Interestingly, American market vehicles such as the Lincoln Town Car and Cadillac DeVille, which are otherwise fairly uncommon in Japan, are often converted to hearses in both styles.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

The, also called Aynu, Aino ( アイノ ), and in historical texts Ezo ( 蝦夷 ), are indigenous people or groups in Japan and Russia.

* In 1995 an adventure game based on the series was released called Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity on the PC, with a PlayStation port being released in Japan.

The two dinosaurs operating the pointer are called Bub and Bob ( or Bubblun and Bobblun in Japan ).

* Dead Mary, a 2007 horror film, called Bloody Mary in Japan

In 2003, the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF ) introduced a set of basic exercises using a bokuto called Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho.

The All Japan Kendo Federation specify the dimensions of bokken for use in the modern kendo kata, called Nippon kendo kata.

In Japan mail is called kusari which means chain.

Japan, like China and Korea, had its own untouchable caste, shunned and ostracized, historically referred to by the insulting term Eta, now called Burakumin.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

Around the same time as Daihachi Oguchi ’ s Taiko ensemble's name was spreading around Japan via radio and television broadcasts, another pioneer in the field called, Sukeroku Daiko, emerged.

In March 2009 Warner Music Japan released Enya's first 4 albums in a new format, called SHM-CD.

For example, the previous emperor is usually called Hirohito in English, although he was never referred to as Hirohito in Japan, and was renamed Shōwa Tennō after his death, which is the only name that Japanese speakers currently use when referring to him.

The latter is often called the Eastern order because Europeans are most familiar with the examples from East Asia, specifically China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Outside a European context, the concept of feudalism is normally used only by analogy ( called semi-feudal ), most often in discussions of feudal Japan under the shoguns, and sometimes medieval and Gondarine Ethiopia.

The visitors, called the Futurians, explain that they're from the year 2204, a time long after Japan had been completely destroyed by Godzilla.

In Japan, Ryōichi Yazu patented a mechanical calculator called the Yazu Arithmometer in 1903.

Shōjo-ai (" girl love ") is a western term for the female equivalent of shōnen-ai ; in Japan these works are also called yuri.

From 1641 to 1853, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan enforced a policy which it called kaikin.

A PRI has 23 ' B ' channels and 1 ' D ' channel for signalling ( Japan uses a circuit called a J1, which is similar to a T1 ).

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

Japan used another technique, somewhat based on Krugman's, called Quantitative easing.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel ( 1948 ), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

Morita was vice chairman of the Keidanren ( Japan Federation of Economic Organizations ), and was a member of the Japan-U. S. Economic Relations Group, also known as the " Wise Men's Group ".

Specifically, commodities such as sugar are heavily distorted by subsidies on behalf of powerful economies ( the United States, Europe, and Japan ), who have a disproportionate influence in the WTO.

* au ( mobile phone company ), a mobile phone company in Japan

* Yutaka Akita ( 秋田豊, born 1970 ), former football player played in Japan National Football Team

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Amakusa ( 天草 ), which means " Heaven's Grass ," is a series of islands belonging to Japan, off the west coast of Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.

As a result of Kuroshio Current ( also known as the Japan Current ), which crosses the North Pacific Ocean, coastal British Columbia has a mild, rainy oceanic climate.

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

On the other hand, in 1995 he toured in Japan with Kurtalan Ekspres, leading to Live In Japan ( 1996 ), his first and only live album.

A bokken (, bok ( u ), " wood ", and ken, " sword ") ( or commonly as bokutō in Japan ), is a Japanese wooden sword used for training.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 ( 1992 ), essays by scholars ; online from Questia ;

* In Japan the calendar is referred to as ( 西暦, seireki ), literally meaning as it is written, " west calendar ," and sounding like, " Western calendar ," which carries no religious connotation, aside from the fact that Christianity is a Western religion.

* Cassiopeia ( train ), an overnight rail service in Japan

Similar treaties were subsequently negotiated by the United Kingdom ( Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty, October 1854 ), the Russians ( Treaty of Shimoda, 7 February 1855 ), and the French ( Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan, 9 October 1858 ).