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.

In is she Chinese or Japanese??

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

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

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

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.

Field Marshal Slim is more impressed by the courage of Japanese soldiers than he is by the ability of their commanders.

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

Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South.

She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

In Japanese, the abacus is called soroban (, lit.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

The use of the soroban is still taught in Japanese primary schools as part of mathematics, primarily as an aid to faster mental calculation.

This organization is used in Southeast Asia, Tibet, Korean hangul, and even Japanese kana, which is not an alphabet.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

However Juhanen ( 1992 ) is skeptical about an affiliation of Japanese to Altaic languages, while Róna-Tas ( 1998: 77 ) remarked that a relationship between Altaic and Japanese, if it ever existed, must be more remote than the relationship of any two of the Indo-European languages.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

Capp is also the subject of an upcoming WNET-TV American Masters documentary, The Life and Times of Al Capp, produced by his granddaughter, independent filmmaker Caitlin Manning.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

David Keith Lynch ( born January 20, 1946 ) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor.

David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC ( born March 15, 1943 ) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor.

Although Morris has achieved fame as a documentary filmmaker, he is also an accomplished director of television commercials.

Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d ' Or awards and is the only filmmaker to win both in the same decade.

Coppola's surviving son, Roman, is a filmmaker and music video director whose filmography includes the feature film CQ and music videos for The Strokes, as well as co-writing two Wes Anderson films, The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom.

Porter is generally thought to be the American filmmaker who experimented with film editing.

If the ideological approach is concerned with broad movements and the effects of the world around the filmmaker, then the auteur theory is diametrically opposed to it, celebrating the individual, usually in the person of the filmmaker, and how his personal decisions, thoughts, and style manifest themselves in the material.

The campaign is the subject of the 2005 documentary Gallipoli by Turkish filmmaker Tolga Örnek showing the bravery and the suffering on both sides through the use of surviving diaries and soldier's letters.

Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

Harry Julius Shearer ( born December 23, 1943 ) is an American actor, humorist, writer, voice artist, musician, author, radio host and filmmaker.

Robert Jonathan Demme ( born February 22, 1944 ) is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

Brazilian filmmaker Renato Falcão's Margarette's Feast ( 2003 ) is silent.

In defense of the film's portrait of warfare, filmmaker Brian De Palma commented, " The level of violence in something like Saving Private Ryan makes sense because Spielberg is trying to show something about the brutality of what happened.

Eisenstein married filmmaker and writer Vera Atasheva ( 1900 – 65 ) in 1934 and remained married until his death in 1948, though there is some speculation about his sexuality.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

Over a decade in the making and developed after a series of discussions Wenders had with French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier, Until the End of the World is Wenders ' most ambitious film.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Adam Carolla ( born May 27, 1964 ) is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor.

Albert Lawrence Brooks ( born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947 ) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Puerto Rican comedian and entrepreneur Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the term chupacabras soon after the first incidents were reported in the press.

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.

* Elliot Rhodes ( Boris Conley ) is a comedian and musician, performing short musical sketches about current events at the end of Friday night episodes of Frontline.

Mr. Newman is listed as a comedian, so it is probable that this version was the first parody of the original Gospel song.

Jerry Lewis ( born March 16, 1926 ) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director.

Jay Scott Greenspan ( born September 23, 1959 ), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian.

Allen Kelsey Grammer ( born February 21, 1955 ) is an American actor and comedian.

Michael Edward Palin, CBE, FRGS ( pronounced ; born 5 May 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.

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Paul Whitehouse ( born 17 May 1958 ) is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian.

He lives in Islington and drives an Audi, is a supporter of English Premiership football team Tottenham Hotspur and has appeared on fellow comedian Phil Cornwell's Spurs Show podcast.

* Felix Dexter is an actor, comedian, and writer.

Actor / comedian Robin Williams revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Zelda Rae is named after the title character in the series.

The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM ( born Ian Brackenbury Channell ; 4 December 1932 ) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.

Jimmy Carr is one of the latest targets of Viz, being lambasted as a sham of a comedian by having photographs of himself posing with employees who have won mundane awards at meaningless corporate events, under the recurrent headline ' Carr for hire '.

* June 9 – In Los Angeles, comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.