However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

Sidwell ( 2005 ) reconstructs the consonant inventory of Proto-Mon – Khmer as follows:

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president ; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1911 – Kay Walsh, English actress ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Herb Moford, American baseball player ( d. 2005 )

* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Caylee Anthony, American murder victim ( d. 2008 )

* 1925 – Benny Bailey, American trumpet player, songwriter, and producer ( Kenny Clarke / Francy Boland Big Band ) ( d. 2005 )

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 2005 – Air France Flight 358, lands at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and runs off the runway causing the plane to burst into flames leaving 12 injuries and no fatalities.

* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )

* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )

* 2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador ( b 1925 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

* 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German actor ( b. 1929 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

In 2005, the Taiwan Society of New York selected Doraemon as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, curated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

In August 2005, the then Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, proposed an amendment to the constitution in order to increase Japan's Defence Forces ' roles in international affairs.

* Hawley, Samuel 2005 The Imjin War: Japan's Sixteenth-Century Invasion of Korea and Attempt to Conquer China.

In 2005, the city had a population of one million, and was one of Japan's 19 designated cities.

More recently in 2005, Suginami became part of Japan's fight against nationalist textbook revisionism when residents petitioned Tokyo's courts to prevent the adoption of a controversial textbook published by Fusosha Publishing which claimed to justify Japanese actions during World War II.

My Life in Japan's Underworld ( 2005, Kotan Publishing, ISBN 0-9701716-2-5 )

Japan's current corporate law is based upon the Commercial Code as amended through December 30, 2005.

My Life in Japan's Underworld ( 2005, Kotan Publishing, ISBN 0-9701716-2-5 )

3G: At the end of October 2005, NTT-DoCoMo had 17. 6 million 3G customers, KDDI / AU had 19. 8 million 3G customers, and Vodafone-Japan had 1. 9 million 3G customers, i. e. Vodafone-Japan gained about 4. 8 % of Japan's 3G market.

On January 27, 2003, the Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch made a ruling reversing its earlier 1983 approval to build the reactor, but then on May 30, 2005, Japan's Supreme Court gave the green light to reopen the Monju reactor.

* Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, a 2005 book about Japanese postwar culture

Team 3D held an unbeaten streak in All Japan, where they won All Japan's Real World Tag League in 2005.

" card of December 31, 2005, Gracie fought Japan's Hideo Tokoro, a 143 pound fighter, in a fight ending in a draw after 20 minutes.

In late 2005, Hiroko Suzuki became the General Manager for Japan's HUSTLE promotion.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel ( 2005 ), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. M. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.

Another example are two history textbooks, one in 2001, another in 2005 that downplay Japan's role in World War II.

Nambu has won numerous honors and awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize ( 1970 ), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize ( 1977 ), Japan's Order of Culture ( 1978 ), the U. S .' s National Medal of Science ( 1982 ), the Max Planck Medal ( 1985 ), the Dirac Prize ( 1986 ), the Sakurai Prize ( 1994 ), the Wolf Prize in Physics ( 1994 / 1995 ), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal ( 2005 ).

He has represented Japan's U-20 team at the 2003 and 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship, and the U-23 team at the 2004 Olympics.

The television series originally aired on Japan's TV Tokyo network from April 6, 2005 to March 19, 2008.

In early 2005 Mago Island was purchased by Hollywood actor / director Mel Gibson for $ 15 million from Japan's Tokyu Corporation.

According to a recent Asahi Shimbun article from September 2005, in four years since its initial adoption, the textbook is only being used in 0. 04 % of Japan's junior high schools, which is far from the 10 % penetration that the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform had aimed for.