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  2. Nanzo-in - Wikipedia

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    Nanzo-in is the main location among the 88 temples that make up the Sasaguri pilgrimage route, one of the three famous walking pilgrimages in Japan. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Today, the temple and its surrounding grounds receive more than 1 million visitors annually.

  3. List of regions of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In many contexts in Japan (government, media markets, sports, regional business or trade union confederations), regions are used that deviate from the above-mentioned common geographical 8-region division that is sometimes referred to as "the" regions of Japan in the English Wikipedia and some other English-language publications. Examples of ...

  4. List of cities in Japan - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities.

  5. Rōnin - Wikipedia

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    The film 47 Ronin is a 2013 Japanese-American fantasy action film depicting a fictional account of the forty-seven rōnin. The 2015 film, titled Last Knights , is a more stylized version, [ 10 ] a joint production among the UK, Czech Republic and South Korea.

  6. Nanban trade - Wikipedia

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    Nanban trade (南蛮貿易, Nanban bōeki, "Southern barbarian trade") or the Nanban trade period (南蛮貿易時代, Nanban bōeki jidai, "Southern barbarian trade period") was a period in the history of Japan from the arrival of Europeans in 1543 to the first Sakoku Seclusion Edicts of isolationism in 1614.

  7. Mainichi Shimbun - Wikipedia

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    The Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞, lit. ' Daily Newspaper ') is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co. [5] [6] In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi [7] (previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a ...

  8. Stocks, bond prices fall after Fed sounds cautious, BOJ hold ...

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    The Bank of Japan took up the market-moving baton on Thursday, keeping rates steady as expected, but the yen weakened as markets took the message from Governor Kazuo Ueda's press conference that a ...

  9. Mamushi - Wikipedia

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    Gloydius blomhoffii, commonly known as the mamushi, [3] Japanese moccasin, Japanese pit viper, Qichun snake, Salmusa or Japanese mamushi, [4] is a pit viper species found in Japan. It was once considered to have 4 subspecies, but it is now considered monotypic.