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Nanpa (ナンパ), also transliterated as nampa, in Japanese culture is a type of flirting and seduction popular among teenagers and people in their twenties and thirties. When Japanese women pursue men in a fashion similar to nanpa , it is called gyakunan ( 逆ナン ) .
Nanpa is a type of flirting in Japan. Nanpa or NANPA may also refer to: Dōkyūsei (video game series) aka Nanpa, a dating simulation game; North American Nature Photography Association; North American Numbering Plan Administration, the organization responsible for assigning telephone area codes in most of North America
Kōha in Meiji student culture referred to the faction of students who were showing their "toughness" by wearing the more casual, rough, and traditionally Japanese bushi style of clothing, compared to nanpa [2] who were dandies affecting an elegant, European-style fashion and enjoyed courting girls.
In some names, Japanese characters phonetically "spell" a name and have no intended meaning behind them. Many Japanese personal names use puns. [16] Although usually written in kanji, Japanese names have distinct differences from Chinese names through the selection of characters in a name and the pronunciation of them. A Japanese person can ...
[12] [13] [14] Such words which use certain kanji to name a certain Japanese word solely for the purpose of representing the word's meaning regardless of the given kanji's on'yomi or kun'yomi, a.k.a. jukujikun, is not uncommon in Japanese. Other original names in Chinese texts include Yamatai country (邪馬台国), where a Queen Himiko lived.
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.
A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a 10-year-old Japanese schoolboy, in a case that sparked concern among Japanese expats living in China.
Nana is a given name that has different origins in several countries across the world. Its use as a feminine or masculine name varies culturally. [1] It is feminine in Japan, Georgia, Serbia and Greece, it is masculine in Ethiopia and India, and epicene (unisex/gender neutral) in Ghana and Indonesia.