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  • Thumbnail for Toyokoro, Hokkaido
    Toyokoro (豊頃町, Toyokoro-chō) is a town in Tokachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of September 2016[update], the town has an estimated population of...
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  • Thumbnail for Domo (NHK)
    Domo (どーも くん, Dōmo-kun) is the official mascot of Japan's public broadcaster NHK, appearing in several 30-second stop-motion interstitial sketches, which...
    15 KB (1,664 words) - 14:45, 7 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
    The Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall, also known as Wan Qing Yuan, and formerly as the Sun Yat Sen Villa, is a two-story colonial style villa in Balestier...
    12 KB (1,398 words) - 22:35, 21 May 2023
  • Haikai (Japanese 俳諧 comic, unorthodox) may refer in both Japanese and English to haikai no renga (renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which...
    6 KB (802 words) - 10:51, 17 May 2023
  • The composition and translation of tanka in English begins at the end of the nineteenth century in England and the United States. Translations into English...
    14 KB (1,663 words) - 06:07, 1 May 2023
  • Ghost Train (オトシモノ, otoshimono) is a Japanese horror film released in 2006. It was the first Japanese film that was released in Korea before Japan.[citation...
    7 KB (917 words) - 04:58, 16 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Typhoon shelter
    A typhoon shelter (Chinese: 避風塘) is a shelter for fishing boats during typhoons. These facilities are often found in Hong Kong. In its usual form, a typhoon...
    5 KB (572 words) - 01:17, 16 October 2022
  • Hong Kong Inter-bank Offered Rate, (or HIBOR, Chinese: 香港銀行同業拆息), is the annualized rate charged for inter-bank lending on Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) denominated...
    2 KB (286 words) - 06:37, 11 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Yokota Station
    Yokota Station (横田駅, Yokota-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company...
    4 KB (233 words) - 17:39, 14 December 2022
  • A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin that was a bestseller upon publication in London in 1952 by Jonathan Cape. The book was made into the...
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  • Miura Chora (Japanese: 三浦樗良, 23 May 1729 – 4 September 1780) was a Japanese poet raised in Ise, in the Mie Prefecture of Shima Province on the island of...
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