Umami is a loanword from the Japanese meaning " pleasant savory taste ".

Dashi and Umami: The Heart of Japanese Cuisine.

* Society for Research on Umami Taste

Umami is the taste of glutamates, especially monosodium glutamate or MSG.

Umami, a savory taste, is one of the five basic tastes, together with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty.

Umami is umami in most major languages, including English, Spanish and French.

Umami has a mild but lasting aftertaste difficult to describe.

Murat's album with his " San Francisco / Miami Impressions " was recorded in Miami, Florida and was published in 2005 as Automaton² ( Automaton Squared ) followed by " Binfen 2005 Remix ", " Electric Levantine " ( 2006 ), " Umami " ( 2007 ) and " Beside the Sun " ( 2010 ).

Finally in 1985, at the first Umami International Symposium in Hawaii, the term umami was officially recognized as the scientific term to describe the taste of glutamates and nucleotides.

Umami clearly enhances the palatability of a wide variety of foods.

Umami was not properly identified until 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, a professor of the Tokyo Imperial University.

* Flavor Chemistry: Thirty Years of Progress By Roy Teranishi, Emily L. Wick, Irwin Hornstein ; Article: Umami and Food Palatability, by Shizuko Yamaguchi and Kumiko Ninomiya.

* Umami, or savoriness, a type of taste.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Its bulk quality is behind one of the latest fad diets in Asia, the kanten ( the Japanese word for agar-agar ) diet.

For example, the kanji word ' Tōkyō ( 東京 ), the Japanese name of Tokyo can be sorted as if it were spelled out in the Japanese characters of the hiragana syllabary as " to-u-ki -< sub > yo </ sub >- u " ( とうきょう ), using the conventional sorting order for these characters.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

Manga is the Japanese word for comic and print cartoons.

There are two Japanese words equivalent to the English word " emperor ": tennō ( 天皇, lit.

In the Japanese language, the word tennō is restricted to Japan's own monarch ; kōtei ( 皇帝 ) is used for foreign emperors.

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.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this would-be emperor may be identified as " Kōgon, the second ", or as " Kōgon II.

The Japanese word " go " has also been translated to mean the " second one ;" and in some older sources, this would-be emperor may be identified as " En ' yū, the second ", or as " En ' yū II.

The latter method is more common, especially since some words in Japanese have unique pronunciations ( jukujikun ) that are not related to readings of any of the characters the word is written with.

In works aimed at adult Japanese speakers, furigana may be used on a word written in uncommon kanji ; in the mass media, they are generally used on words containing non-Jōyō kanji.

One might write the kanji for " blue ", but use katakana to write the pronunciation of the English word " blue "; this may be done, for example, in Japanese subtitles on foreign films, where it can help associate the written Japanese with the sounds actually being spoken by the actors, or it may be used in a translation of a work of fiction to enable the translator to preserve the original sound of a proper name ( such as " Firebolt " in the Harry Potter series ) in furigana, while simultaneously indicating its meaning with kanji.

Similarly, in the Japanese language the word ' to occur ' happens to be okoru ( 起こる ).

The principal types of graphemes are logograms, which represent words or morphemes ( for example, Chinese characters, or the ampersand & representing the English word and ; also Arabic numerals ); syllabic characters, representing syllables ( as in Japanese kana ); and alphabetic letters, corresponding roughly to phonemes ( see next section ).

Thus, the word " haibun ", though counted as two syllables in English, is counted as four on in Japanese ( ha-i-bu-n ); and the word " on " itself, which English-speakers would view as a single syllable, comprises two on: the short vowel o and the moraic nasal

is a Japanese word that, in the West, is used when referring to sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly those of Japanese origin such as anime, manga, and eroge.

When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

I was told that it is quite likely that Japanese soldiers would not fight again -- for why should they??

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

But the greater reason for fumbling, stumbling American leadership is due to the shock her pride suffered when the Japanese attacked at Pearl Harbor.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

Micro-Altaic includes about 66 living languages, to which Macro-Altaic would add Korean, Japanese, and the Ryukyuan languages for a total of about 74.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

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.

Shortly after Thomson's discovery, Hantaro Nagaoka, a Japanese physicist, predicted a different model for electronic structure.

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

The island of Hokkaido was known to the Ainu as Ainu Moshir, and was formally annexed by the Japanese at the late date of 1868, partly as a means of preventing the intrusion of the Russians, and partly for imperialist reasons.

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