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- not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that ... Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks when ...20 KB (3,138 words) - 19:56, 22 April 2023
- - 1662), was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born ... Zheng Chenggong was a prominent leader of the Ming loyalist movement ...15 KB (2,381 words) - 15:22, 3 December 2022
- Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... shogunate and began operating a system of money exchanges. They received ...22 KB (3,120 words) - 12:54, 10 March 2023
- The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...32 KB (4,471 words) - 21:47, 30 January 2024
- Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...16 KB (2,370 words) - 16:22, 3 December 2023
- Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) during the ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... 147° east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately ...15 KB (2,187 words) - 18:45, 7 February 2023
- === 1983 - Sea of Japan tsunami === 7.7 earthquake occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 100 km west of ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... and the island of Kyūshū in the Sea of Japan in the western Pacific; ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- post-war writing and the circumstances of his ritual suicide in public ... Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ...26 KB (3,997 words) - 18:56, 9 November 2022
- 1190) was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura ... his own poems against each other. Many of his poems are included in the ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- waiting in the imperial court at the height of the Heian period (795–1185 ... The name “Lady Murasaki” refers both to the author of The Tale ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- , the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in ... In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 18:53, 21 May 2024
- Gaya refers to a confederacy of chiefdoms in the Nakdong River valley ... The Gaya confederacy became a key component of the Silla dynasty. ...15 KB (2,181 words) - 04:48, 18 April 2024
- which lived during a large part of the Mesozoic era, were the ... now is used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria. ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- or other aquatic organisms. The activity of catching the aquatic species ... The focus of a fishery may be fish, but the definition is expanded ...13 KB (1,881 words) - 17:27, 28 March 2024
- The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful ... The western Pacific, south of the sea of Japan, experiences dramatic ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- provide a look at the heart and soul of Korea. The Parks host and protect ... anniversary, and the twentieth anniversary of the Korea National Park Service ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:16, 11 March 2023
- quot; "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to ... in recent years as the central instrument of large drum ensembles called ...24 KB (3,759 words) - 01:00, 21 April 2023
- Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
