* Adenosine Tri-Phosphate ( band ), a Japanese alternative rock / pop band

* Ark ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel album ), by the Japanese rock band L ' Arc-en-Ciel

* Cell ( album ), an album by the Japanese rock group Plastic Tree

* Eu Phoria, an active Japanese all girl pop / rock band formed in 2002

The Japanese music group ALI Project created the song " Gesshoku Grand Guignol " as the opening for the Bee-Train anime Avenger, while British rock band Duels also named an instrumental track after the theater.

Since then, Japanese noise rock group Boredoms have borrowed elements of grind, and toured with Brutal Truth in 1993.

* Lands ( band ), Japanese rock band

* Leda, guitarist in Japanese rock band DELUHI.

* 1950 – Reichi Nakaido, Japanese rock guitarist

By the early 20th century Rock-paper-scissors had spread beyond Asia, especially through increased Japanese contact with the west. Its English-language name is therefore taken from a translation of the names of the three Japanese hand-gestures for rock, paper and scissors: elsewhere in Asia the open-palm gesture represents " cloth " rather than " paper ".

* Japanese rock garden

* SA ( Samurai Attack ), a Japanese punk rock band

* Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock band

* January 27 – Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer ( Flipper's Guitar )

* January 29 – hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist

* February 16 – Kyo, Japanese rock musician ( Dir en grey )

* Raphael ( band ), a former Japanese rock band, active from 1997 – 2001

The Japanese rock band Balzac is also named in his honor.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

* Japanese — Közi often wore a Pierrot costume while a member of the visual rock band Malice Mizer ( 1992 – 2001 ); Pierrot was a rock band active from 1994 to 2006.

* Alice in Wonderland ( Alice Nine album ), album by Japanese rock band Alice Nine

* " Circus ", a 1996 single by Japanese rock singer Tomoyasu Hotei

* Pantomime ( album ), debut album of Japanese rock band the pillows ; or a same named song in that album

* " Ark ", a song by the Japanese band Sound Horizon

* Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band

* Abingdon Boys School, Japanese music band

Bo Diddley touring Japan with Japanese band Bo Gumbos.

* Wadaiko Makoto Japanese / french Taiko band

Rock band Kagrra, are well known for using traditional Japanese musical instruments in many of their songs, an example being " Utakata " ( うたかた ), a song in which the koto has a prominent place.

* " Madrigal ", a song by Japanese band Malice Mizer, from the album Voyage ~ Sans Retour ~

* NYC ( band ), a 2010 Japanese boy band

* 1983 – Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese boy band singer ( KAT-TUN )

* Prism ( Japanese band ), a jazz fusion band

* Solid State Survivor, a 1979 album by the Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra

* Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō

:* X X X, a 2011 single by Japanese band L ' Arc en Ciel

* Ai ( singer ) ( born 1981 ), Japanese R & B singer

B. thuringiensis was first discovered in 1901 by Japanese biologist Shigetane Ishiwatari.

* " Ring " ( song ), by Japanese duo B ' z

* 1964 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer-songwriter ( B ' z )

* September 23 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer ( B ' z )

* March 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist ( B ' z )

In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki ōbun inji-ki ( 九七式欧文印字機 ) (" System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters ") or Angōki Taipu-B ( 暗号機 タイプB ) (" Type B Cipher Machine "), codenamed Purple by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during World War II.

One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later ; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed ( Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun ).

Birches, both Siberian silver birch ( Betula platyphylla ) and Erman's birch ( B. ermanii ), poplar, elm, Bird cherry ( Prunus padus ), Japanese yew ( Taxus cuspidata ) and several willows are mixed with the conifers ; while farther south the maple, rowan and oak, as also the Japanese Panax ricinifolium, the Amur cork tree ( Phellodendron amurense ), the Spindle ( Euonymus macropterus ) and the vine ( Vitis thunbergii ) make their appearance.

* 1998-- Mars-Failure-Nozomi ( Planet B ) orbiter, the first Japanese spacecraft to reach another planet

* Popular music including " Mr. Sandman " popularized by the Chordettes, " The Japanese Sandman " ( 1920 ) by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, " Sandman " by America ( band ), " In Dreams " by Roy Orbison, " Enter Sandman " by Metallica, and " Mr. Sandman " from the album Tical by Method Man.

* B ' z, a Japanese musical group

In the 1990s, Japanese rock musicians such as B ' z, Mr. Children, Glay, Southern All Stars, L ' Arc-en-Ciel, Tube, Spitz, Wands, T-Bolan, Judy and Mary, Asian Kung – Fu Generation, Field of View, Deen, Ulfuls, Lindberg, Sharam Q, The Yellow Monkey, The Brilliant Green and Dragon Ash achieved great commercial success.

B ' z is the # 1 best selling act in Japanese music since Oricon started to count., followed by Mr. Children.

They brought a western flavor to Japanese music and helped to turn rap music mainstream, with a mixture of reggae, rap, metal, punk, Spanish, and R & B influences.

During World War II the Mineta family was interned for several years at " Area 24, 7th Barrack, Unit B " in the Heart Mountain internment camp near Cody, Wyoming, along with thousands of other Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans.

Danzig became an avid collector of occult books, horror related articles, B movie posters, Japanese animation videos, rare Japanese toys, and animal skulls.

* " The Japanese Sandman " w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting

To minimize the frequent side effects caused by the pertussis component of the vaccine, the Japanese scientist Yuji Sato developed an acellular pertussis vaccine consisting of purified haemagglutinins ( HAs: filamentous strep throat and leucocytosis-promoting-factor HA ), which are secreted by B. pertussis into the culture medium.

showed that Japanese belongs to various human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups — A, B, C, D, F, G, M, N and Z, a 2008 study by Bilal et al.

In another study, the mtDNA of a sample of 100 modern Japanese individuals from Miyazaki Prefecture of eastern Kyushu was tested and assigned to the following haplogroups: 30 % D ( 25 / 100 D4, 5 / 100 D5 ), 22 % M7 ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 5 / 100 M7b2, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )), 12 % A ( 4 / 100 A4, 4 / 100 A5, 4 / 100 A ( xA4, A5 )), 9 % B ( 3 / 100 B4b1a1, 2 / 100 B4a, 2 / 100 B4 ( xB4a, B4b1 ), 2 / 100 B5b ), 6 % F, 6 % G, 6 % N9, 2 % M *, 2 % M8 ( xCZ ), 1 % C, 1 % M9a, 1 % M10, 1 % M11, and 1 % Other.

* The Imperial Japanese Mission to the United States, 1917, Appendix B.