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This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance. Some regionally important cities are designated as core cities.
Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
At Horiyoshi's studio in Yokohama, Japan, tattoos are outlined mostly freehand using an electric needle. [5] He did the outlining by hand until the late 1990s. [3] His friendship with Don Ed Hardy, started in the mid-1980s, lead to Horiyoshi's adoption of electric machines.
The "Great Heisei Mergers" nearly halved the number of municipalities in Japan, once again increasing the size of some cities significantly and creating new towns and cities. Despite a mounting population loss in rural areas and some smaller cities, Japan's major cities continue to grow. Source date is from the 2010 Census.
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The Global Liveability Ranking is a yearly assessment published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), ranking 172 global cities (previously 140) for their urban quality of life based on assessments of stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
The hidden sun: Women of modern Japan (Westview Press, 1983) ASIN 0865314217; Sato, Barbara. The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Duke UP, 2003). ASIN 0822330083; Tipton, Elise K. (1 May 2009). "How to Manage a Household: Creating Middle Class Housewives in Modern Japan". Japanese Studies. 29 (1): 95–110.
Best Regards to All: Yūta Shimotsu: Kotone Furukawa, Koya Matsudai [8] 26: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom: Mitsuo Fukuda: Sōichirō Hoshi, Rie Tanaka, Akira Ishida, Nanako Mori [9] Love You as the World Ends: The Final: Shintarō Sugawara: Ryoma Takeuchi, Fumiya Takahashi, Mayu Hotta, Rihito Itagaki, Airu Kubozuka, Yūki Tachibana, Mario ...