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  2. Japanese ship-naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.

  3. Nanpa - Wikipedia

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    In general, it means people interested more in fun and self-indulgence than in "hard" pursuits like politics, academia, or athletics. In contemporary Japanese culture, nanpa most often refers to "girl hunting" and there is a strong negative connotation associated with it.

  4. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, each digit/number has at least one native Japanese (), Sino-Japanese (), and English-origin reading.Furthermore, variants of readings may be produced through abbreviation (i.e. rendering ichi as i), consonant voicing (i.e sa as za; see Dakuten and handakuten), gemination (i.e. roku as rokku; see sokuon), vowel lengthening (i.e. ni as nii; see chōonpu), or the insertion of the ...

  5. NAPSA - Wikipedia

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    9476 16541 Ensembl ENSG00000131400 ENSMUSG00000002204 UniProt O96009 O09043 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_004851 NM_008437 RefSeq (protein) NP_004842 NP_032463 Location (UCSC) Chr 19: 50.36 – 50.37 Mb Chr 7: 44.22 – 44.24 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Napsin-A is an aspartic proteinase that is encoded in humans by the NAPSA gene. The name napsin comes from n ovel a spartic p ...

  6. List of English words of Japanese origin - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese, the word commonly refers to alcoholic drinks in general sashimi 刺身, a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of the freshest raw seafoods thinly sliced and served with only a dipping sauce and wasabi. satsuma (from 薩摩 Satsuma, an ancient province of Japan), a type of mandarin orange (mikan) native to Japan shabu shabu

  7. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Prefecture Kanji origin and meaning of name Aichi 愛知県: Aichi-ken (愛知県) means "love knowledge". In the third volume of the Man'yōshū there is a poem by Takechi Kurohito that reads: "The cry of the crane, calling to Sakurada; it sounds like the tide, draining from Ayuchi flats, hearing the crane cry".

  8. National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

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    NASPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. In December 1918, Robert Rienow, the dean at the University of Iowa, wrote a letter to Thomas Arkle Clark, dean of men at the University of Illinois, about wanting to establish a conference that would bring together various deans in the Midwest. [1]

  9. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん ⓘ) and Nippon (にっぽん ⓘ). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called the people of the Japanese archipelago something like "ˀWâ" (倭), which can also mean "dwarf" or "submissive".