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  2. Tsuru no Ongaeshi - Wikipedia

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    Tsuru no Ongaeshi (鶴の恩返し, lit. "Crane's Return of a Favor") is a story from Japanese folklore about a crane who returns a favor to a man. A variant of the story where a man marries the crane that returns the favor is known as Tsuru Nyōbō (鶴女房, "Crane Wife") . According to Japanese scholar Seki Keigo, the story is "one of the ...

  3. Marriage in Japan - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2010 census, 58.9% of Japan's adult population is married, 13.9% of women and 3.1% of men are widowed, and 5.9% of women and 3.8% of men are divorced. [31] The annual number of marriages has dropped since the early 1970s, while divorces have shown a general upward trend.

  4. Japanese folktales - Wikipedia

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    Japanese folktales are an important cultural aspect of Japan. In commonplace usage, they signify a certain set of well-known classic tales, with a vague distinction of whether they fit the rigorous definition of "folktale" or not among various types of folklore. The admixed impostors are literate written pieces, dating back to the Muromachi ...

  5. Kitsune - Wikipedia

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    Kitsune. A nine-tailed fox spirit ( kyūbi no kitsune) scaring Prince Hanzoku; print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Edo period, 19th century. In Japanese folklore, kitsune ( 狐, きつね, IPA: [kʲi̥t͡sɯne̞] ⓘ) are foxes that possess paranormal abilities that increase as they get older and wiser. According to folklore, the kitsune -foxes (or ...

  6. Civil Liberties Act of 1988 - Wikipedia

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    The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 ( Pub. L. 100–383, title I, August 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 904, 50a U.S.C. § 1989b et seq.) is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during World War II and to "discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and ...

  7. Tsunokakushi - Wikipedia

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    The Tsunokakushi ( 角隠し) is a type of traditional headdress worn by brides in Shinto wedding ceremonies in Japan. This is made from a rectangular piece of cloth folded and worn to partially cover bride's hair (in modern days, often a wig ), worn in the traditionally-styled bunkin takashimada (文金高島田). The tsunokakushi is typically ...