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  2. Japanese addressing system - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. The Japanese system is complex and idiosyncratic, the product of the natural growth of urban areas, as opposed to the systems used in ...

  3. List of Japanese court ranks, positions and hereditary titles

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    The court ranks of Japan, also known in Japanese as ikai (位階), are indications of an individual's court rank in Japan based on the system of the state. Ikai as a system was originally used in the Ritsuryo system, which was the political administration system used in ancient China, and the indication of the rank of bureaucrats and officials in countries that inherited (class system).

  4. House of Representatives (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    The House of Representatives (衆議院, Shūgiin) is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors is the upper house . The composition of the House is established by Article 41 [ ja] and Article 42 [ ja] of the Constitution of Japan. [1] The House of Representatives has 465 members, elected for a four-year term.

  5. List of Internet top-level domains - Wikipedia

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    This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet.A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database.

  6. Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia

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    Japanese honorifics. The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.

  7. House of Councillors - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The House of Councillors (参議院, Sangiin) is the upper house of the National Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or the nomination of the prime minister, the House of ...

  8. National Diet - Wikipedia

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    The National Diet ( Japanese: 国会, Hepburn: Kokkai) is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives ( 衆議院, Shūgiin ), and an upper house, the House of Councillors ( 参議院, Sangiin ). Both houses are directly elected under a parallel voting system.

  9. Senpai and kōhai - Wikipedia

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    Senpai and kōhai are Japanese terms used to describe an informal hierarchical interpersonal relationship found in organizations, associations, clubs, businesses, and schools in Japan and expressions of Japanese culture worldwide. The senpai ( 先輩, "senior") and kōhai ( 後輩, "junior") relationship has its roots in Confucianism, but has ...