| Taiko {{nihongo|Taiko|[means "drum]" in [[Japanese language|Japanese (etymologically "great" or "wide drum"). 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). Taiko
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| Equal temperament Equal temperament is a musical temperament, or a system of tuning in which every pair of adjacent notes has an identical frequency ratio. In equal temperament tunings an interval — usually the octave — is divided into a series of equal steps (equal frequency ratios). Equal_temperament
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| Gradius is a horizontally-scrolling shoot 'em up released by Konami in 1985 for video arcades. It was originally released in Europe as Nemesis, and was later rereleased as part of the Gradius Collection and Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits. Gradius
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| Isoroku Yamamoto |placeofbirth=Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan Isoroku_Yamamoto
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| Kamikaze () is a word of Japanese origin, which in English usually refers to the suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied shipping, in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, to destroy as many warships as possible. Kamikaze
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| Korean War Ethiopia Korean_War
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| Katakana is a Japanese] [[syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet. The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji. Katakana
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| Fumimaro Konoe |birth_place =Tokyo, Japan Fumimaro_Konoe
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| Ludwig Wittgenstein Cambridge, United Kingdom | Ludwig_Wittgenstein
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| Shogi or Japanese chess (literally "generals' chess"; in English) is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Unique to the Japanese forms of chess are the drops, moves whereby captured enemy pieces are returned into play as ally pieces. Shogi
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| Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book-length work published by Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. He wrote it as a soldier and a prisoner of war during World War I. Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus
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| Vorbis Discworld characters}} Vorbis
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| Ramen , }} is a Japanese noodle dish that originated in China. It tends to be served in a meat-based broth, and uses toppings such as , , kamaboko, green onions, and even corn. Ramen
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| Typewriter A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a medium, usually paper. For much of the 20th century, typewriters were indispensable tools in business offices and for many professional writers. Typewriter
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| Coelacanth | image = Coelacanth.png Coelacanth
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| Vesak Vesak is an annual holiday observed by practicing Buddhists in many Asian countries like Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, and also Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Vesak
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| Marco Polo Bridge Incident National Revolutionary Army, Republic of China Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
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| Nanking Massacre |s = Nanking_Massacre
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| Nunchaku The nunchaku (Chinese: 雙節棍,双截棍, shuāng jié gùn; 兩節棍,两截棍, liǎng jié gùn "Dual Section Staff"; 二節棍,二截棍 gèr jié gùn "Two Section Staff"; Japanese: ヌンチャク ; 梢子棍, shōshikon "Boatman's staff,"; Korean: 쌍절곤 (ssang jul gon) ; also colloquially called "nunchucks," "chain sticks," "chucks," "nunchukkas,") is a traditional weapon of the Kobudo weapons set and consists of two sticks connected at their ends with a short chain or rope. A sansetsukon is a similar weapon with three sticks attached on chains instead of two. Nunchaku
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| Shintaido Shintaido (新体道), meaning "new body way", is a body movement art emerged from a research on Karatedo and contemporary visual and performing arts, led by Master Hiroyuki Aoki (青木 宏之) in the 1960s. He sought to create a new form of movement that would embody the modern desire for peace, cooperation, and mutual understanding among people of all cultures, rather than to cultivate a competitive fighting art. Shintaido
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| Lu Xun | birthplace = Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China Lu_Xun
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| Goldberg Variations The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, are a set of 30 variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1741 as the fourth in a series Bach called Clavier-Übung, "keyboard practice", the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. Goldberg_Variations
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| Second Sino-Japanese War China1 Soviet Volunteers2 Second_Sino-Japanese_War
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| Ainu language Talk:Ainu_language
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| Burakumin Burakumin (}}: buraku, tribe + min, people), is a term often used to describe a Japanese social minority group. The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō, the Ryukyuans of Okinawa and the residents of Korean and Chinese descent. Burakumin
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| Saitō Dōsan was the epitome of the daimyo that dramatically rose and also fell from power in Sengoku period Japan. He was also known as the for his ruthless tactics. Saitō_Dōsan
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| Life imprisonment Life imprisonment or life incarceration is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, often for most or even all of the criminal's remaining life, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of time (usually 7 to 50 years or forever) a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the possibility of parole after a set amount of time. Life_imprisonment
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| Anglo-Zulu War Welsh Empire Anglo-Zulu_War
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| Yayoi period The is an era in the history of Japan from about 500 BC to 300 AD.Prehistoric Archaeological Periods in Japan, Charles T. Yayoi_period
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| Kantarō Suzuki |birth_place=Izumi Province, Japan Kantarō_Suzuki
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| The Sea of Japan naming dispute Talk:The_Sea_of_Japan_naming_dispute
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| Pictures at an Exhibition Pictures at an Exhibition (, Kartinki s vystavki – Vospominaniye o Viktore Gartmane, "Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann") is a famous suite of ten piano pieces composed by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. Pictures_at_an_Exhibition
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| Ozaki Kōyō (January 10, 1868 - October 30, 1903) was a Japanese author. His real name was Ozaki Tokutaro (尾崎 徳太郎 Ozaki Tokutarō). Ozaki_Kōyō
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| Ohka The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, (櫻花 "cherry blossom", Hebon-shiki transcription Ōka, ) was a purpose-built, rocket powered kamikaze aircraft employed by Japan towards the end of World War II. The United States gave the aircraft the name Baka (Japanese for "idiot"). Ohka
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| Japanese battleship Yamato Yamato (大和), named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was a battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was lead ship of her class. Japanese_battleship_Yamato
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| Attu Island |archipelago = Near Islands group of the Aleutian Islands Attu_Island
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| Haruki Murakami | birthplace = Kyoto, Japan Haruki_Murakami
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| Mona Font Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font for the X Window System, derived from the Shinonome raster font family. It aims to represent Shift_JIS art graphics properly, almost all of which require the MS PGothic font. Mona_Font
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| Well-Tempered Clavier The Well-Tempered Clavier (Das Wohltemperirte Clavier in the original old German spelling)In the German of Bach's time the "Clavier" was a generic name meaning "keyboard instrument," most typically the harpsichord or clavichord — but not excluding the organ, either. Bach's Clavier compositions are now usually played on the piano or harpsichord. Well-Tempered_Clavier
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| Seiyū A is a Japanese vocal actor. Seiyū work in radio, television, and movies; they perform voice-overs for non-Japanese movies; they provide narration; and they work as anime and video game character actors. Seiyū
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| Isao Tomita , is a renowned Japanese electronic music composer. Isao_Tomita
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| Japan–Korea disputes There have been disputes between Japan and Korea (both North and South) on many issues over the years. The two nations have a complex history of cultural exchange, trade, and war, underlying their relations today. Japan–Korea_disputes
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| Date Masamune (September 5, 1567 – June 27, 1636) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through early Edo period. Heir to a long line of powerful daimyo in the Tohoku region, he went on to found the modern-day city of Sendai. Date_Masamune
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| Tokugawa Nariaki Tokugawa Nariaki (徳川 斉昭 Tokugawa Nariaki, April 4, 1800 - September 29, 1860) was a prominent Japanese daimyo who ruled the Mito domain (now Ibaraki prefecture) and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji restoration. Tokugawa_Nariaki
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| JonBenét Ramsey Talk:JonBenét_Ramsey
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| Japanese language and computers In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write English is very small, and thus it is possible to use only one byte to encode one English character. Japanese_language_and_computers
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| Comfort women Talk:Comfort_women
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| Laura Nyro Danbury, Connecticut, United States Laura_Nyro
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| Takuboku Ishikawa was a Japanese poet. He died of tuberculosis on April 13, 1912. Takuboku_Ishikawa
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| Akiko Yosano | birthplace = Sakai, Osaka Japan Akiko_Yosano
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