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Japanese broadcasting and newspapers usually use a modified 12-hour notation in which midnight is 午前0時 (0 am) and noon is 午後0時 (0 pm) and, for example, "quarter past midnight" is 午前0時15分. The AM/PM signs are also used, while the sign may be placed either before or after the time (AM10:00 or 10:00AM). Using the Japanese ...
The corresponding number is combined with the suffix 月 (-gatsu, "month"). The table below uses traditional numerals, but the use of Western numerals (1月, 2月, 3月 etc.) is common. A Japanese calendar from 2011 depicting the month of December (shiwasu 師走)
Hiragana ( 平仮名, ひらがな, IPA: [çiɾaɡaꜜna, çiɾaɡana (ꜜ)]) is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji . It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", as contrasted with kanji). [ 1][ 2][ 3] Hiragana and ...
Although the official document does not specifically designate the characters which this statement applies to, it is likely that it is applicable to the following 14 characters: 淫・葛・僅・煎・詮・嘲・捗・溺・塡・賭・剝・箸・蔽・頰. ^ abcdeThe 5 kanji 餌・遡・遜・謎・餅 use one of the radicals 辶 / 𩙿. As ...
The Japanese era name ( Japanese: 年号, Hepburn: nengō, "year name") or gengō (元号), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan (元) "), followed by the literal "nen (年) " meaning ...
The present Japanese Standards Association was established in 1946, a year after Japan's defeat in World War II. The Japanese Industrial Standards Committee regulations were promulgated in 1946, and new standards were formed. The Industrial Standardization Law was enacted in 1949, which forms the legal foundation for the present Japanese ...
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
Emperor Jimmu. 神武天皇. 660–585 BC. (75 years) 721 or 711–585 BC. (126 or 136 years) Son of kami Ugayafukiaezu. Claimed descent from the sun goddess, Amaterasu. Defeated Nagasunehiko in the Eastern Expedition to become emperor.