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  2. Himeyuri students - Wikipedia

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    The Himeyuri students (ひめゆり学徒隊, Himeyuri Gakutotai, Lily Princesses Student Corps), sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the Okinawa Daiichi (First) Girls' High School [] and Okinawa Shihan Women's School [] formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

  3. Girls' Frontline - Wikipedia

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    Girls ' Frontline (simplified Chinese: 少女前线; traditional Chinese: 少女前線; pinyin: Shàonǚ Qiánxiàn) is a mobile strategy role-playing game for Android and iOS developed by China-based studio MICA Team, where players control echelons of android characters, known in-universe as T-Dolls, each carrying a distinctive real-world firearm.

  4. Figure moe zoku - Wikipedia

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    Figures based on anime, manga and bishōjo game characters are often sold as dolls in Japan. Collecting them is a popular hobby amongst Otakus . The term moe is otaku slang for the love of characters in video games, anime, or manga, whereas zoku is a post-World War II term for tribe, clan or family.

  5. Japanese dolls - Wikipedia

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    Japanese doll in traditional kimono and musical instrument. Japanese dolls (人形, ningyō, lit. ' human form ') are one of the traditional Japanese crafts. There are various types of traditional dolls, some representing children and babies, some the imperial court, warriors and heroes, fairy-tale characters, gods and (rarely) demons, and also people of the daily life of Japanese cities.

  6. Friendship dolls - Wikipedia

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    Dolls were donated by churches, schools, and scouting groups across the country. Each doll was sent with a message including the name of the doll, the names of the givers and the address for the "thank you" letter. [7] [9] Dolls were given farewell parties and given "passports" that cost 1 cent and "railroad and steamer tickets" that cost 99 cents.

  7. Upotte!! - Wikipedia

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    Upotte!! (うぽって!!) is a Japanese manga series by Kitsune Tennouji which began serialization in July 2009. An original net animation (ONA) series by Xebec was streamed on Nico Nico Douga and Crunchyroll between April and June 2012. [2]

  8. Kumiko Serizawa - Wikipedia

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    There she taught doll-making, and continued to make her own dolls. [ 2 ] Her work was on exhibit for many years at the annual Nisei Week Festival in Los Angeles and at the Japanese American Community Center's annual Obon festival in the San Fernando Valley.

  9. Dolls (2002 film) - Wikipedia

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    Dolls (Japanese: ドールズ, Hepburn: Dōruzu) is a 2002 Japanese film written, edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. A highly stylized art film , Dolls is part of Kitano's non- crime film oeuvre, like 1991's A Scene at the Sea , and unlike most of his other films, he does not act in it.