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- Aikido [r]: A Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba. [e]
- Alphabet [r]: Writing system in which symbols - single or multiple letters, such as <t> or <ch> - represent phonemes (significant 'sounds') of a language. [e]
- Arudou Debito [r]: (有道出人) Japanese human rights activist, teacher and author; born and brought up in the United States, he became a naturalised Japanese citizen in 2000 (born 1965). [e]
- Astro Boy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Australia [r]: Continent in the Southern Hemisphere and the federal parliamentary nation that occupies it. [e]
- Blade Runner [r]: 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [e]
- Buddhism in the United States [r]: [e]
- C.W. Nicol [r]: (C.W.ニコル C.W. Nikoru) Japanese environmentalist, conservationist and writer of Welsh descent (born 1940). [e]
- California [r]: A state of the United States located on the west coast of the North American continent. [e]
- Chiba prefecture [r]: (千葉県 Chiba-ken) area of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu island; population about 6,100,000. [e]
- Chinese characters [r]: (simplified Chinese 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字) are symbols used to write varieties of Chinese and - in modified form - other languages; world's oldest writing system in continuous use. [e]
- Chugoku [r]: (中国地方 Chuugoku-chihoo), westerly region of Japan also known as Sanin-Sanyo (山陰山陽地方 Sanin-Sanyoo-chihoo) on Honshu island, divided into five prefectures and including the cities of Hiroshima and Okayama; population about 7,600,000. [e]
- Culture of Japan [r]: Set of traditions, pastimes, artistic expression, use of language, belief systems and so on that distinguishes Japan from other nations. [e]
- England [r]: The largest and southernmost country in the United Kingdom, and location of the largest city and seat of government, London; population about 51,000,000. [e]
- English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. [e]
- Esperanto [r]: International language created by Zamenhof in the late 19th century. [e]
- French language [r]: A Romance language spoken in northwestern Europe (mainly in France, Belgium, Switzerland), in Canada and in many other countries. [e]
- German language [r]: German is a West-Germanic language, the official language of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein, one of several official languages in Switzerland and Belgium, and also spoken in Italy and Denmark. [e]
- Geta [r]: A kind of Japanese shoe with a flat wooden sole raised by one or more 'teeth'. [e]
- Greater Tokyo Area [r]: Densely-populated metropolitan area of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu island, including Tokyo and the surrounding prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa and Saitama; population about 35,000,000. [e]
- Guam [r]: A civilian-governed U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands of the Western Pacific, it is a major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers [e]
- Hawaiian Creole [r]: Creole language (created through children acquiring a pidgin as their first language and thereby making it complex) popularly known as Hawaiian 'Pidgin', with vocabulary largely from English; spoken in the U.S. state of Hawaii, it replaced an earlier pidgin based on the Hawaiian language. [e]
- International Phonetic Alphabet [r]: System of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. [e]
- Italian language [r]: A Romance language spoken in Italy and Switzerland. [e]
- Japanese (disambiguation) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Japanese English [r]: English as used by native speakers of Japanese, either for communicating with non-Japanese speakers or commercial and entertainment purposes. Includes vocabulary and usages not found in the native English-speaking world. [e]
- Japanese media [r]: Newspapers, magazines, television, radio and internet sites in Japan. [e]
- Japanese popular culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
- Ju-on [r]: (呪怨 Juon, literally 'curse-grudge') a series of Japanese horror films directed by Takashi Shimizu, centring around a curse born of someone dying in the grip of powerful anger. [e]
- Kagoshima prefecture [r]: (鹿児島県 Kagoshima-ken) area of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and including some of the southerly Ryukyu Islands; population about 1,700,000. [e]
- Kanagawa prefecture [r]: (神奈川県 Kanagawa-ken) area of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu island; population about 8,850,000. [e]
- Kanji [r]: (漢字) Chinese-derived characters used to write some elements of the Japanese language. [e]
- Kansai [r]: (関西地方 Kansai-chihoo), region of Japan also known as Kinki (近畿地方 Kinki-chihoo) on Honshu island, divided into seven prefectures and including the cities of Kyoto and Osaka; population about 22,500,000. [e]
- Kanto [r]: (関東地方 Kantoo-chihoo), region of Japan on Honshu island, divided into seven prefectures and including the capital, Tokyo; population about 41,650,000. [e]
- Korean language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Korea [r]: Historical country and peninsula of northeastern Asia, comprising the states of North Korea and South Korea. [e]
- Koshi-byo (Nagasaki) [r]: A Confucius shrine in the south of Nagasaki, Japan; sovereign territory of the People's Republic of China. [e]
- Koshi-byo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Language attrition [r]: The loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language by individuals. [e]
- Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: The laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the use of a language, or the making of recommendations for effective language usage. [e]
- Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. [e]
- Manchukuo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Manga [r]: Japanese or Japanese-style comics. [e]
- Melbourne [r]: "Capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia." [e]
- Mie prefecture [r]: (三重県 Mie-ken) area of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu island; population about 2,000,000. [e]
- Milky Way [r]: The Milky Way galaxy which contains our solar system. [e]
- Morphology (linguistics) [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. [e]
- Nintendo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Noun class [r]: Groups of nouns that a particular language treats similarly, categorized either by gender ("masculine"/"feminine"/"neuter"), animacy, or some other attribute of the thing signified by the noun; or by the noun's morphology; or by other rules, different from language to language. [e]
- Obama, Fukui [r]: (小浜市 Obama-shi) city in Fukui prefecture, Japan, famous for its historical connections to China and sharing its name with a U.S. presidential candidate; population about 34,000. [e]
- Okinawa Islands [r]: (沖縄諸島 Okinawa-shotoo) group of Japanese islands including Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Islands chain; many are uninhabited. [e]
- Okinawa Island [r]: (沖縄本島 Okinawa-hontoo) largest island of Okinawa prefecture in the Japanese Ryukyu Islands chain, with Naha (那覇市 Naha-shi) its capital. [e]
- Okinawa prefecture [r]: (沖縄県 Okinawa-ken) Area of Japan consisting of many southerly islands of the Ryukyu Islands chain, with Okinawa Island the largest; population about 1,300,000. [e]
- Orthography [r]: Art or study of correct spelling and grammar according to established usage. [e]
- Osaka [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Osaka (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Palatalization [r]: An umbrella term for several processes of assimilation in phonetics and phonology, by which the articulation of a consonant is changed under the influence of a preceding or following front vowel or a palatal or palatalized consonant. [e]
- Palau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Penguins in popular culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philippines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Phonetics [r]: Branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. [e]
- Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. [e]
- Pidgin Hawaiian [r]: Extinct pidgin language spoken in Hawaii, which drew most of its vocabulary from Hawaiian; spoken mainly by immigrants to Hawaii, and died out in the early twentieth century. [e]
- Politeness [r]: Culturally defined phenomenon expressed as the application of good manners or etiquette. [e]
- Portuguese language [r]: An Iberian Romance language, of the Indo-European family. [e]
- Ryukyu Islands [r]: (南西諸島 Nansei Shotoo 'Southwest Islands') subtropical Japanese island chain in the East China Sea, east of Taiwan; divided between Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures and home to the Ryukyuan languages and people. [e]
- Saitama prefecture [r]: (埼玉県 Saitama-ken) area of Japan located in the Kanto region of Honshu island; population about 7,100,000. [e]
- Shichigon-zekku [r]: Japanese term for a poetry verse form consisting of four phrases each seven Chinese characters in length. [e]
- Shigin [r]: A form of Japanese poetry, which is usually chanted, either individually or within a group. [e]
- Sign language [r]: A system of language in which expressions are conveyed using body movements rather than the human voice. [e]
- Spanish language [r]: A Romance language widely spoken in Spain, its current and former territories, and the United States of America. [e]
- Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. [e]
- State of Hawaii [r]: State of the United States of America consisting of an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. [e]
- Sun Yat-sen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Syllable [r]: Unit of organisation in phonology that divides speech sounds or sign language movements into groups to which phonological rules may apply. [e]
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tokyo [r]: (東京 Tookyoo) capital of Japan, a densely-populated metropolitan region of many cities in the Kanto region of Honshu island; population about 13,000,000. [e]
- Unicode [r]: Character encoding standard designed to formalize a universal representation of alphanumeric symbols. [e]
- V (letter) [r]: The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet. [e]
- Verb [r]: A word in the structure of written and spoken languages that generally defines action. [e]
- Writing system [r]: A set of signs used to represent a language, such as an alphabet, or a set of rules used to write a language, such as conventions of spelling and punctuation. [e]
- Writing [r]: The process of recording thoughts or speech in a visually or haptically retrievable manner. [e]
- Written language [r]: The communication and representation of a language by means of a writing system. [e]
