In another simple bout, the very last guy on the banzuke, M16 Homasho, who could only muster a 7-8 makekoshi last time, took on veteran M10 Tochinonada. It was as easy as it gets for Homer, who only needed one arm on the inside of Nada to force him out by the uneventful yori...
1851. Beside the signature is the seal shita-uri, “low sale” meaning it was sold “under the counter” due to censorship laws prevalent at the time. This is the very rare first edition with the carver’s seal Hori Take, Yokokawa Takejiro, to the right of the publisher’s seal on ...
Why are the Japanese obsessed with Kit Kat? Marketing campaigns for Kit Kats in Japan have benefited greatly from the coincidental false cognate with “Kitto Katsu“, a phrase meaning “Surely win” in Japanese. Research has shown that the brand is strongly correlated togood luck charms, particu...
a 1,000-year-old cedar tree that is over 12m in circumference. The monolithic tree has twice been struck by lightning and the burn marks from the last strike are still visible. Declared a Nationally Designated Natural Monument, Minamioguni's Konpira-sugi tree is still going strong despite...
The whole vampire thing has a secondary meaning, both that he’s tempted to eat her… and that he wants to screw her brains out, but the author didn’t specifically want to use that sort of language. So it’s up to the reader to interpret it and get her panties wet on her own. ...
glossed as meaning, "a cloud drift, a floating [drifting] cloud" or "the transience of human life" [Kenkyusha's New Japanese-English Dictionary, Kenkyusha, Tokyo, 1974, p.1913]. Now, "drifting cloud" sounds exactly like the sort of thing we find in the destroyer names; but "the trans...
In UI localization, the key tip is the last character present in the strings after the "`" character. Example: In UI localization Home`H key tip shortcu t key A subtype of keyboard shortcut. A key that the user types to perform a common action without having to go through the UI. ...
Seen from the 10.000 ft perspective, though, programming is but the last step. All the intellectual work has been done and the verif backbone is there, too (prob. taken from spec). I concede that I exaggerate somewhat there but I want to put it into peoples heads that “hacking away”...
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