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Kaiyuan shijiao lu
Kaiyuan shijiao lu (开元释教录) is a 20-juan catalog of the Chinese Buddhist canon, completed in 730 by the monk Zhisheng of Chang'an, recording 2,278 works.
Kaiyuan Tianbao yishi
Kaiyuan Tianbao yishi (开元天宝遗事), "Leftover Affairs of the Kaiyuan and Tianbao Reigns," is a collection of anecdotes on Tang court life attributed to Wang Renyu, a Five Dynasties scholar from Tianshui.
Kaiyuan, Yunnan
Kaiyuan (开远) is a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Yunnan, China, which grew from a Yunnan–Vietnam Railway town into a coal-and-energy industrial center.
Kaizen (改善)
Kaizen (改善), meaning "change for the better," is a Japanese management practice of continuous small improvements by all employees, popularized in the West by Masaaki Imai's 1986 book.
Kaizen costing
Kaizen costing is a Japanese cost management method that sets progressively lower cost reduction targets, often monthly, during the manufacture of existing products, complementing design-stage target costing.
Kaizer Chiefs F.C.
Kaizer Chiefs F.C., known as Amakhosi or the Glamour Boys, is a South African football club founded in Soweto in 1970 by Kaizer Motaung, with 93 trophies.
Kaizhong method
The Kaizhong method (开中法) was the Ming dynasty's grain-salt exchange system, under which merchants delivered grain to frontier stores and received salt certificates to draw government salt.
Kaizhong System and its conversion to silver
The Kaizhong System (开中法与折色) was a Ming dynasty policy, adopted in 1370, by which merchants delivered grain to frontier garrisons in return for licenses to trade government salt.
Kaizhong zhesé reform of Ye Qi (conversion of the salt-monopoly kaizhong system to silver payment)
The kaizhong zhesé reform (開中折色與葉淇變法) was a Ming salt-administration reform carried out in 1492 by Ye Qi of Huai'an, converting the grain-for-salt kaizhong system to payment in silver.
Kaizō
Kaizō (改造, "Reconstruction") was a Japanese monthly general-interest magazine published in Tokyo by Kaizōsha from 1919 to 1955, a rival of Chūōkōron known for its progressive politics and literary pages.
Kaizoku Teishirei
Kaizoku Teishirei (海賊停止令), also called Kaizoku Kinshirei, is a three-article edict against maritime piracy issued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588, the same day as his Sword Hunt edict.
KAJ (group)
KAJ is a Finland-Swedish comedy-music trio from Vörå, Ostrobothnia (Kevin Holmström, Axel Åhman, Jakob Norrgård), formed 2009; it won Melodifestivalen 2025 with "Bara bada bastu" and placed fourth for Sweden at Eurovision 2025.
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow is a Swedish physician and clinical neurochemist, professor at the University of Gothenburg, known for establishing the protein markers in cerebrospinal fluid and blood used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease.
Kaj Franck
Kaj Franck (1911–1989) was a Finnish glass and ceramic designer known for the Kilta and Teema tableware and Kartio glassware, and long artistic director of Arabia and Nuutajärvi.
Kaj Munk
Kaj Munk, born Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen, was a Danish pastor and playwright, the leading Danish dramatist of the 1930s, killed by German occupiers in 1944.
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang
Kaj Ulrik Linderstrøm-Lang (1896–1959) was a Danish biochemist who led the Carlsberg Laboratory's Chemical Division and introduced the primary, secondary, and tertiary description of protein structure.
Kaja Kallas
Kaja Kallas, Estonian politician, first female Prime Minister of Estonia (2021–2024) and Reform Party leader since 2018; since December 2024 EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice-President.
Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo (later Kaja) was an English synth-pop band formed in 1981 in Leighton Buzzard, best known for "Too Shy" (1983), a UK No. 1 and US No. 5 hit; Limahl was fired in 1983 and the band split in 1986.
Kajaki (film)
Kajaki (Kilo Two Bravo) is a 2014 British war film directed by Paul Katis, reconstructing the 2006 Kajaki Dam minefield incident involving 3 Para soldiers in Helmand, Afghanistan; shot in Jordan, BAFTA-nominated, released as Kilo Two Bravo in the US.
Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند)
The Kajaki Dam (د کجکي بند) is a 90 m high dam on the Helmand River in Helmand province, Afghanistan, built in the 1950s with United States funding.
Kajal Aggarwal
Kajal Aggarwal (Kajal A Kitchlu), born 1985 in Mumbai, is an Indian actress and model working mainly in Telugu and Tamil cinema, plus Hindi films, known for Magadheera, Thuppakki, and Singham.
Kajang
Kajang, a town and mukim in Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia; seat of MPKj and MRT Kajang Line terminus. Known for tin-mining origins, 1,047,356-strong council population, and Sungai Langat flood management.
Kajangalā
Kajangalā (कजङ्गला) was an early Buddhist nun who lived at Kajaṅgala in ancient India and was praised by the Buddha for her doctrinal exposition to lay followers.
Kajetan Sołtyk
Kajetan Sołtyk (1715–1788) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop who led the diocese of Kiev and then Kraków, and was arrested and exiled to Kaluga in 1767 for opposing the Russian ambassador Nikolai Repnin.
Kajiado
Kajiado is a county in southern Kenya, one of 47 devolved counties formed in 2010, headquarters Kajiado Town. Population 1,117,840 (2019); semi-arid, pastoralist economy; includes Lake Magadi soda ash and Amboseli dispute.
Kajii Motojirō
Kajii Motojirō (梶井基次郎, 1901–1932) was a Japanese short story writer who left twenty stories, including 'Lemon' (1925), before dying of tuberculosis at thirty-one; largely unknown in life, he is now taught in Japanese high schools.
Kajikia audax
Kajikia audax, the striped marlin (formerly Tetrapturus audax), an Indo-Pacific billfish of family Istiophoridae; up to 420 cm and 440 kg, epipelagic at 20-25°C, sashimi-valued, IUCN Least Concern but several regional stocks overfished.
Kajillionaire
Kajillionaire is a 2020 American comedy-drama, Miranda July's third feature, starring Evan Rachel Wood, Gina Rodriguez, Debra Winger, and Richard Jenkins as a Los Angeles family of con artists whose daughter's life changes when a stranger joins their heists; premiered at Sundance 2020, released by Focus Features.
Kajima
Kajima Corporation (鹿島建設株式会社) is a Japanese general contractor headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1840 as a carpentry business. It built Japan's first skyscraper and is the country's largest general contractor by revenue.
Kajiwara Kagetoki
Kajiwara Kagetoki (梶原景時), died 1200, was a Japanese commander who saved Minamoto no Yoritomo at Ishibashiyama in 1180, headed the samurai-dokoro from 1192, and was killed after impeachment in 1199.