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| Francis Xavier Saint Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jaso y Azpilicueta (Javier, Navarre, 7 April 1506 – 3 December 1552 on Shangchuan Island, China) was a Spanish pioneering Roman Catholic missionary of Navarrese origin and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. Francis_Xavier
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| Press coverage 2004 Wikipedia:Press_coverage_2004
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| Japan For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of Japan. Japan
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| Japan Talk:Japan
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| Transport in Monaco Transport in Monaco Transport_in_Monaco
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| Hayao Miyazaki is a prominent filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company.He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. Hayao_Miyazaki
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| Sony Sony
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| Source code computer science, source code (commonly just source) is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language. Source code allows the programmer to communicate with the computer using a reserved number of instructions.The source code which constitutes a program is usually held in one or more text files, sometimes stored in databases as stored procedures and may also appear as code snippets printed in books or other media. Source_code
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| Mount Fuji Mount_Fuji
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| Osaka is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshū.Osaka is a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture. Osaka has historically been the commercial capital of Japan, and is at the heart of Japan's second largest metropolitan area of Keihanshin (Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto), whose population is 18,643,915. Osaka
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| Go (game) Go is a strategic board game for two players. It is also known as igo (Japanese), weiqi (Chinese) or baduk (Korean). Go is noted for being rich in strategic complexity despite its simple rules.The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones (playing pieces, now usually made of glass or plastic) on the vacant intersections of a grid of 19 Go_(game)
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| Bombing of Tokyo The bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces took place at several times during the Pacific campaigns of World War II and included the most destructive bombing raid in history. Bombing_of_Tokyo
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| 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 302 events in 28 sports, one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 Games. 2008_Summer_Olympics
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| The Tale of Genji is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel to still be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of debate (see Stature below). The_Tale_of_Genji
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| PricewaterhouseCoopers PricewaterhouseCoopers (or PwC) is the world's largest professional services firm. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, both formed in London. PricewaterhouseCoopers
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| Mr. Children Mr. Children, commonly called , is a Japanese rock band formed in 1988 by Kazutoshi Sakurai, Kenichi Tahara, Keisuke Nakagawa, and Hideya Suzuki. As a group, they are one of the most successful Japanese pop artists, having sold over 50 million records and creating the in the mid 1990s in Japan. Mr._Children
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| Tokyo Tower Tokyo_Tower
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| Main Page/Archive 3 Talk:Main_Page/Archive_3
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| TakuyaMurata User_talk:TakuyaMurata
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| Enka is a Japanese popular music genre. Although enka is felt like traditional music, modern enka is the young music genre, which was generated with Japanese nonmaterial nationalism such as Nihonjinron and adopted more traditional style than Japanese prewar popular ryūkōka music. Modern enka is a balladly popular music developed in the post-war era. Some of the first modern enka singers were Hachiro Kasuga, Michiya Mihashi and Hideo Murata. One theory holds that modern enka means or "Performance Song". Enka
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| Ayumi Hamasaki Ayumi_Hamasaki
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| Ōkuma Shigenobu Marquis ; was a Japanese statesman and the 8th (30 June 1898 – 8 November 1898) and 17th (16 April 1914 – 9 October 1916) Prime Minister of Japan. One of the most popular statesmen in Japanese history, Ōkuma was also an early advocate of Western science and culture in Japan, and founder of Waseda University. Ōkuma_Shigenobu
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| Blondie (band) Blondie is an American rock band led by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave and punk rock scenes. Their first two albums contained strong elements of these genres, and although successful in the United Kingdom and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the United States until the release of Parallel Lines in 1978. Blondie_(band)
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| Synthetik User_talk:Synthetik
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| Fukuoka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka. Fukuoka_Prefecture
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| Kansai International Airport Kansai_International_Airport
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| Ōkubo Toshimichi , was a Japanese statesman, a samurai of Satsuma, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration. He is regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan. Ōkubo_Toshimichi
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| Kido Takayoshi , also referred as Kido Kōin was a Japanese statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji Restoration. He used the alias Niibori Matsusuke (新堀松輔) when he worked against the shogun. Kido_Takayoshi
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| Komura Jutarō was a statesman and diplomat in Meiji period Japan. Komura_Jutarō
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| Chiba Prefecture Talk:Chiba_Prefecture
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| Honinbo Shusaku Honinbo Shusaku (本因坊秀策 Honinbō Shūsaku, born as Kuwabara Torajirō (桑原虎次郎 Kuwabara Torajirō), June 6, 1829 — August 10, 1862) was a professional Go player and is considered by many to be the greatest player of the golden age of Go in the mid-19th century. Honinbo_Shusaku
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| Matthew C. Perry Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Matthew_C._Perry
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| Breeder reactor breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that generates new fissile or fissionable material at a greater rate than it consumes such material. These reactors were initially (1940s and 1960s) considered appealing due to their superior fuel economy; a normal reactor is able to consume less than 1% of the natural uranium that begins the fuel cycle, whereas a breeder can utilize a much greater percentage of the initial fissionable material, and with re-processing, can use almost all of the initial fissionable material. Breeder_reactor
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| Taiwan High Speed Rail The Taiwan High Speed Rail (, abbreviated THSR) is a high-speed rail network that runs along the west coast of Taiwan. It is approximately long, and runs from Taipei City to Kaohsiung City. THSR began operation on January 5, 2007. The THSR is based on Japan's Shinkansen system, and its Taiwan High Speed 700T train is a variant of the 700 Series Shinkansen. Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail
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| Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer and translator. His works of fiction and non-fiction have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel Kafka on the Shore. He is considered by critics an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian praised him as one of the "world's greatest living novelists." Haruki_Murakami
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| National anthem national anthem (also national hymn, song etc.) is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. National_anthem
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| Press coverage 2002 Wikipedia:Press_coverage_2002
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| Yomiuri Shimbun The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun. Yomiuri_Shimbun
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| Yasukuni Shrine is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is dedicated to the kami (spirits) of soldiers and others who died fighting on behalf of the Emperor of Japan. Currently, its Symbolic Registry of Divinities lists the names of over 2,466,000 enshrined men and women whose lives were dedicated to the service of Imperial Japan, particularly to those killed in wartime. Yasukuni_Shrine
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| Tokyo International Airport Tokyo_International_Airport
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| Kimi ga Yo Talk:Kimi_ga_Yo
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| Shinran Shinran 親鸞 (May 21, 1173 – January 16, 1263) was a Japanese Buddhist monk, who was born in Hino (now a part of Fushimi, Kyoto) at the turbulent close of the Heian Period and lived during the Kamakura Period. Shinran was a pupil of Hōnen and the founder of what ultimately became the Jōdo Shinshū sect in Japan. Shinran
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| Case Closed Case Closed, also known as , is a Japanese detective manga series written and illustrated by Gosho Aoyama and is serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday since 1994. The name "Case Closed" for the English language release results from concerns of copyright conflict of the name Detective Conan. As of April 2009, sixty-four volumes have been released in Japan. The story follows the adventures of Jimmy Kudo, a prodigious young detective who was inadvertently transformed into a child due to a poison. Case_Closed
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| Rei User_talk:Rei
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| Comfort women Comfort women is a euphemism for women working in military brothels, especially those women who were forced into prostitution as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. Around 200,000 are typically estimated to have been involved, with estimates as low as 20,000 from some Japanese scholars Comfort_women
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| Kenzaburō Ōe is a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His works, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, engage with political, social and philosophical issues including nuclear weapons, social non-conformism and existentialism. Kenzaburō_Ōe
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| Mutsu Munemitsu Count was a statesman and diplomat in Meiji period Japan. Mutsu_Munemitsu
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| History of anime The history of anime begins at the start of the 20th century, when Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that were being explored in the West. During the 1970s, anime developed further, separating itself from its Western roots, and developing unique genres such as the mecha genre and its Super Robot subgenre. Notable shows in this period include Lupin III and Mazinger Z. During this period several filmmakers became famous, especially Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru O'shit. History_of_anime
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| Mukden Incident Mukden_Incident
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