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Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
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.
In Japanese, sensei is still used to address people of both genders. It is likely both the current Southern Chinese and Japanese usages are more reflective of its Middle Chinese etymology . For Hokkien and Teochew communities in Singapore and Malaysia, " Sensei " is the proper word to address school teachers.
Sien may refer to: Sien of Diauehi, king of an ancient people of north-east Anatolia; Sien, Germany, an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; Sien Hoornik, mistress of Vincent van Gogh and model for his famous drawing Sorrow
Shiina Tamai (秕/シイナ), a character in the Japanese manga series Shadow Star; Shiina Kamijō (詩菜), a character in the Japanese light novel, manga and anime series A Certain Magical Index; Shiina Mikado (椎名), a character in the visual novel Katawa Shoujo; Shiina Murakami (椎奈), a character in the Japanese manga series Magic of ...
Hiro Yūki (優希 比呂, born 1965), Japanese voice actor; Hiro Ozawa (小澤 寛, born 1998), Japanese footballer; Hiro Peralta (born 1994), is a Filipino actor; Hiro Matsuda (小島 泰弘, born 1937), a Japanese wrestler and trainer; Hiro Fujikake (藤掛 廣幸, born 1949), a Japanese composer, conductor and synthesizer player.
Shin'ichi Hisamatsu (久松 真一, 1889–1980), Japanese Zen Buddhist scholar, philosopher and tea master Shinichi Honma ( 本間 信一 , born 1934) , Japanese ice hockey player Shinichi Hoshi (新一, 1926–1997), Japanese novelist and science fiction writer
Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki St. Francisco Blanco. In the aftermath of the San Felipe incident of 1596, [3] 26 Catholics – four Spaniards, one Mexican, one Portuguese from India (all of whom were Franciscan missionaries), three Japanese Jesuits, and 17 Japanese members of the Third Order of St. Francis, including three young boys who served as altar boys for the ...