Ōkami is anaction-adventurevideo game developed byClover Studio and published byCapcom. It was released forSony'sPlayStation 2 video game console in 2006 in Japan and North America, and 2007 in Europe and Australia. Despite the closure of Clover Studio a few months after the game's initial release, a version forNintendo'sWii console was developed and produced byReady at Dawn and Capcom, which was released in North America on 15 April 2008, in Europe in June 2008, and will be released in Japan on 15 October 2009. Set sometime inclassical Japanese history,Ōkami combines severalJapanese myths, legends andfolklore to tell the story of how the land was saved from darkness by theShintosun goddess, namedAmaterasu, who took the form of a whitewolf. It features a distinctsumi-e-inspiredcel-shaded visual style and theCelestial Brush, agesture-system to perform miracles.Ōkami was one of the last PlayStation 2 games selected for release prior to the release of thePlayStation 3. Although it suffered from poor sales,Ōkami earned high acclaim from reviewers and earned, among other awards, the title ofIGN's 2006Game of the Year. The Wii version has earned similar praise though the motion control scheme has received mixed reviews from both critics and gamers. A sequel,Ōkamiden: Chīsaki Taiyō, has been announced by Capcom for release in 2010 on theNintendo DS. (Full article...)
Kishū kumano iwatake tori (Iwatake mushroom gathering at Kumano in Kishu), 1860, aukiyo-e print created byHiroshige II. It is part of the series "100 Famous Views of Japan".
A registration card forLouis Wijnhamer (1904–1975), an ethnic Dutch humanitarian who was captured soon after theEmpire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in March 1942. Prior to the occupation, many ethnic Europeans had refused to leave, expecting the Japanese occupation government to keep a Dutch administration in place. When Japanese troops took control of government infrastructure and services such as ports and postal services, 100,000 European (and some Chinese) civilians were interned in prisoner-of-war camps where the death rates were between 13 and 30 per cent. Wijnhamer was interned in a series of camps throughout Southeast Asia and, after thesurrender of Japan, returned to what was now Indonesia, where he lived until his death.
Asahi Breweries is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group. This photograph, taken during theblue hour with a full moon, shows the headquarters of Asahi Breweries inSumida, Tokyo, as viewed from the wharf on theSumida River near Azuma Bridge. TheAsahi Beer Hall, topped by theAsahi Flame, designed byPhilippe Starck, is visible on the right, with theTokyo Skytree in the background on the left.
Before the outbreak of World War I, German naval ships were located in the Pacific; Tsingtao developed into a major seaport while the surroundingKiautschou Bay area wasleased to Germany since 1898. During the war, Japanese and BritishAllied troopsbesieged the port in 1914 before capturing it from the German and Austro-HungarianCentral Powers, occupying the city and the surrounding region. It served as a base for the exploitation of the natural resources ofShandong province and northern China, and a "New City District" was established to furnish the Japanese colonists with commercial sections and living quarters. Tsingtao eventually reverted to Chinese rule by 1922.
Thekeep ofNagoya Castle located inNagoya,Aichi Prefecture. Originally built around 1525, the castle was used as the District army headquarters and as a POW camp duringWorld War II. During the bombing of Japan, the castle was burnt down in aUSAF air raid on May 14, 1945. It was reconstructed in 1959 and is currently under exhibition.
TheJapanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued between 1942 and 1945 for use within the territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, under occupation byImperial Japan during World War II. The currency, informally referred to as "banana money", was released solely in the form of banknotes, as metals were considered essential to the war effort. The languages used on the notes were reduced to English and Japanese. Each note bears a different obverse and reverse design, but all have a similar layout, and were marked with stamped block letters that begin with "M" for "Malaya". This 1942 five-cent Japanese-issued banknote is part of theNational Numismatic Collection at theSmithsonian Institution.
Other denominations: '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000011-QINU`"'
A map ofNagasaki, Japan depicting the city before and after theatomic bombing of August 9, 1945. The radius of total destruction was about 1.6 km (1 mile), followed by fires across the northern portion of the city to 3.2 km (2 miles) south of thebomb.
Ageisha at work lighting a client's cigar. Geisha are often hired to attend parties and gatherings, traditionally attea houses or at traditionalJapanese restaurants.
Banknotes:Empire of Japan. Reproduction: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
TheJapanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden was the currency issued by theJapanese Empire when it occupied theDutch East Indies during World War II. Following the Dutch capitulation in March 1942, the Japanese closed all banks, seized assets and currency, and assumed control of the economy in the territory. They began issuingmilitary banknotes, as had previously been done in other occupied territories. These were printed in Japan, but retained the name of the pre-war currency and replaced the Dutch gulden at par. From 1943 the military banknotes were replaced by identical bank-issued notes printed within the territory, and the currency was renamed theroepiah from 1944. The currency was replaced by theIndonesian rupiah in 1946, one year after the Japanese surrender and the country's independence.
This note, denominated ten cents, is part of the 1942 series.
Thesiege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the JapaneseTokugawa shogunate against theToyotomi clan, and ending in the clan's dissolution. Divided into two stages (the winter campaign and the summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment. This eight-metre-long (26 ft) painting, titledThe Summer Battle of Osaka Castle and executed on aJapanese folding screen, illustratesOsaka Castle under siege, and was commissioned by thedaimyoKuroda Nagamasa, who took a team of painters with him to the battlefield to record the event. The painting depicts 5071 people and 21 generals, and is held in the collection of Osaka Castle.
One person is killed and another injured in a large-scale fire inŌita,Japan. At least 170 homes are damaged and another 260 households remainwithout electricity.(NPR)
Kumiko Kōda (神田 來未子,Kōda Kumiko; born November 13, 1982), known professionally asKoda Kumi (倖田 來未,Kōda Kumi), is a Japanese singer fromKyoto, known for herurban andR&B songs.
After debuting with the single "Take Back" in December 2000, Koda gained fame in March 2003 when the songs from her seventh single, "Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba", were used as themes for the video gameFinal Fantasy X-2. Her popularity grew with the release of her fourth studio albumSecret (2005), her sixteenth single "Butterfly" (2005), and her firstgreatest hits albumBest: First Things (2005), reaching the number-three, number-two, and number-one spots respectively. (Full article...)
Kumamoto Prefecture is aprefecture ofJapan located onKyūshūIsland. The capital is the city ofKumamoto. Historically the area was calledHigo province and was renamed to Kumamoto prefecture during theMeiji Restoration as part of theabolition of the feudal system. The current Japanese orthography for Kumamoto literally means "bear root/origin", or "origin of the bear". Kumamoto Prefecture is located in the center ofKyūshū, the southernmost of the four major Japanese islands. It is bordered by theAriake inland sea and theAmakusaarchipelago to the west,Fukuoka Prefecture andŌita Prefecture to the north,Miyazaki Prefecture to the east, andKagoshima Prefecture to the south. Mt.Aso (1592 m), an extensive activevolcano, is in the east of Kumamoto Prefecture. This volcano is located at the center of the Asocaldera, the most famouscaldera in Japan. Fourteen cities are located in Kumamoto Prefecture. Kumamoto hosts a largeHonda automobile plant. In 2007, a Honda factory on the site began to produce non-siliconsolar cells for homes and businesses, with a projected capacity roughly equivalent to 8,000 households/year.
The following are images from various Japan-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1Mount Aso 4 pyroclastic flow and the spread of Aso 4 tephra (90,000 to 85,000 years ago). The pyroclastic flow reached almost the whole area of Kyushu, and volcanic ash was deposited of 15 cm in a wide area from Kyushu to southern Hokkaido. (fromGeography of Japan)
Image 10Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192. This was the firstmilitary government in which the shogun with thesamurai were the de facto rulers of Japan. (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 11A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highestcourt ranks, higher than most court nobles. (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 39Samurai couldkill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared by the Japanese population. Edo period (1798) (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 40Japan in 1582, showing territory conquered by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in gray (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 41Kinkaku-ji was built in 1397 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 50Relief map of the land and the seabed of Japan. It shows the surface and underwater terrain of the Japanese archipelago. (fromGeography of Japan)
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Edo period screen depicting theBattle of Sekigahara. It began on 21 October 1600, with a total of 160,000 men facing each other.
Image 64Atomic cloud over Hiroshima, 1945 (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 65Japanese experts inspect the scene of the alleged railway sabotage on South Manchurian Railway that led to theMukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. (fromHistory of Japan)
Image 69The Kuril Islands, with their Russian names. The borders of the Treaty of Shimoda (1855) and the Treaty of St. Petersburg (1875) are shown in red. Currently, all islands northeast of Hokkaido are administered by Russia. (fromGeography of Japan)
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