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Wata no Kunihoshi (綿の国星, "Cotton's Country Star" or "Planet of Cotton Country") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yumiko Ōshima.It was serialized by Hakusensha in LaLa magazine from 1978 to 1987 and collected in seven tankōbon volumes.
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By the end of the war, what remained of the Japanese Empire was wracked by shortages, inflation, and currency devaluation. Transport was nearly impossible, and industrial production in Japan's shattered cities ground to a halt. The destruction wrought by the war eventually brought the Japanese economy to a virtual standstill.
The term is derived from the Japanese term "boroboro", meaning something tattered or repaired. [2] The term 'boro' typically refers to cotton, linen and hemp materials, mostly hand-woven by peasant farmers, that have been stitched or re-woven together to create an often many-layered material used for warm, practical clothing.
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Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams [a] is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Success and originally released in Japanese arcades in 1991. The first installment in the Cotton series, players assume the role of the young witch Cotton who, alongside her fairy companion Silk, sets out on her broomstick on a quest to defeat several monsters and get her Willow candy.
A sarashi (晒し, "bleached cloth") is a kind of white cloth, usually cotton, or less commonly linen, [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] used to make various garments in Japan ...
Cotton Candy is a Canadian short film, directed by Roshell Bissett and released in 1997. An exploration of the "Lolita complex" in Japanese society, [1] the film centres on Naomi (Yoko Higashi) a shy teenage girl in Tokyo, who goes downtown with her classmates and discovers an opportunity to profit from the common sexual fetish for young women in schoolgirl uniforms.