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A sign at a park featuring Irasutoya illustrations. In addition to typical clip art topics, unusual occupations such as nosmiologists, airport bird patrollers, and foresters are depicted, as are special machines like miso soup dispensers, centrifuges, transmission electron microscopes, obscure musical instruments (didgeridoo, zampoña, cor anglais), dinosaurs and other ancient creatures such ...
"Birthday Girl" (バースデイ・ガール, Bāsudei gāru = Birthday girl) is a short story written by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, and first published in 2002.After reading "Timothy's Birthday" by William Trevor and "The Moor" by Russell Banks, Murakami felt haunted and decided to collect more birthday-themed stories for an anthology. [2]
The term emoji is of Japanese origin, with the term only adopted in the west from 2010 onwards. Japan itself also struggled to define the emoji for a number of years. It wasn't until telecom companies began experimenting with the use of graphic images or pictograms in messaging facilities that the emoji concept became a working idea.
Made in Japan (Deep Purple album), 1972; Made in Japan (Flower Travellin' Band album), 1972; Made in Japan (Deep Forest album), 1999; Made in Japan, a 1993 album by Siniestro Total; Made in Japan (Live at Parco Capello), a 2001 live album by Elio e le Storie Tese; Made in Japan (Whitesnake album), 2013; Made in Japan (Ayumi Hamasaki album), 2016
They don't speak any human language, but rather use their own language. Chiikawa always says "Yada" and "Iyada," both of which are a childish way of saying "no" in Japanese. Hachiware (ハチワレ) Voiced by: Makoto Tanaka [1] A creature that is designed after bicolor cat (also called Hachiware in Japan), but isn't one. [2]
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Google Japan utilized Doraemon in its Google Doodle for 3 September 2009, in celebration of the character's 40th birthday. [12] In 2012, Hong Kong celebrated the birthday of Doraemon 100 years early with a series of displays of the character. [29] Politician Osamu Fujimura is known as the "Doraemon of Nagatacho" due to his figure and warm ...
Tadanori Yokoo (横尾 忠則, Yokoo Tadanori, born 27 June 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. Yokoo’s signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world.