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  2. Japanese adult adoption - Wikipedia

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    Japanese adult adoption is the practice in Japan of legally and socially accepting a nonconsanguineal adult into an offspring role of a family. The centuries-old practice was developed as a mechanism for families to extend their family name, estate and ancestry without an unwieldy reliance on blood lines.

  3. Pastebin - Wikipedia

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    The most famous pastebin is the eponymous pastebin.com. [citation needed] Other sites with the same functionality have appeared, and several open source pastebin scripts are available. Pastebins may allow commenting where readers can post feedback directly on the page. GitHub Gists are a type of pastebin with version control. [citation needed]

  4. Japanese script reform - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese script reform is the attempt to correlate standard spoken Japanese with the written word, which began during the Meiji period. This issue is known in Japan as the kokugo kokuji mondai ( 国語国字問題 , national language and script problem) .

  5. Jugemu - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese Buddhist lore, a heavenly maiden would visit the human world once in every three thousand years, leaving friction marks on a huge rock with her dress. Eventually, the rock would wear down to nothing [ 2 ] in the span of one kō , or 4 billion ( 4 × 10 9 ) years.

  6. Angel's Egg - Wikipedia

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    Angel's Egg repurposes ideas that Oshii developed for a cancelled Lupin the Third film. Both concepts feature the theme of questioning existence (Lupin's existence in the cancelled film, and the bird from Noah's ark in Angel's Egg), and involve the fossil of an angel [8] Oshii himself said that Angel's Egg was another attempt at the idea [9] and anime critic Ryota Fujitsu [] has said that ...

  7. Big Egg Wrestling Universe - Wikipedia

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    The Big Egg Wrestling Universe (known in Japan as Dōmu Chōjo Taisen (憧夢超女大戦)) was a professional wrestling event held by All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW) inside the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on November 20, 1994 and was attended by 32,500 fans. [1] However, some sources claim the event was attended by over 42,000 fans. [2]