Susan J. Napier argues, in her book Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, that anime increasingly " exists at a nexus point in global culture … an amorphous new media territory that crosses and intermingles national boundaries ".

, short for, is a Japanese media franchise encompassing digital toys, anime, manga, video games and videos.

In works aimed at adult Japanese speakers, furigana may be used on a word written in uncommon kanji ; in the mass media, they are generally used on words containing non-Jōyō kanji.

Japanese courtesans had another form of flirting, emphasizing non-verbal relationships by hiding the lips and showing the eyes, as depicted in much Shunga art, the most popular print media at the time, until the late 19th century.

is a media franchise based on the Japanese seinen manga series written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow.

As with other forms of Japanese pop-culture media, publishers of erotic media target material to specific demographic groups.

The first milestones in the Japanese media history were newspapers in the Meiji period, the first being the Nagasaki Shipping List & Advertiser, founded 1861 in Nagasaki, with the telegraph and telephone following suit.

Standard Japanese has become prevalent nationwide ( including the Ryūkyū islands ) due to education, mass media, and an increase of mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration.

Japanese TV channels decided to broadcast, simultaneously to the ceremony, his Museum in Tokyo, in what was at the time a unique media homage.

In Envisioning the " Tale of Genji " Shirane observes that " The Tale of Genji has become many things to many different audiences through many different media over a thousand years ... unmatched by any other Japanese text or artifact.

The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them, while the yakuza call themselves.

They are very prevalent in the Japanese media and operate internationally with an estimated 80, 900 members in 2009, the last year for which an estimate is available.

Ninja appear in many forms of Japanese and Western popular media, including books ( Kōga Ninpōchō ), television ( Ninja Warrior ), movies ( You Only Live Twice, Ninja Assassin, The Last Samurai ), Satire ( REAL Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book ) video games ( Tenchu, Shinobi ), anime ( Naruto ), manga ( Basilisk ) and Western comic books ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and G. I.

Mass clusters are clusters of suicides in time but not space, and have been linked to the broadcasting of information concerning celebrity suicides via the mass media Examples of celebrities whose suicides have inspired suicide clusters include Ruan Lingyu, the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and Hide, and Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August month.

The Mitsubishi group of companies form a loose entity, the Mitsubishi Keiretsu, which is often referenced in Japanese and US media and official reports ; in general these companies all descend from the zaibatsu of the same name.

also known as Boys ' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male sexual relationships, usually created by female authors.

The Japanese news media also made a documentary movie named " Nanking " that recorded Nanking just after its fall.

* Âge, a Japanese media company

, also known by the wasei-eigo construction, is a Japanese jargon term for content and a genre involving love between women in manga, anime, and related Japanese media.

He was voiced in the Japanese version by Chikao Ōhtsuka, who also portrayed the Disney incarnation of the character in Japanese media, particularly in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories.

* " Episode 0: First Contact ", the fourteenth television special of the Japanese media franchise Lupin III

Japanese giant salamander, a primitive salamander

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.

In Japanese mythology, Namazu ( 鯰 ) is a giant catfish who causes earthquakes.

A Japanese fishing vessel is trying to find its way to shore in a horrible storm while near an uninhabited island, when a giant monster appears and attacks the boat.

A member of the Cryptobranchidae family, hellbenders are the only members of the Cryptobranchus genus, and are joined only by one other genus of salamanders ( Andrias, which contains the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders ) at the family level.

Both males and females grow to an adult length of to from snout to vent, with a total length of to making it the third largest aquatic salamander species in the world ( next to the Chinese giant salamander and the Japanese giant salamander ) and the largest in North America.

The Japanese use the term or " giant robots " to distinguish limbed vehicles from other mechanical devices.

The film Robot Jox, featuring two giant mecha fight scenes, and the Japanese live-action film Gunhed are other examples.

The shipment to Leiden contained the first specimens of the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) to be sent to Europe.

The Japanese ronin Miyamoto Musashi killing a giant nue-print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, nineteenth century

In other stories, the universe is created by crafting it from pre-existing materials, such as the corpse of a dead god — as from Tiamat in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish or from the giant Ymir in Norse mythology – or from chaotic materials, as in Izanagi and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

Pioneers at the Japanese facility RIKEN were the first to use a giant gas catcher and novel electric fields to do this, which is becoming the standard technique.

Both Japanese knotweed and giant knotweed are important concentrated sources of resveratrol and its glucoside piceid, replacing grape byproducts.

Jiraiya battles a giant snake with the help of his summoned Japanese Common Toad | toad.

Daikaiju ( giant monster ) Godzilla from the Godzilla ( 1954 film ) | 1954 Godzilla film, one of the first Japanese movies to feature a giant monster.

Subsequently, there were Japanese film depictions, ( Godzilla, Gamera ), British depictions ( Gorgo ), and even Danish depictions ( Reptilicus ), of giant monsters attacking cities.

Later, Aucoin would work with Japanese cosmetics giant Shiseido on their Inoui line.

The movies broadcast were taken from the classic Universal Horror movies of the 1930s to 1950s, the Hammer Studios and American International Pictures films of the 1950s, Roger Corman's horror films of the 1960s, and Toho Studio's " giant monster " ( known in Japanese as either kaiju or tokusatsu ) movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

On March 23, 2003 SONICblue filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and on April 16 sold most of its assets, including ReplayTV, to the Japanese electronics giant D & M Holdings.

Rather than making an English dub or translation of the Japanese footage, Power Rangers programs consist of scenes featuring English-speaking actors ( either from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or the United Kingdom ) spliced with scenes featuring either Japanese actors dubbed into English or the action scenes from the Super Sentai Series featuring the Rangers fighting monsters or the giant robot ( Zord and Megazord ) battles with English dubbing.