* Kon or Bō, a Japanese long staff weapon used in bōjutsu

Bō are typically around long and are now used in Japanese martial arts, in particular bōjutsu.

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 ).

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

For Altaicists, the version of Altaic they favor is given at the end of the entry, if other than the prevailing one of Turkic – Mongolic – Tungusic – Korean – Japanese.

A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by an Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Its bulk quality is behind one of the latest fad diets in Asia, the kanten ( the Japanese word for agar-agar ) diet.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

An Indian POW, Lance Naik Hatam Ali ( later a citizen of Pakistan ), testified that in New Guinea: " the Japanese started selecting prisoners and every day one prisoner was taken out and killed and eaten by the soldiers.

Some television shows such as Deadliest Warrior have incorrectly portrayed butted mail as having been used historically in Europe or the Middle East ( in reality, Japanese mail ( kusari ) is one of the few historically correct examples of mail being constructed with such butted links ).

There is also a mention of Kidd attacking one of the Japanese islands of the Tokara archipelago, south of Kagoshima.

Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, and Meitaro Takeuchi were 3 financial backers and friends for one of the originators of the Japanese automobile industry, Masujiro Hashimoto, who founded Kaishinsha Jidosha Koto, or “ Kaishinsha Motor Car Works ” in 1911.

Having been almost entirely rebuilt twice, once due to Japanese air raids during World War II, and again after being devastated by Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the city is one of Australia's most modern capitals.

Japanese postwar mentality may be one reason aggression is displayed in taiko drum performances.

In the case of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the American versions were released first, followed by the Japanese versions and then the European versions, with each regional release offering new content not found in the previous one.

* 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

* Kusanagi ( a Japanese sword, one of the three imperial Japanese regalia of the ruling family )

( Originally, the Fujiwara were descended from relatively minor nobility, thus their kami is an unremarkable one in the Japanese myth world.

Often, the center of the blade was a core of soft steel, and the edges were solid high carbon steel, similar to the laminates of the Japanese.

After the completion of Sonic 2, Yuji Naka made the final decision to only allow the Japanese members in the core development team to work on Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

The most recent commercial iterations of the SPARC processor design are the Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd .' s " Venus " 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx introduced June 2009, which is used in the 8 petaFLOPS Japanese supercomputer " K computer ", and the SPARC T4 introduced by Oracle Corporation in September 2011 ; both are 8 core devices running at 2. 0GHz and over 2. 5GHz respectively.

Then in 1935, under the accord signed between He Yingqin, the commander of Kuomintang armies in Northern China, and Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of Japanese troops in Northern China, elite Kuomintang troops related to the group Blue Shirts Society, core of Chiang ’ s Whampoa Clique, had to evacuate from Beijing and Northern China, which put the whole of Northern China under direct threat of Japanese invasion.

Japanese is perhaps the most widely known example of a language that encodes politeness at its very core.

This document was considered the moral core of the Japanese army and naval forces until their dissolution in 1945.

In its historical prospect Kita's political program was for creating a state socialism in a rather fascistic oriented " socialism from above ", as a tool to unite and strengthen the Japanese society in order to materialize the core element of his program, the unification of all Yellow peoples in a common empire, under common spiritual values.

From here seven squadrons of the 58th Bombardment Wing flew combat and reconnaissance missions throughout Southeast Asia and finally into the heart of the Japanese empire, striking at the core of the enemy ’ s industrial cities, aircraft factories, steel mills, electronic facilities, ball bearing manufacturers, and merchant shipping centers.

Japanese spiritualist Hogen Fukunaga once wrote, " The navel is the core of everything about the person.

The Racial Equality Proposal put forth by the Japanese did not directly conflict with any of these core British interests.

Upon returning from Europe, he organized a 10, 000 men force to form the core of the new Imperial Japanese Army.

It is a core city ( and a business core city ) designated by Japanese national government.

US Defence officials told the Wall Street Journal that the core of the new anti-missile shield would be a powerful early-warning radar, known as an X-Band, sited on a southern Japanese island.

is the core retail banking unit of Mizuho Financial Group, which is the second-largest financial services company in Japan and one of the three so-called Japanese " megabanks " ( along with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ).

This mandala, along with the Womb Realm, form the core of Japanese esoteric, or Shingon Buddhist, rituals, including the initiation or abhisheka ritual.

This mandala, along with the Diamond Realm, form the core of Japanese esoteric, or Shingon Buddhist, rituals, including the initiation or abhiseka ritual.

Mikkyō is a little-understood, yet often sensationalised, synergistic “ esoteric construct ” that lies at the very core of Japanese spirituality and mysticism.

Following an offer from the Japanese government to provide cheap loans to THSRC if it switches to Shinkansen technology, in spite of an earlier agreement with Eurotrain, THSRC decided to re-tender the core systems technology contract June 1999.

is a Japanese martial art, commonly known as the style practiced by several core members of the Shinsengumi.

Poetry has long been a core part of Japanese tradition.

The Garnsey Campus teaches students the core subjects ; English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History and Health, as well as a variety of electives including Art, Drama, Woodwork, Music, French and Japanese.

The is a franchise of Japanese tokusatsu television dramas that uses the word sentai to describe a group of three or more costumed superheroes ( whose core team generally consists of five members ) who often pilot mecha.