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- from the Greek for spiny skin) are a phylum of marine invertebrates that are ... terrestrial representatives. Representatives of the phylum can be found at ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In 742, Ganjin was visited ... Jianzhen promulgated the Lü-tsung (Vinaya) school of Buddhism, which ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 12:20, 1 August 2022
- The Treaty of Shimonoseki (Japanese: 下関条約, "Shimonoseki ... Hotel on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing Empire of China ...14 KB (2,212 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- – 708 or 710 C.E.), was a Japanese poet of the Nara period who featured ... As an official poet to the court of three successive rulers, Hitomaro ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- Sea to the south; and the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east. South Korea ... Yellow Sea to the south; the East Sea (Sea of Japan) borders the east coast ...14 KB (2,131 words) - 06:52, 18 April 2024
- its southwest. It is connected to the Sea of Japan (also known as "Korean ... Kuril Islands straits, waters from the Sea of Japan flowing through the La ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- West from the unique Christian perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Together ... Endo’s greatest work, Silence, portrays the courage of Japanese ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- - 1898), also known as John Manjiro, was one of the first Japanese people to ... four other fishermen from Tosa Province, Japan, and rescued by the American ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Ganghwa Island (江華島), known as the first line of defense for ... island in South Korea, sits in the estuary of the Han River on the west coast ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- Koi is any of the ornamental, domesticated varieties of the common ... Koi is one of the world's most popular freshwater, ornamental ...13 KB (2,084 words) - 22:49, 18 October 2021
- The Kamchatka Peninsula is a long body of land jutting dramatically ... About the size of New Zealand, it is one of the largest peninsulas ...9 KB (1,374 words) - 02:34, 5 October 2022
- Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is regarded by Koreans as one of ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- (1159 – June 15, 1189) was a general of the Minamoto clan of Japan ... The exploits of Yoshitsune and his faithful follower, the monk Benkei ...13 KB (2,039 words) - 18:09, 9 November 2022
- in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. In 1891, Hearn married ... in western Japan on the coast of the Sea of Japan. Most Japanese identify ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- Ryōkan (良寛) (1758-1831) was a Zen Buddhist monk of the Edo period ... in Echigo Province, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, in 1758. His father, ...10 KB (1,696 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- abalone), crabs, lobsters, shrimp, and sea urchins—and others including ... item, they have been important for thousands of years in the cuisines of many ...11 KB (1,582 words) - 19:57, 21 April 2023
- benthic, being anchored to the bottom of the ocean or to solid structures. for seaweed, are a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic ...11 KB (1,607 words) - 17:38, 25 January 2023
- The Jomon period (縄文時代, Jōmon-jidai) is the period of Japanese ... genetic expansion from the area of the Sea of Japan towards the rest of eastern ...18 KB (2,641 words) - 07:34, 27 February 2023
- have been formed by the incidental isolation of an existing piece of land during ... others were intended to isolate one group of people from another. More recently ...9 KB (1,326 words) - 17:41, 16 August 2023
- regarded as the holiest temple complex in Japan. Located in the city of Ise ... Jingū is in fact a shrine complex composed of over one hundred individual ...13 KB (2,113 words) - 03:00, 8 March 2024
- Tuna is any of 14 species of ocean-dwelling fish comprising the tribe ... and the Philippines and probably the Sea of Japan/East Sea, then migrate ...16 KB (2,306 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- as a Japanese hero and a founding father of the modern age. He was a visionary ... known as "Tosa," on the island of Shikoku, Japan. He was the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- The formlessness which characterizes much of his writing reflects the fluid ... of the northern winds coming across the Sea of Japan. The winds pick up moisture ...14 KB (2,136 words) - 17:16, 5 October 2022
- The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... The cultivation of rice allowed the development of a sedentary agricultural ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 09:53, 23 May 2023
- miles (1,300 km) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to the Russian Kamchatka ... after which they began settlement. A group of the southern islands were seized ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- or “ama shogun” (尼将軍) because of her role in the founding of ... Born in 1156 as the eldest daughter of the leader of the influential ...16 KB (2,515 words) - 16:09, 25 January 2023
- The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari, 平家物語) is an epic ... The Tale of the Heike was compiled in 1240 by an unknown author from ...10 KB (1,591 words) - 17:35, 30 April 2023
- between northwestern Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, and Sea of Okhotsk ... near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (west), the Sea of Okhotsk ...26 KB (3,650 words) - 13:21, 1 February 2024
- size and a more pointed snout than the sea lions in the same family ... The one species of Callorhinus, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ...12 KB (1,705 words) - 07:37, 23 January 2023
- centered in the area around the Sea of Japan, and particularly in the ... center of expansion from the Sea of Japan but cannot indicate dates ...21 KB (3,397 words) - 06:59, 16 June 2023
- and Hawaiian English) is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most ... Since approximately 75 percent of the resident population of the state ...11 KB (1,697 words) - 19:38, 17 November 2022
- Elapidae, whose members are known as elapids, is a family of venomous ... Elapids are a diverse group of more than 300 species placed in about ...24 KB (3,370 words) - 21:57, 24 December 2021
- Bulguksa, the grotto overlooks the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and rests 750 ... Image:Rinux2.jpg|The Sea of Japan can be seen on a clear day from ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- The year 1992 marked the centennial of the beginning of the Donghak ... Japan also sent troops, unrequested, leading to the outbreak of the ...15 KB (2,185 words) - 17:23, 30 January 2024
- tallest volcano and the highest mountain in Japan. Mount Fuji is still considered ... at shrines at the base and around the rim of the crater, and Buddhists called ...18 KB (2,819 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- is a city in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka ... no daidokoro) or the gourmet food capital of Japan. The city has a long ...25 KB (3,427 words) - 19:39, 20 July 2023
- [[File:KarlHaushofer.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait of Karl Haushofer, circa ... who developed the German concept of Geopolitik. An army officer ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 00:43, 5 March 2024
- Qing Dynasty China and Meiji Japan fought over the control of Korea ... symbolized the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrated ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- Genpei gassen, 1180–1185) was a series of conflicts between the Taira ... as Gempei) comes from alternate readings of the kanji for 'Minamoto ...23 KB (3,568 words) - 19:36, 23 October 2022
- The Three Kingdoms Period of Korea (hangul: 삼국시대) featured ... Kingdoms." Founded soon after the fall of Gojoseon, the three city-states ...11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, is a large ... The Southern Ocean lies in the farthest edge of the Southern Hemisphere ...9 KB (1,422 words) - 15:39, 4 February 2023
- philosopher known as "the sage of Ōmi." Nakae was a feudal ... Tottori prefecture) on the coast of the Sea of Japan, and a year later he moved ...13 KB (2,132 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- Jirisan (지리산, 智異山) is a mountain in the southern part ... The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- " Her myths are the most important of the indigenous Japanese faith ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- An otter is any member of 13 extant species of semi-aquatic and aquatic ... Asia, North America, and South America. The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- There are not specific matsuri days for all of Japan; dates vary from area ... and still others around contests where many of the participants sport loin ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- later use. Mochi is used to make a variety of traditional Japanese sweets ... In Japan, mochi is traditionally made in a ceremony called mochitsuki ...16 KB (2,504 words) - 12:55, 10 March 2023
- Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese history and nearly ... of Echigo province, located along the Sea of Japan, in the northern part ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- Topaz is a silicate mineral of aluminum and fluorine, with the chemical ... "to seek," which was the name of an island in the Red Sea that ...5 KB (639 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- 1945 to February 11, 1945 between the heads of government of the United States ... betrayal" was coined in several of these countries to describe ...13 KB (2,093 words) - 10:05, 22 May 2023
- asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea ... #039;s provocative missile tests in the Sea of Japan and noncompliance with ...25 KB (3,635 words) - 06:33, 16 November 2022
- was an uprising of Japanese peasants, most of them Christians, in ... After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, the Christian lords Konishi ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States. The ... occupation of Korea, including the Sea of Japan naming dispute, visits ...21 KB (3,033 words) - 10:44, 10 November 2023
- A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... Europe, although it can also mean Asia when said in Japan. ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Carp is a common name for various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae ... carp are esteemed as a food fish in China, Japan, and Taiwan. They are also ...12 KB (1,855 words) - 00:56, 13 January 2023
- It won fame for playing a vital role winning sea battles against Japanese ships ... and leadership to stop, let alone defeat, Japan. On to this scene appeared ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- battle occurred incidental to the mission of the General Sherman to attempt ... and passed a law that prohibited the return of shipwrecked seaman, especially ...14 KB (2,195 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... was more than doubled by an influx of refugees from the north. Busan ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant ... help to control prey populations. The sea otters, for example, are keystone ...14 KB (2,082 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... dragon is benevolent and powerful, bringer of good fortune. Its image was ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Chinese: 觀音) is known as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- East China Sea to the south, and the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east ... Ulleung-do, a volcanic island in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), has a greater ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...36 KB (5,455 words) - 21:51, 17 February 2023
- who is most famous for his mission to Japan, which opened that country ... he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... details that revealed the characteristics of the figures he drew and paid ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- :For other uses of the word Taira see Taira (disambiguation) ... clan name bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period on certain ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 08:27, 21 January 2024
- 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) - 07:41, 24 January 2023
- 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
- explorer to Africa. Seeking the headwaters of the Nile River, he explored ... a businessman. After a short experience of office work proved him to be ...9 KB (1,323 words) - 03:03, 23 December 2022
- called Shintoism) is a native religion of Japan and was once its state ... After World War II, Shinto lost its status of state religion; some ...32 KB (5,118 words) - 14:16, 27 January 2023
- Mussel is the common term for members of several families of freshwater ... Most freshwater mussels require a host during one stage of the life ...14 KB (2,096 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- began to withdraw as the possible collapse of North Korea in the wake news ... country, because the People's Republic of China has refused to grant ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 10:04, 11 March 2023
- The dugong is only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; ... Dugongs are part of the order Sirenia along with manatees, both of ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 17:19, 12 February 2024
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- Sea turtle (or seaturtle) is the common name for any of the large ... Sea turtles provide important functions for the ecosystem. They are ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 02:43, 21 April 2023
- been interchanged or merged over the course of time. Sometimes, however, dockyards ... regulations have resulted in movement of the industry to developing regions. ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan ... Korea has sometimes been described as a shrimp between two whales ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. He is today regarded ... gossip. Basho, drawing on his own studies of Zen Buddhism, revolutionized ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 16:53, 7 November 2022
- meaning "island") are a chain of more than 150 mostly volcanic ... The islands, including their 57 volcanoes, are in the northern part ...24 KB (3,659 words) - 05:12, 17 June 2023
