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  Japanese era name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Historically, prior to the Meiji Restoration, era names were changed on many different occasions including celebrations, major political incidents, and natural disasters, but emperors never posthumously took the name of an era.
Incidentally, on modern official papers, those born prior to the Meiji period wrote not the era name in which they were born, but Edo period (No one born in that time period, over 130 years ago, is alive now).
The Japanese calendars prior to 1873 were derived from the Chinese.
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 Japanese era name. Who is Japanese era name? What is Japanese era name? Where is Japanese era name? Definition of ...
In the Japanese language, the current emperor on the throne is almost always referred to as Tennō Heika (天皇陛下, His Majesty the Emperor) or rarely and less formally as Kinjō Tennō (今上天皇, current emperor) and even more rarely, if ever by his name Akihito.
Historically however, prior to the Meiji Restoration, era names were changed on many different occasions such as celebration, major political incidents, natural disasters, and so on, but the emperors posthumous name never took the name of an era.
Incidentally, on modern official papers, those who were born prior to the Meiji era did not write the era name in which they born, but wrote Edo period (though now no one born over 130 years ago in that time period is still alive now).
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Japanese_era_name   (474 words)

  
 Hidden Histories in the United Church of Christ: Japanese American Congregationalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Many clergy in the Japanese American community for example, the Rev. Joseph K. Fukushima, Rohwer, Arkansas; the Rev. Seizo Abe, Manzanar, California; and the Rev. Kenji Kikuchi, at Poston, Arizona as well as those who represented the Christian and Buddhist traditions and a host of lay leaders, carried their ministry to the camps.
Released and free, many Japanese Americans were determined to compensate for their "guilt" of being Japanese in a society of "Americans." Most left and resettled in the Rocky Mountain, Middle Western, and Eastern states.
The Methodist Judicatory felt that the Japanese churches should come together under the care of the Methodist church, whereas the Congregational Conference felt the union should be under the Congregational church.
www.ucc.org /aboutus/histories/chap11.htm   (5525 words)

  
 Japanese Era Name [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Heisei era started on January 8, 1989, thus that year corresponds to Heisei 1, and 2005 is Heisei 17....
To call the current emperor by the current era name Heisei, even in English, would be a faux pas A faux pas (French: false step; pronounced foh-PAH or foh-PAHZ for plural) is a violation of accepted, although unwritten, social rules.
Yorimichi, regent to the Japanese emperor from 1017 to 1020 and from 1020 to 1068.
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 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Japanese interpreted the storm as a sort of divine protection of their islands, thus `kamikaze'.
The Soga, a Japanese court family that rose to prominence with the accession of the Emperor Kimmei about A.D. 531, favored the adoption of Buddhism and of governmental and cultural models based on Chinese Confucianism.
In Japanese Shintoism, Kotoamatsukami is the collective name for the first powers which came into existence at the time of the creation of the universe.
www.openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/k.html   (3250 words)

  
 Japanese era name - Definition up Erdmond.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
To call the current emperor by the current era name ''Heisei'' even in English would be a Faux_pas as it is and will be his posthumous name.
Historically however, prior to the Meiji_Restoration, era names were changed on many different occasions such as celebration, major political incidents, natural disasters, and so on, but the emperors posthumous name never took the name of an era.
Incidentally, on modern official papers, those who were born prior to the Meiji_era did not write the era name in which they born, but wrote Edo_period (though now no one born over 130 years ago in that time period is still alive now).
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 Midnight Eye feature: Hiroshi Shimizu - Silent Master of the Japanese Ethos
At the same time, she is loyal to centuries of Japanese traditional filial piety, defending the honor of her family by avenging her father's death and the assault on her virtue, and using part of the money she extracts from the Yagibashis to aid her older sister.
Shimizu's technique and imagery in Japanese Girls at the Harbor is both expressive and experimental with poetic touches throughout, a fresh revelation of the unique qualities of the silent cinema that had by then been rendered an anachronism in the West.
It is the internal decay of traditional Japanese values, generated by alternating cycles of great wealth and economic stress, that threatens to destroy the calm beauty of the age-old agrarian way of life seen in the beginning of the film.
www.midnighteye.com /features/hiroshi_shimizu.shtml   (11832 words)

  
 Japanese era name - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
Showa is the longest era as of 2003.
With the modernization of Japan after the ascension of the Meiji Emperor and now under current Japanese law since 1979, it has become practice to change era names only upon occassion of imperial succession.
In the Japanese language, the current emperor on the throne is almost always referred to as Ten'no Heika or rarely and less formally as Kin'jyou Ten'no and even more rarely, if ever by his name Akihito.
www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/ja/Japanese_era.html   (484 words)

  
 IsThatLegal?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Japanese Americans were removed only from the West Coast, the sole zone which was threatened, and not from other areas of the country, and since other Asians were not removed.
The actions of American-born Japanese who lived for many years in Japan and were subjected to various pressures from the Japanese government is likewise scarcely relevant to the ideals and loyalties, let alone actions, of those who chose America.
Here's the important point: any Japanese alien in the United States on December 6, 1941, (a) had to have been in the United States for at least 18 years, and (b) could not abandon Japanese citizenship in favor of American no matter how much he or she wanted to.
www.isthatlegal.org /archives/2004_08_01_isthatlegal_archive.html   (10743 words)

  
 Old Japanese Documents Confirm Warnings of Future North American Earthquakes
The report's authors are Kenji Satake, of the Geological Survey of Japan; Kelin Wang, of the Geological Survey of Canada; and Brian Atwater, of the United States Geological Survey based at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Few scientists took that threat in the Cascadia region seriously until 1996, when Japanese researchers, in a letter to the international journal Nature, stunned their North American colleagues by linking a tsunami in Japan to geologic reports of an earthquake and tsunami at the Cascadia subduction zone.
Japanese scientist Satake noted that since their first report in 1996 about the possible relation between the Japanese documents and the American earthquake, the Geological Surveys of the three countries began a joint project on the Cascadia earthquake.
www.spacedaily.com /news/tectonics-03q.html   (1108 words)

  
 Japanese Woodblock Prints On Exhibit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kenji Hayao (Political Science) and University of Massachusetts-Boston Assistant Professor of Art Victoria Weston.
According to exhibition organizers, the mixture of the traditional and the modern emerges clearly from the vivid, journalistically narrative scenes that presented positive images of the Meiji government for mass consumption.
The series, free and open to the public, includes four Japanese films and represents the evolution of cinema genres from the 1950s to the 1990s.
www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v7/o1/museum.html   (590 words)

  
 GreenCine | Japanese Cinema to 1960
Early Japanese cinema is hard to find, little of it surviving the firebombs of the Pacific War, and a small portion is presently available on DVD.
Japanese film directors, however, had more autonomy in story selection, screenwriting, cinematography and editing than did all but a few directors working on Hollywood's assembly line.
After Ozu, the most highly regarded Japanese filmmaker of the era is Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956).
www.greencine.com /static/primers/japan-60-1.jsp   (2100 words)

  
 Kenji Tsutsumi
Today, Japan is to be one of the advanced countries, but it is not so well known that almost the half of the national land area is registered to "depopulated regions" by an act(Fig.1).
Especially since 1960's, when Japanese high economic growth started, the regional problems through the depopulation in rural areas and the overpopulation in big cities have occurred.
The severely depopulated regions are become remote from economic and social capital, then human rights for daily lives of the residents there are not so well supported, and the condition promotes depopulation and declining of such regions more and more locked in a vicious circle structurally.
www.geog.ubc.ca /iiccg/papers/Tsutsumi.html   (3306 words)

  
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'''Kenji''' (建治) was a Japanese era name after Bunei Bun'ei and before Koan (first) Kōan and spanned from 1275 to 1278.
There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Kenji (Japanese era).
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 Silent Era : DVD : Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema (2000) DVD-ROM Review
Japanese silent film production continued well into the 1930s because of the well-ensconced Benshi tradition of live narration of silent film action.
Urban Connections, a Japanese publishing company, has released a DVD-ROM entitled Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema that serves English-speaking readers as both an introduction and overview of the Japanese silent era cinema, and as a substantial database cataloguing 12,000 of the most significant films.
Each clip is accompanied by music and narration in Japanese (subtitles in English) from both historical and modern Benshi, including Shisei Umemura, Shunsui Matsuda, Midori Sawato, Korakuten Nishimura, Goro Fukuchi, Koro Goto, Shiko Kunii and Ryokuson Kaneko.
www.silentera.com /DVD/masterjapansilcineDVD.html   (960 words)

  
 Kocho [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Kocho (弘長) was a Japanese era name Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit.
[click for more] after Bun'o and before Bun'ei Bun'ei (文永;) was a Japanese era name after Kocho and before Kenji and spanned from 1264 to 1275.
Bun'ei Bun'ei (文永;) was a Japanese era name after Kocho and before Kenji and spanned from 1264 to 1275.
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 Anime.com February 2004: Kimagure Orange, Android Kikaider, and Gall Force
With a wonderful 70's era manga/comic look, yet, modern kick-ass animation, it's a fantastic mesh of the old and new, giving it a very stylized feel with its similarities to the layout and movement of a manga series.
Based on a Japanese live-action superhero show, the anime allows a greater creative freedom for the storytellers and they make use of that freedom with dramatic flair.
Welcome to Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, a great way to introduce yourself to Japanese culture by learning some of their classic fables and great literature.
www.anime.com /200402.html   (1449 words)

  
 Japanese Era Name - Calendar Used in Japan to Count Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
With 64 years, Showa is the longest era as of 2003.
In the Japanese language, the current emperor on the throne is almost always referred to as Tenno Heika (天皇陛下, His Majesty the Emperor) or rarely and less formally as Kinjo Tenno (今上天皇, current emperor) and even more rarely, if ever by his name Akihito.
Consequently, 1989 is known as both "Showa 64" and "Heisei 1", although technically Showa 64 ended on January 7th with Hirohito's death.
www.japan-101.com /history/japanese_era_name.htm   (514 words)

  
 Japanese era name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Government offices usually require era name s and years for official papers.
With the modernization of Japan after the ascension of the Meiji Emperor and now under current Japanese law since 1979, it has become practice to change era name s only upon occasion of imperial succession.
Historically however, prior to the Meiji Restoration, era name s were changed on many different occasions such as celebration, major political incidents, natural disasters, and so on, but the emperors posthumous name never took the name of an era.
www.portaljuice.com /japanese_era_name.html   (479 words)

  
 1700 Japan tsunami linked to massive North American quake
Few scientists took that threat in the Cascadia region seriously until 1996, when Japanese researchers, in a letter to the journal Nature, stunned their North American colleagues by linking a tsunami in Japan to geologic reports of an earthquake and tsunami at the Cascadia subduction zone.
In addition, from preliminary estimates of the tsunami’s height in Japan, they guessed that it was too large to explain by a Cascadia earthquake of less than magnitude 9.
Lead author Satake noted that since their first report in 1996 about the possible relationship between the Japanese documents and the American earthquake, the Geological Surveys of the three countries have conducted a joint project on the Cascadia earthquake.
www.innovations-report.com /html/reports/earth_sciences/report-23573.html   (884 words)

  
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The strength of the art is shown by the fact that the jojutsu of the Japanese national police is based on Shinto Muso Ryu, and by the fact that many of the senior police instructors in the Tokyo region are also senior members of the ryu.
Matsui Kenji is one of the great living masters of 4 shaku jo, an 8th dan Hanshi in the All Japan Kendo Federation Jodo and Menkyo Kaiden in Shinto Muso Ryu.
In this new video Kenji Sensei covers the 12 jo kihon techniques and the 12 Kendo Fedeartion jodo kata is extreme detail using a series of "one point lessons" to cover all of the critical points in the techniques and kata.
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Archetypes of the Japanese Cinema: The Sociological and Religious Significance of the Principle Heros and Heroines.
Hirano Kyoko, "The Banning of Japanese Period Films by the American Occupation," Iconics (1987): 193-208.
McCarthy, T. "Oshima's Japanese Candor as to Directors of West and Orient," Variety 298 (9 April 1980), 15.
pears.lib.ohio-state.edu /Markus/1995/Filmbib.html   (6180 words)

  
 Kenji Miyazawa
The story remains, for many young Japanese, their first association with the wonder of the "starry sky".
For Jovanni, this star symbolizes the responsibility one has to others and the sacrifice that one is willing to make in order to help ones friends, even to the point of dying (shedding blood).
Yet, it is just this highlighted virtue of self-sacrifice that defines so much of the traditional Japanese view of responsibility to others and forms the basis for what some might mistakenly interpret as a fatalistic spirit.
www2.gol.com /users/stever/kenji.htm   (963 words)

  
 Japanese era names
For year by year charts see 701-1599 or 1600-1989 For recent eras in more detail see Meiji-Heisei charts.
As browsers can either show diacritics or kanji but not both at once, long vowels have been marked as they would be entered to type Japanese: "ou" and "uu".
This requires Japanese display (and a little German) but provides year by year information, 12-year calendar information, name of sovereigns...
www.meijigakuin.ac.jp /~watson/ref/nengo.html   (145 words)

  
 Ch/Ja Art History VL: Calls for Papers
The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) invites applications from advanced graduate students in all humanities and social science disciplines for the Third EAJS Workshop for Doctoral Students.
The application, which is to be submitted as an attachment via email to the EAJS Office in Munich, should consist of a cover letter summarizing the dissertation project (5-8 pages) and a brief professional history (CV).
The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, Israel, is organizing a conference on "Gender Identity, Performativity and Sexuality in Japanese Culture" on December 8-9, 2005.
www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/call.html   (13705 words)

  
 JAPANESE SWORD BOOKS
This is the book that started most of us on our journey studying Japanese swords.
Introduction to the study of Japanese swords from a Japanese viewpoint.
A MUST have book for those interested in Japanese military swords of the Showa Era.
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 SF Sword Society - Classes & Activities
Hint: Sadamune was the disciple or adopted son of Masamune in the late Kamakura Era.
The Japanese swords with Horimono ( Engraving) are usually produced by the Soshuden-kaji ( Tokyo vicinity swordsmiths) during the Koto Era.
It was produced in the Bunmei Era ( 1469 - 1487) in the Kyushu Island.
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 Aikido Journal Home
Osensei’s general definition of kotodama is quite clear, however difficult it might be to put in practice.
He asserts that the sounds of the Japanese language are primordial.
However, the image promoted in modern day Japan, both by many Japanese and by some non-Japanese writers on the bugei is that the primary model is that of the soke - the lineal headmaster who, like the Emperor, controls the ryu, and the future of its members until death.
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