At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

* Bon festival – ( Obon Festival ) is a Japanese traditional buddhist custom, evolved into a family reunion holiday.

It also exists in similar forms in several non-Indo-European languages, such as the Uralic family of languages, Altaic family of languages and Japanese ( sometimes considered as Altaic ).

* Kusanagi ( a Japanese sword, one of the three imperial Japanese regalia of the ruling family )

Millennia ago, the Japanese imperial family developed its own peculiar system of hereditary succession.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

* Daigo family, a branch of the Ichijō family of Japanese nobility

** Daigo Fuyumoto ( 1648-1697 ), Japanese court noble who founded the family branch

*, a Japanese kuge family

Since family names are normally written last in European societies ( except in Hungary ), the term last name is commonly used for family name, while in East Asia ( with vertical writing ) the family name may be referred to as upper name ( as in Japanese ).

Aside from the religious aspect, a Japanese funeral usually includes a wake, the cremation of the deceased, and inclusion within the family grave.

Through this, the Fujiwara would gain influence over the next emperor who would, according to Japanese family tradition, owe loyalty his grandfather.

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.

Japanese citizens are recorded in koseki ( family registry ) and jūminhyō ( resident registry ) systems, while foreign residents are only recorded in a separate alien registration system.

The Japanese government describes its relations with Tonga as " excellent ", and states that " the Imperial family of Japan and the Royal family of Tonga have developed a cordial and personal relationship over the years ".

Some East Asian languages, such as Burmese, Korean, and Japanese have simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called ' register ' or ' pitch accent ' systems.

Their attempt to register the word " solicitor " as their trade mark in Japan, however, was thwarted by the Japanese Trade Mark Office rejecting the application on the basis that the word was generic.

" Florin's Japanese and Japanese American residents were forced to " register as families.

The Japanese troops stationed on the island register their residential addresses in Ayase, Kanagawa or Sayama, Saitama for voting, tax, and social security purposes.

* on 17 December 1941, persons of Japanese descent were required to register with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

* In 1942, the old gym ( now named Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, after SJSU judo coach Yosh Uchida ) was used to register and collect Japanese Americans before sending them to internment camps.

By the time Task Force 58 retires, its aircraft have flown a total of 1, 250 combat sorties over the two days of strikes, dropping 400 tons ( 164, 600 kg ) of bombs and torpedoes against shipping and 94 tons ( 85, 276 kg ) of bombs against airfields and shore facilities, sinking two auxiliary cruisers, two destroyers, two submarine tenders, an aircraft ferry, and 23 merchant ships including six tankers and 17 cargo ships totalling 200, 000 gross register tons of shipping, and destroying or damaging 250 to 275 Japanese aircraft, in exchange for the loss of 17 American aircraft in combat and eight to other causes.

" However, the US Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Gordon Hirabayashi, the Japanese American who tested the curfew law and refused to register for the forced internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II.

Although the United States ( for example ) assigns most citizens and residents a social security number intended to be unique to the recipient and information regarding birth, death and work history ( in the form of contributions to the social security system ) is collected, the U. S. social security system has long been intentionally restricted in the scope of information collected and maintained regarding individuals where not directly related to social security benefits — as such, no information is centrally collected regarding marriage, citizenship status, parentage, or the like, in contrast to the German and Japanese family register systems.

Brinkley sought but was refused permission by the British Legation to register his marriage in order that his wife would have undisputed claim to British nationality ( she forfeited her Japanese nationality by marrying him ).

Oshita, who was of Japanese ancestry, lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and specialized in unusual wind instruments, particularly those of especially low register.

The first international game that Japan won was at the 1995 at the Rugby League World Sevens in Brisbane, when they defeated Canada, but Japan was disqualified for fielding what was deemed to be an unregistered player, a claim that was contested by the Japanese officials who offered proof that their application to register the player was declined solely on the grounds of race.

Members memorialize their ancestors ( their names are kept in a death register, or a kakocho, which is kept on their home altars ), but this practice is nearly universal among Japanese Buddhists of all sects.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

The Ainu language has had no system of writing, and has historically been transliterated by the Japanese kana or the Russian Cyrillic.

The caves and bunkers were connected to a vast system throughout central Peleliu, which allowed the Japanese to evacuate or reoccupy positions as needed, and to take advantage of shrinking interior lines.

The Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail system is heavily used by commuters in the Greater Tokyo Area.

The Japanese chafed under the " unequal treaty system " which characterized Asian and western relations during this period.

DeVos and Wagatsuma observe that a systematic and extensive caste system was part of the Japanese society.

In the end, the Fujiwara were destroyed, the old system of government supplanted, and the insei system left powerless as bushi took control of court affairs, marking a turning point in Japanese history.

Category: Japanese writing system terms

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 ).

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin-script alphabet ( referred to in Japanese as romaji ).

The article Japanese writing system discusses in detail how the various systems of writing are used.

Each Japanese syllabic alphabet ( hiragana or katakana, see Kana ) would fit, but like several other alphabets of the world they aren't encoded in the ISO / IEC 8859 system.

It meant that European ( and North American and Japanese ) capitalists were forced by the internal logic of their competitive system to seek abroad in less developed countries opportunities to control raw material, to find markets, and to find profitable fields of investment.

* Japanese addressing system

From July 2012 a new registration system will be enacted: all residents ( both Japanese and resident foreigners ) will be recorded by municipal offices in the jūminhyō system.