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Distance (Hikaru Utada album)...the name of the original song on the "" single, and the word "remix". In 2001, Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki were the two biggest artists in the country. Each artists' record company began fabricating a "feud" between these... In this article: Hikaru Utada, Distance, First Love, A Best, Japan, Ayumi Hamasaki, Osaka school massacre, Addicted to You, Oricon, and Final Distance |
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
Like Grains of Sand
...16, 1995 by Toho Company Ltd. The Japanese title for the film is The film was directed and written by Ryosuke Hashiguchi and features a lead role played by Japan's highest selling female musician Ayumi Hamasaki. It won three major awards in...
In this article: Like Grains of Sand, Ayumi Hamasaki, Toronto Film Festival, Toho Company Ltd., Turin, Italy, and Canada
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Zard
...July 2004, with a final concert held in the famed Nippon Budokan. Although originally Zard is a group, Zard was frequently regarded as one of solo female singers in Japan. She used to hold a female record in Japan for most single sales...
In this article: Zard, Izumi Sakai, Oricon, Makenaide, Yureru Omoi, Tak Matsumoto, Cervical cancer, and My Friend
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Avex Group
...Girl Next Door formed and debuted in September 2008. Each year since 2002, Avex has hosted a summer concert tour around Japan, "a-nation", featuring the company's most successful acts. Top Avex acts like Hitomi, Kumi Koda, Ai Otsuka, BoA,...
In this article: Avex Group, Max Matsuura, Ai Otsuka, Ami Suzuki, Hollywood Records, Tokyo, Nihon University, and Girl Next Door
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Yahoo! News | January 06, 2008
Japan's pop princess 'Ayu' goes half deaf: blog
Japan's pop princess 'Ayu' goes half deaf: blog TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese pop princess Ayumi Hamasaki has revealed she has gone deaf in her left ear, but has vowed to continue her career and go ahead with an upcoming tour of Asia. The 29-year...
In this article: Ayumi Hamasaki, Asia, New Year's Eve, Avex, Ludwig van Beethoven, Guilty, and Tokyo
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Music of Japan
Hikaru Utada's debut album, "First Love ", went on to be the highest-selling album in Japan with over 7 million copies sold, whereas Ayumi Hamasaki became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume remains one of the...
In this article: Rock, Glay, New Wave, Taiko, B'z, Mr. Children, Group Sounds, Buddhism, and Neo
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Chinese tap Japanese celebrity names for trademarks
...on their fame. There has been a similar controversy over unsuccessful attempts to register the names of noted locations in Japan, including Aomori and Kagoshima, as well as Japanese specialties, as Chinese trademarks. China's trademark...
In this article: Trademark, Hu Jintao, China, Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, Mika Nakashima, and Ken Takakura
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Aso reveals new plan to create 2 million jobs
...become attention-getters in the Asian community. "Japan has become the focus of attention from the world for its anime, games and fashion, which have been dubbed 'Japan cool,' " Aso said. "Akihabara and the back streets of Harajuku, the...
In this article: Taro Aso, Asean, Asia, Tokyo, Global warming, Association of Southeast Asian Nations Plus Three, Economic Research Institute, Japan National Press Club, and Asian Development Bank
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Ayumi Hamasaki
...beyond I Am.... In 2002, Hamasaki held her first concert outside Japan, at the MTV Asia music awards ceremony in Singapore, a move interpreted as the beginning of a campaign prompted by a sluggish Japanese market. At the ceremony, she...
In this article: Ayumi Hamasaki, Oricon, Avex, My Story, Secret, Rainbow, Max Matsuura, Loveppears, and Duty
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home.kyodo.co.jp
Many Chinese seek Japan celebrity names as trademarks for business
...several people registered the name of table tennis player Ai Fukuhara, who played the sport with Chinese President Hu Jintao when he visited Japan last year. Applications for trademark registration were also made for veteran Japanese actor...
In this article: Trademark, Ayumi Hamasaki, Hu Jintao, China, Namie Amuro, Mika Nakashima, and Ken Takakura
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Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with about 128 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Archaeological research indicates that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan begins with brief appearances in Chinese history texts from the first century A.D. Influence from the outside world followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. Since adopting its constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament, the Diet.
- Name:
- Japan
- Conventional Long Name:
- Japan
- Local Name:
- 日本国
- Capital:
- Tokyo (de facto)
- Language:
- None
- Japanese
- Largest City:
- Tokyo
- Government type:
- Parliamentary democracy with constitutional monarchy
- Legislature:
- National Diet
- Upper House:
- House of Councillors
- Lower House:
- House of Representatives
- Founding Date:
- November 29, 1890
- Formations:
- Treaty of, San Francisco
- Area:
- 145,883
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $4.356 trillion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 3rd
- GDP (nominal):
- $4.910 trillion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 23rd
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 2nd
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $38,457
- Time Zone:
- JST
- Currency:
- Japanese Symbol 円 Pronounced
- Demonym:
- Japanese
- Drives On:
- left
- Currency (code):
- JPY
- Country Calling Code:
- 81
- ccTLD:
- .jp
- Anthem:
- Kimigayo
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