of the project, Big West Advertising, was a fan of Shakespeare and wanted the series and the spacecraft to be named.

Recently, he has discovered that his father intends to sell his store and the land to a Japanese company rather than leave it to him ; when he asks why, Big Ben reveals that it is because his son " stubbornly refuses to follow example " by adopting an honest work ethic instead of a ruthless drive to usurp.

The Big Three already sold their cars for about $ 2, 500 less than equivalent cars from Japanese companies, analysts at the International Motor Vehicle Program say.

The Big Three also based their respective market strategies on fuel-inefficient SUVs, and suffered from lower quality perception ( vis-a-vis automobiles manufactured by Japanese or European car makers ).

Accordingly, the Big Three directed vehicle development focused on light trucks ( which had better profit margins ) in order to offset the considerably higher labor costs, falling considerably behind in the sedan market segments to Japanese and European automakers.

* Tag Team Wrestling ( Japanese: The Big Pro-Wrestling!

In the original Macross Japanese anime series ( Big West / Studio Nue, 1982 ) the Zentradi were created as a spacefaring race of giant humanoid proxy warriors by the first civilization in the galaxy, the Protoculture, 497, 500 years ago.

In the Japanese manga " Big War " # 2, the Autobots Rodimus Prime, Grimlock, Kup and Wheelie, along with their human allies Spike Witwicky and Daniel Witwicky send Computron into battle against Galvatron's new warrior combiner Abominus.

Tokyo Brass Style, a Japanese Big Band recorded a cover of the title theme for their fifth album, ' Brass Style Xmas '

** Task Force 38 carrier aircraft attack Japanese forces and facilities on Luzon, claiming 14 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air and 18 on the ground in exchange for the loss of 17 U. S. aircraft, but bad weather prevents them from employing the " Big Blue Blanket " tactic of maintaining continuous coverage over Japanese airfields to prevent Japanese aircraft from attacking the U. S. invasion force in Lingayen Gulf.