* Romanized Japanese ( Romaji ) uses diacritics to mark long vowels.

are Romanized Japanese transliterations for the Chinese character compound " 支那 " which, in connection with usage by Japanese, is viewed by most Chinese people as an offensive term for China.

Girafarig's name is a palindrome in both English and Japanese, although the Japanese name's palindromic nature is not evident in Romanized form.

In February 2008, the official English name for the group was changed from the Romanized Japanese Kofuku-no-Kagaku ( literal translation " science of happiness ") to the English rendering " Happy Science ".

Romanized Japanese, called rōmaji, is frequently used by foreign students of Japanese who have not yet mastered the three main scripts, and by native speakers for computer input.

The symbol " I " ostensibly represents the numeral " 1 ", which can be read " i " in Japanese ( note that the Latin letter " I " is also the Romanized representation of the Japanese syllable " い ", a third visual pun ).

Unusually, the name is written in a mixture of two Japanese scripts: Katakana ( ドラ ) and Hiragana ( えもん ).

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems ; they have corresponding character sets in which each kana, or character, represents one mora ( one sound in the Japanese language ).

This cryptographic concept has been used with Japanese Hiragana and the Germans in the later years of the First World War.

Nursery Rhyme Cards ) is a version of karuta made of famous Japanese nursery rhymes sang to music to help young children learn the Japanese writing system called Hiragana.

Japanese and Korean share the same ancient Chinese words ' 月曜日 ' ( Hiragana: げつようび, Hangul: 월요일 ) for Monday which means day of the moon.

The Japanese language has a tripartite writing system using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.

Shiatsu ( Kanji: 指圧 Hiragana: しあつ ) is Japanese for " finger pressure "; it is a type of alternative medicine consisting of finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques.

The syllabary of Vai also been compared to Hiragana and Katakana scripts also syllabaries for Japanese language.

Kegon ( Kanji: 華厳 Hiragana: けごん ) is the name of the Japanese transmission of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism.

* Ginsu knives have a Japanese-sounding name " Ginsu " ( Kanji Japanese: 銀簾, Hiragana: ぎんす ) but are made in America by Douglas Quikut

Japanese writing system | Japanese alphabet, including Hiragana, Katakana and " Imatto-canna ", a form of Hentaigana.

For a long time, the most esteemed calligrapher in Japan had been Wang Xizhi, a Chinese calligrapher in the 4th century but after the invention of Hiragana and Katakana, the Japanese unique syllabaries, the distinctive Japanese writing system developed and calligraphers produced styles intrinsic to Japan.

Aiki-ken ( Kanji: 合気剣 Hiragana: あいきけん ) is the name given specifically to the set of Japanese sword techniques practiced according to the principles of aikido, taught first by Morihei Ueshiba ( aikido's founder ), then further developed by Morihiro Saito, one of Ueshiba's most prominent students.

This version produced Japanese language error messages and supported the Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana character sets for variable names and character strings.

** Hiragana, used, along with kanji, for native or naturalised Japanese words, and for grammatical elements

* Shin ( Japanese name ) ( Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん ), a Japanese given name

The Hiragana Times is unique in that all the articles are written in both English and Japanese, with no bias between the languages.

Ō ( Hiragana:, ) is the Japanese form of the Chinese surname Wang ( Kanji: ).

In the 9th century, Japanese developed their own writing systems called Kana ( Hiragana and Katakana ) which support Kanji script to suit Japanese language.

Katakana and hiragana are both kana systems ; they have corresponding character sets in which each kana, or character, represents one mora ( one sound in the Japanese language ).

Katakana are characterized by short, straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.

* An abbreviation for Katakana character set in the Japanese writing language

When an alphabet is borrowed to represent a different language than that for which it originally developed ( as has been done with the Latin alphabet for many languages in Europe and elsewhere or Japanese Katakana being used for foreign words ), it often proves to be defective in representing the new language's phonemes.

* Ru ( kana ), the romanisation of the Japanese kana る and ル ; the same letters are used to substitute an L preceding a consonant when transliterating Latin script words to Katakana.

There was a special terminal and keyboard for Katakana, a syllabary of the Japanese Language

On the other hand, the Japanese and Koreans primarily employ native alphabets for the names of the elements ( Katakana and Hangul, respectively ).

* Japanese: テイルズ ・ フロム ・ ザ ・ クリプト ・ キーパー ( Katakana ) Teiruzu Furomu Za Kuriputo Kīpā ( Romaji )

There were also versions that had Katakana code sets for Japanese.

* Japanese Dictionary with Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji virtual keyboards

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

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.

* 1963 – Kōji Kitao ), Japanese sumo wrestler ( the 60th Yokozuna )

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % ( 97 / 1312 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 1312 M7a1, 28 / 1312 N9b ) to 17 % ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )) in mainstream Japanese.

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

* Adenosine Tri-Phosphate ( band ), a Japanese alternative rock / pop band

* Ark ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel album ), by the Japanese rock band L ' Arc-en-Ciel

till 2008 ), a Japanese boyband managed by Johnny's and Associates

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American Depositary Receipts ( ADRs ), which are traded over-the-counter.

* Ai ( singer ) ( born 1981 ), Japanese R & B singer

* Alternative ( Kamen Rider ), a character in the Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Ryuki

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Many viral agents have been studied and / or weaponized, including some of the Bunyaviridae ( especially Rift Valley fever virus ), Ebolavirus, many of the Flaviviridae ( especially Japanese encephalitis virus ), Machupo virus, Marburg virus, Variola virus, and Yellow fever virus.

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 ).