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  2. Voice acting in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Voice actor Kappei Yamaguchi. Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs.

  3. Dakuten and handakuten - Wikipedia

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    The dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. "voicing mark"), colloquially ten-ten (点々, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a mora should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

  4. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  5. Japanese phonology - Wikipedia

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    Even though spellings with the kana vu (ヴ), va (ヴァ), vi (ヴィ), ve (ヴェ), vo (ヴォ), vya (ヴャ), vyu (ヴュ), vyo (ヴョ) are commonly used in narrow transcriptions into Japanese, the pronunciation is normally not distinguished from /b/: for example, there is no meaningful phonological or phonetic difference in pronunciation ...

  6. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

  7. Noriaki Sugiyama - Wikipedia

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    Noriaki Sugiyama (杉山 紀彰, Sugiyama Noriaki) is a Japanese voice actor and narrator. He voices Uryū Ishida in Bleach , Sasuke Uchiha in Naruto and Shirō Emiya in Fate/stay night . Filmography

  8. Kana - Wikipedia

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    Each kana character corresponds to one sound or whole syllable in the Japanese language, unlike kanji regular script, which corresponds to a meaning. Apart from the five vowels, it is always CV (consonant onset with vowel nucleus ), such as ka , ki , sa , shi , etc., with the sole exception of the C grapheme for nasal codas usually romanised as n .

  9. Jun'ichi Kanemaru - Wikipedia

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    Jun'ichi Kanemaru (金丸 淳一 [2], Kanemaru Jun'ichi) is a Japanese voice actor and singer. He joined 81 Produce in 2003. [3] [4] He voiced Hayato Kazami in Future GPX Cyber Formula, Ryo Akiyama in Digimon Tamers and has been the voice of Sonic the Hedgehog in the eponymous series since 1998.