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The variety of Japanese dialects developed markedly during the Edo period because many feudal lords restricted the movement of people to and from other fiefs.

He blamed Deadpool for his brother's death as he was among the targets of Deadpool's apparently successful assassination of the Japanese crime lords named the Four Winds.

From the beginning of the Japanese Middle Ages, the relationship between lords and vassals tended, even in the absence of real blood ties, to be seen as an ancestral bond where each side inherited the rights and duties of the previous generation.

The new lords had risen to power by military skill, and mostly lacked immersion in the sophisticated traditions of Japanese culture long cultivated in Buddhist monasteries and the Imperial court.

Some remained neutral, while others ( like the lords of Ogaki and Tsu ) switched allegiances and openly supported the Imperial Japanese Army.

By 1587, Hideyoshi had become alarmed, not because of too many converts but rather because the hegemon learned that Christian lords reportedly oversaw forced conversions of retainers and commoners, that they had garrisoned the city of Nagasaki, that they participated in the slave trade of other Japanese and, apparently offending Hideyoshi's Buddhist sentiments, that they allowed the slaughter of horses and oxen for food.

It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying warlord in order to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan.

* Genealogy of Aizu lords ( in Japanese ), including Katamori

In the late 16th century, Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi united the various feudal lords ( daimyo ) under his command.

was a Japanese feudal lord ( daimyō ) of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma Domain.

The Japanese version of the jester, these men were once attendants to daimyo ( feudal lords ) from the 13th century, originating from the ' Ji Sect of Pure Land Buddhism ', which focused on dancing.

* In Japanese history, leagues of samurai, farmers, and clergy who engaged in common defense against shogunal forces and greater lords, initiating large and destructive agrarian uprisings.

Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service primarily operating the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, and the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service flying the Nakajima Ki-27 and the Nakajima Ki-43, initially enjoyed great success, as these fighters generally had better range, maneuverability, speed and climb rates than their Allied counterparts.

At the same time, Ribbentrop's efforts to convert the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British alliance met with considerable hostility from the Japanese over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39, but with the Italians Ribbentrop enjoyed some apparent success.

An area where Ribbentrop enjoyed more success arose in September 1940, when he had the Far Eastern agent of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Dr. Heinrich Georg Stahmer, start negotiations with the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, for an anti-American alliance ( the German Ambassador to Japan, General Eugen Ott, was excluded from the talks on Ribbentrop's orders ).

General George Kenney's outnumbered and out classed old fighters, when staged forward from new bases about Port Moresby, would affect Japanese decisions to withdraw from their beachhead on Milne Bay because the allied fighters were only minutes away and enjoyed a rapid turn around time to resume sweeps against long ranged Japanese air during the Battle of Milne Bay — and that earned Kenney a promotion for it was the first time Japanese aggression had been repulsed in any landing.

Chinese under the regime had greater access to coveted wartime luxuries, and the Japanese enjoyed things like matches, rice, tea, coffee, cigars, foods, and alcoholic drinks, all of which were scarce in Japan proper, but consumer goods became more scarce after Japan entered World War II.

They soon found the cuisine was less popular with the Japanese than it was with foreigners, who enjoyed both watching the skilled maneuvers of the chefs preparing the food as well as the cuisine itself, which is somewhat more familiar than more traditional Japanese dishes.

Due to the unconditional respect that the Emperor enjoyed in the Japanese society, he identified him as the ideal person to play that role, suspending the Constitution and radically reorganize the Diet to be free of any " malign influence ".

He returned to China as a recognized protege of Mao Zedong, and enjoyed the informal recognition as a " roving ambassador " for Japanese communism.

The koi ( from Japanese nishikigoi, 錦鯉 ) are well-known common carp breeds, selectively bred for being enjoyed by spectators from above.

He was the head of the Japanese First Army during the Russo-Japanese War ; and his forces enjoyed a series of successes during the Manchurian fighting at the Battle of Yalu River, the Battle of Liaoyang, the Battle of Shaho and the Battle of Mukden.

It is a festival enjoyed by people of all ages, participating in its historical reenactment parade dressed in authentic costumes representing various periods, and characters in Japanese feudal history.

The occupying American force enjoyed an immunity from the Japanese legal system.

" Regardless of title, Clark enjoyed the complete support of the Japanese government in organizing SAC and he exerted principal authority over the college while he was in Japan.

Taekkyeon has enjoyed a resurgence in the decades following the end of the Japanese colonial period in 1945.

These outtakes were enjoyed particularly by audiences in Japan-so much so that Japanese film companies would demand the inclusion of " NGs " (" no good " shots ) in the distribution contracts for all Jackie Chan films, regardless of director.

Like the Chinese Emperors and court, the Japanese aristocrats enjoyed their gardens in small boats with carved dragon heads.

In Berlin, where the Japanese Ambassador enjoyed a close friendship with the chief of Germany's secret services, a diplomat relayed TO information to Tokyo along with messages coordinating policies and operations between the three Axis powers.

Ironically, even though he enjoyed less success, he became progressively more popular with Japanese fans due to his continuous fighting spirit, increasing bulk, and amiable personality.

The tradition was largely supplanted by the advent of television in the late 1950s but has recently enjoyed a revival in Japanese libraries and elementary schools.

Now with of power at 6400 rpm and of torque at 4800 rpm on tap, the FJ20ET enjoyed new-found prestige as the most powerful Japanese production engine of its era.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

Some Chaosium products have been translated into French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian, and were available in France from Jeux Descartes, in Germany from Pegasus Press, in Spain from Joc Internacional and La factoría de ideas and in Italy from Stratelibri and Grifo Edizioni.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

* Subtitles: Traditional, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, French

* Egyptian * marar ( to see, to look ) and Japanese miru ( 見る ) ( to look ) and Spanish mirar ( to look at, to watch )/ Portuguese mirar ( to stare )

The Japanese did not acquire firearms until the 16th century, and then from the Portuguese rather than the Chinese.

The Portuguese also began a channel of trade with the Japanese, becoming the first recorded Westerners to have visited Japan.

Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan (" bread ") and tabako (" tobacco ", now " cigarette "), both from Portuguese.

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

The Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki route was particularly profitable because the Portuguese acted as middlemen, shipping Chinese silks to Japan and Japanese silver to China, pocketing huge markups in the process.

This already lucrative trade became even more so when Chinese officials handed Macau's Portuguese traders a monopoly by banning direct trade with Japan in 1547, due to piracy by Chinese and Japanese nationals.

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Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the King of Spain.

Today, Scientific American publishes 18 foreign-language editions around the globe: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian ( discontinued after 15 issues ), Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.

In the 16th century, Japanese / e /( え ) and / we /( ゑ ) both had been pronounced and Portuguese missionaries had spelled them " ye ".

The Chinese, Russian, German, Ottoman, and Austro-Hungarian empires dissolved in the first half of the century, with all but the British, French, Portuguese, and Japanese empires collapsing during the course of World War I, and Russia transformed into the communist Soviet Union.

* March 9 – Amboyna massacre: Ten men in the service of the British East India Company, nine Japanese and one Portuguese, are executed by the Dutch East India Company.

* The Japanese receive the first firearms from shipwrecked Portuguese.

* A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: " Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden.

Another theory is that the term is a phonetic reduction of " sake " the name of a Japanese beverage that was introduced to the West by Spanish and Portuguese traders.

Variations include the German " Angelsachsen ", French " Anglo-Saxon ", Spanish " anglosajón ", Portuguese " anglo-saxão ", Polish " anglo-saksoński ", Italian " anglosassone ", Catalan " anglosaxó ", Japanese " Angurosakuson " and Ukrainian " aнглосакси " ( anhlosaksy ).