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  2. Likud - Wikipedia

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    Likud (Hebrew: הַלִּיכּוּד, romanized: HaLikud, lit. ' The Consolidation '), officially known as Likud – National Liberal Movement (Hebrew: הַלִּיכּוּד – תנועה לאומית ליברלית, romanized: HaLikud – Tnu'ah Leumit Liberalit), is a major right-wing political party in Israel.

  3. Glossary of owarai terms - Wikipedia

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    From the verb bokeru 惚ける or 呆ける, which carries the meaning of "senility" or "air headed-ness," and is reflected in a performer's tendency for misinterpretation and forgetfulness. The boke is the "simple-minded" member of an owarai kombi ( "tsukkomi and boke" , or vice versa ) that receives most of the verbal and physical abuse from ...

  4. Talk:Likud - Wikipedia

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    Unlike real right-wing parties like Japan's LDP, Likud does not advocate World War II-related totalitarianism. Likud's political position is clearly center-right, which has long been supported by Wikipedia users. LDP promotes hatred of Koreans, the main victims of World War II, and Japanese nationalism is not irrelevant to fascism. However ...

  5. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Place names in Japan - Wikipedia

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    As people from mainland Japan conquered and colonized Hokkaido in the Edo period and the Meiji period, they transcribed Ainu placenames into Japanese using kanji chosen solely for their pronunciation. For example, the name Esashi comes from the Ainu word es a us i, meaning "cape". [2] Some common Ainu elements in Hokkaido place names include:

  7. Hanakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.

  8. Glossary of Japanese swords - Wikipedia

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    shōtō (小刀, lit. small sword) – any type of Japanese short sword, the smaller in a pair of daishō. Commonly a wakizashi . sori ( 反り , curvature) – curvature of the sword measured as the greatest perpendicular distance between the back edge ( mune ) and the chord connecting the back edge notch ( munemachi ) with the point of the blade.

  9. Akiko (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The kanji characters 晶 ("sparkle"), 明 ("bright"), and 秋 ("autumn") are three variations of ways to write "aki", and the character 子 is a common suffix in female given names in Japan.