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Japanese Sign Language (日本手話, nihon-shuwa), also known by the acronym JSL, is the dominant sign language in Japan and is a complete natural language, distinct from but influenced by the spoken Japanese language.
The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography.It was developed around 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō. [2] [citation needed] Jesuit priests used the system in a series of printed Catholic books so that missionaries could preach and teach their converts without learning to read Japanese orthography.
Hiroshima Urban Employment Area. Hiroshima (広島市, Hiroshima-shi, / ˌ h ɪr oʊ ˈ ʃ iː m ə /, also UK: / h ɪ ˈ r ɒ ʃ ɪ m ə /, [2] US: / h ɪ ˈ r oʊ ʃ ɪ m ə /, [çiɾoɕima] ⓘ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
Japanese is the de facto national language of Japan, where it is spoken by about 126 million people. The oldest attestation is Old Japanese, which was recorded using Chinese characters in the 7th and 8th centuries. [13] It differed from Modern Japanese in having a simple (C)V syllable structure and avoiding vowel sequences. [14]
The name San'in in the Japanese language is formed from two kanji characters. The first, 山, "mountain", and the second, 陰 represents the "yin" of yin and yang.The name means the northern, shady side of the mountains in contrast to the yang "southern, sunny" San'yō region to the south.
Gasshō-zukuri - traditionally thatched houses in Shirakawa-go. Shirakawa (白川村, Shirakawa-mura) is a village located in Ōno District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.It is best known for being the site of Shirakawa-gō, a small, traditional village showcasing a building style known as gasshō-zukuri.
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
Kids (known as Yahoo!きっず in Japan) is a public web portal provided by Yahoo! Japan to find age-appropriate online content for children between the ages of 4 and 12. This site was formerly available in English via Yahoo! , where it was known as Yahooligans! until December 2006, and in Korean via Yahoo!