Akihabara (秋葉原, Akihabara) (”Field of Autumn Leaves”), also known as Akihabara Electric Town (秋葉原電気街, Akihabara Denki Gai), is an area of Tokyo, Japan. It is located less than five minutes by rail from Tokyo Station. Its name is frequently shortened to Akiba in Japan. While there is an official locality named Akihabara nearby, part of [...]
Tōyako (洞爺湖町, Tōyako-chō) is a town in Abuta District, Iburi Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan. This town was formed on 23 March 2006 through the merger of the town Abuta and the village of Tōya. Population as of 31 March 2008 was 10,671.
The name of the town was derived from the nearby Lake Tōya (Tōyako).
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Shōgun (将軍, shōgun) listen is a military rank and historical title in Japan. The Japanese word for “general”, it is made up of two kanji words: sho, meaning “commander”, “general”, or “admiral”, and gun meaning troops or warriors. The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo.
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‘Teriyaki’ (kanji: 照り焼き; hiragana: てりやき) is a cooking technique used in Japanese cuisine in which foods are broiled or grilled in a sweet soy sauce marinade (tare in Japanese). Teriyaki is served in most modern Japanese cuisines.
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The kimono (着物, kimono) is the national costume of Japan. Originally the word “kimono” literally meant thing to wear (ki wearing and mono thing) but now has come to denote a particular type of traditional full-length garment.
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The Emperor (天皇, tennō, literally “heavenly sovereign,”formerly often called the Mikado) of Japan is the country’s monarch. He is the head of the Japanese Imperial Family. Under Japan’s present constitution, the Emperor is the “symbol of the state and the unity of the people,” and is a ceremonial figurehead in a constitutional monarchy (see Politics [...]
Kamikaze [kamikazɛ](Japanese: 神風; literally: “God-wind”, “spirit-wind” or “divinity-wind”; common translation: “divine wind”) is a word of Japanese origin, which in English usually refers to the suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan, against Allied shipping, in the closing stages of the Pacific campaigns of World War II, to destroy as many warships [...]
Tempura (てんぷら or 天麩羅, tenpura) is a classic Japanese dish of deep fried battered vegetables or seafood.
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Tofu, also tōfu (the Japanese Romaji spelling), doufu (the Chinese Pinyin spelling often used in Chinese recipes) or bean curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating soy milk, and then pressing the resulting curds into blocks. There are many different varieties of tofu, including fresh tofu and tofu that [...]
