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Japanese

Japanese \Jap`a*nese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.

Japanese

Japanese \Jap`a*nese"\, n. sing. & pl.

  1. A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.

  2. sing. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language nihongo.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Japanese

1580s, Iapones; see Japan + -ese. Japanese beetle attested from 1919, accidentally introduced in U.S. 1916 in larval stage in a shipment of Japanese iris.

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Japanese

Japanese may refer to:

  • Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
  • Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
  • Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through culture or ancestry
    • Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world
    • Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan
  • Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana
  • Japanese cuisine, the food and food culture of Japan

Usage examples of "japanese".

The old slow transports, not designed for such conditions, flew without aids to navigation or arms against Japanese pursuit.

Particularly instructive and well reported is the instance of bear cult of the Ainu of Japan, a Caucasoid race that entered and settled Japan centuries earlier than the Mongoloid Japanese, and are confined today to the northern islands, Hokkaido and Sakhalin -- the latter now, of course, in Russian hands.

Kubota is a very attractive and purely Japanese town of 36,000 people, the capital of Akita ken.

Japanese Akita named Severena and a really obnoxious Jack Russell Terrier named Copper Penny.

The realm of the panpan was highly Americanized, whereas the black market, even when GIs roamed through it, was first and last for the Japanese.

A relic from the bad old days, when outlaw logging outfits ran wild in the country south of the Amur and east of the Ussuri, clearcutting vast areas of supposedly protected forest with no more than token interference from the paid-off authorities, shipping the lumber out to the ever-hungry Chinese and Japanese markets.

Calcutta was so great that it inspired Brereton to send his eight bombers on a not too effective raid of Rangoon and the Andaman Islands where the Japanese were accumulating shipping.

Y-force in Burma unless the Allies took the Andaman Islands or Rangoon or Moulmein to cut off the Japanese rear.

By the latter part of March Sumatra was also in Japanese hands, as were the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

He was entirely alone in the newt section where the great Japanese newt, the American hellbender, Andrias Scheuchzeri and a number of small amphibians, axolotls, eels, reptiles and frogs were exhibited.

Their skins are chocolate-tinted but their faces betray the genetic mishmash that is their ancestry - perhaps they call themselves Arapesh, Mundugumor, Tchambuli, Mafulu, in the way that he calls himself a Jew, but they have been liberally larded with chromosomes contributed by Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, Africans, everything.

It was larger and heavier than the Arisaka he was used to: plainly a weapon made for a bigger soldier than the average Japanese.

One of those fashionable young Japanese men that you sometimes see in the artier parts of London, haunting galleries and specialist record shops.

Anticipating even then the loss of lower Burma, even before the Japanese had crossed the border, the Chinese formally requested Lend-Lease material to construct a road from Ledo in Assam across the mountains, forests and rivers of north Burma to tie in with the Burma Road on the Chinese side at Lungling.

Following the Manila campaign, the regiment reorganized and re- equipped in Manila and, on 7 April 1945 received orders to move to Naguilian to join in the attack on Baguio, the Philippine summer capital and one of the remaining Japanese strong points on Luzon.