By an effort of historical sympathy we can cast our minds back into the art of a remote past or an alien present, and enjoy the carvings of cavemen and Japanese colour-prints ; ;

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

By the summer of 1944, Peleliu Island was occupied by about 11, 000 Japanese of the 14th Infantry Division with Korean and Okinawan laborers.

In the book Japanese Arms & Armor Introduction By Robinson, H Russell NA on page 58 there is a picture of Japanese riveted kusari, and

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

By the late 1950s a wave of Japanese machines forced most North American typewriter companies to cease business, but Tramiel instead turned to adding machines.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging, along with Shindo's Onibaba, Hani's Kanojo to kare and Imamura's The Insect Woman, became some of the better-known examples of Japanese New Wave filmmaking.

By the War's conclusion most infrastructure had been laid waste by bombing, and the islands and people had been exploited by the Japanese military to the point of impoverishment.

By the end of the 1950s, Japanese companies and individual investors had begun to return to the Philippines.

By that time, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had taken place, drawing the United States into World War II and ending Robinson's nascent football career.

By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.

By contrast, in the Netherlands kickboxing was introduced in its Japanese form, by Jan Plas and Thom Harinck who founded NKBB ( The Dutch Kickboxing Association ) in 1976.

By 1910, there were written accounts in many languages, including French and Japanese.

By the 13th century, tanka had become the dominant form of Japanese poetry, and it is still widely written today.

By the 26 July, the Potsdam Declaration had been broadcast to Japan, threatening total destruction unless the Imperial Japanese government submitted to unconditional surrender.

By 1993 the 32-bit 3DO platform was released with much developer interest and Sega and Sony let it be known that the Sega Saturn and PlayStation would be ready for the Japanese marketplace in late 1994, and Bandai was also readying the release of their Playdia system.

By the early 20th century Rock-paper-scissors had spread beyond Asia, especially through increased Japanese contact with the west. Its English-language name is therefore taken from a translation of the names of the three Japanese hand-gestures for rock, paper and scissors: elsewhere in Asia the open-palm gesture represents " cloth " rather than " paper ".

By March 1994 the Mega-CD had sold 380, 000 units in Japan, — 11 % of Japanese Mega Drive owners.

By then he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese and English, in addition to his native Vietnamese.

By June 1598, The Japanese forces fought with desperation, turning back several Chinese offensives in Suncheon and Sacheon as the Ming army prepared for a final assault.

By early 1942, the latter had made considerable progress into decrypting Japanese naval messages.

By mid – April up to 1, 000 Japanese Americans were arriving daily, and by July the population of the camp neared 10, 000.

" By the same reckoning, there could be two or three of the next smallest note, the " minim ," ( equivalent to the modern " half note ") to each semibreve.

By my reckoning that's what makes him an even better player than Maradona.

By the time the final reckoning arrived even those funds had run out, and their landlord, ignoring the offers of pieces of art, confiscated all their baggage in lieu of payment.

By this reckoning, Isabel ought to be called the second countess, not the fourth countess of Pembroke.

By any reckoning, it is best performance.

By analogy with their navigational use, the words dead reckoning are also used to mean the process of estimating the value of any variable quantity by using an earlier value and adding whatever changes have occurred in the meantime.

By Weininger's reckoning everyone shows some femininity, and what he calls " Jewishness ".

By his own reckoning, Parkinson interviewed over 2000 of the world's most famous people, including: Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, George Best, Bob Hope, Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, Liberace, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, Racquel Welch, Oliver Reed,

By Judean reckoning that began regnal years in the fall month of Tishri, this would be in the year 610 / 609 BC.

By that reckoning, I would give it a weak plus.

By this reckoning, there are thus at least five earlier law collections which were redacted together, with an additional hortatory conclusion, to form the Holiness Code.

By one reckoning, the station's closure following the Republican attack caused an estimated 1, 000 people to lose their livelihood.

By dead reckoning, Nobile estimated his position as northeast from Moffin Island.

By his reckoning, military necessity knew no choice, and law required only lip service.

By his own reckoning, the best spell Roberts ever delivered was during the Headingley Test of the West Indies ' 1976 tour of England: " I only got three wickets, but in my mind there was a decision given against me.

By his own reckoning, Landgren at least 500 albums including such internationals stars as ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Bernard " Pretty " Purdie, Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock.

By close on the first day England were 269 for 3, with pundits reckoning the game would not reach the third day.

By his reckoning, the Peerless Quartet had 108 " charting " singles, the 9th-most of the pre-rock period.

" By his reckoning, Miller has more power in that dynamic, so Traver holding on to the gun " makes us almost equal.

By Mott's reckoning Harold Bell Wright was one of only three American authors to write five best sellers from the arrival of the pilgrims in America through the first quarter of the 20th century.

By all reckoning the Infant Philip was now master of his new realm, and the Bourbons had been triumphant in Spain.

By Hammond's reckoning, the third stage occurred some time after 550 BC, when the Macedonians wrested control over Mygdonia, Edonia, lower Paeonia, Bisaltia, and Crestonia.

By Gaunilo's reckoning, however, one ( and, therefore, the other, too ) is unsound.

By one reckoning, the Tories could claim to represent only 50, 000 voters, while the four Whig members for Yorkshire alone represented 100, 000 voters.