Ghost in the Shell is a futuristic police thriller dealing with the exploits of the cyborg Motoko Kusanagi, a member of a covert operations division of the Japanese National Public Safety Commission known as Section 9.

Some scientists say that the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents have revealed that the nuclear industry lacks sufficient oversight, leading to renewed calls to redefine the mandate of the IAEA so that it can better police nuclear power plants worldwide.

The area had also been home to a headquarters for Japanese military police during World War II, and was notorious for prisoner torture.

Japanese immigration authorities work in unison with police to investigate those reported, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that those reported do not receive proper legal protection.

* May 16 – Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.

* June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 ( Boeing 747-200 ) at Hakodate airport.

The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them, while the yakuza call themselves.

Beginning in 2009, led by agency chief Takaharu Ando, Japanese police began to crack down on the gangs.

This movement was suppressed by force and about 7, 000 were killed by Japanese soldiers and police.

Japanese military police killed Republican pemuda in Pekalongan ( Central Java ) on 3 October, and Japanese troops drove Republican pemuda out of Bandung in West Java and handed the city to the British, but the fiercest fighting involving the Japanese was in Semarang.

Minh was captured and later had only a single tooth that remained from the torture he had suffered at the hands of the Kempeitai ( Japanese military police ).

Thomas E. Devine ( who served in a postal Army unit ) wrote Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident which includes a letter from the daughter of a Japanese police official who claimed her father was responsible for Earhart's execution.

Torinawa-techniques are taught as part of the curriculum learned by modern Japanese police officers and it remains an advanced topic within schools of jujutsu, following it and other Japanese traditional martial arts as they make their way around the world from Brazil to Eastern Europe.

The Japanese Kempeitai, Tokkō, collaborationist Chinese police, and Chinese citizens in the service of the Japanese all worked to censor information, monitor any opposition, and torture enemies and dissenters.

Tsuji wrote during the 1920s, a dangerous period in Japanese history for controversial writers, during which he experienced the wages of censorship through police harassment.

Soon after the discovery, the Japanese police further found that at least 200 other Japanese centenarians were missing, with the total likely to rise amid a nationwide search that began in early August 2010.

* Deka, a word in Japanese language holding the meaning police officer

On August 27, 1920, the Chosun Ilbo was suspended after it published an editorial heavily criticizing the use of excessive force by the Japanese police against Korean citizens.

Local Japanese artists drew images of these plants, creating botanical illustrations and images of the daily life in Japan, which complemented his ethnographic collection.

In 1990, Porsche drew up a memorandum of understanding with Toyota to learn and benefit from Japanese lean manufacturing methods.

She drew on and blended styles from Chinese histories, narrative poetry and contemporary Japanese prose.

The shin-hanga (" New Prints ") movement, a print equivalent to the Nihonga movement in painting, drew upon ukiyo-e traditions, creating images of traditional Japanese scenes, in traditional modes and forms.

As the Japanese army drew closer to Nanking, Chinese civilians fled the city in droves.

As the Japanese army drew closer to Nanking, Chinese civilians fled the city in droves.

The Japanese commander on the island drew parallels with the Boer War, and decided that it would require a 10: 1 numerical advantage to defeat the Allies.

Japan's colonial boom was in part a response to the actions of more established powers, and her expansionism drew on the harnessing of traditional Japanese values to more modern aspirations for great-power status ; not until the 1930s was Japan to become a net exporter of capital.

Apodeti drew support from a few liurai in the border region, some of whom had collaborated with the Japanese during the Second World War.

Yuji Horii drew inspiration from the Wizardry, Mugen no Shinzou ( Heart of Phantasm ), and Ultima series of games for making the popular Japanese role-playing game Dragon Quest.

They organized a team to conduct meticulous scientific research based on data collected by Japanese colleagues who had studied the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and drew upon their knowledge of the medical effects of burn, blast, and radiation injuries.

Deciding that a more exotic disguise was needed, Psalmanazar drew upon the missionary reports of the Far East he had heard from his Jesuit tutors and decided to impersonate a Japanese convert.

As a result, it drew sharp criticism from various parties, including a protest by Japanese diplomats to the Belgian Foreign Ministry.

As Biddle attempted to board the Japanese ship he misunderstood the instructions of one of the samurai guards and was physically knocked back by the guard who then drew his sword.

Japanese Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō drew upon his experiences from the battles of Port Arthur and the Yellow Sea, and this time would not split his fires nor engage Rozhestvensky at excessive ranges, as he had done with Admiral Vitgeft at the Yellow Sea the year previously.

Although Japanese pop music changed from music based on Japanese pentatonic scale and distortional tetrachord to the more occidental music over time, music that drew from the traditional Japanese singing style remained popular ( such as that of Ringo Shiina ).

The Japanese nanshoku tradition drew heavily on that of China ( see Homosexuality in China ).

Authors also drew on Nara and Heian period Japanese classics, and Chinese sources.

He drew his support from the Persian and Japanese mercenaries that had been persecuted during his father's reign.

A native of the Nagano Prefecture, Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books.

Beginning with his first at Auburndale ( 1881, demolished 1960s ), Richardson drew inspiration for these station buildings from Japanese architecture that he learned about from Edward S. Morse, a Harvard zoologist who began traveling to Japan in 1877, originally for biological specimens.

Hideki Matsui drew five consecutive intentional walks in a game in Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium in 1992 and became a nationwide topic of conversation.

It is named for the Japanese crane ( Grus japonensis ), which also has a red spot on its head.

*** Resveratrol ( found in Japanese knotweed and skin of red grapes )

is the Japanese name for edible seaweed species of the red alga genus Porphyra, including most notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, called laver in Wales and other English-speaking countries and Gim in Korean-though the rampant popularity of sushi in the United States means that the United States is often an exception to this, either referring to the product as " nori " as the Japanese do, or simply " seaweed ".

Map of the island in 1901, with the red line marking the approximate limit of Japanese control

She is portrayed as a female white Japanese bobtail cat with a red bow.

Crossing the T: Japanese ( white ) and Russian ( red )

British sector in yellow, French in blue, US in green and ivory, German in red, and Japanese in light green.

Akagi means ( 赤城 ) " red castle ," ( 赤木 ) " red tree ," ( 赤き ) " crimson " or ( 赤来 ) " red future " in the Japanese language, and may refer to:

In addition to bombing infrastructure targets such as power plants, water works and a radio station, the Japanese also dropped bombs on the Central Hospital despite the fact that there was a large red cross painted on its rooftop.

The name was taken from the Hinomaru, the Japanese flag, which has a white background with a red circle in the centre.

* The romanization of the Japanese word 餡, meaning red bean paste

They also serve red ginger ( beni shōga ), spice, and Japanese tea ( ocha, お茶 ) free of charge.

The Japanese warship San Juan Bautista | San Juan Bautista is represented in Claude Deruet's painting of Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome in 1617, as a galleon with Hasekura's flag ( red swastika on orange background ) on the top mast.

Pips are commonly colored black on white dice, and white on dice of other colors, although colored pips on white dice are not uncommon ; Japanese dice often have an enlarged red single pip for the " one " face, while the dice for the game Kismet feature black pips for 1 and 6, red pips for 2 and 5, and green pips for 3 and 4.

Guillotine leaves day-to-day matters in the hands of various commanders ; principally Spider ( a human who is eventually killed by a spray of acid ), Doctor Botanus ( Doctor Over in the Japanese series ; a silver-skinned alien capable of teleportation ), Fangar ( Red Cobra in the Japanese series, and also alternatively referred to as Dangor the Executioner in the US series-a bizarre alien with a pegleg and crutch, a greatly enlarged forehead, protruding upper teeth, and a costume that looks like a traditional striped prison outfit in front and a red velvet jumpsuit in back ), Harlequin ( Black Dia in the Japanese version, who has a fascination with the suits of playing cards ), and The Golden Knight ( Mr. Gold in the Japanese series ; a gold colored armored knight ).

These birds ' most prominent feature is a small cluster of bright red feathers on the wings, a feature they share with the Bohemian Waxwing ( but not the Japanese Waxwing ).

Ryūha founders often attributed their mastery to magical teachings transmitted by Shinto or Buddhist deities, by long-dead historical figures like Minamoto no Yoshitsune, or by legendary supernatural creatures like the ' tengu ', a Japanese goblin commonly depicted with a long red nose.