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Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas") [6] like recipes, home, style, motivation, and inspiration on the internet using images and, on a smaller scale, animated GIFs and videos, [7] in the form of pinboards. [8]
Jōhatsu ( Japanese: 蒸発, Hepburn: jōhatsu, lit. "evaporation") or jouhatsu refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. [1] This phenomenon can be seen all over the world, such as the United States, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Germany. [1] [2] However, it is likely more ...
NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen ( Japanese: NHK紅白歌合戦, Hepburn: Enu Eichi Kei Kōhaku Uta Gassen, "NHK Red and White Song Battle" [1]), more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. It is broadcast live simultaneously on television and radio, nationally and ...
Japanese architecture. Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, originally built in 1397 ( Muromachi period) Japanese architecture (日本建築, Nihon kenchiku) has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors ( fusuma) and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the ...
The majority of Koreans in Japan are Zainichi Koreans (在日韓国・朝鮮人, Zainichi Kankoku/Chōsenjin), often known simply as Zainichi (在日, lit. 'in Japan'), who are ethnic Korean permanent residents of Japan. The term Zainichi Korean refers only to long-term Korean residents of Japan who trace their roots to Korea under Japanese ...
Demographics of Japan. Japanese birth and death rates since 1950. The drop in 1966 was due to it being a "hinoe uma" year which is viewed as a bad omen by the Japanese Zodiac. [4] The demographics of Japan include birth and death rates, age distribution, population density, ethnicity, education level, healthcare system of the populace, economic ...
In modern Japanese, katakana is most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages or loanwords (other than words historically imported from Chinese), called gairaigo. [5] For example, "ice cream" is written アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu). Similarly, katakana is usually used for country names, foreign places, and foreign ...
The oral languages spoken by the native peoples of the insular country of Japan at present and during recorded history belong to either of two primary phyla of human language : Japonic languages. Japanese language (See also Japanese dialects ) Hachijō Japanese. Eastern Japanese. Western Japanese. Kyūshū Japanese.