minus the element meaning "country." Interestingly, the Chinese took to calling Japan by the name that the Japanese had invented, and the English nameJapanultimately derives from the Chinese version. In Mandarin Chinese, one of the descendants of Middle Chinese, the phrase evolved toRìběnguó....
Many of the country’s most iconic legends come from the Tohoku region, where history is riddled with natural disasters, famine, and isolation.
Based on the popular novel of the same name by Japanese authorMoegara,We Couldn't Become Adultsis about a 40-something man named Makoto Sato (Mirai Moriyama) who is looking back at various stages of his life, from the present to all the way back in 1995. At a low point in his life...
Your Name. (2016) 8.4 331K Genre:Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance Country:Japan Duration:106 min. Story:High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarr...
This study is devoted to the cult of goddess Benzaiten (Saraswati) in Japan. As an Indian goddess Saraswati, who in the Vedic period was revered as the deity of the river of the same name, under the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism turned into the patroness of music and the embodiment...
“But I never was much for decisive action, even though my name means ‘courage.’” I also added a disclaimer for the name of the five-year-old boy, Santa, on its first mention: “As I eventually found out, ‘Santa’ is written with characters meaning ‘mountain man’; no connection...
Not to be confused with the other tree of same name that Menōmaru once used. In the beginning of the 4th episode, Moroha suggests to some elders that she is about 450 years older than them in the modern era while they are doing a martial art exercise. Grandpa Higurashi offers Moroha ...
Hasan was able to inform them that they would find the Pharaoh's name inside his tomb. Joey thought this was odd, because the Pharaoh was still alive, but Tea explained that in Ancient Egypt, Pharaohs had their tombs built while they were still on the throne. While Hasan fly away to ...
As he investigates, he and Jordan get sucked into a deadly web of intrigue that will test the limits of their relationship—and possibly break them. After all, in a world where vampires feed on humans and humans fear vampires, can a vampire and a vampire hunter truly find a happy ending...
Usually known in Japanese as the “Sanrizuka struggle” (after the name of the farming area affected by the development of the airport), the anti-Narita protest movement emerged in the 1960s as soon as the plans to build the airport were announced. The movement quickly took on a political...