Some 500, 000 motorcycles were estimated to be operating in Mali in 2009, with two thirds of them inexpensive Chinese made cycles, known locally as " Jakarta " s, which boast better fuel economy but fewer safety features than more expensive Japanese or Western brands.

Of the 30, 000 Japanese troops that defended Saipan, fewer than 1, 000 remained alive at battle's end.

is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 or fewer total morae ( or " on ", often translated as syllables, but see the article on onji for distinctions ).

It was rarely and loosely in contact with the outer islands, which had more Japanese troops ( particularly in Japanese naval areas ), less sympathetic Japanese commanders, and fewer Republican leaders and activists.

This made the Japanese cars run more smoothly and customers experienced fewer problems.

Japanese uses fewer characters — general literacy in Japan can be expected with about 2, 000 characters — together with two syllabaries ( hiragana and katakana ).

Chinese users seem to have fewer objections to Han unification, largely because Unicode did not attempt to unify Simplified Chinese characters ( an invention of the People's Republic of China, and in use among Chinese speakers in the PRC, Singapore, and Malaysia ), with Traditional Chinese characters, as used in Hong Kong, Taiwan ( Big5 ), and, with some differences, more familiar to Korean and Japanese users.

The numerous 30-to 50-minute-long meditation periods are interleaved with short rest breaks, meals, and sometimes short periods of work ( Japanese: samu ) all performed with the same mindfulness ; nightly sleep is kept to a minimum, at six hours or fewer.

The Xbox 360 is backwards compatible with 394 Xbox games as of the July 12, 2007, update ; fewer titles are backward compatible in European markets ( 295 ), Japanese markets ( 101 ), and Australian markets.

Recently, in the Japanese media there has been a rumor of an implementation for a playoff system for J1 Championship or creating new Japanese Premier League with fewer clubs.

An initial fighter sweep by 72 F6F Hellcats shoots down 30 Japanese fighters and destroys 45 more aircraft on the ground for the loss of four Hellcats ; a follow-up strike by 18 TBF Avengers leaves fewer than 100 of the 365 Japanese aircraft that had been on Truk at daybreak operational.

Japanese seed beads are generally more uniform in size, shape, and finish as well as having larger holes than Czech seed beads of the same size, but the Japanese make fewer styles.

East Asians ( Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese ) have fewer apocrine sweat glands compared to people of other descent, and the lack of these glands make East Asians less prone to body odor.

Official Japanese statistics show fewer than 5000 while the Singaporean Chinese community claims the numbers to be around 100, 000.

Japanese couples were often from similar areas of Japan and therefore had fewer marital issues than Korean couples who were often from different areas of Korea.

While traditional Japanese haiku usually has 3 phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on (" sound symbols "), haiku in English usually has seventeen ( or fewer ) syllables.

Japanese has fewer diphones because it has fewer phonemes and most syllabic sounds are open syllables ending in a vowel.

Japanese authorities also wished to adopt a new long arm that needed fewer machining steps to be produced given Japan's metallurgic capacity.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

Full-blooded Ainu are lighter skinned than their Japanese neighbors and have more body hair.

* 1975 – The Japanese Red Army takes more than 50 hostages at the AIA Building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

As with Japanese suburban railways or Germany's and Switzerland's S-Bahns, these Australian networks have far more frequent services and far higher ridership per capita than US ' commuter rail ' in the usual sense of the term.

The Japanese had more varieties of mail than all the rest of the world put together.

Once German and Japanese rearmament became clear, the British and American navies consciously focused on building destroyers that were smaller but more numerous than those used by other nations.

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

Other terms used to refer to the emperor in Japanese include Heika and Okami, but these are much less typical than Tennō Heika or Kinjō Heika in ordinary conversation.

Throughout history, Japanese emperors and noblemen appointed the position of chief wife, rather than just keeping a harem or an assortment of female attendants.

In fact, through much of Japanese history, the emperor has been little more than a figurehead.

Genshō was the only Japanese empress regnant to inherit her title from another empress regnant, rather than a male predecessor.

Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service primarily operating the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service flying the Nakajima Ki-27 and the Nakajima Ki-43, initially enjoyed great success, as these fighters generally had better range, maneuverability, speed and climb rates than their Allied counterparts.

* 1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3, 000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30, 000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju.

The Japanese did not acquire firearms until the 16th century, and then from the Portuguese rather than the Chinese.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

Over half of Japanese empresses and many emperors abdicated once a suitable male descendant was considered to be old enough to rule ( just past toddlerhood, in some cases ).

However, in the second half of the 1980s, rising stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble caused by the policy of low interest rate by Bank of Japan.

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 ".

* Elections of Japanese House of Councillors, replacing half of its seats, held every three years ( the latest one in 2007 ).

The keiretsu maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the 20th century, but are beginning to lose their grip.

U. S. attacks started in mid-1943, and caused half the Japanese garrison of 5, 100 people in the atoll Mili to die from hunger by August 1945.

In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ( CJK ) fonts, these characters are rendered at the same width as CJK ideographs, rather than at half the width.

The Chinese, Russian, German, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires dissolved in the first half of the century, with all but the British, French, Portuguese, and Japanese empires collapsing during the course of World War I, and Russia transformed into the communist Soviet Union.

Japanese bird whistles use several small balls and are half filled with water in order to reproduce the sound of a bird song.

An estimated 2 million people took part in peaceful, pro-liberation rallies, although Japanese records claim participation of less than half million.

By 1978, Matsushita alone produced just over half of all Japanese VCRs.

For example, the forward half of future President John F. Kennedy's PT-109 ( Elco ) stayed afloat for 12 hours after she was cut in half by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.

Until the latter half of the Japanese colonial era the Mountain tribes were not entirely governed by any non-tribal polity.

The Japanese ruled Taiwan for half a century ( 1895 – 1945 ), while France briefly held sway over Northern Taiwan in 1884-85.

Many more Japanese died ; in Bandung alone, 1, 057 died, only half of whom died in actual combat, the rest killed in rampages by Indonesians.

This period represents the first half of the Empire of Japan during which Japanese society moved from being an isolated feudalism to its modern form.

Literacy requires the memorization of a great many characters: Educated Chinese know about 4, 000 ; educated Japanese know about half that many.

The Japanese were first exposed to it in the second half of the 19th century, after more than 200 years of national isolation during the Edo Period.

Hank, who previously thought he was an only child, finds out he has a Japanese half brother named Junichiro in the episode " Returning Japanese ".

In a subsequent best-selling book, The True Character of Kim Jong-il, Shigemura cited apparently unnamed people close to Kim's family along with Japanese and South Korean intelligence sources, claiming they confirmed Kim's diabetes took a turn for the worse early in 2000 and from then until his supposed death three and a half years later he was using a wheelchair.