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  Imperial Japanese Navy Encyclopedia Article @ Overtook.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The origins of the Imperial Japanese Navy trace back to early interactions with nations on the Asian continent, beginning in the early medieval period and reaching a peak of activity during the 16th and 17th centuries at a time of cultural exchange with European powers during the Age of Discovery.
Japanese armoured cruiser Nisshin in the Mediterranean (Malta, 1919).
The Japanese pilot corps at the beginning of the war were of high caliber as compared to their contemporaries around the world due to intense training practices and frontline experience in the Sino-Japanese War.
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 Japan Did You Mean japan?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
According to traditional Japanese mythology, Japan was founded in the 7th century BC by the ancestral Emperor Jinmu, a direct descendant of the Shinto deity Amaterasu.
Japanese citizenship is conferred on an infant when a family member registers the infant's birth in the family registry held by a neighborhood ward office.
The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernized in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace).
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 Imperial Japanese Navy:
It was the third largest navy in the world by 1920 behind United States Navy and Royal Navy, and perhaps the most modern at the brink of World War II.
In keeping with its belief in big-gun action, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first navy to mount 14-in (356 mm) guns (with the Kongo), 16-in (406 mm) guns (with the Nagato), and the only Navy ever to mount 18.1-in (460 mm) guns (with the Yamato).
World War II The Imperial Japanese Navy in World War Two was administered by the Ministry of the Navy of Japan and controlled by the Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff at Imperial General Headquarters.
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The Imperial Japanese Navy was formally established in 1869.
The Japanese navy devastated Qing's northern fleet off the mouth of the Yalu River at the Battle of Yalu River on September 17, 1894, in which the Chinese fleet lost 8 out of 12 warships.
In keeping with its belief in big-gun action, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first navy to mount 14-in (356 mm) guns (with the Kongo), 16-in (406 mm) guns (with the Nagato), and the only Navy ever to mount 18.1-in (460 mm) guns (with the Yamato).
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 The Battleship Kongo
Two turned out to be reasonable candidates to be used as battleships, the Repulse and the Renown (although the Repulse was ignominously sunk, with the Prince of Wales, by Japanese aircraft on 10 December 1941), but the other three were virtual parodies of Fisher's ideas, so over-gunned and under-protected as to be really useless.
Battleships had always required masts for spotting, range finding, and fire control, but the need for height increased as possible ranges of targets increased and eyeballing was replaced by heavy optical equipment.
These cruisers all began to look like miniature battleships and, indeed, it was they that had the speed and range to form lines of battle in most of the significant surface engagements of the Pacific War.
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 Japanese battleship Kōtetsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kōtetsu (Japanese: 甲鉄, literally "Ironclad", later renamed Azuma 東, "East") was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Built in France in 1864, and acquired from the United States in February 1869, she was an ironclad ram warship.
In effect, Japan was thus equipped with advanced ironclad warships only ten years after the launch of the first ocean-going ironclad warship in history, the French Navy's La Gloire ("Glory", launched in 1859).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_battleship_Kotetsu   (578 words)

  
 NewLondenion's Xanga Site
Kotetsu, was built at the shipyard facilities on Antares and first launched in C.E. 77 September and docked at Orb Union in October for finishing construction.
The word “kotetsu” in Japanese means “ironclad.” After the attempted theft of the ORB-X05B, the ship is deployed with two six-man mobile suit teams to pursue the unknown ship involved.
Kotetsu is deployed there to combat the Earth Alliance forces.
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 Square Name Origins... Version 6!
There was a battleship named for him which was sunk in 1941; this could be the inspiration for the effect of the Bismarck Esper, "Sea Song".
Kotetsu: A Japanese sword that is shorter than a Katana but is longer than a Wakizashi.
It's called Klein no Tsubo in Japanese, which does literally mean Klein's Pot, but could be referring to the Klein Bottle, which is a three-dimensional analogue of the Mobius Strip (see FFMQ's entry for how to make one).
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For your information, Medarot is the actual Japanese name for the series Medabots.``xsetsuna``xsetsuna@jaccinc.com``xMedarot From Upper Deck``x1014181615,57595,``x``x ``xJapanese film director Hayao Miyazaki, whose animated feature Spirited Away snagged the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival, has said that Japanese animation "is facing a dead end".
However a recent Japanese ruling states that Tatsunoko, the Japanese company that originally sold the Macross license to Harmony Gold, did not own the Macross license in the first place and was never in any position to sell that license to Harmony Gold.
The date, a week before most Japanese schools let out for the summer, is always one of the most popular movie-going weekends of the year.
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 Anime News Network - Tohru FURUYA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Japanese Navy Ships
The Japanese Navy Ships section of the Online Library provides ready access to photographs of ships and named craft which served in the Japanese Navy.
This page links with lists of all Named Japanese Navy ships whose photos are available in the Online Library.
Japanese Navy ships are listed below by name or by type.
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 Anime News Network - TV Asahi Top 100 Anime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
TV Asahi has aired a list of the 100 most popular animated TV series in six categories (teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60+).
Hana Yori Dango is 100th position received 53 votes.
The list (in Japanese) can be seen here.
www.animenewsnetwork.com /article.php?id=7455   (201 words)

  
 Sakura Hinata Update - Sakura Hinata Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This early distribution follows the recently released Shogo Internet demo that is topping the download charts on several gaming and general software download sites.
The development team's many anime fans have embraced both the look and feel of Japanese animation and the genre's strong tradition of storytelling and narrative.
Image Entertainment Inc. Nasdaq DISK, a leading licensee and distributor of DVD programming in North America, will proudly present the next step in the evolution of Japanese anime with the April 6 release of GALERIANS RION.
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 Tôru Furuya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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