A 2002 press release about the origins of the modern game makes no mention of the original version: Othello was invented by Japanese game enthusiast, Goro Hasegawa in 1971.

Some Japanese practices have origins either directly or indirectly rooted in Shinto.

This is largely due to more than a century of foreign colonial occupation, bringing in Spanish, German, Japanese, Chamorro, Filipino, American, Australian, other western Europeans, and it being home to the capital of the national government, which employs hundreds of people from the other three FSM States ( Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae ) having distinct ethnic and cultural origins.

Up to around World War II, fortune cookies were known as " fortune tea cakes " -- likely reflecting their origins in Japanese tea cakes.

The origins of the word prefecture date from 15th century Portuguese contact with Japan, whereby the word prefeitura was used to very roughly describe Japanese fiefdoms, in Portuguese the original meaning was more analogous to municipalities than provinces.

The origins of some of the techniques studied in the Bujinkan are unclear ; however, some techniques are from the recognized Japanese martial arts traditions that comprise the system.

Hinamatsuri traces its origins to an ancient Japanese custom called, in which straw hina dolls are set afloat on a boat and sent down a river to the sea, supposedly taking troubles or bad spirits with them.

The foundation myths of the origins of Japanese civilization extend back to periods now regarded as part of the Jōmon period, though they show little or no relation to what we know of Jōmon culture.

Through The Twenty Years ' Crisis was published just months before World War II began, the Japanese historian Saho Matusumoto wrote that in a sense, Carr's book began the debate on the origins of World War II.

The origins of TSL developed from Japanese Sign Language during Japanese rule.

The origins of the Jōmon and Yayoi peoples have often been a subject of dispute, and the recent Japanese publisher has divided the potential routes of the people living on the Japanese archipelago as follows:

However further studies need to be conducted to infer about relationships between the Jomon Japanese and their genetic relationships to other East Asian ethnic groups to better understand the origins of the Japanese people.

Gendai budō often have origins in koryū, or the traditional Japanese martial arts.

Despite his success and previous military record, Kuroki was one of two senior field commanders denied promotion to Field Marshal, thought to be largely because of his Satsuma origins at a time when the government was dominated by Chōshū rivals although this may have been due to the internal politics within the Japanese Imperial Army of the time.

The airport was built in 1936 with its origins as a Japanese military airbase, the Matsuyama Airdrome, during Japanese rule.

The Japanese word for Britain has its origins in the Portuguese word for English: Inglês became Igirisu.

Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.

Like the majority of Japanese conglomerate, or zaibatsu, its origins were in Osaka, but today operates out of Tokyo.

has origins in the Meiji period, but most Japanese scholars consider the Taishō period to be the actual starting point of ryūkōka, as it is the era in which the genre first gained nationwide popularity.

Actually, the origins of this bathing establishment go back to the Middle Ages when it was known as the Bagno della Crociata ( so named either after a Crusader who supposedly discovered the spring or from a corruption of the Italian word for crutch ).

Its origins are said to date back to 1653 when a lord of the Matsumae clan was healed of an incurable illness by bathing in its waters.

Her Latin origins and culture however led to creeping resentment from her Greek subjects ( who felt insulted enough by the late Manuel's Western tastes, let alone being ruled by his Western wife ), building up to an explosion of rioting that almost became a full civil war.

Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins.

This was despite noticeable tensions between East Cambridge, Cambridgeport, and Old Cambridge that stemmed from differences in in each area's culture, sources of income, and the national origins of the residents.

He then embarks on a discussion of the origins of Greek culture and technology, arguing that most of the important figures in the Greek world were foreigners, and ( erroneously ) that Jewish culture was the most significant influence on Greece.

The film, Last Paradise, was launched in 2012 as an " original footage " history of extreme sports culture and adventure travel over 45 years, including the origins of extreme surfing, skiing, snowboarding, wakeboarding, windsurfing, hang gliding and kiteboarding, to the first commercialization of bungee jumping by A. J. Hackett, and his famed jump from the Eiffel Tower.

From the Renaissance to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy and pompous descriptions of their family origins, career, virtues and immediate family, often in Latin.

* Human evolution ( origins of society and culture )

The modern restaurant has its origins in French culture.

Genesis is perhaps best seen as an example of " antiquarian history ", a type of literature telling of the first appearance of humans, the stories of ancestors and heroes, and the origins of culture, cities and so forth.

Humayun's return from Persia, accompanied by a large retinue of Persian noblemen, signaled an important change in Mughal court culture, as the Central Asian origins of the dynasty were largely overshadowed by the influences of Persian art, architecture, language and literature and also there are many stone carved and Persian language In India from the time of Humayun also thousands of Persian manuscript in India.

The origins of New York's punk rock scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered on the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed.

The quest for the origins of Vedic culture: the Indo-Aryan migration debate.

None, other than culture and heritage oriented organizations, are currently considered as a form of rapprochement among the countries with Slavic origins.

In Britain, where post-war prosperity was more limited, rock and roll culture became attached pre-existing to the Teddy Boy movement, largely working class in origins, and eventually to the longer lasting rockers.

Most published work looks at the origins, growth, diverse typologies, culture, and politics of suburbs, as well as to the gendered and family-oriented nature of suburban space.

His research foci have included the evolution and fate of the European Neandertals, the role of culture in early hominid evolution, the nature and explanation of allometry, robust australopithecine evolution, the distribution and explanation of sexual dimorphism, hominid origins, the pattern and explanation of Australasian hominid evolution, the contributions and role of genetics in paleoanthropological research, and the taxonomy of the genus Homo.

The earliest Neolithic farming technology of northern Europe, the so-called LBK culture, reached the east of Belgium at its furthest northwesterly stretch from its origins in southeast Europe.

Rule by fiefdoms and aristocracy was widely replaced by national ideologies based on shared origins and culture.

From the late-1990s, the field has expanded to explore such wide-ranging topics as the origins and rate of change of political institutions, and the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes and developments.

Many fragments are interested in the origins of the music and culture of Greece.

Material culture, chronology and the origins of the Bronze Age in Cyprus " in American Journal of archaeology 103, 1999, 3-43.

* George McKay ( 2004 ) '" Unsafe things like youth and jazz ": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals ( 1956 – 61 ) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain '.

* Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose debut novel Unburnable gives a slice of social history of the Caribbean, focusing on the African origins of Caribbean culture.

International immigration transformed the local culture from Spanish origins and Amerindian origins.