| Zhou Yu's Train Zhou Yu's Train () is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Sun Zhou, and starring Gong Li and Tony Leung Ka-Fai.The title refers to a poetic compilation published by the character in the movie played by Leung. The story starts at a book signing event and leads to the memories of the two lovers encounters. Zhou Yu maintained the relationship by commuting on the train, hence the title of the movie. Zhou_Yu's_Train
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| Miyuki Miyabe Miyuki_Miyabe
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| Expressways of Japan expressways (高速道路 kōsokudōro, lit. high-speed road) of Japan make up a large network of freeway-standard toll roads. Expressways_of_Japan
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| Asian Latin American An Asian Latin American is a Latin American of Asian descent.Asian Latin Americans have a centuries-long history in the region, starting with Filipinos in the 16th century. The heyday of Asian immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, however. Asian_Latin_American
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| Nova (eikaiwa) Nova_(eikaiwa)
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| GEOS (eikaiwa) is one of the Big Four private eikaiwa, or English conversation teaching companies, in Japan. GEOS, which stands for Global Education Opportunities and Services, was started in 1973 by Tsuneo Kusunoki. The first school was based in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, also the location of one of the company's main registered offices. The company has regional head offices in Sapporo, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka. GEOS_(eikaiwa)
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| Immigration to Brazil Immigration_to_Brazil
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| April 2005 April 2005 ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → April_2005
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| Daiyo kangoku Daiyo kangoku (daiyō kangoku 代用監獄) is a Japanese legal term meaning "substitute prison." Daiyō kangoku are detention cells found in police stations which are used as legal substitutes for detention centers, or prisons. The practical difference lies in the supervision of daiyō kangoku by the police forces responsible for investigations, whereas detention centers are supervised by a professional corps of prison guards who are not involved in the investigative processes. Daiyo_kangoku
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| Noma pony Noma_pony
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| Barrios Altos massacre The Barrios Altos massacre took place on 3 November, 1991, in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. Fifteen people, including an eight-year-old child, were killed, and four more injured, by assailants who were later determined to be members of Grupo Colina, a death squad made up of members of the Peruvian Armed Forces. The victims were partygoers allegedly mistaken for Shining Path rebels. Barrios_Altos_massacre
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| Life and Debt Life and Debt is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Stephanie Black. It examines the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact thereon of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's globalization policies. Its starting point is the award-winning non-fiction essay A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid.Kathleen C. Life_and_Debt
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| Takafumi Horie is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded livedoor, a website-design operation that grew into an internet portal involved in a wide range of businesses. After being arrested on accusations of securities fraud in 2006, he severed all connections with his company. He was granted bail and his trial began September 4, 2006. On March 16, 2007, Horie was sentenced to a 2 years and 6 months imprisonment. Takafumi_Horie
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| Ekiden Ekiden
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| Iwo Jima Talk:Iwo_Jima
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| Gary Glover John Gary Glover (born December 3, 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball pitcher with the Florida Marlins organization. He has a career major league ERA of 5.03 over eight seasons, including time spent with the Anaheim Angels, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays/Rays and Toronto Blue Jays, who selected Glover in the 15th round of the 1994 Major League Baseball Draft. He also played for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball. Gary_Glover
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| Kumi Koda Kumi_Koda
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| Kazuhide Uekusa was born December 18, 1960 in Edogawa, Tokyo. He is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, a former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute Co., Ltd.. He is generally called . He gained notoriety for his sex crime arrests. Kazuhide_Uekusa
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| Metal theft Metal theft is the theft of metal items on a large scale. These thefts usually increase when worldwide prices for scrap metal rise. In recent years, prices for metals have risen dramatically due to rapid industrialization in India and China. The metals most commonly stolen are copper, aluminum, brass and bronze.Other researchers have defined metal theft more specfically as "the theft of items for the value of their constituent metals." Metal_theft
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| Dave Spector Dave Spector (デーブ・スペクター born May 5 1954) is one of the more visible foreign celebrities (gaijin tarento) in Japan.Spector, a Jewish American, was born in Chicago, Illinois. He studied abroad at Sophia University in 1972. He has lived in Japan since 1983. He appears regularly as a commentator on several different Japanese television programmes (such as 'Soko made itte, iinkai'). He writes columns for Shukan Bunshun magazine and Tokyo Sports Shimbun and has written several books. Dave_Spector
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| Masashi Tashiro is a former Japanese television performer and the founding member of the band Rats & Star who was born on August 31, 1956 in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Tashiro was a tenor vocalist in the rock band Rats & Star, and later on made himself a name as a TV entertainer in Japan. He also directed a movie after his band broke up.His arrest for looking up a woman's skirt in September 2000 marked the beginning of Tashiro's problems with the law. Masashi_Tashiro
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| Aeon (eikaiwa) is a chain of English conversation teaching companies, in and is considered one of the Big Four eikaiwa schools in Japan. The company operates about 300 branch schools throughout Japan and recruits teachers from offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Toronto, and Sydney and conducts regular recruitment sessions in other major cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Aeon_(eikaiwa)
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| Yokohama Marine Tower is a 106 metre high (324 ft) lattice tower with an observation deck at a height of 100 metres in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan.The light characteristic is marked by a flash every ten seconds, whereby the light's colour is alternating red and green. At night, the tower shaft itself is lit green and red according to its markings. Yokohama_Marine_Tower
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| Kyoto Tower observation tower located in Kyoto, Japan. The steel tower is the tallest structure in Kyoto with its observation deck at 100 Kyoto_Tower
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| Nova (eikaiwa) Talk:Nova_(eikaiwa)
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| Shigeru Mizuki March 8, 1922 in Sakaiminato, Tottori, is a Japanese manga author, most known for his shōnen Japanese horror manga GeGeGe no Kitaro (which was originally titled "Hakaba Kitaro"; see the article in question for details). A specialist in stories of yōkai, he is considered a master of the genre. To a lesser but still notable degree, he is also known for his World War II memoirs, as well as a writer and biographer. Shigeru_Mizuki
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| Tsushima Island/Archive 4 Talk:Tsushima_Island/Archive_4
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| Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform is a group founded in December 1996 to promote a revised view of Japanese history. The group was responsible for authoring a history textbook published from Fusōsha (扶桑社), which was heavily criticised by China, South Korea, and many Western historians for not including full accounts of or downplaying Imperial Japanese war crimes during World War II, such as the Nanjing Massacre (南京大虐殺) as "Nanjing Incident" (南京事件) and the policy of utilizing "comfort women" (慰安婦). Japanese_Society_for_History_Textbook_Reform
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| Tsuneyasu Miyamoto is a Japanese soccer player. He currently plays for Vissel Kobe but spent his career to date at Gamba Osaka in the J.League. Tsuneyasu_Miyamoto
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| Victor Starffin Victor Starffin (Виктор Константинович/Фëдорович Старухин, May 1, 1916 - January 12, 1957), nicknamed , was an ethnic Russian baseball player in Japan and the first professional pitcher in Japan to win three hundred games. Victor_Starffin
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| List of cyberpunk works cyberpunk genre of science fiction. While some of these works Neuromancer and Blade Runner 1993 are increasingly likely to be labeled "postcyberpunk", a term first applied to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Science-fiction theory, criticism, and fandom are all known for their contentious nature, just as SF writers are often celebrated for inventiveness. Consequently, all categorizations are likely to be incomplete, contested or provisional. List_of_cyberpunk_works
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| Ivica Osim Ivan "Ivica" Osim (born 6 May 1941 in Sarajevo) is a Bosnian football manager and former player from the former Yugoslavia. He was most recently head coach of Japan, before he suffered a stroke in November 2007 and left the post. As player, he was a member of the Yugoslavia national team and played in the 1964 Olympics. As assistant manager, he won a bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the 1984 Olympics, and reached the quarterfinals of the 1990 FIFA World Cup as the manager of Yugoslavia. Ivica_Osim
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| Tamahagane is a type of Japanese steel. Translated as "jewel steel". It is mainly used to make Samurai swords, such as the katana, and some tools. The steel is made from black sand.The smelting process used is different from the modern mass production of steel. A clay vessel about tall, long, and wide is constructed. Tamahagane
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| Fumio Niwa was a Japanese novelist with a long list of works, the most famous in the West being his novel The Buddha Tree (Japanese Bodaiju, 1956). Fumio_Niwa
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| Tsukumogami are a type of Japanese spirit. According to the Tsukumogami-emaki, tsukumogami originate from items or artifacts that have reached their 100th birthday and thus become alive and aware. Any object of this age, from swords to toys, can become a tsukumogami. Tsukumogami are considered spirits and supernatural beings, as opposed to enchanted items. Tsukumogami
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| Amagasaki rail crash The Amagasaki rail crash occurred on 25 April, 2005 at around 09UTC), just after the local rush hour. The Rapid Service came off the tracks on the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Fukuchiyama Line (JR Takarazuka Line) in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, near Osaka, just before Amagasaki Station on its way for Dōshisha-mae via the JR Tōzai Line and the Gakkentoshi Line (a seven-car commuter train), and the front two carriages rammed into an apartment building. Amagasaki_rail_crash
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| Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname . Nobuyoshi_Araki
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| Cetaceans Portal:Cetaceans
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| Battle of Timor Battle_of_Timor
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| Arata Isozaki Arata Isozaki (磯崎新, Isozaki Arata; born 23 July 1931) is a Japanese architect from Ōita, Ōita. He won the RIBA gold medal in 1986. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954. Isozaki worked under Kenzo Tange until establishing his own firm in 1963. Arata_Isozaki
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| War crimes in Manchukuo War crimes in Manchukuo were committed during the rule of the Empire of Japan in northeast China, either directly, or through its puppet state of Manchukuo, from 1931 to 1945. Various war crimes have been alleged, but have received comparatively little historical attention. War_crimes_in_Manchukuo
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| Great Sasuke , (born July 18, 1969 in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture Great_Sasuke
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| Hosei University Hosei_University
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| Hibakusha Talk:Hibakusha
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| Shinbutsu shūgō kami and buddhas" (also called , term which however has a negative connotation of bastardization and randomness) is the Japanese syncretism of Buddhism and local religious beliefs. When Buddhism was introduced through China in the late Asuka period (6th century), rather than discard the old belief system the Japanese tried to reconcile it with the new, assuming both were true. Shinbutsu_shūgō
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| Haruo Wakō was a member of the armed militant group, the Japanese Red Army.Haruo Wakō and two other members of the JRA were involved in the seizure of the French Embassy in The Hague in 1974. In 1975, Wakō and other members of the JRA seized the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Both seizures resulted in the successful demand for release of six fellow members of the JRA from imprisonment in Japan. Haruo_Wakō
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| Bung Karno Stadium Bung Karno Stadium (formerly Gelora Senayan or Istora) is a multi-use stadium in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. It is named after Sukarno, Indonesia's first President. It is mostly used for football matches. Bung_Karno_Stadium
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| Seito Sakakibara is the alias of a then-14-year-old student from Kobe, Japan who murdered an 11-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl between March and May 1997. Also identified as Onibara (due to an error in reporting by the Japanese media), his real name has not been released to the press as per Japanese legal procedures prohibiting the identification of juvenile offenders, and he is officially referred to as "Boy A" in Japanese legal documentation. Seito_Sakakibara
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| Bombing of Chongqing Bombing_of_Chongqing
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| Taro Aso Prime Minister of Japan, having taken office on September 24, 2008. He is also President Taro_Aso
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