The Japanese name for the symbol ○ (a circle), which is used to mean "correct"; the opposite of batsu.
Maru (丸) is Japanese for round or circular, more commonly in the three-dimensional sense. It also has the meaning of a bailey (castle wall), and was a very common suffix used in the names of Japanese ships.
Maru is a bar/lounge located at 11 W. 32nd St. in Manhattan's Koreatown district.
Maru is a brand of swimwear (UK) : external link http://www.maruswimwear.co.uk
Maru is a common nickname in spanish speaking countries. It is a common nickname for Maria Eugenia and Maruja.
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She was ordered in 1853 from the Netherlands, the only country with which Japan had diplomatic relations throughout its period of Seclusion, by the Shogun's government, the Bakufu.
Kanrin Maru, as a screw-driven steam warship, represented a new technological advance in warship design which had been introduced in the West only ten years earlier with HMS Rattler (1843).
Towards the end of the conflict, in September 1868, after several defeats by the Bakufu, Kanrin Maru was one of the eight modern ships led by Enomoto Takeaki towards the northern part of Japan, in his final attempt to wage a counter-attack against pro-imperial forces.
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Kobayashi Maru is a third-class neutronic fuel carrier-ship which serves as the basis of a graded training exercise in which command division cadets are presented with a no-win scenario as a test of character at Starfleet Academy.
The Kobayashi Maru scenario has appeared in several novels and short stories (as published by Pocket Books, these are not canon, but have been approved by Paramount).
In William Shatner's novel Star Trek: Avenger, Captain Christine McDonald of the U.S.S. Tobias tells Captain Kirk that in her time, the Kobayashi Maru scenario is no longer used to test character, but rather to evaluate the very "original thinking" for which Kirk had received a commendation.
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