Question: Information: - 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. - Beyblade is a brand name for a line of spinning top toys originally developed and manufactured by Takara Tomy , first released in 2000 . The toys usually include a ' launcher ' -- a device for bringing the spinning top up to speed , with either a separate or integral rip - cord . This ' ripping ' action causes the tops to be ejected , at the end of the movement . Players eject the tops into a plastic arena or into a pan with a slightly dished base , where they subsequently strike each other . The last top still spinning wins . Skill can be used in the deployment of the tops , which significantly influences the way they move around the arena , and subsequently interact . The different styles of device respond to collisions in different ways , so advantage might be gained from using a particular type of top against a particular opponent . Both the toys and their name were inspired by Gustavo Murcia , who also drew inspiration from ; '' Beigoma '' , a traditional spinning top . The concept is similar to Battling Tops , a board game developed by Ideal Toy Company in 1968 . The introduction of the toy corresponded with the broadcast of the Beyblade anime television series of the same name . In 2002 , Hasbro began to sell Beyblade toys internationally ( under license from , and produced by , Takara ) along with a coordinated country - by - country rollout of localized versions of the TV series . The Beyblade toy line went on to be one of the most popular toy lines in the world from 2000 to 2005 . In August 2008 , Takara Tomy released a new generation of Beyblade with a metal outer layer ; the first incarnation of the toy in three and a half years . from the Basic System through the Heavy / Hard Metal System , Beyblades were categorized as Attack , Defense , Combination , or Endurance Types , but when the Hybrid Wheel System was introduced , the Combination and Endurance Types were renamed as Balance and Stamina Types , respectively . These Beyblades may have pictures on them that symbolizes a creature ( known as a... - Beyblade, known in Japan as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Aoki to promote sales of spinning tops called "Beyblades." Originally serialized in "CoroCoro Comic" from September 1999 to July 2004, the individual chapters were collected and published in 14 "tankbon" by Shogakukan. The series focuses on a group of kids who form teams with which they battle one another using Beyblades. - A is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series or corpus. In modern Japan, though, it is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a single manga, as opposed to , which feature multiple series. Tankbon are not just confined to manga, and can be used for almost anything in a hardcover or softcover format from novels to books about beauty tips. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'beyblade ' exhibits the relationship of 'original language of work'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - japanese - russia
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japanese