Junpei is a Japanese name that means pure, peaceful. Sometimes spelled Jumpei, Junpei is a purely masculine name in Japan. However, in China, it can be either a girls’ name or a boys’ name, depending on the combination of characters used. 37. Jūrō Jūrō means ten son. This name c...
Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
You might not know the name Don Phillips, but you will definitely know the names of many the performers whose careers he launched as a casting director, and the films with which he was involved. He is one of four cultural titans that Dean and Phil remember in “Celebrity Deaths” on this...
Description: The name also means “an independent boy.” Izanagi Origin: Japanese Meaning: The god of creation Variations/Synonyms: Peace leader, waves, and calm Description: Izanagi and his wife Izanami created the islands of Japan, according to Japanese mythology. Izumi Origin: Japanese Me...
What this means is overcoming adversity builds character and resilience. It’s believed that after a storm, things tend to stand on more solid ground than they did before. Just take the last100 yearsfor example. The people of Japan have endured the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the nuclear...
Ono no Komachi was one of the most brilliant poets of the Heian era. She is now as famed for her beauty as for her poetry, and her romances are legendary. (One of the stories of her romances was later retold about an Edo-era courtesan.) Her name literally means "little street (小町...
yellow Seto (ki-Seto), whose crackled yellow glaze covers astonewarebody; and, at Narumi, in the adjoining Owari region, aware of the kind associated with Oribe—Oribe had become a generic term for pottery influenced by the tea master of that name—which is glazed in white, straw colour,...
‘It’s a very, very unusual love story,’Aparna Sentold reporters at a press conference here Tuesday. She added that the movie, which starsRahul Bose,Raima Sen,Moushumi Chatterjeeand Japanese actress Chingusa Takaku, is set to release April 9. ...
In 1997, 25 Japanese citizens, all older than 60, launched Jeeba (the name means “old man and old woman") to make senior- 01 products. They knew they were making history when they 02 their company motto: "Of the elderly, by the elderly and ..
Most studies on public opinion during the pandemic have focused on social networking services in the context of the early phases of the pandemic or on a short-term basis; research on public opinion outside of social networking services that consider long-term changes has not been conducted. To...