Japanese names are noted with kanji characters, which often can be read in several different ways. In addition, since there are thousands of kanji to choose from, even the same name can usually be written using many different kanji combinations. There is also a trend to use only one kanji ...
After the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japanese horror cinema would mainly consist of vengeful ghosts, radiation mutants, and kaiju (giant irradiated monsters) starting with Godzilla (1954). [9] The post-war era is also when the horror genre rose to prominence in Japan. [9] ...
Frances Derhamremembered Spowers as being ‘tall, slender and graceful’, with ‘a small head, dark hair and grey eyes’. A rare photograph of Spowers, published in theBulletin(3 September 1925), revealed her fashionable appearance and reflective character. In the late 1930s she stopped practi...
Without further introduction, let's get right to the action starting of course with the day's final bout pitting Yokozuna Hakuho against Yokozuna Asashoryu. After some painfully long pre-bout rituals, the Kokugikan was electric as both rikishi finally approached the starting lines...Hakuho fighting...
Grade 5-8–When Pearl Harbor is attacked, the lives of a Japanese-American girl and her family are thrown into chaos. Sumiko, 12, and her younger brother, Tak-Tak, live with their aunt and uncle, grandfather Jiichan, and adult cousins on a flower farm in Southern California. Though ofte...
Years ago, when the sake craze was first starting, we went to a restaurant in Columbia, SC (I know!) that was featuring sake flights. There was a very thick, creamy sake they served, and my husband really liked it. What kind of sake is it and where can I find it?
This is the second collection of his works put into a series, with 2018 ‘The Junji Ito Collection” taking a similar structure of presenting a broad range of stories in the mangaka’s repertoire.The work of Junji Ito has made him one of the most recognizable names in manga, with...
With the young girl’s arrival Yukitomo adds a new luxurious wing to the house and Tomo more and more finds herself in the role of household accountant. Both women soon arrange themselves with the new conditions forced upon them, but these change once more when Yumi takes up service in the...
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi is an North American animated fantasy comedy television series created by Sam Register for Cartoon Network. It aired on TV on November 19, 2004 to June 27, 2006 with a total of three seasons, and thirty four episodes, leaving five epi
but when starting the game with over $200k bonus cash it seems like they have the ultimate cheat code, and a recipe for playing the victim card for life. I could only imagine how different my life could and would have been if I had been granted 200k without having to work for it or...