Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

However, Japanese influences are regarded as negative by two particular countries: China and South Korea.

It is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned in conversation.

Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular is associated with comedy ( see Kansai dialect ).

The " r " of the Japanese language ( technically a lateral apical postalveolar flap ), is of particular interest, sounding to most English speakers to be something between an " l " and a retroflex " r " depending on its position in a word.

This particular instrument is known throughout Asia but in different forms: the Japanese koto, which is a distant relative to the Chinese zheng, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese dan tranh.

Some North American fans, already attached to particular spellings, took great umbrage at Schodt's renditions, forgetting that in the original Japanese most character and mecha names are written in katakana, and that there were, therefore, no " official spellings.

In particular, variations of " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty ) and " Bibo No Aozora " ( from 1996 ) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story ( 2003 ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel ( 2006 ), respectively.

In the 18th century, various Japanese scholars, in particular Motoori Norinaga ( 本居 宣長, 1730 – 1801 ), tried to tear apart the " real " Shinto from various foreign influences.

Kanzan Satō, in his book titled " The Japanese Sword ", notes that there did not seem to be any particular need for the wakizashi and suggests that the wakizashi may have become more popular than the tanto due to the wakizashi being more suited for indoor fighting.

In particular, many modern French artists such as Monet and Degas were influenced by the Japanese style.

Kanzan Satō in his book titled " The Japanese Sword " notes that there did not seem to be any particular need for the wakizashi and suggests that the wakizashi may have become more popular than the tantō due to the wakizashi being more suited for indoor fighting.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

Kenjutsu, which originated with the samurai class of feudal Japan, is the umbrella term for all traditional ( koryū ) schools of Japanese swordsmanship, in particular those that predate the Meiji Restoration and the modern styles of kendo and iaido that emerged from the traditional schools in the late 19th century.

The Japanese manufacturers have also been frequent visitors to the US sports car scene ( Nissan and Toyota in particular during the heyday of IMSA ) and to the European scene, in particular Le Mans, where despite many years of trying by all the man Japanese marques the only victory to have been scored by a Japanese marque was by Mazda in 1991.

Sydney in particular is noted for its harbourside seafood restaurants, including the Doyles chain in Sydney, notably Doyles on the Beach at Watson's Bay ; and Tetsuya's Restaurant owned by chef Tetsuya Wakuda which bases its menu on Australian, Japanese and classic French cuisine, and makes use of Australian ingredients including Tasmanian Ocean Trout.

is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem.

Uehara ( 1998 ) observes that Japanese grammarians have disagreed as to the criteria that make some words " inflectional ", katsuyō, and others not, in particular, the 形容動詞 keiyōdōshi – " na-adjectives " or " na-nominals.

Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood created several restrictive BDSM-inspired clothing items for the 1970s punk subculture ; in particular bondage trousers, which connect the wearer's legs with straps.

The fashion statements made by Siouxsie, in particular, incorporating fetish and bondage clothing, and her innovative style of makeup, continue to live on.

The aesthetics of the bound person's position is important: in particular, Japanese bondage is distinguished by its use of specific katas ( forms ) and aesthetic rules.

In particular, actresses playing damsels in distress in mainstream movies and television shows are often shown bound or restrained, resulting in images that appeal to some bondage fetishists.

Bondage typically refers to total restraint, however it can be limited to a particular body part, such as breast bondage.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.

The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

But there is one in particular which, it seems to me, deserves special attention.

At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

Each will decide on his own course somewhere between these two extreme cases according to the sense of responsibility which is determined for him by the particular circumstances of his own life.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

The wisdom of granting such tax exemptions is another matter, but this particular instance is, in my opinion, completely satisfactory.

It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue.

Molotov, in particular, is being charged with all kinds of sins -- especially with wanting to cut down free public services, to increase rents and fares ; ;

It would seem, then, that movable property and equipment is not taxed as a whole but that certain types are taxed in towns where this is bound to be expedient for that particular kind of personal property.

It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

Determine if the particular State's unadjusted allotment ( result obtained in item 11 above ) is greater than its maximum allotment, and if so lower its unadjusted allotment to its maximum allotment.

Determine if the particular State's unadjusted allotment ( result obtained in item 11 above ) is less than its minimum ( base ) allotment, and if so raise its unadjusted allotment to its minimum allotment.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's Federal share must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

For this reason, the more uncertain skywave service was denominated `` secondary '' in our rules, as compared to the steadier, more reliable groundwave `` primary service '', and, for both skywave service and skywave interference, signal strength is expressed in terms of percentage of time a particular signal-intensity level is exceeded -- 50 percent of the time for skywave service, 10 percent of the time for skywave interference.

The exercise I shall discuss in this -- the first of a new series of articles on muscle definition-specialization of a particular body part -- is the One Leg Lunge.