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Input (English): Context: Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest. , Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each sound in the Japanese language (strictly, each mora) is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as ""a"" (hiragana ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as ""ka"" (); or ""n"" (), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English "m", "n", or "ng", or like the nasal vowels of French. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of  "n"), the kana are referred to as syllabaries and not alphabets., The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures. Scholars have posited a pre-history as far back as the Lascaux cave paintings. By the mid-20th century, comics flourished particularly in the United States, western Europe (especially in France and Belgium), and Japan. The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer's cartoon strips of the 1830s, and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as "The Adventures of Tintin". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips; magazine-style comic books followed in the 1930s, in which the superhero genre became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938. Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century. Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century, and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post-World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka. had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history, but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia., Originally a part of Kyodo News, Kyodo Television was formed in 1958 through the joint financing of Tkai Television Broadcasting, Kansai Telecasting Corporation, Nihon Kyiku TV (NET, now TV Asahi), NHK, and other smaller partners as Kyodo Television News. , Umizaru is a 2004 action film directed by Eiichiro Hasumi . It is the first feature - length film of the Umizaru projects , preceding the 2005 11 - episode Fuji Television and Kyodo Television drama series Umizaru Evolution and the 2006 film Limit of Love : Umizaru . The film is the first of the 3 - part film and television project . The project is adapted from the popular 12 Shogakukan manga books Umizaru written by Yichi Komori (  ) and art by Shh Sat from 1998 to 2001 . The film stars Ito Hideaki as Japan Coast Guard ( JCG ) rescue diver Senzaki Daisuke , and Kato Ai as his love interest Izawa Kanna . There are also NHK dramas Umizaru ( 2002 ) and Umizaru 2 ( 2003 ) . Umizaru (  ) means `` Sea Monkey '' ; a derogatory label slapped on the rescue diver trainees by local townsfolk of the city of Kure due to their excessive and uninhibited behaviour during off hours . Journey 's `` Open Arms '' as the theme song was used in the film . The movie The Guardian ( 2006 film ) was based on the this movie ., Kanji, or "kan'ji", are the adopted logographic Chinese characters (') that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The Japanese term "kanji" for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters" and is written using the same characters as the Chinese word '., Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English., The , formerly the Maritime Safety Agency, is the Japanese coast guard. Comprising about 12,000 personnel, it is under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and is responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan. It was founded in 1948., In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for those Japanese language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively "gairaigo"); for emphasis; to represent onomatopoeia; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals, minerals, and often Japanese companies., The term "manga" (kanji: ; hiragana: ; katakana:  or ) in Japan is a word used to refer to both comics and cartooning. "Manga" as a term used outside Japan refers to comics originally published in Japan., Subject: umizaru , Relation: original_language_of_work, Options: (A) chinese (B) japanese (C) korean (D) russia
Output (English): japanese