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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yamato (people)
Most of the non-Yamato peoples of the 3 main islands were fully integrated by the Kamakura period, though some people believe small populations remained until even the early 20th century in the Japanese Alps and rural Kyushu.
There is a controversy on whether to include the Okinawans in the Yamato, or identify them as an independent ethnic group, or as a sub-group that constitutes Japanese ethnicity together with the Yamato because of close similarities suggested by genetics and linguistics.
Yamato was thus able to mingle with the women of the Kumaso borthers, and was allowed to sit with them during a feast that night.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yamato-%28people%29   (1670 words)

  
  Yamato people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yamato people (Japanese: 大和民族) are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan.
There is a controversy on whether to include the Okinawans in the Yamato, or identify them as an independent ethnic group, or as a sub-group that constitutes Japanese ethnicity together with the Yamato because of close similarities suggested by genetics and linguistics.
The use of the term "Yamato people" is becoming less common in Japan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yamato_(people)   (169 words)

  
 Yamato (people)
The Yamato (大和) were the dominant peoples of ancient Japan,and the ancestors of most modern Japanese.
By the Nara period, they had for the most part subdued all non-Yamato peoples of the 3 main islands (Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, the Ainu of northern Honshu and Hokkaido were not subdued until much later) and stripped them of any political sovreignity they may have had.
The Yamato were known for grandeur at the time, departing from the previous Yayoi regime by building immense tomb mounds for their aristocracy.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/y/ya/yamato__people_.html   (878 words)

  
 SHINTO
People’s misdeeds, physical ailments, natural disasters are visitations that call for purification or exorcism while not that interested in ethics, Shinto stresses the concept of makoto, sincerity, which may be the most important guide to Japanese conduct like the origins of the Japanese people and the language, the precise source of Shinto is untraceable.
The Izumo people apparently were the major rivals of the Yamato people.
Some people read the Storm God’s retreat as the defeat and retreat of the main challengers to the Yamato people for the control of Japan.
mccoy.lib.siu.edu /~fl102/shinto.html   (1021 words)

  
 Ancient Japan
The present Japanese people were produced by an admixture of certain strains from the Asian continent and from the South Pacific, together with adaptations made in accordance with environmental changes.
Yamato was most closely associated with the southeastern kingdom of Paekche, whence came the "seven-pronged sword." Contact with the mainland, although involving conflict, also encouraged a marked rise in standards of living in the archipelago, as many of the fruits of advanced Chinese civilization reached Japan via people from the peninsula.
The 5th century was one of spectacular development for Yamato, as evidenced by the enormous keyhole-shaped tombs in the suburbs of the modern Osaka region.
www.crystalinks.com /japan1.html   (4157 words)

  
 IJN Yamato vs USS Iowa
Of course, the 16”/50 would shrink the inner edge calculations of Yamato’s IZ and slightly expand its outer edge, although the Iowa’s own vulnerability against the Yamato’s guns would be nearly the same as in the South Dakota Class due to its nearly identical armoring scheme.
One surmises the Yamato’s commander may be inclined to allow the Iowa to close as quickly as she likes – as would a spider to a fly.
People spill a lot of cyber blood over the Yamato versus the Iowa, but each was kind of its own realm.
members.aol.com /ghe101/ijn_yamato_vs_uss_iowa.htm   (2148 words)

  
 Multiethnic Japan and the monoethnic myth. (Asian Perspectives) - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The people were said to be of divine ancestry and the imperial line directly traced to the sun goddess.
Ironically, during the prewar period, while the superiority of the state and the Yamato people was emphasized, it was not tatlght that the Japanese were a single, homogeneous ethnic group (Kamishima).
Some people say that to call such a person "Japanese" goes against the commonly understood use of the word and even the dictionary definition, and that in reality, the person can never be accepted as such anyway.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-14878610.html   (7249 words)

  
 The Samurai: A Brief History
The Yamato peoples were essentially a clan (uji)-based society, loosely ruled by an Emperor or Empress, and in which religious ceremonies played an important part in governance.
Yamato was thus able to mingle with the women of the Kumaso borthers, and was allowed to sit with them during a feast that night.
The bow the Yamato warriors used may well have borne at least a conceptual resemblance to that employed by the later samurai.
members.tripod.com /epathy/id217.htm   (13047 words)

  
 Yamato Transport Co., Ltd. | Company Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Yamato Group strives to achieve continual development in tandem with the communities that it serves, and to be a corporate group that the people who work for it are always proud to be part of.
The Yamato Group pursues profit through fair and honest competition, and aims to be a corporate group that can achieve sustainable development in tandem with the society it serves, by always respecting human rights, observing laws, adhering to the letter and spirit of international rules, and acting in accordance with the highest ethical standards.
The Yamato Group strives to offer a working environment in which all employees can give full play to their independence and spontaneity, in which it is always a pleasure to work, and in which both they and their families can take pride in their work and have realistic hopes for future advancement.
www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp /english/company/philosophy/index.html   (662 words)

  
 The Yamato State
Yamato is the plain around Osaka; it is the richest agricultural region in Japan.
The Yamato kings located their capital at Naniwa (modern day Osaka) and enjoyed a hegemony over the surrounding aristocracies that made them powerful and wealthy.
This connection between the Yamato court and Paekche is culturally one of the most important events of early Japanese history.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAMATO.HTM   (969 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Yamato people"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Yamato people (Japanese: 大和民族, yamato-minzoku) are the dominant native ethnic group of Japan.
There is a controversy on whether to include the Ryukyuans in the Yamato, or identify them as an independent ethnic group, or as a sub-group that constitutes Japanese ethnicity together with the Yamato because of close similarities suggested by genetics and linguistics.
The name "Yamato" comes from the Yamato Court that existed in Japan in the 4th century.
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=yamato_people   (151 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was originally the name of the region where the Yamato people first settled in Nara Prefecture.
In the 6th century, the Yamato people founded a state modeled on the Chinese states of Sui and Tang which were the most advanced polities in Asia at the time.
There is however a controversy on whether to include the Ryukyuans in the Yamato, or identify them as an independent ethnic group, or as a sub-group that constitutes Japanese ethnicity together with the Yamato because of close similarities suggested by genetics and linguistics.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Yamato_people   (219 words)

  
 Company Profile
Yamato Scientific Co., Ltd., was established in 1889 by Mr.
Yamato was the first manufacturer to introduce a microprocessor temperature control with self-diagnostic features in our thermo processing equipment for the USA market.
Yamato Scientific America was formed in 1982, to provide general laboratory equipment to the US market including incubators, muffle furnaces, water baths, rotary evaporators, sterilizers, stirrers and spray dryers.
www.yamato-usa.com /about/company.htm   (316 words)

  
 Urban master plan of Yamato city 01
We have also received many suggestions where if the people of different values are to be living together, and to be making a realistic city, there are certain rules to be made.
On the other hand, the people and entrepreneurs who live and work there are to work hard in the consensus in the making of the city.
The main core in the making of the city are the people, companies, with the administration sharing its concepts, in what direction should the planning of the city go towards are the goals in the plan for the Yamato City master plan.
www.city.yamato.kanagawa.jp /t-soumu/tmp/e/tmpE01.html   (459 words)

  
 Yamato (JAPAN 2006)
On the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the sinking of the Yamato, a woman named Makiko Uchida (Kyoka Suzuki), who turns out to be the adopted daughter of a Yamato survivor, attempts to find a boat captain daring enough to bring her to the site of the wreckage.
Yamato achieves another rare feat in that it is a war movie with no villains.
In this respect, Yamato seems to be a film that wants to be about the individual costs of war, yet somehow speak for every single soldier on the boat.
www.lovehkfilm.com /panasia/yamato.htm   (1399 words)

  
 Japanese cuisine at it's best - yamato.co.za
People who buy into it frequently don't appreciate or understand the tradition or the art behind the concept.
Yamato, which is the old world name for Japan, is a traditional Japanese restaurant in the very best sense of the word.
Yamato has won 2 awards over the past year: Eat Out's 2006 "People's Choice Award" in the Fab 15, and WineMag's "South Africa's Top Restaurants 2007" in the Top 10: Special Occasions.
www.yamato.co.za   (197 words)

  
 The Japanese
People with the new culture, called Yayoi-Japanese, expanded against native people, and around the time of Jesus they reached the Kanto plain, where Tokyo would one day be.
The Yamato rulers called themselves Tenno, or heavenly ruler, and the Yamato family believed that they were directly descended from Jimmu and the gods and that they ruled by divine right.
According to Japanese legend, during the 300s CE, the Yamato spread their rule to the southern coast of Korea, to an enclave they called Mimana, and that the Korean kingdoms of Paekche and Silla were soon paying the Yamato tribute.
www.fsmitha.com /h1/ch28ja.htm   (1753 words)

  
 About YAMATO
Yamato has vast experience in designing, and manufacturing, products for universities, R and D laboratories, and medical facilities.
Yamato's consistent success stems from its disciplined business approach, pioneering science, and skill in delivering innovations.
Yamato believes that science has the power to improve people's lives and at Yamato Scientific, we strive to excel.
www.yamato-usa.com /about/index.htm   (136 words)

  
 Yamato Wa
Until the mid-7th century, the word "Yamato" was written as "Wa" (a term used by Chinese historians), but read as "Yamato." The great flowering of Japanese history began on the Yamato Plain and in the area of the Nara Basin, where the emergence of the Yamato Kingdom set a foundation for future Japanese civilizations.
The cultural linkage among China, Korea and Japan produced a considerable amount of interchange among the Chinese of the Lolang Commandery, the people of Paekche and the Kaya Federation, and the inhabitants of Kyushu and islands in the Tsushima Strait.
The Yamato who lived in Imna were neither colonists, nor conquerors, but agents who operated by permission from the King of Kaya, who restricted them to the immediate area of the port.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C02/E0206.htm   (2365 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Because of their years of work with young people, the Yamatos are already working to make the church more accessible to young people.
The Yamatos also are pushing the congregation to reach out to people who have either fallen away from their faith or who never have been religious.
Scott Yamato is also determined to make sure that when people come to church, they don't feel as if their time has been wasted.
www.thereporter.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=3499609   (958 words)

  
 HOKKAIDO-EAST
Yamato people (and Japanese language) etc. Actually Ainu place names are found in a wide
Although it is not evidenced that the Ezo people are the Ainu people, the Ainu
people already traded with the Yamato people in the 12th century.
www.ne.jp /asahi/busy/bird/HTML/page010.html   (1558 words)

  
 Names
Yamato is the name of a place where the people settled who later seized all of Japan.
When these people came to the Yamato region (in Nara prefecture), is not yet known clearly, but their orally inherited myths talk about the war when they came east to settle in Yamato.
Yamato can handle himself but emotionally he can't handle too much by himself, that's why he'd rather stay away from issues like that, and which is why he said he never let anyone close to him since his parents divorce.
www.cloti-aikou.net /sorato/names.html   (1046 words)

  
 TEE: Teki Editorial Everywhere: Yamato   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yamato (Japanese: 大和) was the largest battleship ever built in World War II, more than 260 meters long and 64,000 tones heavy.
He said the movie was about people's courage to live, and I want people to start thinking again about how to live with self-awareness and pride as Japanese.
People who have read "The Chrysanthemum and The Sword" should not feel weird about statements of Mr.
tekiedit.blogspot.com /2006/01/yamato.html   (829 words)

  
 [CTRL] Fwd: YAMATO DYNASTY
Historically, the Yamato dynasty was founded in the first century AD by a witch named Himiko, a priestess with unusual powers who had her court in the Yamato river valley near what is today Kyoto.
The Yamato people ruled by Himiko were not the earliest known inhabitants of Japan.
The survival of the Yamato dynasty was often in jeopardy.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg73136.html   (4392 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Part III details 's adventures at the scientific conference aboard the Yamato, T'Laren's problems as her somewhat shady past comes back to haunt her in the forms of her young sister-in-law and her former lover, and the ups and downs of Q and T'Laren's relations with one another.
He was not happy with being dragged into a business dinner with a group of five people, two of whose names he'd forgotten; eating in public was a humiliating experience for him, a reminder of how far he'd fallen, that he was mortal clay and needed to eat just like the rest of these.
People gossiped about how the little Vulcan girl had such *charming* manners-- forgetting, I suppose, that the little Vulcan girl had far better hearing than their own children, since I overheard them with some frequency.
www.alara.net /trek/human312.txt   (5166 words)

  
 Starcraft : Anime References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yamato and Musashi had a sister ship, which was converted to an aircraft carrier, up to that time, the largest ever built and the largest in WWII.
Yamato is a word, a name and anime ship, but just because its named after the same thing, does NOT, I repeat DOES NOT mean it's an anime reference.
The yamato in Star Trek is a reference to the yamato in ww2, just as the Enterprise is to the present day Enterprise, I do agree with anime references in Starcraft, and also the gui montag thing, But ANYTHING can be named yamato.
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 Origin of the Japanese People and Language
Yamato is the name of a place where the people settled who later seized all of Japan.
When these people came to the Yamato region (in Nara prefecture), is not yet known clearly, but their orally inherited myths talk about the war when they came east to settle in Yamato.
Half of the clans in Yamato were considered to be native clans of this place, and the rest of the clans, which got stronger and stronger later, were those who settled as conquerors and still had stronger ties with the Korean people.
entropy.tmok.com /~tumble/jpp/japor.html   (3003 words)

  
 strategies
People discovered that the much-overlooked method of gathering food by shore fishing was extremely fast-about twice as fast as foraging for food.
People were realizing the futility of Tool Rushing because the enemy usually spread out Villagers all over the map and it was extremely difficult to hunt them down with Tool-Aged troops.
People can give general guidelines for what to do when, but true experts watch their resources and rely on instinct to tell them how to allocate their resource gatherers.
www.fortunecity.com /underworld/gameover/270/strategi.htm   (11051 words)

  
 Rev. Dr. Yusen Yamato
Rev. Yamato has been inspired by his involvement in witnessing the mutual fulfillment of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhist prophecy along with the Hopi prophecy regarding the spiritual reawakening due in these times.
Rev. Yamato understands of His Holiness' interest in the new scientific studies of the vacuum energy field as they relate to the teaching of "the void", or "emptiness", thought in Eastern philosophies be the root of our physical reality.
Rev. Yamato is carrying the Message of the Symbol of Peace, as embodied in the Stupa and Peace Pole Monuments of ancient India, which brought about an end to war inaugurating a 500 year period without crime or violence in the area.
www.angelfire.com /on/GEAR2000/yyamato.html   (395 words)

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