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In Japan, the governor (知事, chiji) is the highest ranking executive of a prefecture. [1] The governor is directly elected for a four-year term. Governors are subject to recall referendums. In each prefecture, between one and four vice governors are appointed by the governor with the approval of the prefectural assembly.
Current governor Former party Term Took office Office expires Aichi Hideaki Omura: Independent [a] Fourth [1] February 15, 2011 February 11, 2027 Akita: Norihisa Satake: Independent [b] Fourth April 20, 2009 April 19, 2025 Aomori: Sōichirō Miyashita: Independent: First June 29 , 2023 June 28, 2027 Chiba: Toshihito Kumagai: Independent [c] [2 ...
The American missionary James Curtis Hepburn edited A Japanese and English Dictionary with an English and Japanese Index (和英語林集成, Shanghai, American Presbyterian Press, 1867), with 20,722 Japanese-English and 10,030 English-Japanese words, on 702 pages. Although designed to be used by missionaries in Japan, this first Japanese ...
comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary, 3 editions Daijisen: 1995, 1998: general-purpose Japanese dictionary, 2 editions Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan: 2006–present: English, French, and Japanese dictionary of classical Japanese literature: Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language: 1632
The Kenkyūsha New Japanese-English Dictionary 5th Edition with leather back and the iPhone Edition running on an iPhone 5.. First published in 1918, Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary (新和英大辞典, Shin wa-ei daijiten) has long been the largest and most authoritative Japanese-English dictionary.
JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary.As of March 2023, it contains Japanese–English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.
Eijirō (英辞郎) is a large database of English–Japanese translations. It is developed by the editors of the Electronic Dictionary Project and aimed at translators. Although the contents are technically the same, EDP refers to the accompanying Japanese–English database as Waeijirō (和英辞郎).
There are many synonyms in Japanese because the Japanese language draws from several different languages for loanwords, notably Chinese and English, as well as its own native words. [1] In Japanese, synonyms are called dōgigo (kanji: 同義語) or ruigigo (kanji: 類義語). [2] Full synonymy, however, is rare.