Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban ( Japanese abacus ).

FM, a Japanese magazine for Fujitsu personal computer users, contained the first description of the 6309's additional capabilities.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

A proper Japanese martial arts dōjō is considered special and is well cared for by its users.

Turbolinux is a Japanese Linux distribution targeting Asian users.

In 2002, Japanese internet users sent numerous large-capacity e-mail bombs to VANK members almost everyday.

Japanese language users, with several different encodings historically employed, encounter this problem relatively often.

Chinese users seem to have fewer objections to Han unification, largely because Unicode did not attempt to unify Simplified Chinese characters ( an invention of the People's Republic of China, and in use among Chinese speakers in the PRC, Singapore, and Malaysia ), with Traditional Chinese characters, as used in Hong Kong, Taiwan ( Big5 ), and, with some differences, more familiar to Korean and Japanese users.

* Winny, a privately developed " sequel " to WinMX for Japanese users

For example, HTML has no support for tategaki and Japanese users must use HTML tables to simulate it.

The Imperial Japanese Army became one of the most prolific users of tankettes, producing a number of designs useful for jungle warfare.

For example, a U. S. server could be mirrored in Japan, allowing Japanese Internet users to download content faster from the local Japanese server than from the original American one.

The NDL provides an Online Public Access Catalog ( OPAC ), by which users can search the NDL's entire collection from anywhere in the world in either English or Japanese.

There are a remarkable number of oekaki message boards, Oekaki Central being one of the largest where users can create their own oekaki board at sites such OekakiBBS. com, though this site is often hard to use for non-Japanese-speakers because much of it is in Japanese or poorly translated English.

Since 2ch users often refer to anonymous users by their post numbers, Kaneko came to be known as " Mr. 47 " (" 47-Shi ", or 47氏 in Japanese ), or just " 47 ".

On November 28, 2003, two Japanese users of Winny, Yoshihiro Inoue, a 41 year-old self-employed businessman from Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture and an unemployed 19-year-old from Matsuyama, were arrested by the Kyoto Prefectural Police.

* Japanese ISPs set to terminate Winny users net connections, Daily Yomiuri, 16 March 2008

Users can browse text-only Internet sites, and many Japanese sites have sub-sites designed especially for cellular phone users.

For their Japanese users, these chocolate-brown wares embodied the Zen aesthetic of wabi ( rustic simplicity ).

More precisely, Ural – Altaic came to subgroup Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic as " Uralic " and Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic as " Altaic ", with Korean sometimes added to Altaic, and less often Japanese.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

This has resulted in a number of forms of fusion cuisine, often very popular in the country in question, and some of these, such as ramen ( Japanese Chinese ) have become popular internationally.

King Gwanggaeto the Great often led expeditions into the Baekje, Gaya confederacy, Buyeo, Later Yan and against Japanese invaders with his cavalry.

In the 1980s, Japanese personal computers such as the NEC PC-88 came installed with FM synthesis sound chips and featured audio programming languages such as Music Macro Language ( MML ) and MIDI interfaces, which were most often used to produce video game music, or chiptunes.

Unlike other anime and manga, where jokes and references are often exclusory or require knowledge of Japanese culture and / or the workings and conventions of anime, Cowboy Bebop is accessible – western audiences can connect with the characters readily and more fully understand their motivations and struggles.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

Sashimi in Japanese cuisine consists of raw sliced fish or other meat, and sushi often incorporates raw fish or seafood.

They quickly gained air superiority over the Allies, who at this stage of the war were often disorganized, under-trained and poorly equipped, and Japanese air power contributed significantly to their successes in the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma.

Kanji and kanji compounds are often presented with furigana in Japanese language textbooks for non-native speakers.

Furigana are also often used in foreign language textbooks for Japanese learners to indicate pronunciation.

In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line while haiku in English often appear in three lines to parallel the three phrases of Japanese haiku.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

Maeda explained that he invented the practice to get around strict Japanese censorship regulations, which prohibit the depiction of the penis but apparently do not prohibit showing sexual penetration by a tentacle or similar ( often robotic ) appendage.

The Latin script is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, and when entering Japanese text into a computer.

As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is often called a language isolate, but strictly speaking this is a misnomer, since the Ryukyuan languages are linguistically distinct.

These standard food offerings served at the cafeteria ( shokudō, often called to distinguish from corporate cafeterias ), or yatai or izakaya are not considered Japanese cuisine at a " proper restaurant ".

To this end, Ribbentrop often worked closely with General Hiroshi Ōshima, who served first as the Japanese military attaché, and then as Ambassador in Berlin, to strengthen German-Japanese ties despite furious opposition from the Wehrmacht and the Foreign Office, which preferred closer Sino-German ties.

The reference to the " Japanese influence " among these artists often refers to the work of Utamaro.

Names of Japanese companies are also often written in katakana rather than the other systems.

While many Japanese artists ( and artists in general ) are quite reclusive, Asamiya often makes an effort to be available to his fans.