(n.) Work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner; also, the varnish or lacquer used in japanning.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Japan, or to the lacquered work of that country; as, Japan ware.
(v. t.) To cover with a coat of hard, brilliant varnish, in the manner of the Japanese; to lacquer.
(v. t.) To give a glossy black to, as shoes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(2) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(3) Therefore, we performed meta-analysis of literature reports in Japan (n = 3), the USA (n = 4), and Europe (n = 20) on the risk of postgastrectomy cancer.
(4) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
(5) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(6) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
(7) The green fund contributions already announced (which include a $3bn pledge by the US and a $1.5bn pledge by Japan revealed during the G20 summit) “show very clearly that if we want the emerging countries and the more fragile countries to participate in this global growth, we have to ... support them,” Hollande said.
(8) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(9) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
(10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
(11) The percentage of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, i.e., eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5) and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6) was significantly low in United States inlanders with a high coronary heart disease morbidity compared with both populations in Japan with low morbidity.
(12) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(13) By contrast, the services for mentally ill in England is considered to be superior and is therefore presented briefly to benefit the development of better community psychiatric care in Japan.
(14) Japan's 2% growth this year would be boosted by a construction boom after the tsunami in 2011 , while China would expand by 8.2% in 2012 and 9.3% in 2013.
(15) Olympic games are a competition between countries, but here spectators can freely choose which star to cheer for and unite as one,” said Inoki, a lawmaker in Japan’s upper house who was known as “Burning Fighting Spirit” in the ring.
(16) Prevalence rate is around 4% (4-15% in males and 4-8% in females), and incidence rate varies from area to area: 53.2 per 100,000 population in 1975 in Japan, 364 in 1976 in Malaysia, and 540 in 1979 in West Germany.
(17) Consoles are even more widespread in Japan, of course, but for many, finding the time and space to play in comfort is tricky.
(18) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
(19) The decision came after Japan’s revised rules on the transfer of arms and defence technology, Suga said.
(20) It is a very widely cultivated plant in eastern countries like India, Bangladesh, Ceylon, Malaya, the Philippines and Japan.
Mikado
Definition:
(n.) The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.
Example Sentences:
(1) So too would proposals to restrict cases that could go to judicial review, the steep cuts in legal aid, and successive governments' tendency to observe what he called the Mikado principle of legislation: to pass a law was to deal with a problem.
(2) Thirdly, how is one to explain that Zinovieff, Kameneff, and other leaders of this alleged "Trotskyist group" knew nothing about this grotesque plan to dismember the U.S.S.R. for the benefit of Hitler and the Mikado, while Radek, whom none of us ever took too seriously, now reveals himself as the head of this world conspiracy?
(3) Her house is cluttered with books, throws, sheepskin rugs and a black and white cat called Yum-Yum ("after the Mikado") whose smell is everywhere.
(4) Monday night’s antics, with a prime minister in tails, a lord chancellor in pantaloons, a home secretary in fake leopard and whips in a panic, would have been implausible as a staging of The Mikado.
(5) I was in a production called The Black Mikado with Derek Griffiths, another Play School presenter, and I remember talking about how much I'd love to do it.
(6) Idle had been thinking about writing a musical comedy with Du Prez for years, ever since he had starred as Ko-Ko, the lord high executioner, in English National Opera's 1986 production of The Mikado.
(7) When the chaps sat down in the front row, the enormous figure of Norman Graham was heard noticing that he was seated directly behind a grand piano (in fact there for an extract from the Mikado).
(8) Mikado) has been examined by biochemical, immunological and immunocytochemical techniques.
(9) Denied exposure to the outside world, rivalry between the three great cities - Edo, the seat of government, Kyoto, the seat of the politically emasculated but still influential Mikado, and Osaka, a busy merchant city - was the motor of development, not least in theatre.