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• the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
• the Japanese manga Black God was created by a manhwa team of Koreans who do not know the Japanese language?
• the children's anime series The Littl' Bits has aired in Japanese, English, Spanish, Polish, German, and Italian?
• the name of Shichirigahama (pictured), a beach in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, means "Seven Ri (approximately 27 km/17 mi) Beach" in Japanese, but it is only about one-tenth of that in length?
• the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese?
• the Chinese character referring to the mythological sea monster Shen (pictured) is used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese terms for "mirage"?
• as a teenager, Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people?
• Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public?
• Natsume Sōseki's 1905 novel Kairo-kō is the earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in the Japanese language?
• Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a mixed language based on Malay, Japanese, English and Australian Aboriginal languages?
• a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese?
• after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese, he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
• "Kashi", the name of an all natural, seven whole grain food company based in La Jolla, California, means "happy" in Chinese and "energy" in Japanese?