All articles starting with N

Niharika Singh (निहारिका सिंह)

Niharika Singh (निहारिका सिंह), born 1982, is an Indian actress and producer, Femina Miss India Earth 2005, who debuted in Ashim Ahluwalia's Cannes film Miss Lovely (2012) and later produced Netflix's Class (2023).

Sep 23, 2026

Nihayat al-arab fi funun al-adab

Nihayat al-arab fi funun al-adab (نهاية الأرب في فنون الأدب) is a large Arabic encyclopedia by the Mamluk-era Egyptian scholar al-Nuwayri, begun around 1314, covering adab and history.

Nihil novi

Nihil novi, adopted at Radom in 1505 under King Alexander, barred new laws without the consent of senators and noble deputies, establishing parliamentary monarchy in Poland.

Nihilism

Nihilism, from Latin nihil (nothing), is a family of philosophical positions denying meaning, objective value, knowledge, or purpose. Covers its varieties, origins with Obereit and Jacobi, Turgenev, the Russian movement, Nietzsche, and contemporary debates.

Nihilistic delusion

A nihilistic delusion is the belief that one's self, part of the body, or the whole world no longer exists, ranging from lost organs to believing one is already dead.

Nihilistic penguin

Nihilistic penguin (Nihilist Penguin, Deranged Penguin): meme from a lone Adélie penguin walking inland in Werner Herzog's 2007 film Encounters at the End of the World; viral on TikTok in early 2026 with organ-cover L'Amour Toujours edits and White House postings.

Nihilistic violent extremism

Nihilistic violent extremism (NVE) is criminal behavior driven by misanthropy and a desire to sow chaos rather than by a coherent ideology. It is linked to "The Com," a decentralized online community.

Nīhoa

Nihoa (Moku Manu, Bird Island) is a 72-ha basalt island remnant at the southeastern end of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, about 250 km from Kauaʻi, with 89 Hawaiian archaeological sites, endemic finch and millerbird, and 900-foot cliffs.

Nihon Bijutsuin

Nihon Bijutsuin (日本美術院, Japan Art Institute) is a Japanese nihonga art organization founded by Okakura Tenshin in 1898, best known for its annual Inten exhibition.

Nihon Bungeika Kyōkai

Nihon Bungeika Kyōkai (日本文藝家協会, Japan Writers' Association) is Japan's professional association for literary writers, founded by Kikuchi Kan in 1946 to protect writers' rights and manage literary copyrights.

Nihon Eitaigura

Nihon Eitaigura (日本永代蔵), also read Nihon Eidaigura, is a 1688 work of illustrated popular fiction by Ihara Saikaku, thirty stories of merchants gaining or ruining fortunes in Osaka.

Nihon Falcom

Nihon Falcom (日本ファルコム), Japanese RPG developer founded March 1981 by Masayuki Kato, headquartered in Tachikawa, Tokyo; creator of Dragon Slayer, Xanadu, Ys, and Trails (Kiseki), led by president Toshihiro Kondo since 2007.

Nihon gaishi

Nihon gaishi (日本外史) is a 22-volume kanbun history of warrior rule in Japan by Rai San'yō, completed in 1827 and a bestseller after printing in 1836.

Oct 15, 2026

Nihon Kohden

Nihon Kohden (日本光電) is a Japanese medical electronics manufacturer of patient monitors, defibrillators, ventilators, and diagnostic analyzers, best known for Takuo Aoyagi's invention of pulse oximetry.

Nihon Kōki

The Nihon Kōki (日本後紀, "Later Annals of Japan") is a classical Chinese annalistic history covering 792 to 833, from Emperor Kanmu to Emperor Junna, completed in 840; of its original forty fascicles only ten survive.

Nihon Ōjō Gokurakuki

Nihon Ōjō Gokurakuki (日本往生極楽記), also known as Honchō ōjō-den, is a late-tenth-century Japanese collection of forty-two biographies of people believed reborn in Amida's Pure Land.

Nihon Rōdō Sōdōmei

Nihon Rōdō Sōdōmei (日本労働総同盟, Japan General Federation of Labor) was prewar Japan's leading labor federation, formed from the Yūaikai and dissolved in 1940 under wartime mobilization.

Nihon Ryōiki

Nihon Ryōiki, formally Nihon koku genpō zen'aku ryōiki, is Japan's oldest collection of Buddhist setsuwa tales, compiled by the Yakushiji monk Kyōkai around 822 in three scrolls of 116 karmic tales.

Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku

The Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, also called Sandai Jitsuroku, is a Japanese chronicle completed in 901 as the sixth and final of the Six National Histories.

Nihon Shoki (日本書紀)

Nihon Shoki (日本書紀, Chronicles of Japan, also Nihongi), completed 720, is Japan's first imperially commissioned national history: 30 kanbun volumes of annals from the age of the gods to Empress Jitō, compiled under Prince Toneri, first of the Six National Histories.

Nihon Shoki completed

The Nihon Shoki (日本書紀), Japan's first official national history, was completed in 720 under Prince Toneri, a 30-book chronicle in classical Chinese covering Japan's mythical origins through Empress Jitō.

Nihon-ha

Nihon-ha (日本派), also called the Negishi school or Shiki school, was a Meiji-era haiku school centered on Masaoka Shiki and named for the newspaper Nihon.

Nihonbashi (日本橋)

Nihonbashi (日本橋), "Japan Bridge," is a 1911 stone bridge and district in Chuo City, Tokyo. Starting point of the Edo-period Gokaido highways since 1604, zero point of Japan's road distances, financial center, and site of a planned expressway undergrounding by about 2040.

Nihonga

Nihonga (日本画, "Japanese painting") is a category of Japanese painting done with brush and ink on silk or paper using mineral pigments bound with animal glue, named in the Meiji era in contrast to Western-style yōga.

Nihonium

Nihonium (ニホニウム), formerly ununtrium or eka-thallium, is a synthetic, radioactive superheavy element with atomic number 113, first synthesized at RIKEN in Japan in 2004 and named after Nihon, the Japanese word for Japan.

Niʻihau

Niʻihau is a small privately owned Hawaiian island west of Kauaʻi, sold to the Sinclair family in 1864 and known as the Forbidden Island for its closed access.

Niigata (city)

Niigata (新潟市) is a government ordinance-designated city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the largest on Honshu's Sea of Japan coast, with eight wards, about 753,000 residents, 726 km², Japan's largest paddy fields, and treaty-port history since 1858.

Niigata (district)

Niigata district (新潟地区) is the industrial district of Niigata Prefecture centered on Niigata City, one of five labeled clusters including Sanjo/Tsubame, Nagaoka, Joetsu, and Mitsuke/Gosen/Tokamachi; core area about 685,642 people.

Oct 15, 2026

Niigata Transys

Niigata Transys Co., Ltd. is a Japanese rolling stock and snow-removal machinery manufacturer headquartered in Niigata Prefecture, established in 2003 and holding the top share in Japanese diesel railcars.