Whois & Analysis for japan-guide.com

Japan (Nippon or Nihon; formally ' or Nihon-koku, meaning "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia.

Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the southwest.

Information is that which informs.

In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind.

It is thus related to data and knowledge, as data represents values attributed to parameters, and knowledge signifies understanding of real things or abstract concepts.

As it regards data, the information's existence is not necessarily coupled to an observer (it exists beyond an event horizon, for example), while in the case of knowledge, the information requires a cognitive observer.

A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.

There are about 150 new traditions made each year.

Traditions can persist and evolve for thousands of years—the word "tradition" itself derives from the Latin tradere or traderer literally meaning to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping.

While it is commonly assumed that traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time.

Various academic disciplines also use the word in a variety of ways.

Everything (or every thing), is all that exists; the opposite of nothing, or its complement.

It is the totality of things relevant to some subject matter.

Without expressed or implied limits, it may refer to anything.

The Universe is everything that exists theoretically, though a multiverse may exist according to theoretical cosmology predictions.

It may refer to an anthropocentric worldview, or the sum of human experience, history, and the human condition in general.

Every object and entity is a part of everything, including all physical bodies and in some cases all abstract objects.

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions of horror to World War I.

Modernism also rejected the certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.