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 ancestry or culture . Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world; Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese …

The Japanese spider crab (Macrocheira kaempferi) is a species of marine crab that lives in the waters around Japan.It has the largest known leg-span of any arthropod.It goes through three main larval stages along with a prezoeal stage to grow to its great size. The genus Macrocheira contains multiple species. Two fossil species of this genus have been found, M. ginzanensis …

The Japanese pygmy woodpecker or pygmy woodpecker (Yungipicus kizuki) is a species of woodpecker.It is found in coniferous and deciduous forests in Russia, China, Korea and Japan. This species has also been placed in the genus Dendrocopos or Picoides.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a least-concern species.

History. The San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden (also known as the Sunken Gardens) in the U.S. state of Texas was developed on land donated to the city in 1899 by George Washington Brackenridge, president of the San Antonio Water Works Company. The ground was first broken around 1840 by German masons, who used the readily accessible limestone to supply the …

Japanese used vehicle exporting is a grey market international trade involving the export of used cars and other vehicles from Japan to other markets around the world since the 1980s. Despite the high cost of transport, the sale of used cars and other vehicles to other countries is still profitable due to the relatively low cost and good ...

Flag Date Use Description 13 August 1999 – present: Civil and state flag and ensign of Japan. Flag ratio: 2:3. This flag was designed by Proclamation No. 127, 1999.The sun-disc is perfectly centered and is a brighter shade of red.

The World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft were reporting names, often described as codenames, given by Allied personnel to Imperial Japanese aircraft during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The names were used by Allied personnel to identify aircraft operated by the Japanese for reporting and descriptive purposes. Generally, Western men's names were given …

Guard Divisions. The Konoe Imperial Guard of Japan was originally one Imperial Guards Division until the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.It was expanded during World War II into three Guards Divisions: . Konoe Imperial Guards Division; 1st Guards Division; 2nd Guards Division; 3rd Guards Division; Infantry Divisions. The first 18 divisions were originally formed as …

HMAS Armidale: Australian corvette sunk 1 December 1942 by Japanese aircraft.; HMAS Canberra: Australian heavy cruiser heavily damaged 9 August 1942 by IJN naval gun fire during Battle of Savo Island, and scuttled later in the day.; AHS Centaur: Australian hospital ship torpedoed on 14 May 1943 by Japanese submarine I-177 off the coast of Queensland.; SS …

The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF) were the combined military forces of the Japanese Empire.Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868, they were disbanded in 1947, shortly after Japan's defeat to the Allies of World War II; the renewed Constitution of Japan, drafted during the Allied occupation of Japan, replaced the IJAF with the present-day Japan …