The transcription is based on the phoneme and is not phonetic. See Old Japanese for further information. From these figures, we can see that the 2JZ made more torque and delivered it slightly earlier in the rpm range thanks to its square design and sequential turbo setup. However, the RB26 could rev higher, and with its individual throttle bodies, it sounded arguably better. Sir Kazuo’s first novel, “A Pale View of Hills”, borrows names and themes from “Sound of the Mountain”, playfully weaving them into his own narrative. Etsuko, a Japanese woman living alone in England, is haunted by the recent suicide of her daughter, and by the sense that she was a bad mother. Etsuko finds herself recalling a summer in Nagasaki, her hometown, in the 1950s, and the friendship she built there with Sachiko, a war widow. Nagasaki was still recovering from the trauma of the atomic bomb. Like the rest of the country it was also experiencing a shift in how men and women related to one another, caused in part by women winning the right to vote. Still, Japan was “no place for a girl”, says Sachiko, as she dreamt of moving to America with her American boyfriend, Frank.

The other Japanese six-cylinder marvel’s rated output was – you guessed it – 276 hp at 5,600 rpm in Japan, but unlike the Skyline GT-Rs, the A80 Supra was also marketed in Europe and North America, where it was rated at 320 hp, which is close to what the JDM version was making on the dyno. Peak torque was 320 lb-ft (434 Nm) at 4,000 rpm, rising to 333 lb-ft (451 Nm) in 1997 thanks to the introduction of Toyota’s variable valve timing (VVT-i) system. The most common Japanese numbers are the Sino-Japanese numbers. But you will often come across 1 – 10 in Native Japanese numbers. Japan has plenty of forested, mountainous terrain that is unsuitable for agriculture and development, so much of the population lives in the coastal cities. This has led Japan to become one of the most densely populated countries in the world and the majority of its inhabitants are used to living in very small spaces, with a heavy reliance on public transport. In the YouTube video below, Craig Lieberman, a thoroughbred gearhead who used to own two A80 Supras, as well as an R34 Skyline makes an excellent point. While there’s no denying that the RB26 is an excellent engine, most of the hype surrounding it comes from the fact that it powered three generations of legendary sports cars. For example, 三匹の犬 ( sanbiki no inu, “three dogs” – also note the change from h to b in hiki) and 三頭の馬 ( santou no uma, “three horses”). Japanese Counters for Mechanical ObjectsA great place to see a slice of old Japan, with classic sculpted gardens, a restored Old Town and well-preserved architecture from a variety of eras.

Held every February since 1950, this festival features hundreds of statues and ice sculptures, snow slides and mazes, regional food and artistic performances. Winter in Japan is truly amazing, and the Sapporo Winter Festival is a magical way to celebrate. Hadaka Matsuri There are now 18 professional soccer clubs in Japan. A number of star players have emerged from J.League, including Kazuyoshi Miura, Hidetoshi Nakamura and Shunsuke Nakamura, while several key players play for football clubs around the world, such as Makoto Hasebe and Keisuke Honda. The men's national team is known as the Samurai Blue. You’re all set! You’ve had your crash course for numbers in Japanese, and now you can smooth talk your way through the many number systems. It is common practice in Japan to remove shoes when entering a home. Wheelchair users should carry something to wipe down their wheels in respect of this custom. Apply the same logic for other mobility aids such as canes.

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It’s not possible to say exactly when and where extreme rainfall events will happen, Uhlenbrook told CNN. But what is clear is that the vulnerability of societies will be different – with poorer countries often more exposed, he added.

In Japanese, when long numbers are written out in kanji, zeros are omitted for all powers of ten. Hence 4002 is 四千二 (in contrast, Chinese requires the use of 零 wherever a zero appears, e.g. 四千零二 for 4002). However, when reading out a statement of accounts, for example, the skipped digit or digits are sometimes indicated by tobi ( 飛び) or tonde ( 飛んで): e.g. yon-sen tobi ni or yon-sen tonde ni instead of the normal yon-sen ni. The first three numbers with multisyllabic names and variation in assigned values ultimately derive from India, though they did not have defined values there. 恒河沙 gōgasha was originally used in Buddhist scripture for an indefinitely large quantity; it derives from the Sanskrit गङ्गा gangā ' Ganges' (which conveniently includes the character 河 ka 'river') and 沙 sha 'sand', referring to the innumerable sands of the Ganges River. 阿僧祇 asōgi, from Sanskrit असंख्येय asaṃkhyeya 'uncountable/innumerable', with the negative prefix 阿 a, and 那由他 nayuta is from Sanskrit नयुत/नयुतः nayuta(ḥ). After that, the numbers are Buddhist terms translated into or coined in Chinese and later assigned numerical values: 不可思議 fukashigi 'unimaginable' and 無量大数 muryōtaisū 'immeasurably large number'.Reversing the last sentence, 五枚のはがきを買います ( Gomai no hagaki wo kaimasu) means the same thing but puts the emphasis on the quantity. It’s usually said this way in response to a question (like “How many did you buy?”). A Final Note on Japanese Counters For instance, 20 is called はたち ( hatachi) when someone turns 20 years old because that is the age when one is considered to become an adult. Its other irregularity is はつか ( hatsuka), which is the 20th day of the month. Kanji Numbers in Japanese: 1 – 1 Trillion! To express time in Japanese, you’ve guessed it, you use counters! You express seconds with ~秒 ( byou), minutes with ~分 ( fun or pun), hours with ~時 ( ji), and length of time with ~時間 ( jikan). For our national teams to have not played for the best part of two years has had a huge impact," Iwabuchi said.

The other system of representing these decimal fractions of rate or discount uses a system "shifted down" with a bu becoming a "one hundredth" and so on, and the unit for "tenth" becoming wari: Although 本 means “book” in Japanese, it isn’t the counter for books (that’s ~冊, satsu, which is the counter for bound objects, like manga).It's believed that tennis first arrived in Japan in 1878, when five courts were constructed in Yokohama's Yamate Park for use by foreigners. In the same year, George A. Leland was invited to introduce Wetern-style physical education to Japan, and it's generally believed that his input led to tennis becoming widely taught across the nation. However, the expense of procuring materials for standard tennis balls led to the development of "soft tennis," which uses a flexible, all-rubber ball. By 1886, soft tennis was the standard form of the sport played in Japan, and it is still taught in public schools across the country to this day. ipo (500), 五百年 ipoto 2se (500 years), 五百夜 ipoyo 2 (500 nights), 八百 yapo (800), 三百 mi 1po (300), 六百 mupo (600), 九百 ko 2ko 2no 2po (900)