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English: Whilst video-tape was rapidly taking over as the recording medium for other television shows, jidaigeki continued mainly to be shot using motion-picture film, thus establishing a unique status of being more 'movies' than 'dramas.'
Japanese: テレビ用時代劇は他のテレビ番組が急速にビデオ撮影による収録に切り替わっていく中、1990年代後半までは映画用写真フィルムによる撮影を主流とし、"ドラマ"というよりは"映画"的なコンテンツとして特異な地位を確立していた。
English: This was a unique characteristic of jidaigeki dramas, police dramas and superhero shows.
Japanese: これはテレビ時代劇と刑事ドラマと特撮ヒーロー番組に言える特徴であった。
English: In recent years, viewer ratings among young people have dropped and production costs (such as checks for historical accuracy and licensing for the use of related data, production and procurement of sets and props, securing of locations and related licensing, plus costs and labour involved in makeup, wigs, costumes) have increased compared to contemporary dramas.
Japanese: 近年、若者層の視聴率が取りにくい事や現代劇に比べ制作費がかかる（時代考証、およびそのための資料引用に関する許諾、大道具・小道具等の制作や調達、ロケ地の確保やそれに伴う許諾、化粧・鬘・衣装等の製作費用や手間...等）。
English: In addition there has been lack of new blood and insufficient human resources to carry on the production thus jidaigeki are becoming cliche.
Japanese: それに加え、製作関係者の後継者不足や人材育成の不足、作品がマンネリズムに陥っている。
English: As a result, television stations have begun to shy away from production and airing of jidaigeki dramas.
Japanese: それらゆに、テレビ向けに製作・放映されることは敬遠されるようになってきた。
English: This trend became particularly noticeable since around 1997 when Kinnosuke YOROZUYA, who had made a major contribution as a jidaigeki actor of his generation, passed away.
Japanese: この傾向は一時代の時代劇俳優として一役を買った萬屋錦之介が死去した1997年頃より特に顕著となっている。
English: However, jidaigeki still remains in high demand and is valued for reruns, paid broadcasting on satellite television networks and DVD and magnetic tape sales.
Japanese: しかし映像コンテンツとしての需要は高く、再放送枠や衛星放送系有料放送、DVD・磁気テープ販売の分野においては重宝されている。
English: In jidaigeki, ohaguro (dyed-black teeth) and hikimayu (painted eyebrows) were often used up to the 1960s but to a modern audience these past customs look bizarre and are not readily accepted.
Japanese: 時代考証については1960年代まではお歯黒、引眉を行う場合が多かったが、すでに過去の習慣であり、また、お歯黒、引眉が不気味と思われる、等、現代人に受け入れられにくい。
English: Consequently, even if it is appropriate for a character to wear ohaguro and hikimayu, they are almost never used nowadays except for in a few special circumstances.
Japanese: そのため、現在ではお歯黒、引眉に該当する役柄でもお歯黒、引眉をすることは一部の役を除きないといって良い。
English: Additionally, sloppiness in historical accuracy is frequently seen in jidaigeki such as men wearing suteteko (undershorts) when they should be wearing loincloths and people wearing their hair in late-Edo-Period style when the story takes place in the Genroku era.
Japanese: また、本来ならふんどしであるべき男性の下着がステテコになったり、元禄時代の物語なのに髪型が幕末仕様だったりするなど、雑な部分も多い。
English: On the other hand, whilst it was once common for women to use full wigs, as high definition video recording became popular, partial wigs became widely used to ensure the natural appearance of the hairline.
Japanese: その一方で、女性の日本髪の鬘は以前は全鬘が一般的だったがハイビジョン収録の一般化に伴い生え際が自然に見える部分鬘を使うようになった。
English: Additionally, since Uchigatana (a sword kept in the 'obi' belt), essentially makes no noise when it cuts or is drawn from and returned to its sheath, no sound effects used to be used.
Japanese: また、日本刀の打刀では斬撃、抜刀、納刀など元来ほとんど音がしないため、それまで無音であった。
English: However, since the times of movies such as 'Seven Samurai' the use of sound effects for swords became common practice.
Japanese: しかし、映画『七人の侍』などのころから効果音が必ず入れられるようになった。
English: Positions such as daikan (local governor), meakashi (hired thief-catcher), doshin (policeman) and komono (lower servant) and everyday items such food stalls are depicted based on information collected without a rigorous study of historical evidence.
Japanese: また代官、目明し、同心、小者など役職、屋台など風俗については厳密な考証なしに描写されている。
English: If the chief retainer, the lord or heir of a certain domain is the villain, a fictional domain is created for the purposes of the story.
Japanese: 悪人サイドが家老や藩主やその跡取りといった場合は実在しない藩になる。
English: In the Mito Komon series, since there are no domain lords as villains, real domain names are used.
Japanese: 水戸黄門シリーズは藩主まで悪人になることはないため実在の藩が登場する。
English: Onihe Hankacho' (Onihei's records of criminal incidents) is a magistrate story, but has elements of a literary drama and rather than the principle of rewarding good and punishing evil, pays greater attention to the storyline and the description of people's lifestyles at the time.
Japanese: 「鬼平犯科帳」は奉行ものであるが、勧善懲悪よりもドラマ性や風俗描写を重視しており、下記の文芸ものの要素が高い。
English: Battle stories include the film "Kagemusha (film)" (Body Double), NHK historical dramas and TBS's televised drama "Sekigahara."
Japanese: 『影武者(映画)』やNHK大河ドラマ、TBS『関ヶ原(テレビドラマ)』など。
English: Edo Literature adapted for film includes The Life of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna), The Story of Chikamatsu Chikamatsu Monogatari) and Chikamatsu Monogatari (Saikaku Ichidai Otoko) produced by Daiei Film Company.
Japanese: 江戸文学の映画化：西鶴一代女・近松物語・西鶴一代男など大映の時代劇に多い。
English: Special effects movies which have the premise of jidaigeki but feature supernatural elements such as shapeshifting heroes, powerful evil organizations and monsters.
Japanese: 特撮もの：舞台設定は時代劇であるが、変身ヒーローや悪の巨大組織・怪人など特撮の要素を盛り込んだ作品
English: Special effects movies for children include "Daimajin" (great devil), 'Akakage the Masked Ninja, 'Swift Hero Lion-maru' (Kaiketsu Lion-maru) and 'Arashi the Transforming Ninja.'
Japanese: 子供向け特撮：『大魔神』、「仮面の忍者赤影」、「快傑ライオン丸」、「変身忍者_嵐」など
English: Hyper jidaigeki include works that are a mishmash of elements from various genres such as Westerns and science fiction with little regard for historical accuracy.
Japanese: ハイパー時代劇：厳密な時代考証をいっさい無視し、西部劇・サイエンス・フィクションなど、あらゆるジャンルの要素をミックスした作品。
English: Hyper jidaigeki are closely related to the aforementioned "Special effects movies" ('Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle' (Gojo Reisenki) and 'ZIPANG')
Japanese: 上記の"特撮もの"に近い存在（「五条霊戦記」・「ZIPANG」など）
English: * In a broad sense, Ninja movies are sometimes included in the category of jidaigeki but for the most part they are treated as a fundamentally separate genre.
Japanese: ※広義では忍者映画（忍者もの）も時代劇に含める場合があるが、基本的には分けて扱うことが多い。
English: (In this section, only those featuring well-known ninja [whether or not they actually existed] from the Warring State to early Edo Period are described as "jidaigeki")
Japanese: （本項では戦国時代～江戸時代上の（実在・架空を問わず）有名な忍者が登場する作品のみを"時代劇"として記載した）
English: The Daiei jidaigeki included not only swordfight stories but also many literary stories and those set in the periods other than the Edo.
Japanese: 大映時代劇：剣劇だけでなく文芸作品や江戸時代以外を舞台とするものも多い。
English: The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific being surrounded by Sakhalin, Hokkaido, Honshu (the main island of Japan), Kyushu as well as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation in the Eurasian Continent.
Japanese: 日本海（にほんかい、またはにっぽんかい）は、西太平洋の縁海で、樺太、北海道、本州、九州、ユーラシア大陸の朝鮮民主主義人民共和国、大韓民国、ロシア連邦に囲まれている。
English: It is referred to as mer du Japon, Japanisches Meer, Японское море and일본해 in French, German, Russian and Korean, respectively.
Japanese: フランス語ではmerduJapon、ドイツ語ではJapanischesMeer、ロシア語ではЯпонскоеморе、朝鮮語では일본해である。
English: In South Korea it is also referred to as 동해 (Donghae or East Sea) while in North Korea it is known as 조선동해(Joseon Donghae or Korea East Sea) or 조선해 (Joseonghae or Korea Sea) and some Korean people call it 동조선해 (Don Joseaonghae or East Korea Sea).
Japanese: また朝鮮語を使う韓国では동해（トンヘ、東海）、北朝鮮では조선동해（チョソントンヘ、朝鮮東海）、조선해（チョソンヘ、朝鮮海）,その他동조선해（トンチョソンヘ、東朝鮮海）などとも呼ばれることがある。
English: Nevertheless, the United Nations and the majority of international marine charts currently refer it to as the 'Sea of Japan' and those Korean names are not common worldwide.
Japanese: とはいえ、現在、国際連合及び国際的な海図の大半は「日本海」という表記を使用しており，国際的にそれらは一般的ではない。
English: Both South and North Korea insist that 'Sea of Japan' be replaced by or followed by 'East Sea' because the current naming is a reminder of colonial administration by Japan.
Japanese: 両国はこれは日本による植民地統治の残滓であるとして「東海」への置き換えもしくは併記を主張している。
English: Its average depth is 1,752 meters, the greatest depth is 3,742 meters and the surface area is 978,000 square meters.
Japanese: 平均水深は1,752メートル、最も深い地点で3,742mで、表面積は978,000平方キロメートルである。
English: Surrounding the Yamato Bank (approximately 400 meters in water depth), there are 3 major deep basins: the Japan Basin (approximately 3,000 meters in water depth) on the north, the Yamato Basin on the southwest and the Tsushima Basin on the southeast (approximately 2,500 meters in water depth, respectively).
Japanese: 中央の大和堆（水深約400m）を挟んで主に3つの深い海盆があり北に日本海盆（水深およそ3,000m）、南西にやや浅い大和海盆、南東に対馬海盆（ともに水深およそ2500m）と呼ばれている。
English: Off the coast of the Toyama Bay, the Toyama Deep-Sea Channel with as deep as 1,000 meters in water depth stretches approximately 500 kilometers in length.
Japanese: また、富山湾沖から水深1,000mにも達する富山深海長谷が約500kmにわたって延びている。
English: There are continental shelves that extend along the eastern coastal line while on the west side, they are very narrow particularly along the coast of the Korean Peninsula with approximately 30 kilometer in width.
Japanese: 大陸棚が東部沿岸に広がっているが、西部、特に朝鮮半島沿いは非常に狭く、幅は30km程度である。
English: The Sea of Japan is connected to the Okhotsk Sea through the Mamiya Strait (the Tatar Strait) between the continent and Sakhalin as well as through the Soya Strait between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
Japanese: 大陸と樺太の間の間宮海峡（タタール海峡）、樺太と北海道の間の宗谷海峡でオホーツク海と繋がっている。
English: The Sea of Japan is also connected to the Pacific Ocean through the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido and Honshu while it is connected to the East China Sea through the Eastern Channel of the Tsushima Strait between Kyushu and Tsushima Island as well as through the Korea Strait between Tsushima Island and South Korea.
Japanese: また、北海道と本州の間の津軽海峡では太平洋と、九州と対馬島の間の対馬海峡東水道、対馬島と韓国の間の朝鮮海峡で東シナ海と繋がっている。
English: Since the straits have shallow water depth, there is little exchange of sea water with open seas except for the Tsushima Current from the Tsushima Strait flowing in.
Japanese: 海峡の水深が浅いため外海との海水の交換は少なく、唯一対馬海峡から対馬海流が流入するのみである。
English: There is the Liman Cold Current flowing on the north but, as a result of a geological survey, it has come to light that the the Oyashio current (the Kuril current) was once running in that area.
Japanese: 北部には寒流のリマン海流が流れているが、地質調査からかつて親潮が流れていた事が明かとなった。
English: In the deep layer, there is the cold and dissolved oxygen-rich sea water called the Proper Water in the Japan Sea which has totally different properties from that of the Pacific Ocean.
Japanese: 深層には太平洋とは全く性質を異にする日本海固有水と呼ばれる、寒冷で溶存酸素量に富んだ海水が分布する。
English: The areas on the north and southwest are rich with marine resources and it is considered economically important because minerals, natural gas as well as small amount of petroleum and methane hydrate are also available.
Japanese: 北方と南西海域は豊富な水産資源が得られ、鉱物資源や天然ガス、わずかながら石油そしてメタンハイドレートの存在など経済的にも重要な海域とされる。
English: Up to 40 million years ago, the Japanese archipelago was part of the Asian Continent but it became detached from the continent approximately between 40 million and 20 million years ago.
Japanese: 日本列島は4000万年前まで大陸の一部であったが、4000万年前頃から2000万年前にかけて大陸から分離した。
English: Because of this, the original form of the Sea of Japan was created and after expanding, it was arranged into approximately the current layout several million years ago.
Japanese: これによって日本海の原型が形成され、その後拡大が進み数百万年前にはほぼ現在の配置になった。
English: The Tsushima Strait was still part of the Eurasian Continent then and it is said that the strait was formed during Quaternary period.
Japanese: 対馬海峡はまだユーラシア大陸と陸続きで、対馬海峡が形成されたのは第四紀になってからと言われている。
English: Later on, due to the current sea level rise that occurred worldwide during the glacial period, the strait having shallow water depth of approximately 130 meters kept opening and closing.
Japanese: その後氷期の世界的な海水準変動によって、水深130m程度の浅い海峡は閉じたり開いたりを繰り返していた。
English: As a result, sediment lithofacies, isotopic composition ratios and element concentrations have gone through dramatic changes.
Japanese: その為、堆積物の岩相や同位体の構成比、元素濃度は劇的に変化をしている。
English: Between Sakhalin and the coastline of the Japanese archipelago, there is a band of areas where the magnitude 7 class earthquakes frequently occur that is referred to as the Japan Sea Eastern Margin Mobile Belt.
Japanese: サハリンから日本列島沿岸に沿って海嶺やマグニチュード7クラスの地震の多発域が帯状に連なっており、これを日本海東縁変動帯と呼ぶ。
English: There were various earthquakes in the Japan Sea Eastern Margin Mobile Belt so far including the Neftegorsk earthquake, the South-West off Hokkaido earthquake, Middle Japan Sea earthquake, Shonai earthquake, Niigata earthquake, Niigata Chuetsu earthquake and the Niigataken Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007.
Japanese: 日本海東縁変動帯では、,ネフチェゴルスク地震、北海道南西沖地震、日本海中部地震‎、庄内沖地震、新潟地震、新潟県中越地震、新潟県中越沖地震などが発生している。
English: With regard to wreckage, many kinds of waste materials which have been illegally disposed of mainly by Korean and Chinese freight ships and fishing boats sailing the Sea of Japan as well as from the Korean Peninsula and Japanese mainland moves with the sea current and drifts ashore along the coast of Tsushima and the Sea of Japan.
Japanese: 漂着物として、主に韓国、中国など日本海を航行する貨物船や漁船、また朝鮮半島や日本本土から不法投棄されるゴミが海流にのって、対馬や日本海沿岸に漂着する。
English: Additionally, there is the possibility that radioactive materials abandoned by some countries including Russia have polluted deep waters whereby there is a concern about contamination of crabs and deep-sea fish.
Japanese: さらに、ロシアなどが遺棄していた放射性物質は深海を汚染しているおそれが大きく、カニや深海魚の汚染に不安感がもたれている。
English: Russia in the midst of economic deterioration in those days was discarding nuclear power reactors of the old nuclear submarines of the Pacific fleet (Russian Navy) in the ocean trench over international waters of the Sea of Japan which is considered to be particularly problematic.
Japanese: 特に経済が悪化していた当時のロシアでは太平洋艦隊(ロシア海軍)の古い原子力潜水艦の原子炉を日本海公海上の海溝に投棄していたことが問題とされている。
English: Additionally, due to bad weather in the winter months, there have been many marine accidents including the Nakhodka oil spill accident which polluted the coastline with a large amount of crude oil.
Japanese: また、冬季の天候の悪化時に起きる海難事故では、ナホトカ号重油流出事故のように大量の重油で沿岸部を汚染する事件が多発している。
English: There is no end of dumping waste oil in the ocean by some of the Chinese, Russian and Korean ships after cleaning inside those ships with seawater.
Japanese: 中国、ロシア、韓国船の中には船内を海水で洗浄した廃油を海に投棄する船が後をたたない。
English: Mostly between winter and spring, there have been some accidents posing a risk to navigation in which large quantities of lumber or the like were spilled from ships underway.
Japanese: 主に冬から春にかけて、航行中の船から材木などが大量に流出し航行に危険をもたらす事件もおこっている。
English: When vegetations are wiped out in the rocky areas along the shore, a wide area of rocky shore will look ash white as roasted turban shell and, hence, this term 'isoyake' which means 'shore-burning.'
Japanese: 沿岸部の岩礁地帯の植物が死滅して、焼いたサザエの殻のように、水面下の岩についた貝等の屍骸で磯全体が広範囲にわたって白く焼けたように見えることから、この呼び名がある。
English: It is a phenomenon seen in all of the Sea of Japan coastal areas which causes a concern over a serious impact on the entire fishing industry, with problems including that the fish population is drastically reduced and that, due to the decreased food, the growth of juvenile fish of those species valuable to human that are spawned and grow in the coastal areas will be challenged.
Japanese: 日本海沿岸部全体で観察される現象で、沿岸部での魚の激減、えさの減少から沿岸部で産卵されて育つ人間に有用な魚の稚魚の成長が難しくなることなど、漁業全体への深刻な影響が懸念される。
English: Due to the fact that shore-burning is uncommon around the immediate areas where river waters flow in, it is considered to be caused by change in seawater.
Japanese: 川の水が流入する直近の場所では少ないことから、海水の変化が原因と考えられている。
English: According to the widely-accepted opinions over the change in seawater, it results from the marine pollution caused by endocrine disrupters contained in ship bottom paint or the reduced organic matter due to the flood control measures installed for inflowing rivers.
Japanese: 海水の変化の理由として、有力な説は船底塗料等の中に含まれる環境ホルモンによる海洋汚染、流入する河川の治水による有機物の減少があげられている。
English: As one of the latest opinion, the reduced organic matters in seawater due to global warming (oligotrophication and reduced nutrients) is pointed out, but the cause remains unknown.
Japanese: 最新の説には、温暖化による海水の有機物の減少（貧栄養化現象、栄養減化現象）をあげる説等があるが、原因は不明である。
English: Although 'shore-burning' is the normal condition for those who are used to seeing the present rocky shores and they can not get a real sense of that term, half a century ago, people commonly saw rocky shores under water which were so densely covered with marine plants that rocks were not visible.
Japanese: なお、現代の磯を見慣れている人には「磯焼け」が常態であるのでこの言葉に実感はないが、半世紀前の人々が普通に見た磯（水中）は、岩などが見えないほど海草が生い茂っていたのである。
English: Due to the fact that there are smaller numbers of breeds and fewer indigenous species comparing to that found in the Pacific Ocean, it is said that the formation of the Sea of Japan occurred not too long ago.
Japanese: 太平洋より種族数が少なく固有種も乏しいことから、日本海の形成時代はあまり古くないといわれている。
English: There are generally an abundance of costal-zone bottom animals such as crabs and slight difference is noted in fish fauna from one side of the Noto Peninsula to another.
Japanese: カニなどの沿岸性底動物は一般に豊富で、能登半島を境にしてその動物相にやや変化がみられる。
English: Comparing to the Pacific Ocean, the northern most range for southern species extends far north due to the effect of warm current of the Tsushima Strait.
Japanese: 太平洋岸に比べ、対馬暖流の影響で南方系種族の北限がはるか北方にのびている。
English: For instance, turban shells are harvested even in Aomori Prefecture on the side of the Sea of Japan, whereas, they are not found in areas north of the Kanto region on the side of the Pacific Ocean.
Japanese: 例を挙げると、サザエは日本海側では青森県でも漁獲されるのに対し太平洋側では関東地方以北には現れない。
English: The type of plankton is broken down into warm water species in the Tushima Warm Current and cold water species in the Liman Cold Current, but the distribution of both types is not as clearly divided as water mass distribution and there is a wide sea area where they coexist.
Japanese: 種類は対馬暖流系の暖水種と、リマン寒流系の冷水種に分けられるが、両者の分布は水塊分布ほど明確に区分されず、混在海域が広い。
English: The northern hemisphere fish include herring, salmon, trout and cod, whereas, among the southern hemisphere fish, there are a large number of yellow tails that somewhat belongs to the temperate zone fish variety but the representative warm water fish such as bonito and tuna are hardly ever caught.
Japanese: 北方系の魚類としては、ニシン、サケ、マス、タラなどがあり、南方系の魚類としてはやや温帯性に属するブリが多いが、代表的な暖水魚であるカツオ、マグロなどはほとんど漁獲されない。
English: Those living in the temperate zone such as red sea bream, true sardines, mackerel and flatfish are more important as fish.
Japanese: 魚類としてもっと重要なものは温帯性のマダイ、マイワシ、サバ、カレイなどである。
English: The recurrent migration range of the southern hemisphere fish includes the north of the Pacific Ocean coastline, whereas, the boundary for the northern hemisphere fish is far down south of that point.
Japanese: 南方系魚類の回遊範囲は太平洋岸より北上し、北方系魚類の境界ははるかに南下している。
English: Due to the fact that there are not many bonito or tuna, deep-sea fishing except for mackerel longline fishing in the central area of the Sea of Japan has not developed.
Japanese: カツオ、マグロが少ないので、日本海中央のサバ延縄漁業以外に遠洋漁業が発達しない。
English: Surface water becomes warm in the summer but lower layer water just below the surface remains cold whereby warm water fish such as sardine, mackerel and sea bream is caught in the area close to the surface while cold water fish such as cutlass fish and cod is caught in deep waters and on ocean floor.
Japanese: 表層水は夏に高温になるが、わずか下層では寒冷となるため、表層でイワシ、サバ、鯛など温暖水魚がとれ、深海や海底ではタチウオ、タラなどの冷水魚がとれる。
English: It has been also known as the migratory route of whales since ancient times and numerous whale fishing villages used to be found along the coast.
Japanese: また古来からクジラの回遊経路として知られ、かつて沿岸には多数の捕鯨漁村が存在した。
English: As the number of whales has been sharply decreased due to whaling, whale sightings are very rare these days but many delphinoid species and, among baleen whale species, small population of minke whales and fin whales that do not take on extensive migrations remain in existence today.
Japanese: これらのほとんどは捕鯨により激減したため今では稀にしか見られないが、現在でも多数のイルカ類や、少数だがヒゲクジラでは珍しく大規模な回遊を行わないミンククジラやナガスクジラの個体群も存在する。
English: The magical views created by the sea and sands such as Amanohashidate, Tottori-sakyu Sand Dunes, Senrigahama Beach and Tango no Nakisuna are well known.
Japanese: 天橋立、鳥取砂丘、千里浜海岸、丹後の鳴き砂など海と砂の作る不思議な海岸の光景が有名である。
English: Additionally, numerous scenic spots and national monuments scatter in areas along the Sea of Japan and the coastlines from Hokkaido to Tsushima offer valuable tourist attractions.
Japanese: また、多くの風光明媚な観光地や天然記念物が散在し、北海道から対馬まで、観光資源としての価値もたかい。
English: The coastal areas of the Sea of Japan that have been designated as the national parks include the following three: the Rishiri-Rebun-Sarobetsu National Park, Sanin-Kaigan National Park and Daisen-Oki National Park.
Japanese: 日本海に面した地域を指定した国立公園には利尻礼文サロベツ国立公園、山陰海岸国立公園、大山隠岐国立公園の3公園がある。
English: There are numerous areas along the Sea of Japan coastline that have been designated as quasi-national parks including the Shokanbetsu-Teuri-Yagishiri Quasi-National Park, Niseko-Shakotan-Otaru Kaigan Quasi-National Park, Tsugaru Quasi-National Park, Oga Quasi-National Park, Chokai Quasi-National Park, Sado-Yahiko-Yoneyana Quasi-National Park, Noto Peninsula Quasi-National Park, Echizen Kaga Coast Quasi-National Park, Wakasa Bay Quasi-National Park, Kitanagato Beach Quasi-National Park, Genkai Quasi-National Park and Iki-Tsushima Quasi-National Park but recently, constructions of roads, ports and harbors are damaging those landscapes.
Japanese: 暑寒別天売焼尻国定公園、ニセコ積丹小樽海岸国定公園、津軽国定公園、男鹿国定公園、鳥海国定公園、佐渡弥彦米山国定公園、能登半島国定公園、越前加賀海岸国定公園、若狭湾国定公園、北長門海岸国定公園、玄海国定公園、壱岐対馬国定公園など多くの地が国定公園の指定を受けているが、近時、道路港湾によりその風景は破壊されつつある。
English: Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd. (sailing between Maizuru and Otaru; Tsuruga and Tomakomai with stops at Niigata and Akita in between [direct service is also available]; Niigata and Otaru)
Japanese: 新日本海フェリー（舞鶴-小樽、敦賀-新潟-秋田-苫小牧（直行便もある）、新潟-小樽）
English: Additionally, during the summer, the sea routes between Shanghai City and North America usually start in the Sea of Japan proceeding to the Pacific Ocean via the Tsugaru Strait.
Japanese: また、上海市から北アメリカへの航路は日本海から津軽海峡を経て太平洋に抜けるのが夏場は普通である。
English: There is a territorial dispute between Japan and South Korea over Takeshima Island (Shimane Prefecture) (Korean name is Dokdo Island), located in southwest under the occupation of the Republic of Korea.
Japanese: 南西部にあり大韓民国が占領している竹島(島根県)（朝鮮名「独島」）について日韓で領土問題が起きている。
English: Nihonkai Cable Network Co., Ltd. (a cable television broadcasting company)
Japanese: 株式会社日本海ケーブルネットワーク（鳥取県のケーブルテレビ放送事業者）
English: Nihonkai Telecasting Co., Ltd. (abbreviated to NKT is an affiliate television station of Nippon Television Network Corporation providing broadcasting service in Tottori Prefecture and Shimane Prefecture)
Japanese: 日本海テレビジョン放送株式会社（略称をNKTとよび、鳥取県と島根県を放送対象地域とする日本テレビ放送網系列のテレビ局）
English: Nihonkaimiso Co., Ltd. (is a manufacturer of miso or fermented soybean paste and soy sauce based at Toyama Prefecture and is famous for its commercial song written by Taro KIDA)
Japanese: 日本海味噌醤油株式会社（富山県に本社を置く味噌・醤油の醸造業でキダ・タロー作曲のコマーシャルソングで有名）
English: Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd. (is a ferry operator based in Osaka City that sails between Maizuru Port and Akita Port with stops at Tsuruga Port and Niigata Port in between; between Otaru Port and Tomakomai East Port.
Japanese: 新日本海フェリー（大阪市に本社を置く、舞鶴港・敦賀港・新潟港・秋田港と小樽港・苫小牧東港を結ぶフェリー会社）
English: An ancient book of Chinese Confucianism "Raiki" ("Liji") first described Shojo as "a parrot can talk, but that is nothing but a bird; a shojo can talk, but that is nothing but an animal", and some annotations on "Raiki" explained that Shojo resembled large anthropoid apes such as orangutan (in the past, some Japanese called orangutan 'shojo'); in Japan, they had been given other characters, and became legend and even dramatis personae of traditional performing arts.
Japanese: 元来は礼記に「鸚鵡は能く言して飛鳥を離れず。猩々は能く言して禽獣を離れず」とあるのが出典で、後代の注ではしばしばオランウータンなどの大型類人猿に擬せられるが（猩々はオランウータンの和名のひとつでもある）、一方で各種の説話や芸能によってさまざまなイメージが付託されて現在に及んでいる。
English: Shojo has been known as a drunkard, however, that might be one of the characters added in Japan.
Japanese: 酒を好むのは猩々の重要な特徴のひとつであるが、これは日本においてかたちづくられたものである可能性が高い。
English: Shojo appears in folk tales in many parts of Japan, such as Iwate Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, Hyogo Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture, and Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Japanese: 日本においては、岩手県、山梨県、富山県、兵庫県、和歌山県、山口県など各地の伝説や昔話に登場する。