Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

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.

Sony's DVD features the uncut Japanese version, and the optional English dub track is from Toho's international version.

The hypothesis that Japanese might be related to Korean has had some supporters due to some apparent overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller.

Meteora features a mixture of the band's previous nu metal and rapcore styles with newer innovative effects, including the induction of a shakuhachi ( a Japanese flute made of bamboo ) and other instruments.

A Japanese film adaptation, Throne of Blood ( Kumonosu jô, 1957 ), features Toshirô Mifune in the lead role and is set in feudal Japan.

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.

One prominent example is the anime Maziger Z, where the term " Super Robot ", features in the Japanese theme song According to Go Nagai:

The syllabary systems of Japanese ( hiragana and katakana ) are examples of almost perfectly shallow orthographies – the kana correspond with almost perfect consistency to the spoken syllables, although with a few exceptions where symbols reflect historical or morphophonemic features: notably the use of ぢ di and づ du ( rather than じ ji and ず zu, their pronunciation in standard Tokyo dialect ) when the character is a voicing of an underlying ち or つ ( see rendaku ), and the use of は, を, and へ to represent the sounds わ, お, and え, as relics of historical kana usage.

Japanese also prominently features geminate consonants, such as in the minimal pair 来た kita ' came ' and 切った kitta ' cut '.

* The Japanese visual novel Animamundi: Dark Alchemist features the " Hell-Fire Club ," and both Dashwood and the Earl of Sandwich make appearances during the course of the game.

This uniquely Japanese ramen, which was developed in Hokkaido, features a broth that combines copious amounts of miso and is blended with oily chicken or fish broth – and sometimes with tonkotsu or lard – to create a thick, nutty, slightly sweet and very hearty soup.

Jomo Karuta ( Japanese: 上毛かるた, jōmō karuta ) is a variety of karuta which features history and famous locations in Gunma Prefecture.

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.

* The Japanese anime Damekko Dōbutsu features a clumsy but sweet-natured cheetah named Chiiko.

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.

Engrish features prominently in Japanese pop culture.

These features made it highly desirable due to the PT boat's ever-increasing requirement for increased firepower to deal effectively with the Japanese daihatsu barges, which were largely immune to torpedoes due to their shallow draft.

* 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.

Originally called " Hitokage " in Japanese, Nintendo decided to give the various Pokémon species " clever and descriptive names " related to their appearance or features when translating the game for western audiences as a means to make the characters more relatable to American children.

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

Command & Conquer 2 Tiberian Sun features more conventional / realistic mecha including the bipedal Wolverine, Titan and the 4-legged Mammoth Mk2.

The is a metaseries of anime created by Sunrise studios that features giant robots ( or " mecha ") called " Mobile Suits " ( MS ); usually the protagonist's MS will carry the name Gundam.

The features of modern Gundam kits, such as color molding and snap-fit construction, have become the standard expectations for other mecha model kits.

It features several new mecha designs inspired by the original series.

The game features the variable fighters and mecha used in the OVA, as well as select units from the original Macross series.

In Macross tradition, it features transforming mecha, pop music, and a love triangle.

Hurricaneger features the rival Gouraiger team with insect-themed powers, the free agent Shurikenger, and a series of smaller mecha that serve as weapons for the teams ' robots.

The series is noteworthy for introducing many of the accepted stock features of Super Robot anime genres: the first occurrence of mecha robots being piloted by a user from within a cockpit, the mechanical marvel that is the world's only hope, forgotten civilizations, power-hungry mad scientists, incompetent henchmen, lovable supporting characters ( usually younger siblings, love interests, or friends of the hero ), the scientist father or grandfather who loses his life heroically, and strangely clothed, eccentric or physically deformed villains ( the intersex Baron Ashura as one example ).

The sequel features new characters and mecha, but retains the format and many of the concepts of the original series.

* In Code Geass, the Chinese mecha Shen-Hu features rope darts mounted in its forearms, which can be electrified for extra damage, or spun rapidly like helicopter blades to generate a shield-like effect.

After the break, the eyecatch features the main 5 mecha

The series features mecha designs by Mamoru Nagano, character designs by Mutsumi Inomata, and music by Yoko Kanno.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

More modern, bolsterless bogie designs omit these features, instead taking advantage of the sideways movement of the suspension to permit rotational movement.

He also built some racing frames for Suzuki Grand Prix motorcycles in 1968 and, it has been suggested that Suzuki engineers incorporated features of Cheney's designs, such as magnesium hubs and lower fork legs into production road going motorcycles.

In the 1970s, Hoshino Gakki and Kanda Shokai shared some guitar designs and so some Ibanez and Greco guitars have the same features.

In 1999 MIPS formalized their licensing system around two basic designs, the 32-bit MIPS32 ( based on MIPS II with some additional features from MIPS III, MIPS IV, and MIPS V ) and the 64-bit MIPS64 ( based on MIPS V ).

Regardless, the Indian cards have many distinctive features: they are round, generally hand painted with intricate designs, and comprise more than four suits — often as many as thirty two, like a deck in the Deutsches Spielkarten-Museum, painted in the Mewar, a city in Rajasthan, between the 18th and 19th century.

Some aspects attributed to the first RISC-labeled designs around 1975 include the observations that the memory-restricted compilers of the time were often unable to take advantage of features intended to facilitate manual assembly coding, and that complex addressing modes take many cycles to perform due to the required additional memory accesses.

The whole concept of system safety and software safety, as a subset of systems engineering, is to influence safety-critical systems designs by conducting several types of hazard analyses to identify risks and to specify design safety features and procedures to strategically mitigate risk to acceptable levels before the system is certified.

These original RISC designs were minimalist, including as few features or op-codes as possible and aiming to execute instructions at a rate of almost one instruction per clock cycle.

Current research in the industry is directed at producing economical, proliferation-resistant reactor designs with passive safety features.

Top end systems offer the capabilities to incorporate more organic, aesthetics and ergonomic features into designs.

NSWRs share many of the features of Orion propulsion systems, except that NSWRs would generate continuous rather than pulsed thrust and may be workable on much smaller scales than the smallest feasible Orion designs ( which are generally large, due to the requirements of the shock-absorber system and the minimum size of efficient nuclear explosives ).

Hybrid plan designs combine the features of defined benefit and defined contribution plan designs.

Crossbar switching quickly spread to the rest of the world, replacing most earlier designs like the Strowger ( step-by-step ) and Panel systems in larger installations in the U. S. Graduating from entirely electromechanical control on introduction, they were gradually elaborated to have full electronic control and a variety of calling features including short-code and speed-dialing.

When carburetors are used in aircraft with piston engines, special designs and features are needed to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight.

Metropolis features a range of elaborate special effects and set designs, ranging from a huge gothic cathedral to a futuristic cityscape.

VLIW features have also been added to configurable processor cores for SoC designs.

These designs use irregular forms, and incorporate natural features of the landscape.

* ( Burlington House, Piccadilly, London ): Burlington's own contribution is likely to have been restricted to the former colonnade ( demolished 1868 ) In London, Burlington offered designs for features at several aristocratic free-standing dwellings, none of which have survived: Queensbury House in Burlington Gardens ( a gateway ); Warwick House, Warwick Street ( interiors ); Richmond House, Whitehall ( the main building );

The new uniform set, which was unveiled on August 16, 2010, features a design nearly identical to the team's aforementioned 1980s uniform designs, with the following differences: navy blue replacing purple on the road jerseys, dark green numerals on the home white jerseys, a white Jazz logo script on the road jerseys and side panels on both the home and away jerseys.

These devices let designers concentrate on adding new features to designs without having to worry about making the microprocessor work.

However, she preferred Château de Chenonceau and sold the property to the former owner's son, Philippe Hurault, who built the château between 1624 and 1630, to designs by the sculptor-architect of Blois, Jacques Bougier, who was trained in the atelier of Salomon de Brosse, and whose design at Cheverny recalls features of the Palais du Luxembourg.

* Later blackwork features large designs of flowers, fruit, and other patterns connected by curvilinear stems.