is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki.

Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as well as the first brand of guitars to mass produce the seven-string guitar and eight-string guitar.

is a Japanese motorcycle and automobile brand.

The Mitsubishi Group ( 三菱グループ, Mitsubishi Gurūpu ) ( also known as the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or Mitsubishi Companies ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate comprising a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy.

) is the most popular brand of Japanese mayonnaise, advertised with a Kewpie doll logo.

Panasonic ( パナソニック Panasonikku ) is the principal brand name of the Japanese electronics manufacturer Panasonic Corporation.

* Pianissimo Peche, a brand of Japanese cigarettes made by Japan Tobacco.

Acura holds the distinction of being the first Japanese automotive luxury brand.

Acura was the first Japanese luxury brand, introduced under the slogan, " Acura.

World War II fragmented the ownership of the name still further, as RCA Victor's Japanese subsidiary The Victor Company of Japan ( JVC ) became independent, and today they still use the " Victor " brand and Nipper in Japan only.

Music Japan is shown each week with brand new Japanese pop, and rock acts.

The Saturn Corporation was an automobile manufacturer and brand, established on January 7, 1985 as a subsidiary of General Motors in response to the success of Japanese automobile imports in the United States.

Signed on 27 March 1999, the Renault – Nissan Alliance is the first of its kind involving a Japanese and a French company, each with its own distinct corporate culture and brand identity, linked through cross-shareholding.

A fight between Fedor Emelianenko and Mark Coleman in the Japanese, ring-based Pride Fighting Championships | Pride organization. On March 27, 2007, the UFC and their Japan-based rival the Pride Fighting Championships announced an agreement in which the majority owners of the UFC, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, would purchase the Pride brand.

* Mikado, the European brand name for Pocky, a Japanese chocolate-covered breadstick

Perhaps more significantly for the Japanese brand of this sect, Dōgen among others advocated the reinterpretation that the " Cao " represents not Caoshan, but rather " Huineng of Caoxi temple " ; zh: 曹溪慧能 ).

In 1973, the Western Carl Zeiss AG entered into a licensing agreement with the Japanese camera company Yashica to produce a series of high-quality 35 mm film cameras and lenses bearing the Contax and Zeiss brand names.

The game bore the Zaxxon brand only in the United States, as the Japanese version was named Parasquad and the European version was named Motherbase.

The Japanese brands soon took over major parts of the European Boombox market and were often the first Japanese consumer electronics brand that a European household might purchase.

Dungeon Master Nexus was released 1998 for Sega Saturn and only the Japanese market under the FTL and Software Heaven brand.

Kewpie Corporation is a Japanese food manufacturer, famous for its popular brand of Japanese mayonnaise sold in plastic squeeze bottles with a Kewpie doll logo.

By the late 1970s Ampex faced tough competition from Studer and Japanese manufacturers such as Otari and Sony ( who also purchased the MCI brand in 1982.

* Shinshō, Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon sect

When he later founded the Japanese Tendai sect, esoteric practices were integrated with the larger Tendai teachings, but Tendai is not an exclusively esoteric sect.

* 1994: The Japanese religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released an impure form of sarin in Matsumoto, Nagano.

Nam-Myōhō-Renge-Kyō is called the Daimoku ( 題目: " the prayer of the Nichiren sect "), since it comprises Nam and the Japanese title of the Lotus Sutra, Myōhō-Renge-Kyō.

The Japanese Zen sect known as the Rinzai school is a branch of the lineage Linji founded.

Today, many Japanese adhere to Nishi Honganji-ha, a conservative sect of Jodo Shinshu.

Today the largest form of Buddhism among Japanese people is the Jōdo Shinshū sect founded by Shinran.

While recognized by the Japanese Shingon sect, Eastern Pure Land Buddhism is less popular than Western Pure Land Buddhism.

The, also known as a Dharma doll, is a hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.

When Korea was liberated from Japanese occupation in 1945, the celibate monastics of what has become the main sect of Korean Buddhism, Jogye Order, began to take over for the married priests who ran the temples during the occupation.

This period saw the introduction of the two schools that had perhaps the greatest impact on the country: ( 1 ) the Amidist Pure Land schools, promulgated by evangelists such as Genshin and articulated by monks such as Hōnen, which emphasize salvation through faith in Amitabha and remain the largest Buddhist sect in Japan ( and throughout Asia ); and ( 2 ) the more philosophical Zen schools, promulgated by monks such as Eisai and Dogen, which emphasize liberation through the insight of meditation, which were equally rapidly adopted by the upper classes and had a profound impact on Japanese culture.

Oomoto ( 大本 Ōmoto, literally " Great Source " or " Great Origin ") also known as Oomoto-kyo ( 大本教 Ōmoto-kyō ), is a sect, often categorised as a new Japanese religion originated from Shinto ; it was founded in 1892 by Deguchi Nao ( 1836 – 1918 ).

Enryaku-ji is the headquarters of the Tendai sect and one of the most significant monasteries in Japanese history.

It was written by a Japanese monk Shogei ( 1341-1420 ), the 7th Patriarchs of the Jodo sect.

As the center of power in Japanese Buddhism shifted away from Nara to Mount Hiei and the Tendai sect, and later when the capital of Japan moved to Kamakura, Tōdai-ji's role in maintaining authority declined as well.

The is a Japanese grouping of Buddhist deities, particularly in the Shingon sect of Buddhism.

The town is known as the headquarters of the Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

三論宗 ), or " Three Treatise " school, known as Sanron in Japanese Buddhism although modern scholars think them not an independent sect.

Kōya is primarily known as the world headquarters of the Kōyasan Shingon sect of Japanese Buddhism.

* Wanfu Temple ( home of Yinyuan Longqi, founder of the Japanese Ōbaku Zen sect )

It is the head temple of the Japanese Ōbaku Zen sect, named after Wanfu Temple in Fujian, China.

In 1654 after multiple requests he succeeded in persuading Yinyuan Longqi ( Ingen Ryuki ), the 33rd abbot of Wanfu Temple ( Mount Huangbo, Fujian ) to emigrate to Japan, where he founded Ōbaku, the third and final major Japanese Zen sect.