English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.

As with Japanese suburban railways or Germany's and Switzerland's S-Bahns, these Australian networks have far more frequent services and far higher ridership per capita than US ' commuter rail ' in the usual sense of the term.

In the original Japanese version, these three ( along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations ) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs.

Napier goes on to point out that many Japanese commentators refer to anime with the term " mukokuseki ", meaning " stateless ".

; Ma: A Japanese term that can mean " interval " or " space " ( i. e., 「 あ 」 という間 ; the space it takes to say ' あ '; compare " in the blink of an eye ").

For instance, the Indonesian language uses the Dutch term kaisar exclusively for foreign emperors such as the Japanese, but never for local rulers.

Japanese monarchs placed themselves from 607 on equal footing with Chinese emperors in titulary terms, but rarely was the Chinese-style " Son of Heaven " term used.

At first, consideration was given to simply rebranding all stations as Enco, but that was shelved when it was learned that the word " Enco " is similar in pronunciation to a Japanese term for " stalled car.

:" Keitai " is also the Japanese term for mobile / cell phones but is written with different kanji.

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 ).

" In Taiwan, the term 母國 ( literally " motherland ") is also used, though that may be due to Japanese or Western influence.

In the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Japanese languages, the term was translated by Kumārajīva and others as " small vehicle " ( 小 meaning " small ", 乘 meaning " vehicle "), although earlier and more accurate translations of the term also exist.

The English use of hentai is more similar to the way the Japanese use the slang term エッチ ( H or ecchi ), which refers to any sexually explicit content or behaviour.

The Japanese seldom use the term hentai to refer to pornography in Japan.

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

" The term has also been applied to the attitude of the Japanese and American nuclear industries.

In the English-speaking world, examples include the word ‘ bazinga ’ from the CBS show The Big Bang Theory and, in Japanese, the term moe has come into common use among slang users to mean something extremely cute and appealing.

To put it another way, the people who are dedicated to making these kinds of foods may not be referred to as an itamae, the term for a Japanese cuisine chef.

When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.

The term kickboxing ( キックボクシング ) itself was introduced in the 1960s as a Japanese anglicism by Japanese boxing promoter Osamu Noguchi for a hybrid martial art combining Muay Thai and karate which he had introduced in 1958.

The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period ( 14th-15th century ).

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

However, in a 1791 Japanese wood-block illustration, a specifically dream-destroying baku is depicted with an elephant ’ s head, tusks, and trunk, with horns and tiger ’ s claws.

The elephant ’ s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era ( pre-Meiji ) Japanese wood-block prints ( see illustration ) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

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.

Since then, the standard set of languages included in Altaic has comprised Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese.

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.

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

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

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Since the 20th century, another source of words has been Japanese using existing kanji ( Chinese characters used in Japanese ).

In the late 20th and early 21 century in Thailand, for example, there has been a cultural shift away from western social and political values more toward Japanese and Chinese.

Since the introduction of the comic book format in 1933 with the publication of Famous Funnies, the United States has produced the most titles, along with British comics and Japanese manga, in terms of quantity of titles.

This has resulted in a number of forms of fusion cuisine, often very popular in the country in question, and some of these, such as ramen ( Japanese Chinese ) have become popular internationally.

Researchers have also identified another genetic variant, HLA-A * 3101 which has been shown to be a strong predictor of both mild and severe adverse reactions to carbamazepine among Japanese and Europeans.

Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music, though some of the more serious Japanese musicians used large computer systems such as the Fairlight in the 1970s.

Nuclear warfare has only occurred once with the United States bombing the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

" The Foreign Ministry action confirms that Doraemon has come to be considered a Japanese cultural icon.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

* 1991: Niijima Floats, six-foot spheres of intricate color inspired by Japanese glass fishing floats from the island of NiijimaNiijima Chihuly. com from Chihuly's website * 1992: Chandeliers, starting modestly but by the middle of the decade involving a ton of glass orbs and shapes that in some works look like flowers, others like breasts, and still others like snakes Chihuly has also produced a sizable volume of " Irish cylinders ", photo from lakeview-museum. orgwhich are more modest in conception than his blown glass works.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Although the emperor has been a symbol of continuity with the past, the degree of power exercised by the emperor of Japan has varied considerably throughout Japanese history.