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Junko Ohashi (大橋 純子, Ōhashi Junko, April 26, 1950 – November 9, 2023) was a Japanese singer best known for her songs "Silhouette Romance" (1981) and "Tasogare My Love" (1978). She was known for her "overwhelming singing ability" and was mainly successful between late 1970s and early 1980s. [ 1 ]
A taboo against naming the dead is a kind of word taboo whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples in many parts of the world, including the indigenous peoples of northern Australia, [1] Siberia, Southern India, the Sahara, Subsaharan Africa, and the Americas.
Typical causes of kegare are the contact with any form of death, childbirth (for both parents), disease, and menstruation, [2] and acts such as rape. In Shinto, kegare is a form of tsumi (taboo violation), which needs to be somehow remedied by the person responsible. [3] This condition can be remedied through purification rites called misogi ...
A taboo, also spelled tabu, is a social group's ban, prohibition, or avoidance of something (usually an utterance or behavior) based on the group's sense that it is excessively repulsive, offensive, sacred, or allowed only for certain people. [1] [2] Such prohibitions are present in virtually all societies. [1]
In mainland China and Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, the number 4 is often associated with death because the sound of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words for four and death are similar (for example, the sound sì in Chinese is the Sino-Korean number 4 (四), whereas sǐ is the word for death (死), and in Japanese "shi" is the number 4, whereas ...
Ohashi believes in a new age, consumers place a value on what brands stand for: “We’re a brand that was the definition of what success looked like in the world. We were with our customers at ...
Taboos against sexual relations between individuals of other close degrees of relationship vary. The probable biological basis for the generality of the marital incest taboo is that matings between close relatives lead to progeny that tend to experience inbreeding depression , due largely to the increased expression of recessive deleterious ...
Honoring the king. When Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer in August 2020, director Ryan Coogler reworked the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever script to write out the late actor’s character.