San Japan is an annual three-day anime convention held during August/September at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, San Antonio Grand Hyatt Hotel...
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as "Kojima Denki-san" by another nearby company. This may be seen on small maps often used in phone books and business cards in Japan, where the names...
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The Treaty of San Francisco (サンフランシスコ講和条約, San-Furanshisuko kōwa-Jōyaku), also called the Treaty of Peace with Japan (日本国との平和条約, Nihon-koku to no Heiwa-Jōyaku)...
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Shichi-Go-San (七五三, lit. 'seven-five-three') is a traditional Japanese rite of passage and festival day for three and seven-year-old girls, and five-year-old...
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Yakuza (redirect from Organized crime in Japan)
members of transnational organized crime syndicates originating in Japan. The Japanese police and media (by request of the police) call them bōryokudan...
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Sazae-san (Japanese: サザエさん) is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local...
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Treaty of San Francisco in 1952, and Japan was granted membership in the United Nations in 1956. A period of record growth propelled Japan to become the...
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Kyushu (redirect from Kyushu Japan)
"Kujū-san, Japan". Peakbagger.com. "離島とは(島の基礎知識) (what is a remote island?)". MLIT (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) (in Japanese)...
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Mount Kōya (redirect from Koya-san)
Mount Kōya (高野山, Kōya-san) is a large temple settlement in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan to the south of Osaka. In the strictest sense, Mount Kōya is the...
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Teasing Master Takagi-san (Japanese: からかい上手の高木さん, Hepburn: Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san, lit. "Good at Teasing, Miss Takagi") is a Japanese manga series written...
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Please Put Them On, Takamine-san (Japanese: 履いてください、鷹峰さん, Hepburn: Haite Kudasai, Takamine-san) is a romantic comedy science fiction manga series written...
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(Spanish and Italian: San) San (letter) (Ϻ or Ϡ), an archaic Greek letter, between pi and qoppa San (Japanese honorific) (-san), a suffix equivalent to...
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is a Japanese American and a Japanese national population in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Area. The center of the Japanese and Japanese American...
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Law enforcement in Japan is provided mainly by prefectural police under the oversight of the National Police Agency. The National Police Agency is administered...
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HoiHoi-san, full title Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san (Japanese: 一撃殺虫!!ホイホイさん, lit. "One-Shot Bug Killer!! Interceptor Doll HoiHoi-san"), is a manga by...
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San Antonio International Airport (IATA: SAT, ICAO: KSAT, FAA LID: SAT) is an international airport in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is in Uptown...
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San Buena Ventura was a 120-ton ship built in Japan under the direction of the English navigator and adventurer William Adams for the shōgun Tokugawa...
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San Antonio FC is a professional soccer club based in San Antonio, Texas. It competes in the USL Championship, the second-highest level of the United...
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States) and the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco, which normalized relations between the United States and Japan. The United States maintains an embassy...
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of World War II, Aung San fled Burma and went to China to solicit foreign support for Burmese independence. During the Japanese occupation of Burma, he...
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The San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden, or Sunken Gardens in Brackenridge Park, San Antonio, Texas, opened in an abandoned limestone rock quarry in the early...
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Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They comprise...
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The San Antonio Brahmas are a professional American football team based in San Antonio, Texas. The Brahmas compete in the United Football League (UFL)...
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Yoshimura—the mayor of Osaka, Japan—dissolved the sister-city relationship between Osaka and San Francisco that was established in 1957. The San Francisco Comfort...
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The Japan Center is a shopping center in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It opened in March 1968 and was originally called the...
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Ikkyū-san (Japanese: 一休さん, pronounced [ik̚kʲɨᵝːsã̠ɴ]) is a Japanese historical comedy anime series produced by Toei Animation, based on the recorded early...
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Japantown (redirect from Japan Town)
names for Japantown, San Francisco, Japantown, San Jose and Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. Historically, Japantowns represented the Japanese diaspora and its...
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The San Francisco Japanese School (SFJS, San Furanshisuko Nihongo Hoshū Kō (サンフランシスコ日本語補習校)) is a weekend Japanese school as well as a two week summer...
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The Japanese Tea Garden (Japanese: 日本茶園) in San Francisco, California, is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling...
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Alamo Mission (redirect from San Antonio de Valero Mission)
founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo...
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