For example, the word Nippon ( one of the pronunciations of 日本, the name for " Japan " in Japanese ) has either four moras ( ni-p-po-n ), each of the four characters used in the hiragana spelling, にっぽん or three moras ( ni-ho-n ) にほん.

The Japanese names for Japan are Nippon ( にっぽん ) and Nihon ( にほん ).

While the side-stick offers the advantages of being lighter, mechanically simpler, and unobtrusive, The Boeing Company's aerospace engineers decided that the lack of visual feedback ( none given by side-sticks ) is a significant problem, and so they designed conventional control yokes in the Boeing 777 and the Boeing 787, which entered service on 26 October 2011 with All Nippon Airways.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

Ogawa named the element nipponium, after Japan ( which is Nippon in Japanese ).

The Asia Leaders Programme, a Dual Campus Master Programme, is a shared initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University for Peace, in collaboration with Ateneo de Manila University, which aims to provide students from Japan and other Asian countries with an opportunity to pursue a peace studies post graduate degree with a content-based language-training module.

The date ( expressed as the year in the reign of the emperor at the time the coin was stamped ) is on the reverse of all coins, and, in most cases, country name ( through 1945, 大日本 or Dai Nippon, " Great Japan "; after 1945, 日本国, Nihon koku, " State of Japan ") and the value in kanji is on the obverse, except for the present 5-yen coin where the country name is on the reverse.

Pilbara Iron is a wholly owned subsidiary of the multinational Rio Tinto Group, that manages assets for Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto, and Robe River Iron Associates, an unincorporated joint venture between Rio ( 53 % and operator since 2000 ) and three Japanese steel companies Mitsui Iron Ore Development P / L ( 33 %), Nippon Steel Australia P / L ( 10. 5 %) and Sumitomo Metal Australia P / L ( 3. 5 %).

Since Japan has a demand for fiber to the home, Japan is looking into tapping a fiber-optic backbone line of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ( NTT ), a domestic backbone carrier, in order to deliver this service at cheaper prices.

Seitei Iaido ( 制定 ) (" basis of the Iaido ") or Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido is the standard set of iaido kata created in 1968 by a committee formed by the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF, Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei or ZNKR ).

* Nippon Aleph Corporation is the Japanese maker of magnetic and photoelectric sensors, component units, and security devices, such as reed switch, reed relay, proximity sensor, level sensor and photoelectric sensor.

In Japan, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzō, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by Philipp Franz von Siebold in his book Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan ( 1832 – 54 ).

Shīton Dōbutsuki Risu no Banā ( Japanese: シートン動物記 りすのバナー, English: " Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel ") is a 26-episode animation produced by Nippon Animation.

The airline is owned by Nippon Yūsen ( 100 %)

In the first film, Think Fast, Mr. Moto, he reveals that he is the managing director of the Dai Nippon Trading Company and had decided to investigate the smuggling activities that were hurting his business.

The Nippon Professional Baseball league is Japan's largest professional sports league.

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan.

NHK World is the international broadcasting service of NHK ( Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai-Japan Broadcasting Corporation ), Japan's public broadcaster.

According to the Nippon Kyudo Federation the supreme goal of kyudo is the state of shin-zen-bi, roughly " truth-goodness-beauty ", which can be approximated as: when archers shoot correctly ( i. e. truthfully ) with virtuous spirit and attitude toward all persons and all things which relate to kyudo ( i. e. with goodness ), beautiful shooting is realized naturally.

To harmonize practice and ceremonial shooting ( sharei ) in 1953 the All Nippon Kyudo Federation ( ANKF ) formed an establishing committee from the main schools to take the best elements of each school and form the ANKF style that is used today throughout Japan and in most kyudo federations in the west.

Shinjuku Music Festival is broadcast for the first time by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting.

Kamui is in northern Nippon, and is inhabited by a race of humans with shapeshifting abilities, known as the Oina ( Ainu ) Tribe.

Nippon is more formal and rarer than Nihon ( にほん ), an alternative reading.

The convention is also known for several unique attractions including Cinema Rex, a couch and recliner-filled movie room ; Theater Nippon, featuring anime ; Connie's Space Lounge, a music and entertainment venue ; COF < sub > 2 </ sub > E < sub > 2 </ sub >, a coffee bar ; CONsuite, hospitality and food ; Harmonic CONvergence, which features musical acts ; and the Dorian Gray Memorial Literary Lounge, a reading / writing setting.

Although the empire is frequently referred to as " the Japanese Empire " or " Imperial Japan " in English, the literal translation from kanji is Great Imperial State of Japan ( Dai Nippon Teikoku ):

Until then, the names " Nippon " ( 日本 ; Japan ), " Dai-Nippon " ( 大日本 ; Greater Japan ), " Dai-Nippon /- Nihon Koku " ( 日本國 ; literally State of Japan ), " Nihon Teikoku " ( 日本帝國 ; Empire of Japan ) were all used.

) Thus Mandarin Rìběn ( 日本, Japan ) corresponds to Japanese Nippon.

Old Book of Tang ( 舊唐書 ), one of the Twenty-Four Histories, stated that the Japanese envoy disliked his country's name Woguo ( 倭國 ), and changed it to Nippon ( 日本 ), or " Origin of the Sun ".

* The Nippon Sei Ko Kai ( Japan )

The All Japan Kendo Federation specify the dimensions of bokken for use in the modern kendo kata, called Nippon kendo kata.

The broadcast industry has been dominated by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation ( Nippon Hoso Kyokai — NHK ) since its founding in 1925.

The two main airlines are Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.

* 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

Funakoshi changed the names of many kata and the name of the art itself ( at least on mainland Japan ), doing so to get karate accepted by the Japanese budō organization Dai Nippon Butoku Kai.

* July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet ; 162 people are killed.

** Two Japanese government-owned corporations, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.

*" Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iai ", English Version Manual, 3rd edition, published December 2009, by All Japan Kendo Federation, Tokyo, Japan.

* Japan Iaido Federation ( Nippon Iaido Renmei / NIR ).

This process of standardization of martial training continued when, in 1895, a body for martial arts in Japan, the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, was established.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

Hideo Nomo won in 1995, the first of several players to win with past professional baseball experience in Nippon Professional Baseball.

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

After a brief and unpopular animated series in 1973 by Nippon Television, Doraemon remained fairly exclusive in manga from until 1979 when a newly formed animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation ( Now owned by TV Asahi ) produced an anime series of Doraemon.

* ( Zai ) Nippon Taiko Renmei.

The name Nippon came into use only many centuries after the start of the current imperial line.

The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems.

* Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkōkai.

The Manyōshū: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems.

The Manyōshū: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems.

* 1966 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, owned by the government until 1985, had dominated the communications industry until April 1985 BC., when new common carriers, including Daini Denden, were permitted to enter the field.

In 1905 he founded the Nippon Club, which was for many years located at 161 West 93rd Street in Manhattan.

The Royals hired Trey Hillman, formerly the manager of the Nippon Ham Fighters and a minor league manager with the New York Yankees, to be the 15th manager in franchise history.

Currently, many major oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Nippon Oil, and Murphy Oil are involved in such contracts.

It was established in 1988 by the initiative of Hiroshi Yasuda ( Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ) and Leonardo Chiariglione, group Chair since its inception.

Miyazaki left Toei in 1971 for Mushi Production, A Pro, Nippon Animation, and TMS Entertainment where he co-directed six episodes of the first Lupin III series with Isao Takahata.

Miyazaki then left Nippon Animation in 1979 in the middle of the production of Anne of Green Gables to direct his first feature anime The Castle of Cagliostro ( 1979 ), a Lupin III adventure film.

* 2005 – Boeing formally launches the stretched Boeing 747-8 variant with orders from Cargolux and Nippon Cargo Airlines.