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Vairocana is one of many Buddhas revered by particular sects of Sino-Japanese Buddhism, especially among the Chinese school of Hua-Yen, and the ...

architect's recommendations to add Japanese components, the Rokumeikan ... balls, which introduced many high-ranking Japanese officials to Western manners ...

10, 1835 – February 3, 1901) was a Japanese author, educator, translator ... to increase, as he repeatedly wrote, Japanese “strength and independence ...

Natsume Soseki (夏目 漱石 in Japanese; February 9, 1867 - December ... In 1900, Soseki was sent by the Japanese government to study in Britain ...

– 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also ... Yicun (or Hsueh-feng I-ts'un; Japanese: Seppo Gison; another disciple ...

known as Noguchi Seisaku, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered ... his lifetime and after his death. The Japanese government established the ...

of his father Zhang Zuolin by the Japanese on June 4, 1928, he became ... Communists and the Kuomintang against the Japanese. Zhang then accompanied ...

(Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth ... (Wade-Giles: Yuan-wu K'o-ch'in; Japanese: Engo Kokugon) (1063-1135 ...

States and Europe, becoming the first Japanese company to sell its shares ... 1921. His family had been brewing sake (Japanese rice liquor) for 14 generations ...

) is a Japanese trading company and one of the largest sogo shosha ... Marubeni's name combines the Japanese words for "circle ...

000 women who were forced to serve in the Japanese army's brothels during ... military Comfort Stations throughout the Japanese theater during World War ...

1, 1892 - July 24, 1927) was a prolific Japanese writer and poet, noted ... pocket watch and a cash award of one million yen (about US $10,000). Akira ...

bombardment of Choshu and convinced the Japanese leaders not to go to war ... Household Law and established the Japanese peerage system (kazoku) ...

receive official accreditation from the Japanese government until 1919. It ... accredited as a university by the Japanese Ministry of Education until ...

sutra (Garland Sutra), under Zhiyan (Chih-yen, 智儼) (602 - 668). In 670 ... The Hwa Om sect (Hua yen in Chinese, Kegon in Japanese, and Avatamsaka ...

), also known as Nikon or Nikon Corp., is a Japanese company specializing ... Optical Industries"). When the Japanese Navy lost its laboratory ...

Wade-Giles: Huang-po Hsi-yün; Japanese: Ōbaku Kiun) (d. 850) ... ) was an influential Chinese master of Chan (Zen in Japanese) Buddhism ...

over the control of Korea in the First Sino-Japanese War ( ... equivalent to (then) 510,000,000 Japanese yen, about 6.4 times the Japanese ...

has been responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including radar ... Toshiba was responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including ...

1686 - 1769) was a major reformer of the Japanese Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism ... studies the story of the Chinese Zen master Yen-t'ou, who had been brutally ...

net annual sales average 4,157 billion Japanese Yen (US$40.23 billion), and ... Today, Canon’s net annual sales average 3,467 billion Japanese Yen ...

crane, Grus japonensis, also called the Japanese crane, spends the spring ... whose culture is more Siberian than Japanese, performed a crane dance ...

Nitobe was a prolific writer and exerted a powerful influence on Japanese ... In 1901, Nitobe was appointed technical advisor to the Japanese colonial ...

experts were brought to Japan, and Japanese students were sent abroad ... his father, Emperor Kōmei and a new Japanese era of Meiji, meaning "enlightened ...

in the world. It was founded during the Japanese Enpō ("Prolonged Wealth ... ke (House of Mitsui) became the largest Japanese merchant house of the Tokugawa ...

Chu Ti) was entitled as the Prince of Yan or Yen (燕), an ancient name for ... promulgated, and designating the Prince of Yen his new heir. After hesitating ...

, is the Japanese word for comics (sometimes called komikku コミック ... have steadily become a major part of the Japanese publishing industry, popular ...

Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the ... in all. The two major collections are the Pi-yen lu (Chinese: “Blue Cliff ...

off in a circular area. The sport is of Japanese origin and is surrounded ... As of March 2001, the monthly salary figures for sekitori (in Japanese ...

Kimono (Japanese: 着物, literally "something worn," i ... ===Early Japanese textiles=== Dyeing and weaving began in Japan during ...

in China, experiencing the Sino-Japanese War of 1907, the fall of ... Western textbooks translated into Chinese by Yen Fu. He studied philosophy ...

) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer based in Hiroshima, Japan ... these were produced in the company's Japanese plants. ...

New York, and London stock exchanges, the Japanese government still owns roughly ... capabilities and devices. In 2001 NTT’s Japanese subsidiary NTT DoCoMo launched ...

is a Japanese multinational corporation that specializes in manufacturing ... released in 1951, pioneered the Japanese small car concept. Suzuki’s ...

(1912-1949), Shanxi was held by the warlord Yen Hsi-shan, even with all of ... Army in the ensuing Chinese Civil War. Yen Hsi-shan, the warlord who ...

Kingdom, for the past 200 years. Some Japanese aristocrats favored an immediate ... sent six naval vessels and an Imperial Japanese Envoy to Ganghwa IslandLink ...

Aum Shinrikyo, also known as Aleph, is a Japanese New Religious Movement ... numbers of young adherents from leading Japanese universities with its blend ...

Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... for reaching enlightenment: gong-an (Japanese: koan) practice (described ...

is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufactured ... the company grew to become the largest Japanese producer of electronics ...

form the Second United Front against the invading Japanese. War, broke out. Launched by Feng Yü-hsiang, Yen Hsi-shan, and Wang Ching-wei ...

yang and the Five Elements. Zou Yan (Tsou Yen) is considered its founder ... Some Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese place names (toponyms ...

The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital ... was proclaimed a City of Peace by the Japanese parliament in 1949, and ...

of Chinese characters (kanji) used in the Japanese language. The new forms ... problems in China during that time.Yuehping Yen, Calligraphy and Power in ...

shes dbang po; and the teachings from Mo Ho Yen, 和尚摩訶衍 (Tibetan: ... (742–797) invited the Ch’an master Mo-ho-yen (whose name consists of the ...

ROC). Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which time his ... Kuomintang. Chiang served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911. ...

the French colonial administration, the Japanese ruled from behind the scenes ... Due to a combination of Japanese exploitation and poor weather, a ...

Isoroku Yamamoto(Japanese: 山本五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku) (April ... was appointed Vice Minister of the Japanese navy, and joined the ranks ...

In 1899, the Japanese Ministry of Education sent Yamaha to the United ... business suddenly increased when the Japanese Ministry of Education mandated ...

from the expatriate Chinese and the Japanese. Sun Yat-sen was regarded ... such as social Darwinism introduced by Yen Fu after the Sino-Japanese ...

century historical novel San Kuo chih yen-i (Romance of the Three Kingdoms ... his tactical decisions in the Second Sino-Japanese War during the World War II. ...

gaisha, or Toyota in short, is a Japanese automaker. It is the world ... | Year to Year Change (Japanese Yen) | | 21,346.5 | 2,780.9 ...

On August 24, 2006 the Japanese National Museum of Emerging Science ... and Philip Ragan, was published in Japanese and entered the Japanese ...

foreign influences, developed in a uniquely Japanese way. ... Together they are often known as the Japanese Archipelago. Most of the ...

The Japanese invasion in 1937 presented the next crisis to strike the city. By the end of the war, many of the gardens lay in ruin. In the early ...

would have tremendous impact on later Japanese thought. Chosun Korea also ... in 1894, leading to the First Sino-Japanese War, which resulted in China ...

Manila. The seas were not safe with many Japanese pirates. Therefore in order ... After the French translation of Father Stanislas Yen, University of ...

dollars (A$), Chinese Renminbi (元/¥), and Japanese yen (¥)"[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/zimbabwe-to-make-chinese-yuan-legal ...

Some martial arts, especially the Japanese martial arts, have students ... have introduced Chan Buddhism (similar to Japanese Zen Buddhism) at Shaolin ...

from Fujian, as well as Chinese and Japanese pirates, became more frequent. ... As the Qing dynasty was defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895 ...

Chinese patriots rallying against the Japanese and Duan's Beiyang ... he retreated to deal with the further Japanese incursions into China. Victorious ...

; Pinyin: Yānjīng; Wade-Giles: Yen-ching) is and has been another ... was besieged until relieved by American, Japanese, and European troops. ...

bridges and 25 strings, similar to the Japanese koto) was frequently used ... which Nameless (Jet Li) and Long Sky (Donnie Yen) play go. The music was actually ...