| Nariaki Nakayama is a Japanese politician. He served as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in the Cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi and later as Minister of Land,Infrastructure,Transport and Tourism under Taro Aso. Due to a series of gaffes after assuming his post under Aso, he resigned September 28th, 2008.Graduating from the Faculty of law at the University of Tokyo in 1966, Nakayama joined the Ministry of Finance. Nariaki_Nakayama
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| Yuriko Koike is a Japanese politician, who was the Minister of Defense in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but resigned August 27, 2007 after only 54 days in office. She is a member of the House of Representatives of Japan for Tokyo's 10th district. Yuriko_Koike
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| Prince Akishino Prince_Akishino
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| Akihiko Saito Akihiko Saito was a Japanese security guard who was taken hostage by the Jaish Ansar al-Sunna in Iraq in 2005, and later died in captivity of wounds he had received in an earlier gunbattle.He had the rank of Sergent-Chef when he served in the French Foreign Legion. Akihiko_Saito
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| June 2005 in rail transport June_2005_in_rail_transport
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| You're Beautiful "You're Beautiful" is a pop rock song co-written by British singer James Blunt, Sacha Skarbek and Amanda Ghost for Blunt's debut album Back to Bedlam (2004). It was released as the third single from the album in 2005. In the UK and Australia the song reached number one and number two respectively. You're_Beautiful
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| Ultra Series Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad Ultra Monsters. The Ultra Series is one of the prominent tokusatsu superhero genre productions from Japan, along with Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, and Metal Heroes. Ultra_Series
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| Amakudari is the institutionalised practice where Japanese senior bureaucrats retire to high-profile positions in the private and public sectors. The practice is increasingly viewed as corrupt and a drag on unfastening the ties between private sector and state which prevent economic and political reforms. Amakudari
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| Japanese military yen Japanese military yen (Chinese and Japanese:JMY, was the currency issued to the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy as a salary. The Imperial Japanese government first started issuing the military yen during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Japanese_military_yen
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| Cowra breakout Talk:Cowra_breakout
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| Tsuyoshi Wada is a left-handed starting pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.Wada pitched in the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006 World Baseball Classic for the Japanese national team. He set a Tokyo Big6 Baseball League record with 476 strikeouts during his college career at Waseda University and was the Pacific League Most Valuable Rookie in . Tsuyoshi_Wada
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| Chongryon The General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chae Ilbon Chosŏnin Ch'ongryŏnhaphoe in Korean or Zai-Nihon Chōsenjin Sōrengōkai in Japanese), abbreviated to Chongryon Chongryon
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| Jūminhyō A is a registry of current residential addresses maintained by local governments in Japan. Japanese law requires each citizen to report his or her current address to their local authority, which compiles the information for tax, national health insurance and census purposes. The jūminhyō is different from a koseki, which is the formal record of a family's history. Jūminhyō
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| Masumi Hayashi (poisoner) is a Japanese woman convicted of putting poison in a pot of curry being served at a 1998 summer festival in the Sonobe district of Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Masumi_Hayashi_(poisoner)
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| War of Transnistria War_of_Transnistria
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| NEET NEET is an acronym for the government classification "Not currently engaged in Employment, Education or Training". It was first used in the United Kingdom but its use has spread to other countries, including Japan, China and South Korea. In the United Kingdom, the classification comprises people aged between 16 and 18 (some 16 year olds are still of compulsory school age). NEET
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| Tsushima Island/Archive 2 Talk:Tsushima_Island/Archive_2
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| Scott Hartnell Scott Hartnell (born April 18, 1982) is a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who plays for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Scott_Hartnell
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| Yakiniku Yakiniku (焼き肉 or 焼肉), meaning "grilled meat", is a Japanese term which, in its broadest sense, refers to grilled meat dishes. Today, it commonly refers to a Japanese style of cooking bite-sized meat (usually beef and offal) and vegetables on gridirons or griddles over flame of wood charcoals carbonized by dry distillation (sumibi, 炭火) or gas/electric grill. Yakiniku
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| Bids for the 2008 Summer Olympics Ten cities submitted bids to host the 2008 Summer Olympics that were recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), five of which made the IOC Executive Committee's shortlist. The games were awarded to Beijing, China on July 13, 2001. The other shortlisted cities were Toronto, Paris, Istanbul and Osaka. Bids_for_the_2008_Summer_Olympics
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| Deaths in July 2005 Deaths in 2005 January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in July 2005.31 Wim Duisenberg, 70, Dutch banker and politician, suffered a heart attack while swimming and drowned. Mantle Hood, 87, Influential American ethnomusicologist. Koji Tano, 43, Japanese "Noise artist", colon cancer. Lawrence Teeter, 56, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan retried, saying Deaths_in_July_2005
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| Tsushima Island/Archive A Talk:Tsushima_Island/Archive_A
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| Blood types in Japanese culture Japan that a person's ABO blood type or is predictive of their personality, temperament, and compatibility with others, similar to the Western world's astrology. This belief is also widespread in South Korea. Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
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| Masaaki Yuasa Masaaki Yuasa (湯浅政明 Yuasa Masaaki) is an anime director and animator known for his wild free form style. He was born on March 16, 1965 in Fukuoka, Japan. His most recent work is the Spring 2008 TV series Kaiba. Masaaki_Yuasa
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| Sayama Incident Sayama City, Saitama Prefecure, Japan, where it took place. The incident, in which a man was imprisoned for 31 years, highlighted official discrimination against Japan's Burakumin or untouchables. Sayama_Incident
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| Kotoōshū Katsunori Kotoōshū Katsunori (琴欧洲 勝紀) (born February 19, 1983 as Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov, , in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) is a professional sumo wrestler or rikishi. He is currently ranked as an ōzeki or 'champion', the second-highest level in the sumo ranking system behind only yokozuna. Popular with the Japanese public because of his good looks, he has been called the "David Beckham of Sumo" Kotoōshū_Katsunori
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| Nicholas John Baker Nicholas John 'Nick' Baker is a British citizen who was convicted of smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Japan. He was arrested at Narita Airport, on April 13 2002, and found guilty by the Chiba Prefecture District Court in June 2003. He was sentenced to 14 years jail with imprisonment and fined ¥5,000,000. Nicholas_John_Baker
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| Hinako Sugiura was a manga artist and researcher in the lifestyles and customs of Japan's Edo period. Born Junko Suzuki in Minato, Tokyo, into a tradition-steeped family of kimono merchants, she studied design and took an increasing interest in old Japan. She attended Nihon University, but gave up her formal studies to pursue research under the direction of author Shisei Inagaki. Hinako_Sugiura
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| ECC (eikaiwa) is one of the major private English teaching companies or eikaiwa in Japan.ECC (Education through Communication for the Community) is based mainly in the Kansai region of Japan and has 148 schools nationwide with many branches in the Chūbu and Kantō areas but has not entered into the rural market to the same extent as major competitor GEOS. There are 3 schools in Kyūshū, 56 in Kansai, 44 in Chūbu, 40 in Kantō and Northern Japan, and 1 school each in Hiroshima and Okayama respectively. ECC_(eikaiwa)
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| Environmental issues in Japan has reflected a tenuous balance between economic development and environmental protection. As the world's leading importer of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels, the Japanese government takes international responsibility to conserve and protect the environment. Environmental_issues_in_Japan
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| Uesugi Harunori Uesugi Harunori (上杉 治憲; 1751 - 1822) was a Japanese daimyo, the 9th head of the Yonezawa domain (today's Yonezawa and Okitama region), and a descendant of Fujiwara no Yoshikado. Born in Edo, he was the second son of a daimyo of the Akizuki clan, who controlled part of Hyuga province. Uesugi_Harunori
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| August 2005 in rail transport August_2005_in_rail_transport
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| Mandalay Division Mandalay_Division
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| Uyoku dantai Uyoku dantai (; lit. "right wing groups") are Japanese nationalist right-wing groups. In 1996, the National Police Agency estimated that there are over 1000 right wing groups in Japan with about 100,000 members in total. Uyoku_dantai
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| Blood and Bones Blood and Bones (; Chi to Hone) is a Japanese film, directed by Yoichi Sai and starring Takeshi Kitano. It is based on the semi-autobiographical novel Chi to hone by Zainichi Korean author Yan Sogiru (Yang Seok-il).The film opened in Japan on November 6, 2004. The DVD has not yet been released in the UK or USA, but was picked up for distribution by Tartan Video. It was released on DVD in Japan on April 6 and in South Korea on May 16, 2005. Blood_and_Bones
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| Gyokuon-hōsō Talk:Gyokuon-hōsō
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| Japanese general election, 2005 For a breakdown of the results by block district with maps, see Results of Japan general election, 2005Japan held a nationwide election to the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower house of the National Diet, on 11 September, 2005, about two years before the end of the term taken from the last election in 2003. Japanese_general_election,_2005
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| Kanako Otsuji is a Japanese LGBT rights activist and former member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly (April 2003–April 2007). One of only seven women in the 110-member Osaka Assembly, Otsuji represented the Sakai-ku, Sakai City constituency. Kanako_Otsuji
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| Seiko Matsuda is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. Due to her popularity in the 1980s and her long career, she has been dubbed the "Eternal idol" by the Japanese media. Seiko_Matsuda
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| Help desk/Archive 25 Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archive_25
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| Beer in Japan Beer in Japan had its start during the Edo Period when the Dutch opened beer halls for the sailors who worked on the trade route between Japan and the Dutch Empire. Japanese-style commercial brewing has been exported to much of southeast Asia and factories are spread throughout the world. Beer_in_Japan
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| Pierre Littbarski Pierre Michael Littbarski (born 16 April 1960 in Berlin) is a former German football player and current manager of FC Vaduz. He is best known for his brilliant dribbling abilities. He was a FIFA World Cup winner with West Germany in 1990. He was also runner1982 and 1986 with West Germany. Pierre_Littbarski
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| People's New Party The People's New Party (国民新党 Kokumin Shintō) is a centre-right, Conservative, Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005 in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a snap election. People's_New_Party
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| Princess Akiko of Mikasa Princess_Akiko_of_Mikasa
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| Ami Suzuki Ami_Suzuki
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| Consensual homicide Consensual homicide refers to a killing in which the victim wants to die. Consensual_homicide
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| Peter Fernandez Peter Fernandez (born 29 January 1927) is an American actor, voice actor, director, and film crew person from the United States with extensive experience in screenwriting, production, and voice and dialogue direction. Despite a vast and varied career in entertainment extending from the late 1930s to , Fernandez is perhaps best known for his uncredited roles of both the title character, and Rex Racer/Racer X in the 1967 anime dub of Speed Racer (which he also co-wrote; he was also the voice director for the series). Peter_Fernandez
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| List of best-selling books best-selling single-volume books and book series to date and in any language. For some books, accurate accounting has proven impossible, so the book is excluded or an educated guess by an expert is provided. "Best-selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of each book, rather than the number of books printed or currently owned. Comics and textbooks are not included in this list. Book versions of plays, like Shakespeare's works, are also excluded. List_of_best-selling_books
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| Empress Gemmei Empress_Gemmei
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| Mind Game (film) is a Japanese animated feature film based on the comic by Robin Nishi. It was written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa and animated primarily by Studio 4°C.It is unusual among features other than anthology films in using a series of disparate visual styles to tell one continuous story. Mind_Game_(film)
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