`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

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.

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.

Tungusic – Korean – Japanese (" Macro-Tungusic "), with Turkic and Mongolic as separate language families.

However, the idea that electrons might revolve around a compact nucleus with definite angular momentum was convincingly argued at least 19 years earlier by Niels Bohr, and the Japanese physicist Hantaro Nagaoka published an orbit-based hypothesis for electronic behavior as early as 1904.

In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

Recent research suggests that the historical Ainu culture originated in a merger of the Okhotsk culture with the Satsumon, one of the ancient archaeological cultures that are considered to have derived from the Jōmon period cultures of the Japanese Archipelago.

Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

Haplogroup M7a has been found elsewhere mainly among Japanese and Ryukyuans, and with lower frequency among Udegeys, Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Taiwanese aborigines, Buryats, Central Asians, and Waars of the Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India.

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

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

The unwieldy nature of the Japanese kana with its inability to accurately represent terminal consonants has contributed to the degradation of the original Ainu.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

* 1981 – The U. S. Navy nuclear submarine accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

* Japanese Americans-Japanese cuisine, with influences on the Hawaiian cuisine

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.

Akio Morita ( 盛田 昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921, Nagoya, Aichi – October 3, 1999, Tokyo ) was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.

Modern kimono fabric is woven as wide as 42 centimeters ( 17 inches ) to accommodate modern Japanese body sizes.

Unlike traditional Japanese raku, which is mainly hand built bowls of modest design, western raku tends to be vibrant in color, and comes in many shapes and sizes.

Origami paper, often referred to as " kami " ( Japanese for paper ), is sold in prepackaged squares of various sizes ranging from 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) to 25 cm ( 10 in ) or more.

Chinese chestnut pellicles are usually easy to remove, and their sizes vary greatly according to the varieties, although usually smaller than the Japanese chestnut.

Designers working on products intended for North America had more freedom with exterior dimensions and engine sizes in relation to Japanese counterparts, where those criteria were dictated by Japanese government regulations.

The taiko is a Japanese drum that comes in various sizes and is used to play a variety of musical genres.

Mato sizes and shooting distances vary, but most common is hoshi mato thirty-six centimeters ( or 12 sun, a traditional Japanese measurement equivalent to approximately 3. 03 cm ) in diameter shot at from a distance of twenty-eight meters.

This support has now been extended to all of the World's major Chess variants: xiangqi ( Chinese Chess ), shogi ( Japanese Chess ), makruk ( Thai Chess ) and many Western variants on boards of deviating sizes ( e. g. Capablanca Chess ).

Early Japanese used bows of various sizes but the majority were short with a center grip.

Such trends toward standardization has not affected the Japanese firm Nichimo, which still produces fit-in-the-box sizes from old molds, and 1: 450 size models.

The Japanese EIAJ standard includes five different sizes, with each supporting a specified range of voltages.

In traditional Japanese construction, room sizes were often determined by combinations of standard rice mats called tatami ; the standard dimension of a mat was around 3 feet by 6 feet, which approximate the overall proportions of a reclining human figure.

The sizes within the second category ( Taiwanese / Japanese / American tiles ) have lengths that vary roughly between 3 cm ( 1-5 / 32 ") and 2. 5 cm ( 1 ").

, Yoshimatsu has presented five symphonies, 11 concertos: one each for bassoon, cello, guitar, trombone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, chamber orchestra, traditional Japanese instruments, and two for piano ( one for the left hand only and one for both hands ), a number of sonatas, and various shorter pieces for ensembles of various sizes.

These are Japanese style chests, often with a mix of compartments behind sliding doors and drawers of varying sizes.

Although Japanese manga tankobon may be in various sizes, the most common are Japanese B6 ( 12. 8 × 18. 2 cm, 5. 04 " × 7. 17 ") and ISO A5 ( 14. 8 × 21. 0 cm, 5. 83 " × 8. 2 ").

For most generations there were two engine sizes available: one smaller version, to suit Japanese domestic regulations, of either 550 or 660 cc, and a bigger-engined version for export markets.

These bikes were available in a variety of sizes from 350cc to 1200cc from all four of the Japanese manufacturers, and begining in 1976 served as the basis for production-based race bikes in the American Motorcycle Association ( AMA ) Superbike Series.

To accommodate different fishing styles and nets, the Japanese experimented with many different sizes and shapes of floats, ranging from 2 to in diameter.

In the beginning the program was exclusively an academic year program for Japanese ; however, as it became apparent that this resulted in smaller class sizes, the administration expanded the program to allow students to choose to stay for only a semester.

Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters often contain many strokes which are difficult to render distinctly at small sizes.

A is a traditional Japanese toy which consists of two wooden cups of different sizes placed on the center of a wooden spike and smaller cup with a ball connected by a string.