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Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...
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History Of Tsunami, The Word And The Wave, Runs Long In Japan "Tsunami" has been all over the news since a powerful earthquake sent a wall of water into northeastern Japan on March 11. It's a word ...
Famous woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” will feature on a Japanese banknote for the first time, in one of three new designs unveiled Tuesday by the country’s finance ministry.
This is all on top a mysterious “Project Century” that explores Japanese crime in the early 20th century. Virtua Fighter is a ...
Japanese Women Catch the 'Korean Wave' ... many sporting rhinestone-studded T-shirts emblazoned with images of their favorite Korean stars. ... long dubbed the Italians of Asia.
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Japanese linguist Kazuo Ueda (left) worked 20 years on a 1,300-page, 28,000-entry Idishugo Jiten, or Yiddish-Japanese dictionary. He is shown here with his wife, Kazuko, at their home in Kyushu ...
Without the Japanese printmaker Hokusai, Impressionism might never have happened. Jason Farago examines the moment when European art started turning Japanese. In the beginning was the wave. The ...
Famous woodblock print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” will feature on a Japanese banknote for the first time, in one of three new designs unveiled Tuesday by the country’s finance ministry.