Top Five Anime Movies from 2010 | Inside AX- Anime Expo by Samantha H., Staff Writer, Inside AX- Anime Expo 2010 was a year filled with many new anime series and some fantastic anime movie releases. With the release of movies such as Karigurashi no Arriety and One Piece film: Strong World, it may be hard to pick what movies to watch. Here at Inside AX, we’ve gathered a small list that we think deserve a look. Trigun: Badlands Rumble I remember when I watched Trigun and fell in love with Vash and the badass known as Wolfwood years ago. King of Thorn (Ibara no Ou) King of Thorn is a psychological thriller that was released May 2010. Karigurashi no Arriety (The Borrower Arriety) Karigurashi no Arriety topped the Japanese box offices this year and for a good reason too. Released July 17,2010, Karigurashi no Arrietty is the first movie that animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi has directed. Halo Legends Summer Wars Okay so I cheated a bit. What were your favorite anime movies of 2010?
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Shogun In pre-modern Japan, the shogun was Japan's supreme military leader, awarded the title by the emperor, and by tradition a descendant of the prestigious Minamoto clan. From 1603 through 1869, Japan was ruled by a series of shoguns known as the Tokugawa Shogunate, descended from Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu moved the capitol to Edo (modern day Tokyo), and through a governing system of strict regulations, he initiated a period of peace, prosperity and cultural renaissance that would last for over 250 years. REIGNS OF THE TOKUGAWA SHOGUNS Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1603-1605Tokugawa Hidetada, 1605-1623Tokugawa Iemitsu, 1623-1651Tokugawa Ietsuna, 1651-1680Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, 1680-1709Tokugawa Ienobu, 1709-1712Tokugawa Ietsugu, 1713-1716Tokugawa Yoshimune, 1716-1745Tokugawa Ieshige, 1745-1760Tokugawa Ieharu, 1760-1786Tokugawa Ienari, 1787-1837Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 1837-1853Tokugawa Iesada, 1853-1858Tokugawa Iemochi, 1858-1866Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 1867
Japanese Folktales selected and edited by D. L. Ashliman © 1998-2008 Contents Return to D. The Two Frogs Once upon a time in the country of Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home in a ditch near the town of Osaka, on the sea coast, while the other dwelt in a clear little stream which ran through the city of Kyoto. So one fine morning in the spring they both set out along the road that led from Kyoto to Osaka, one from one end and the other from the other. They looked at each other for a moment without speaking, and then fell into conversation, explaining the cause of their meeting so far from their homes. "What a pity we are not bigger," said the Osaka frog; "for then we could see both towns from here, and tell if it is worth our while going on." "Oh, that is easily managed," returned the Kyoto frog. This idea pleased the Osaka frog so much that he at once jumped up and put his front paws on the shoulder of his friend, who had risen also. "Dear me!" The Mirror of Matsuyama Source: F. "Buried!"
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Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Program Two - The Will of the Shogun With Ieyasu in control, peace settles over Japan, and a new society based on the samurai ethics of obedience and loyalty is established. In 1600, William Adams becomes the first Englishman to set foot in Japan. Impressed by European trading vessels, Ieyasu asks Adams to help him build his own fleet. Aware that the English have no interest in converting the Japanese to Christianity, Ieyasu decides to expel the Portugese and Spanish who often combine missionary work with trade. As Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu has united the daimyo warlords. Foreign missionaries have been expelled from Japan, but still Iemitsu fears the influence of Christianity. IMAGE CREDITS Top: Tokugawa Iemitsu/Hasedera Temple PREVIEW Episode One: The Way of the Samurai 56k | 200k Episode Two: The Will of the Shogun 56k | 200k Episode Three: The Return of the Barbarians 56k | 200k (Click 56K for modem access or 200K for cable/T1/DSL connections.
Foreign Languages and Literatures | 21F.039 Japanese Popular Culture, Spring 2003 How Sequential Gearboxes Work& How Manual Transmissions Work offers a basic understanding of the mechanisms inside a manual transmission. The five-speed manual transmission is fairly standard on cars today. It looks something like this internally: There are three forks controlled by three rods that are engaged by the shift lever. Looking at the shift rods from the top, they look like this in neutral, reverse, first and second gear: The "H" pattern allows you to move the shift rod between the control rods for the three forks and move the rods back and forth. A sequential manual transmission works the same way. In a race car, the motion of the shift lever is either "push forward" to up-shift or "pull backward" to downshift. What these motions are doing is rotating a ratcheting drum. You can see that there are grooves cut into the drum. So, when you move the lever, it rotates the drum one increment (for example, 50 degrees). Because of the drum, you have to shift in sequence.
FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan FOUND: The Bizarre Transformer Trucks of Japan November 17, 2011 Vending machines that sell warm noodle concoctions with mysterious ingredients and unknown flavors…to our western eyes, Japan is unlike anything we’d recognize. But beyond Tokyo's glistening lights, oddball fetishes and weird, angular haircuts is a blue-collar subculture of an entirely different sort: Dekotora. Also known as “Art Trucks,” Dekotora is the land of the rising sun’s homegrown trucker subculture that covers big rigs with neon and ultraviolet lights, colorful airbrushed murals and shiny stainless steel or golden exteriors. There are plenty of truck-decorating customs in Asia (like Jeepnys in the Philippines), but these Japanese trucks are a league of their own. The Dekotora trend took off after the mid-70s emergence of Japanese low budget B-movies about truckers. On our Mission to ALL THE WRONG PLACES, we caught up with some of the Japanese truckers who started it all — the guys from Utamorokai Dekotora Club.
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire . Program One - Way of the Samurai In the early 16th century, Japan is a warlike society ruled by samurai and their daimyo warlords. When Portuguese merchants arrive in 1543, they are the first Europeans to set foot in Japan. Missionaries quickly set out to convert the nation to Christianity. In the same year, a samurai boy named Tokugawa Ieyasu is born to a low ranking daimyo family. To prove his family's loyalty to their ruling warlord, Ieyasu is given as a hostage where he remains for most of his childhood. On his deathbed, Hideyoshi, places Ieyasu in command until Hideyoshi's true heir—his young son, Hideyori—will rule. IMAGE CREDITS Top: Hideori/Osaka Castle. PREVIEW Episode One: The Way of the Samurai 56k | 200k Episode Two: The Will of the Shogun 56k | 200k Episode Three: The Return of the Barbarians 56k | 200k (Click 56K for modem access or 200K for cable/T1/DSL connections.
Watch Free Anime | Anime Shows, Episodes in English Subbed & Dubbed 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web - StumbleUpon Not everything on the web will show up in a list of search results on Google or Bing; there are lots of places that their web crawlers cannot access. To explore the invisible web, you need to use specialist search engines. Here are our top 12 services to perform a deep internet search. What Is the Invisible Web? Before we begin, let's establish what does the term "invisible web" refer to? Simply, it's a catch-all term for online content that will not appear in search results or web directories. There are no official data available, but most experts agree that the invisible web is several times larger than the visible web. The content on the invisible web can be roughly divided into the deep web and the dark web. The Deep Web The deep web made up of content that typically needs some form of accreditation to access. If you have the correct details, you can access the content through a regular web browser. The Dark Web The dark web is a sub-section of the deep web. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.