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One Piece...by Avex Trax on December 26, 2002. One Piece is the highest selling manga in the history of Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan and the first manga to increase the magazine's sales in eleven years. Volume 27 holds a manga sales record in... In this article: One Piece, Funimation Entertainment, Fruit, Weekly Shonen Jump, DVD, Brook, Roronoa Zoro, Toei Animation, and Shueisha |
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RSS feed from 1UP | December 22, 2008
The Sights of Jump Festa 2009
...gallery of Japan's year-end otaku bash. Every year Weekly Shonen Jump, the largest comic magazine in the world, hosts a festival in Chiba, Japan for fans of games, comics, and Jump characters alike. Here's a photo tour of this year's event.
In this article: Weekly Shonen Jump, Chiba, Chiba, and Toronto
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Jump Super Stars
...''Jump Super Stars'', has been released in Japan as of November 23, 2006. Jump Super Stars features characters from the Weekly Shonen Jump manga magazine in Japan. The game features gameplay similar to that of ''Super Smash Bros. '' The...
In this article: Jump Super Stars, Nintendo DS, Jump Ultimate Stars, Cross-licensing, Small business, Weekly Shonen Jump, Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, and Nintendo
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The Japan Times: All Stories | May 25, 2009
'Manga': heart of pop culture
...in the U.S., an achievement he calls "amazing," though shrugged off by the Japanese manga industry. Why do adults in Japan read manga? Nakano said publishers have specifically targeted adults with manga series centering on business,...
In this article: Naruto, Shukan Shonen Jump, One Piece, Pokemon, and Son Goku
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Eiichiro Oda
...assistant of Watsuki, his colleague was Hiroyuki Takei. In 1997, One Piece appeared for the first time in Weekly Shonen Jump and promptly became one of the most popular manga in Japan. His biggest influence is Akira Toriyama, who is the...
In this article: Weekly Shonen Jump, One Piece, Dragon Ball, Akira Toriyama, Rurouni Kenshin, Tezuka Award, Oricon, Nami, and Monthly Jump
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Gamespot | July 01, 2009
Square Enix teaser revealed to be new Final Fantasy DS
...will change as players acquire and equip weapons and armor. Weekly Shonen Jump did not indicate whether Four Warriors of Light would see release outside of Japan. Square Enix had not responded to GameSpot's request for comment as of...
In this article: Square Enix, Weekly Shonen Jump, Final Fantasy, Squaresoft, Cash cow, SaGa, and Nintendo
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Wikipedia | November 03, 2009
D.Gray-man
...anime episodes are based on these novels. The D.Gray-man manga has been highly popular in Japan; as of 2007, the series ranked as the ninth best seller series of the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. On December 31, 2008, Comipress reported that...
In this article: D.Gray-man, Shueisha, Weekly Shonen Jump, and DVD
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | March 04, 2008
AICN Anime-Blood, Part One, The Last Vampire -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
...& Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation manga have both ended in this year's 14th issue of Shueisha's Shonen Jump magazine on March 3 in Japan. The Prince of Tennis ran for 379 installments since July of 1999, and the first 40...
In this article: Blood: The Last Vampire, Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G, Blood+, Anime, Chinese Hero, Anime News Network, Motoko Kusanagi, and Viz Media
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Weekly Comic
...the series are Eiichiro Oda's One Piece and Tite Kubo's Bleach . It serializes manga from Weekly Shonen Jump, Weekly Shonen Magazine and many other manga magazines from Japan. The magazine also serialies several short manga series, such as...
In this article: Weekly Comic, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Malaysia, Magic Kaito, Weekly Shonen Jump, One Piece, Bleach, and Singapore
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IGN | February 17, 2009
New Final Fantasy XIII Characters Revealed
...girl." February 17, 2009 - Things went quiet on the Final Fantasy XIII front following that marvelous trailer from a few weeks back, but today Japan's Weekly Shounen Jump manga magazine came through with a few new details. The biggest...
In this article: Final Fantasy XIII, Weekly Shounen Jump, Square Enix, PS3, and Chicago Cubs
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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:
- April 28, 1952
- Formations:
- Current constitution
- Area:
- 145,883
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $4.356 trillion
- GDP (nominal):
- $4.910 trillion
- 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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