* AV idol, a type of Japanese porn star

In 1981, Frankenheimer travelled to Japan to shoot the cult martial-arts action film The Challenge, with Scott Glenn and legendary Japanese star, Toshiro Mifune.

* Pleiades ( star cluster ), in Japanese

** Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star

* June 23 – Yoko Minamino, Japanese Idol star and actress

The film premiered in Japan first on April 15, 1995, with a longer version ( 103 mins ) that is closer to the director's cut and features a previously composed score by Mychael Danna, different editing, and more scenes with Japanese star Takeshi Kitano and Dolph Lundgren notably.

is a Japanese star festival, originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival.

On September 5, 1945, shortly after the Japanese surrender, Wainwright received his fourth star.

RPO players have been involved with many performances away from the classical repertory, including Yanni Live at the Acropolis, a concert held in Greece in 1993, conducted by Shahrdad Rohani ; the Hooked on Classics series of records ; orchestral arrangements of rock music by the likes of Pink Floyd, Elkie Brooks ( on the album Amazing ), Oasis, Queen, George Michael, R. E. M., U2, and ABBA ; the song / album, Art of Life by Japanese rock band X Japan, composed by Yoshiki Hayashi ; the official theme music of the UEFA Champions League ( UEFA Champions League Anthem ), tracks on the British folk metal band Skyclad's 2004 album A Semblance of Normality the Symphonic Rock: A Symphony of Hits 2004 album ; and the BBC Grandstand Theme in 1982 ; Seotaiji Symphony, a concert held in Seoul in 2008, with South Korean rock star Seo Taiji, conducted by Tolga Kashif.

The Hollywood film 47 Ronin is currently under production by Universal Pictures and will star Keanu Reeves as an outcast who joins the samurai in their quest to avenge their slain master along with some of the biggest Japanese actors such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kô Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, and Jin Akanishi.

While revolving around the nephew of James Bond, no surviving relatives are mentioned in Fleming ’ s novels, even though he unknowingly conceives a child with former Japanese movie star Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice.

Japanese star anise ( Illicium anisatum ), a similar tree, is not edible because it is highly toxic ( due to containing sikimitoxin ); instead, it has been burned as incense in Japan.

* Japanese star anise

In the series, Speed ’ s full name was Go Mifune, in homage to Japanese film star Toshirō Mifune.

This was a homage to Japanese film star Toshirō Mifune.

By 1813 he had risen as a “ star ” in the constellation of Edo ’ s artistic world ( a contemporary list of the most important ukiyo-e artists places him in second place behind Toyokuni I ) and until his death in early 1865, Kunisada remained one of the “ trendsetters ” of the Japanese woodblock print.

Filipović went on to knock out Japanese star Musashi and Australian karate fighter Sam Greco on the same night before being stopped again by Hoost.

In the summer, in celebration of the Japanese Obon Festival, the star is lit up at night.

* Ryōko Hirosue ( born 1980 ) is an actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures.

She will star in the Western horror film Vampire, which is the English-language feature debut of Japanese director Iwai Shunji.

* Kenichi Mikawa, Japanese TV star, comedian and singer

Late in the season, manager Tony Peña moved Berroa to the top of the batting order, and Berroa's performance sparked a media debate over who should be the American League Rookie of the Year: Berroa, Devil Rays outfielder Rocco Baldelli, Cleveland Indians outfielder Jody Gerut, or New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui, a former star in the Japanese Baseball Central League.

Kobayashi would create the music for the titular pop star, Lily Chou-Chou ( voiced by Japanese singer Salyu ), that is spread through the film ( as well as Debussy ), and later be released as an album entitled Kokyu ( Breathe ).

is a Japanese actress and pop star, best known in the West for her roles in the Luc Besson-produced Wasabi and the Academy Award-winning Japanese film Departures.

* Japanese star anise

In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.

In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life, the house contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints.

Compare with the Latin adages Omnia mutantur and Tempora mutantur () and the Japanese tale Hōjōki, () which contains the same image of the changing river, and the central Buddhist doctrine of impermanence.

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.

* Kenneth Rexroth's One Hundred Poems from the Japanese ( New Directions, 1955, ISBN 0-8112-0181-3 ) contains several of Hitomaro's waka, as well as notable translations of 3 naga uta (" In the sea of ivy clothed Iwami ", " The Bay of Tsyunu ", and " When she was still alive ")

The grain is larger, stronger, and contains less protein and lipid than the ordinary rice eaten by the Japanese.

The Japanese version includes an exclusive third segment, " Navi Trackers " ( originally designed as the stand-alone game " Tetra's Trackers "), which contains spoken dialog for most of the characters, unlike other games in The Legend of Zelda series.

The 1994 award-winning novel, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, contains many scenes and details relating to Japanese Americans from the Puget Sound, Washington, area and their incarceration experiences at Manzanar.

The Japanese version of the cookie differs in several ways: they are a little bit larger ; are made of darker dough ; and their batter contains sesame and miso rather than vanilla and butter.

* Japanese — Alcoholic Kidz: " Pierrot " ( 2009 ); Aya Kamiki: " Pierrot " ( 2006 ); Berryz Kobo: " Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba " (" Fountain Plaza of My Confession " ; contains lyric " I am Pierrot "); Tanaka Koki of pop group KAT-TUN: " Pierrot ", from Break the Records: By You & For You ( 2009 ); Yellow Magic Orchestra: " Mad Pierrot ", from Yellow Magic Orchestra ( 1978 ).

The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion ( A. fistulosum ), Egyptian onion ( A.

Taiwanese Hokkien also contains loanwords from Japanese and the Formosan languages.

The Japanese styled Gauguin Museum, opposite the Botanical Gardens of Papeari in Papeari, Tahiti, contains some exhibits, documents, photographs, reproductions and original sketches and block prints of Gauguin and Tahitians.

The yard contains a gazebo, goldfish pond and a Japanese garden.

* Aozora: A Japanese version of Project Gutenberg that contains many old novels, short stories, and essays.

In South Korea, kamaboko is called either eomuk ( Hangul:, mixed script: ) or odeng ( 오뎅, loan word from the Japanese oden, a Japanese dish that sometimes contains kamaboko ).

Japanese-speaking enthusiasts may enjoy An Illustrated Guide to the Locked Room 1891-1998 ( text by Alice Arisugawa and illustrations by Kazuichi Isoda ) which contains summaries of 40 novels and short stories, 20 of which are Anglo-Saxon classics – the other 20 being Japanese classics from 1924 to the present day.

Japanese Brazilians are the largest ethnic Japanese community outside Japan ( numbering about 1. 5 million, compared to about 1. 2 million in the United States ), and São Paulo contains the largest concentration of Japanese outside Japan.

186 pp. Paper, ISBN 0-942668-36-7. book contains the works of five Japanese poets from the ' 70s and ' 80s, including Fujii Sadakazu, Hirata Toshiko, Matsuura Hisaki, Yoshida Tuminori, and Inagawa Masato.

The game also contains a dozen interviews along with other entertaining moments, such as Geri Halliwell pinching Prince Charles ' bottom, and the girls wreaking havoc on a Japanese talk-show.

The sleeve contains a Japanese painting by Ken Konno.