Top Five Anime Movies from 2010 | Inside AX- Anime Expo by Samantha H., Staff Writer, Inside AX- Anime Expo 2010 was a year filled with many new anime series and some fantastic anime movie releases. With the release of movies such as Karigurashi no Arriety and One Piece film: Strong World, it may be hard to pick what movies to watch. Here at Inside AX, we’ve gathered a small list that we think deserve a look. Trigun: Badlands Rumble I remember when I watched Trigun and fell in love with Vash and the badass known as Wolfwood years ago. King of Thorn (Ibara no Ou) King of Thorn is a psychological thriller that was released May 2010. Karigurashi no Arriety (The Borrower Arriety) Karigurashi no Arriety topped the Japanese box offices this year and for a good reason too. Released July 17,2010, Karigurashi no Arrietty is the first movie that animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi has directed. Halo Legends Summer Wars Okay so I cheated a bit. What were your favorite anime movies of 2010?
Brief History of the Samurai The following is an attempt to briefly explore the military aspects of Japan's history from the Early through Pre-Modern periods. The richness of Japanese history cannot be entirely denied, however, and the reader will certainly find references to matters and concepts not entirely related to the samurai. The first chapter, for instance, deals with events that occurred centuries before the samurai as we know them even existed. Yet to fully understand the samurai and their history, one must occasionally step back and admire the whole picture. This effort does not pretend towards anything more then it is, but we hope that the patient reader may find it useful in his or her own studies. Early Japan The Heian Period The Gempei War The Kamakura Period The Kemmu Restoration The Muromachi Period The Sengoku Period Unification (Azuchi-Momoyama) The Edo Period
Japanese Folktales selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman © 1998-2008 Contents Return to D. The Two Frogs Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the other dwelt in a clear little stream which ran through the city of Kyoto. So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kyoto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other. They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes. "What a pity we are not bigger," said the Osaka frog; "for then we could see both towns from here, and tell if it is worth our while going on." "Oh, that is easily managed," returned the Kyoto frog. This idea pleased the Osaka frog so much that he at once jumped up and put his front paws on the shoulder of his friend, who had risen also. "Dear me!" The Mirror of Matsuyama Source: F. "Buried!"
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Feudal Japan | History | Articles Hierarchy In Feudal Japan Society was divided into two classes in Feudal Japan, the nobility and the peasants. The noble class made up roughly twelve percent of the population with peasants making up the rest. Emperor and ShogunThe Emperor and the Shogun were the highest ranking nobles. During Japan's feudal period the Shogun held the most power while the Emperor was more of a puppet figure with little actual power. As the Shogun was a military leader his sword, or Nihonto in Japanese (katana came later in the Mid-Muromachi period), was an important part of his attire. DaimyoDaimyo were powerful warlords and the most powerful rulers under the Shogun from the 10th century to the early 19th century. SamuraiThe Daimyo armies were made up of Samurai warriors. PeasantsPeasants were divided into several sub-classes. Kamakura Period: 1185 – 1333 The Kamakura period began with Minamoto no Yorimoto establishing the Kamakura Shogunate in 1192 in Kamakura. Photos of Kamakura period artifacts
Foreign Languages and Literatures | 21F.039 Japanese Popular Culture, Spring 2003 How Sequential Gearboxes Work& How Manual Transmissions Work offers a basic understanding of the mechanisms inside a manual transmission. The five-speed manual transmission is fairly standard on cars today. It looks something like this internally: There are three forks controlled by three rods that are engaged by the shift lever. Looking at the shift rods from the top, they look like this in neutral, reverse, first and second gear: The "H" pattern allows you to move the shift rod between the control rods for the three forks and move the rods back and forth. A sequential manual transmission works the same way. In a race car, the motion of the shift lever is either "push forward" to up-shift or "pull backward" to downshift. What these motions are doing is rotating a ratcheting drum. You can see that there are grooves cut into the drum. So, when you move the lever, it rotates the drum one increment (for example, 50 degrees). Because of the drum, you have to shift in sequence.
FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan November 17, 2011 Vending machines that sell warm noodle concoctions with mysterious ingredients and unknown flavors…to our western eyes, Japan is unlike anything we’d recognize. But beyond Tokyo's glistening lights, oddball fetishes and weird, angular haircuts is a blue-collar subculture of an entirely different sort: Dekotora. Also known as “Art Trucks,” Dekotora is the land of the rising sun’s homegrown trucker subculture that covers big rigs with neon and ultraviolet lights, colorful airbrushed murals and shiny stainless steel or golden exteriors. There are plenty of truck-decorating customs in Asia (like Jeepnys in the Philippines), but these Japanese trucks are a league of their own. The Dekotora trend took off after the mid-70s emergence of Japanese low budget B-movies about truckers. On our Mission to ALL THE WRONG PLACES, we caught up with some of the Japanese truckers who started it all — the guys from Utamorokai Dekotora Club.
Samurai and Bushido - Facts & Summary In the mid-19th century, the stability of the Tokugawa regime was undermined by a combination of factors, including peasant unrest due to famine and poverty. The incursion of Western powers into Japan–and especially the arrival in 1853 of Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U.S. Navy, on a mission to get Japan to open its doors to international trade–proved to be the final straw. In 1858, Japan signed a commercial treaty with the United States, followed by similar ones with Russia, Britain, France and Holland. The controversial decision to open the country to Western commerce and investment helped encourage resistance to the shogunate among conservative forces in Japan, including many samurai, who began calling for a restoration of the power of the emperor. The powerful clans of Choshu and Satsuma combined efforts to topple the Tokugawa Shogunate and announce an “imperial restoration” named for Emperor Meiji in early 1868.
Watch Free Anime | Anime Shows, Episodes in English Subbed & Dubbed 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web - StumbleUpon Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.