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  2. Jack Halpern (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    Jack Halpern (linguist) Jack Halpern ( 春遍雀來, ハルペン・ジャック, جاك هلبرن) is a Japan -based lexicographer specializing in Chinese characters, namely kanji. He is best known as editor-in-chief of the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary [1] and as the inventor of the SKIP system for kanji lookup.

  3. Yahoo! Japan - Wikipedia

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    April 1, 1996. Current status. Online. Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [1] According to The Japan Times, as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan.

  4. Nijisanji - Wikipedia

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    Nijisanji (Japanese: にじさんじ) (stylized in all caps as NIJISANJI) is a virtual YouTuber agency owned by Anycolor Inc. (formerly Ichikara Inc.). The agency was founded in 2018 with the purpose of promoting the use of Live2D models and streaming as opposed to the 3D and clips format popularized by Kizuna AI.

  5. Japanese input method - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese language has many homophones, and conversion of a kana spelling (representing the pronunciation) into a kanji (representing the standard written form of the word) is often a one-to-many process. The kana to kanji converter offers a list of candidate kanji writings for the input kana, and the user may use the space bar or arrow keys ...

  6. Man'yōgana - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Man'yōgana ( 万葉仮名, Japanese pronunciation: [maɰ̃joꜜːɡana] or [maɰ̃joːɡana]) is an ancient writing system that uses Chinese characters to represent the Japanese language. It was the first known kana system to be developed as a means to represent the Japanese language phonetically. The date of the earliest usage of ...

  7. Japanese writing system - Wikipedia

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    Japanese writing. The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana. Kana itself consists of a pair of syllabaries: hiragana, used primarily for native or naturalized Japanese words and grammatical elements; and katakana, used primarily for foreign words and names ...

  8. Ondo (music) - Wikipedia

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    The literal translation of "ondo" is "sound head." Kanji, or the Chinese characters used in the Japanese language, often have literal and abstract meanings, here the kanji for "sound" (音-on) having a more abstract meaning of "melody" or "music," and the kanji for "head," (頭) having a more abstract meaning of "beat," "base pattern." Hence ...

  9. Yahoo! Japan Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo! Japan Corporation (ヤフー株式会社, Yafū Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese web services provider. It was founded in 1996 as a joint venture between SoftBank (current SoftBank Group) and American Yahoo! Inc. Its search engine was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [2]