TOSE ported both titles from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System ; each had been previously released as individual Japanese PlayStation ports in 1997 ( Final Fantasy IV ) and 1999 ( Chrono Trigger ).

These were removed in the Final Fantasy Chronicles version, and the game was re-localized, achieving a script closer to the Japanese script by Takashi Tokita.

( born March 21, 1959 ) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

* Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu used portions of " O Fortuna ", " Estuans interius ", and " Veni, veni, venias " for the final boss theme " One-Winged Angel " in Square Enix's Final Fantasy VII.

Among the many noted video game voice actors and actresses are Maaya Sakamoto ( the Japanese voice for the Final Fantasy XIII character Lightning ), Tatsuhisa Suzuki ( the voice of Noctis Lucis Caelum in Final Fantasy Versus XIII ), Troy Baker ( English Snow Villers, Joel, Batman in Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes ), Steve Downes and Jen Taylor ( Master Chief and Cortana from the Halo series ), Nolan North ( Nathan Drake from the Uncharted games and Desmond Miles from the Assassin's Creed game series ), Liam O ' Brien ( the voice of Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and War in Darksiders ), and Jonell Elliott ( the voices of Lara Croft from 1999-2003 ).

American audiences were largely indifferent to Japanese role-playing video games, and would remain this way until titles like Final Fantasy VII took the genre into the mainstream.

The editor of Learning from Shōgun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy ( 1980 ) estimated that 20 to 50 % of all students in American college-level courses about Japan had read the novel.

Cloud's Japanese voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, first voiced the character in Kingdom Hearts with the idea that Cloud was a different character from the one in Final Fantasy VII, which he was a fan of.

The English translation for Secret of Mana was completed in only 30 days, mere weeks after the Japanese release, and was initially advertised as Final Fantasy Adventure 2.

She has also lent her voice to English-language localizations of Japanese anime such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, as well as several video games, including her work as Elisa and Ursula in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops ; Paz Ortega Andrade in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker ; Seth Balmore in Lost Odyssey ; Rikku in Final Fantasy X, its sequel Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II ; Norma Beatty in Tales of Legendia ; Talwyn Apogee in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and its sequel, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty ( both of which reunite her with her Final Fantasy X and Drawn Together co-star James Arnold Taylor ) and Harley Quinn replacing Arleen Sorkin in Batman: Arkham City.

Some episodes are a vehicle to introduce a new character into the storyline, while others are parodies of cultural phenomena, such as Hello Kitty, Japanese karate and ninja movies, ' 80s anti-drug documentaries, Michael Moore's documentary film Fahrenheit 9 / 11, Kill Bill, the crime drama CSI: Miami, the iPod " silhouette " ad campaign, the MTV show Pimp My Ride, the game show Krypton Factor, Mel Brooks ' History of the World, the video game Portal, Final Fantasy VII, the Academy Awards and even retailers such as PC World (' Pissy Werld ' in the show ), IKEA ( or ' PIKEA ') and Matalan (' Catalan ').

Settings that have been explored in roleplaying games include Pendragon ( Arthurian ), Sengoku ( Japanese warring states ), Recon ( Vietnam War ), Tibet ( historical Tibet ), and Fantasy Imperium ( historical Europe ).

Another reference to Link is in the Japanese version of the NES game Final Fantasy ; in Elftown there is a grave marked " Here Lies Link ".

He also appears in a minor role in the Japanese role playing game Final Fantasy VIII as one of Seifer Almasy's henchmen.

In December 2009, UGO. com placed Sephiroth twenty-fifth on their list of " Top 25 Japanese RPG Characters " calling him " one of the most visually striking villains of all time " while praising how different he is from previous Final Fantasy villains.

Although both The Final Fantasy Legend and Final Fantasy Legend II featured a character class known as " Mutant ", in the original Japanese versions of the games ( Makai Toushi Sa · Ga and Sa ・ Ga2: Hihō Densetsu, respectively ), the character class was Esper.

As a vocalist for the video game Final Fantasy IX, she sang the main theme " Melodies of Life " in both the Japanese and English versions.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Japanese Fantasy ( Markalite Vol.

Symphonic Fantasies was dedicated to Japanese developer Square Enix and included arrangements of compositions from Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross and Kingdom Hearts, all of which were presented in form of suites that were up to 18 minutes in length, comparable to movements in major symphonies.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

It also won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the first Japanese film to achieve that honour.

* List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

* Japanese Film Database, maintained by UniJapan ( in English, films after 2002 )

* National Film Center Database ( films in the national archive collection, in Japanese )

* Japanese Film Festival ( Singapore ) – An annual curated film program focusing on classic Japanese cinema and new currents, with regular guest directors and actors.

It has received many awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear ( First Prize ) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

It was also voted the " Best Japanese Film ever " in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics ’ poll.

* January 20 – The Japanese company Fuji Photo Film is established.

* In the 2010 French TV Film Carlos members of the Japanese Red Army feature when they stormed the French Embassy in the Hague and associating with the PFLP and the German Revolutionary Cells

Honokaʻa is the namesake and prominent setting in the 2009 Japanese Film Honokaʻa Boy ( Japanese: ホノカアボーイ ).

* First Place ; Japanese Films Best 10 ; Osaka Film Festival

Rocky III was nominated for both the Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Motion Picture at the Image Awards.

The film appeared at the 1951 Venice Film Festival at the behest of an Italian language teacher, Giuliana Stramigioli, who had recommended it to Italian film promotion agency Unitalia Film seeking a Japanese film to screen at the festival.

Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. was established in 1934 with the aim of being the first Japanese producer of photographic films.

* Award of the Japanese Academy for Best Foreign Language Film

* Sorry ( film ), aka Gomen, a 2002 Japanese Film

* 1996 Japanese Academy Awards-Best Film

This prompted the managing director of Daiei Film Co., Ltd. to dub the week " Golden Week " based on the Japanese radio lingo “ golden time ,” which denotes the period with the highest listener ratings.

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* J Paul Warnick, Review of Nihon o Hanasoo in The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, Vol.

* Ronald Gilson and Mark J. Roe, ' Understanding the Japanese Keiretsu ' ( 1993 ) 102 Yale Law Journal 871

* Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi " The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest Debate: War Guilt Amid Fabricated Illusions, 1971 – 75 ", The Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 26 No. 2 Summer 2000.

* The Nanjing Incident: Recent Research and Trends by David Askew in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, April 2002

Levi McLaughlin wrote in a 2012 article in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies:

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She published her Japanese experiences in the form of a diary, called Journal from Japan: a daily record of life as seen by a scientist, in 1910.

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In February 2009, tie-up with The Wall Street Journal for edit, printing and distribution, then from March the major news headlines of the WSJ's Asian edition are summarized in the evening edition in Japanese.

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" Early Chinese Zen Reexamined ~ A Supplement to ' Zen Buddhism: A History '" in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 1993 20 / 1.

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* Mori, Kōichi ( 1980 ), " Yanagita Kunio: An Interpretive Study ", Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 7 / 2 – 3: pp. 83 – 115.

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* Tathāgatagarbha Thought: A Basis of Buddhist Devotionalism in East Asia ( pdf file ), Kiyota Minoru, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, June-September 1985, vol.

* The Tathāgatagarbha Theory Reconsidered: Reflections on Some Recent Issues in Japanese Buddhist Studies ( pdf file ), Takasaki Jikidõ, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Spring 2000, vol.

" The Myth of the Goddess of the Undersea World and the Tale of Empress Jingū's Subjugation of Silla ", Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 20. 2: 95-185.