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  2. Kinbōzan Haruki - Wikipedia

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    Kinbōzan Haruki (Japanese: 金峰山 晴樹, born 24 June 1997 as Yersin Baltagul [1] (Kazakh: Ерсін Балтағұл) is a professional sumo wrestler from Almaty, Kazakhstan. He began his professional sumo career in November 2021 at the age of 24.

  3. List of Major League Baseball players from Japan - Wikipedia

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    A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.

  4. Manzai - Wikipedia

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    The kanji for manzai have been written in various ways throughout the ages. It was originally written as lit. "ten thousand years" or banzai, meaning something like "long life" (萬歳), using 萬 rather than the alternative form of the character, 万, and the simpler form 才 for 歳 (which also can be used to write a word meaning "talent, ability").

  5. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no shimei, Nihonjin no seimei, Nihonjin no namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming ...

  6. Jinmeiyō kanji - Wikipedia

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    ' kanji for use in personal names ') are a set of 863 Chinese characters known as "name kanji" in English. They are a supplementary list of characters that can legally be used in registered personal names in Japan, despite not being in the official list of "commonly used characters" ( jōyō kanji ).

  7. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

  8. Nafudakake - Wikipedia

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    Nafudakake (名札掛け, lit. "name-plate-rack") is a Japanese method of displaying all the names of the members in a group by collecting the names on individual plaques called nafuda (名札, "nametag") and hanging them together in a specialized case called kake (掛け, "rack").

  9. List of Crayon Shin-chan characters - Wikipedia

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    The name "Kantam" is a parody of Gundam, as the Katakana characters ga (ガ) and da (ダ) in "Gundam" (ガンダム, Gandamu) are replaced with the characters ka (カ) and ta (タ), respectively. Kantam is made up of two units – the main robot and an identical smaller robot which pilots the main robot.