In Japanese mythology, Namazu ( 鯰 ) is a giant catfish who causes earthquakes.

In Japanese mythology, the Age of the Gods is the period before Jimmu's accession.

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* In Korean mythology, like in Japanese, presents rabbits living on the moon making rice cakes ( Tteok in Korean ).

In Japanese mythology, the sun goddess Amaterasu is startled by the behavior of her brother Susanoo and hides in a cave, plunging the world into darkness until she is willing to emerge.

Still, these earliest Japanese writings do not refer to a unified " Shinto religion ", but rather to disorganized folklore, history, and mythology.

In the early Nara period, the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki were written by compiling existing myths and legends into a unified account of Japanese mythology.

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* Amenonuhoko, spear of Izanagi and Izanami, creator gods in Japanese mythology

In other stories, the universe is created by crafting it from pre-existing materials, such as the corpse of a dead god — as from Tiamat in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish or from the giant Ymir in Norse mythology – or from chaotic materials, as in Izanagi and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, is the sister of Susanoo, the god of storms and the sea, and of Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon.

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Each card features a monster from Japanese mythology and a character from the hiragana syllabary.

Each playing card in the deck features a character from the hiragana syllabary and a creature from Japanese mythology ; in fact, obake karuta means ghost cards or monster cards.

Success requires knowledge of Japanese mythology and folklore as players attempt to collect cards that match clues read by a referee.

In fact, many Pokémon were designed specifically after creatures from Japanese mythology.

** Izanagi and Izanami-no-Mikoto in Japanese mythology, who churned the ocean with a spear, creating the islands of Japan

Each card features a monster from Japanese mythology and a character from the hiragana syllabary.

It is not actually based on any existing Japanese folklore, but rather incorporates elements of Chinese and Japanese folklore and mythology into a new " myth ".

Miyazaki read a description of Nausicaa in a Japanese translation of Bernard Evslin's anthology of Greek mythology, which portrayed her as a lover of nature.

* Ultima Online: Samurai Empire ( 2 November 2004 ) brought ancient Japanese mythology and folklore to the game, two new classes ( Ninja and Samurai ) and a new area to explore, the Tokuno Islands.

or Orochi, translated as the Eight-Forked Serpent in English, is a legendary 8-headed and 8-tailed Japanese dragon that was slain by the Shinto storm-god Susanoo.

The most feasible native etymological proposals are Japanese o-from o 尾 " tail " ( which is where Susanoo discovered the sacred sword ), ō 大 " big ; great ", or oro 峰 " peak ; summit "; and-chi meaning " god ; spirit ", cognate with the mizuchi river-dragon.

Izanagi followed her there and upon his return he washed himself, creating Amaterasu, Susanoo, and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto in the process ( See Japanese mythology ).

The plot is based on the Izumo cycle of Japanese mythology and the tale of the god Susanoo and the eight-headed monster Yamata no Orochi.

In Japanese mythology, Susanoo, the Japanese god of the seas, was the one who drove Amaterasu into Ame-no-Iwato.

One of the film's highlights is Mifune's Susanoo fighting the ominous eight-headed dragon, Orochi, one of the most ferocious monsters in Japanese myth.

Japanese monarchs have been, as much as others elsewhere, dependent on making alliances with powerful chiefs and other monarchs.

This was a highly prestigious Japanese family, so lofty that the older and more powerful noble, Saionji Kinmochi, addressed the young student as " your Excellency " when he first met him.

Eventually coming to adopt an orthodox Marxist-Leninist position by accepting not only Marx's ideas but also those of Lenin, he came to view Chinese nationalism as a powerful tool in the national liberation struggle against western and Japanese dominance, but unlike orthodox Marxist-Leninists also viewed nationalism as something intrinsically valuable in itself.

In September 1939, Menzies found himself a wartime leader of a small nation of 7 million people that depended on Britain for defence against the looming threat of the Japanese Empire, with 100 million people, a very powerful military, and an aggressive foreign policy that looked south.

Medieval Japan employed spears for infantrymen to use, but it was not until the 11th century in Japan that samurai began to use spears over bows. Several spears ( Yari ) and pole weapons were very fearsome in the Japanese theatres ; the naginata was a heavy, but powerful pole arm often used by mounted samurai in the 16th century.

Politically, he set up a governmental system that balanced out the most powerful Japanese warlords ( or daimyo ).

As the Treaty of Portsmouth is considered one of the most powerful symbols of peace in the Northern Pacific region and the most significant, shared peace history for Japan, Russia and the United States, the Forum was designed to explore from the Japanese, Russian and American perspectives, the history of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and its relevance to current issues involving the Northern Pacific region.

* Kore wa Zombie Desu ka ?, a series of Japanese light novels by Shinichi Kimura ( which has also been adapted into manga and anime formats ), features as its protagonist a zombie who was raised from the dead and befriended by a powerful necromancer.

Furthermore, bombs dropped from the B-29s at high altitude ( 20, 000 + feet ) were often blown off of their trajectories by a consistently powerful jet stream over the Japanese home islands, which dramatically reduced the effectiveness of the high-altitude raids.

By the time of the Second Sino Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ), Kung had achieved a reputation as an exceptionally powerful and manipulative figure within the Nationalist government.

His family is very powerful in the Japanese underground ( in the manga they own a large trading company ).

It also became a very powerful force during the Japanese occupation of Coastal China during the 1930s and 1940s and the atrocities committed by such regime.

It also caused Japan to withdraw its powerful aircraft carrier force from the Indian Ocean to defend their Home Islands, and the raid contributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's decision to attack Midway — an attack that turned into a decisive rout of the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) by the U. S. Navy near Midway Island in the Central Pacific.

These gifts triggered a powerful burst of Japanese interest in Buddhism.

The Takeda, under Takeda Shingen, developed the Japanese equivalent of the cavalry charge ; though debate continues today as to the force of his charges, and the appropriateness of the term, comparing them to Western cavalry charges, it is evident from contemporary sources that it was a revolutionary development, and powerful against defenders unused to it.

While the entire island of Honshū was claimed by the Japanese, or Yamato, government from earliest times as a sort of divine right or manifest destiny, the imperial forces were unable to occupy any part of what would become Iwate until 802 when two powerful Emishi leaders, Aterui and More, surrendered at Fort Isawa.

Kuroshima also wrote powerful narratives dealing with the hardships, struggles, and rare triumphs of Japanese peasants.

Despite the losses in the Palawan Passage and Sibuyan Sea actions, the Japanese Center Force was still very powerful, consisting of four battleships ( including the giant ), six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and 11 destroyers.

Both the Abe and Kiyohara families were almost certainly of Japanese descent, both of whom represented gōzoku, powerful families who had moved into the provinces of Mutsu and Dewa perhaps during the ninth century though when they emigrated is not known for certain.

Nevertheless, while maintaining this role, the Japanese emperor became politically marginalized in the Nara and Heian periods by powerful regents of the Fujiwara clan who seized executive control of state.

Myeongnyang Strait had currents so powerful that ships could only enter safely one by one, of which the Japanese were unaware.

The was an informal agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan whereby the U. S. would not impose restriction on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the U. S. The goal was to reduce tensions between the two powerful Pacific nations.

With the introduction of mass education, conscription, industrialization, centralization, and successful foreign wars, Japanese nationalism began to foment as a powerful force in society.

The measures Iemitsu enacted were so powerful that it was not until the 1850s that Japanese ports opened to a wider range of trading partners, Westerners were freer to settle and travel within Japan, and Japanese were once more free to travel overseas.