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A Nippon individual savings account (NISA) is an account that is meant to help residents in Japan save money with tax-exempt benefits. It is modeled after the Individual Savings Account in the United Kingdom. [citation needed] There are two types of NISA accounts: a
The Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese–Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.
2等警備正 Nitō-keibisei: 3等警備正 Santō-keibisei: 1等警備士 Ittō-keibishi: 2等警備士 Nitō-keibishi: 3等警備士 Santō-keibishi: Self-Defense Forces 1954–1962; 将 Shō: 将補 Shō-ho: 1佐 Issa: 2佐 Nisa: 3佐 Sansa: 1尉 Ichi'i: 2尉 Ni'i: 3尉 San'i: 1962–1970: 幕僚長たる将 Bakuryōchō-taru-shō: 1970 ...
The NISA received strong criticism following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. According to a government report to the International Atomic Energy Agency in June 2011, "NISA's lack of independence from the trade ministry, which promotes the use of atomic power, hampered a quick response to the disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant this year". [6]
John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island [1]) is an American author and historian.His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, [2] the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, [3] the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, [4] and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Books by publishing company of Japan (9 C) A. Japanese anthologies ... Japanese poetry books (2 C) S.
Numerous articles are no more than a paragraph. However, more general headings such as "History of Japan" have as many as 70,000 words. Many are signed, especially the longer ones. A lot of articles are followed by suggestions for further readings in English, Japanese, and occasionally other languages.
Nittō Guhō Junreikōki (836-847); Kanpyō Gyoki (887-897), written by Emperor Uda; Teishin Kōki (908-948), written by Fujiwara no Tadahira; Tosa Nikki (c. 935), written by Ki no Tsurayuki