** Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan

** bow toward each other, in Korea, Japan and China

** Democratic Party of Japan

** Diet of Japan, Japan's legislature

** Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale ( equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts )

** Rulers of Japan ( Emperors, Regents, Shoguns and Prime Ministers )

** Emperors of Japan

** Prime Minister of Japan

** List of Emperors of Japan

** National Capital Region ( Japan )

** Statism in Shōwa Japan

** Autumnal Equinox Day ( Japan )

** The Shinkansen high-speed rail system is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka.

** West Germany and Japan form diplomatic relations.

** Germany and Japan suffer defeats at Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Midway in 1942 and 1943.

** Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( August 6 and August 9, 1945 ); Surrender of Japan on August 15.

** A 7. 5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** Japan-U. S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.

** Iva Toguri D ' Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as " Tokyo Rose " during World War II.

** Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.

** Japan stages the Mukden Incident as a pretext to occupy Manchuria.

** 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan.

** The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel on what the company proclaims as " E Day ".

** World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

** WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an " unlimited national emergency.

** Reza Pahlavi, eldest son of the shah of Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne.

** The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

** The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( without the presence of Serb political delegates ) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** Algeria proclaims independence ; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.

** Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam to be a republic with himself as its President and forms the Army of the Republic of Vietnam.

** U. S. President Herbert Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ), who in reference to the Great Depression, proclaims " The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself " in his inauguration speech.

** Mohammed ibn Alhamar proclaims himself sultan of Arjona and founds the Nasrid dynasty.

** The Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman III, faced with the threat of invasion by the Fatimids, proclaims himself Caliph of Córdoba.

** By 1034, Sancho the Great of Navarre had incorporated Aragon, Sobrarbe, Barcelona, as well as Asturias, León and Castile, and he proclaims himself Rex Hispaniarum (" King of all Spains ").

** The Soviet Union begins its army offensive against Japan in the northern part of the Japanese-held Chinese region of Manchuria.

** Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese capture of Mukden ( now Shenyang ) completes the rout of Russian armies in Manchuria.

** Jurchen – Manchu of Manchuria, the language of the Jurchen / Manchus, who founded the Jin Dynasty and Qing dynasties of China.

** 27 divisions in China and Manchuria

** 12 divisions in Manchuria

** What if the Chinese Civil War had ended with Chiang Kai-shek not marching to retake Manchuria from Mao Zedong and the Communists?

** South Manchuria Railway — originally built to Russian gauge as part of the Chinese Eastern Railway, it was converted by advancing Japanese troops during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 1905 to use Japanese gauge rolling stock, and then re-gauged to standard gauge after the war by the new South Manchuria Railway Company.