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.

International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, Volume 3 of Studies in written language and literacy.

" The Japanese Journal of American Studies 12 ( 2001 ): 105-123.

* Available online at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

* Available online at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

The Emperor ’ s Advisor: Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics, Croom Helm, London, and Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, 1987

It also operates a research institute in Tokyo, Japan ; the EIJS ( European Institute of Japanese Studies ); and a recently founded undergraduate-and research institution ; Center for Retailing ; geared towards retailing, in Norrtälje, Sweden.

), Ukiyo-e Studies and Pleasures, A Collection of Essays on the Art of Japanese Prints, The Hague, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1978.

Studies of Japanese postmenopausal women documented that those who can produce S-equol after soy consumption had milder menopause symptoms than those who were equol nonproducers.

* 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

* Constitutional Revision Research Project of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University

Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The KITLV or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies ( founded in 1851 ), the observatory 1633 ; the natural history museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet ; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ( National Museum of Antiquities ), with specially valuable Egyptian and Indian departments ; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times ; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collections.

Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things " Mimi-nashi Hoichi " ( Hoichi the Earless ), a Japanese ghost story about a blind biwa hōshi who performs " The Tale of the Heike "

Accessing Japanese Digital Libraries: Three Case Studies.

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

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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 % to 17 % in mainstream Japanese.

Japanese journal of Religious Studies 912-3 June – September 1982 PDF file Google HTML version

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.

Studies have also shown that skeletal remains from larger settlements in the Tōhoku corresponding to where burial mounds ( kofun ) were built have traits that are halfway between Ainu and present day Japanese, so the idea that the Emishi were made up solely of Ainoid ancestors is untrue.

* John Nathan, Takashima Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies and Emmy-award winning director of several documentaries

*** Japanology ( Japanese studies )

Satow was one of the founding members at Yokohama, in 1872, of the Asiatic Society of Japan whose purpose was to study the Japanese culture, history and language ( i. e. Japanology ) in detail.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

In is she Chinese or Japanese??

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban (, lit.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.

This organization is used in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Korean hangul, and even Japanese kana, which is not an alphabet.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).