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  2. Yaoki - Wikipedia

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    Yaoki refers to the Japanese proverb 七転び八起き (nana korobi ya oki). This proverb means "To get back up again and again, no matter how many times you fail" (literally: "Seven times falling down, eight times risen up").

  3. Japanese proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Japanese commonly use proverbs, often citing just the first part of common phrases for brevity. For example, one might say i no naka no kawazu (井の中の蛙, 'a frog in a well') to refer to the proverb i no naka no kawazu, taikai o shirazu (井の中の蛙、大海を知らず, 'a frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean').

  4. Koi ni Booing Boo! - Wikipedia

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    "Koi ni Booing Boo!" (恋にBooing ブー!) is the 5th major single by the Japanese girl idol group S/mileage.It was released in Japan on April 27, 2011 on the label Hachama.

  5. Uchōten Love - Wikipedia

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    "Uchōten Love" (有頂天LOVE, Uchōten Rabu) is the 6th major single by the Japanese girl idol group S/mileage. It was released in Japan on August 3, 2011 on the label Hachama. The physical CD single debuted at number 4 in the Oricon daily singles chart. In the Oricon weekly chart, it debuted at number 5. [1]

  6. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis.

  7. The Japanese Letter-Writing Era - Wikipedia

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    This brought higher chances of people writing things such as letters. [1] More people were starting to travel far away from home. These were to carry out certain duties. Because of this letters became a more key source of communication. [1] Another thing that brought the letter-writing period, was the establishment of the Hikyaku Postal

  8. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    This character is used to write 締め shime in 締め切り/締切 shimekiri ("deadline") (as 〆切) and similar things. It is also used, less commonly, for other shime namely 閉め, 絞め and 占め. A variant 乄 is used as well, to indicate that a letter is closed, as abbreviation of 閉め.

  9. Kunrei-shiki romanization - Wikipedia

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    Kunrei-shiki romanization (Japanese: 訓令式ローマ字, Hepburn: Kunrei-shiki rōmaji), also known as the Monbusho system (named after the endonym for the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) or MEXT system, [1] is the Cabinet-ordered romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.