It is supposed that his succession was not welcomed by everyone, and it took about 20 years for Keitai to enter Yamato province, near Kawachi and the political center of Japan at the time.

Hong Kong 41 %, Metropolitan France 20 %, Japan 14 %, United States 8 % ( 2008 )

The top 20 inorganic chemicals manufactured in Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the US ( 2005 data ):

Animation showing rainfall estimates for southern Japan and the surrounding region from July 20 – 27, 2009

As of November 20, 2007, all foreigners entering Japan must be biometrically registered ( photograph and fingerprints ) on arrival ; this includes people living in Japan on visas as well as permanent residents, but excludes people with special permanent resident permission, diplomats, and those under 16.

On December 20, 1959, a Muay Thai among Thai fighters was held at Tokyo Asakusa town hall in Japan.

includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Argentina 9, Australia 2, Austria 15, Belgium 9, Brazil 5, Canada 4, Cayman Islands 1, Chile 7, China 39, Croatia 11, Denmark 4, Ecuador 1, Estonia 1, Germany 437, Greece 154, Hong Kong 69, India 5, Indonesia 1, Israel 1, Italy 5, Japan 90, Latvia 20, Man, Isle of 5, Monaco 56, Netherlands 12, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 103, Pakistan 1, Portugal 5, Russia 66, Saudi Arabia 21, Singapore 20, Slovenia 1, South Africa 1, South Korea 10, Spain 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 17, Taiwan 29, Turkey 3, Ukraine 4, United Arab Emirates 12, United Kingdom 39, United States 113, Uruguay 3, Vietnam 1 ( 2002 est.

On November 20, 2004, Howl's Moving Castle opened to general audiences in Japan where it earned ¥ 1. 4 billion in its first two days.

It was first used to refer to post-Holocene but pre-agricultural material in northwest Europe about 10, 000 to 5000 BCE but is also applied to material from the Levant ( about 20, 000 to 9500 BCE ); in Japan the Jōmon period ( about 14, 000 to 400 BCE ) is sometimes called Mesolithic and it is also applied to some cultures from the Indian sub-continent ( 100, 000 to 30, 000 BCE ).

Japan 22. 4 %, Metropolitan France 15. 2 %, China 14. 2 %, Taiwan 13. 2 %, other European countries 20. 5 %, Oceania 5. 9 %, Africa 4. 8 %, Americas 2. 7 %, other Asian countries 1. 1 % ( 2007 )

Italy is the world's largest exporter of pasta ; in 2007, it exported 1. 7 million tons of pasta, and the largest export markets were Germany ( 20. 4 %), France ( 13. 7 %), the United Kingdom ( 12. 6 %), the United States ( 9. 5 %), and Japan ( 4. 25 %).

* The Poisoner Next Door – Japan Today, 10 / 20 / 2001

On June 23rd 2012, South Korea is landmarked to become the 7th member of the 20-50 club ( with the population surpassing 50 million and maintaining per capita income of US $ 20, 000 ), chronologically, after Japan, United States of America, France, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom.

a flag of convenience registry ; includes ships from 20 countries among which are Croatia 17, Slovenia 7, People's Republic of China 5, Greece 5, United Arab Emirates 3, Norway 2, Japan 2, and Ukraine 2 ( 1998 est.

Both Motoyasu's Mikawa troops and the Monto forces were using the new gunpowder weapons which the Portuguese had introduced to Japan just 20 years earlier.

Taiwan 20, 2 %, Australia 14, 7 %, Japan 13, 5 %, Singapore 11, 9 %, New Caledonia, Poland 7, 1 %, New Zealand 5, 6 %, Fiji 5, 3 % ( 2005 )

* March 20 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.

* September 20 – With a gun literally pointed to his head the Chinese commander of Kirin province announces the annexation of that territory to Japan.

* April 20 – Mitsumasa Yonai, 37th Prime Minister of Japan ( b. 1880 )

* June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, Prime Minister of Japan 1948 ( b. 1887 )

* May 20 – In Japan, police carry away socialist members of the Diet of Japan.

* November 20 – A levee failure and continued massive rain at the Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths.

By comparison, China had an estimated 114 people, the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) 246 people, and Japan 323 people per square kilometer in the late 1980s.

* 1277 – In Japan, a 20 kilometer stone wall defending the coast of Hakata Bay in Fukuoka is completed ; it is built in response to the attempted invasion by the Yuan Dynasty in 1274.

The is a 358. 3 kilometer line of the West Japan Railway Company ( JR West ) from Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga to Naoetsu Station in Jōetsu, Niigata.

All freight operations were relocated from Numazu Station in 1986 to a specially-built freight station operated by Japan Freight Railway Company one kilometer to the west.

The, also called Nansei-Shotō Trench, is a 1398 kilometer ( 868 mi ) long oceanic trench located along the southeastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea in the Pacific Ocean, between northeastern Taiwan and southern Japan.

A. 34 square kilometer " sex zone " in Tokyo, Japan had approximately 3, 500 sex facilities as of 1999.

The project site takes up 78, 000 square meters ( 19. 4 acres ) previously occupied by the Japan Defense Agency in Roppongi area of Minato, along Gaien Higashi and close to Roppongi Crossing, and less than a kilometer ( half a mile ) from the similarly scaled Roppongi Hills complex.

The first known modern strike to a human was on the April 28, 1927 in Aba, Japan, to the head of the five-year-old daughter of Mrs. Kuriyama ; a bean-sized stone was found resting on her headband and now resides in a museum, called the Aba stone.

In May 2012, borough officials in Palisades Park rejected requests by two diplomatic delegations from Japan to remove a small monument from a public park, a brass plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010 to the memory of the 200, 000 comfort women forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Traces of Paleolithic culture, mainly stone tools, occur in Japan from around 30, 000 BC onwards.

In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to indicated the burial place is used in most modern cultures, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the West ( cremation is the norm in India and mandatory in Japan ).

Arai Hakuseki, who knew in the 18th century that there were stone tools in Japan, suggested that there was Shukushin in ancient Japan, and then Philipp Franz von Siebold claimed that indigenous Japanese was Ainu people.

In May 2012, officials in Bergen County's borough of Palisades Park, New Jersey rejected requests by two diplomatic delegations from Japan to remove a small monument from a public park, a brass plaque on a block of stone, dedicated in 2010 to the memory of comfort women, thousands of women, many Korean, who were allegedly forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

During its World War II occupation of Hong Kong, Japan demolished the City's wall and used the stone to extend the nearby Kai Tak Airport.

Inada is also famous for its mikage stone, which is used all over Japan.

In 2009, a team of archaeologists announced that they likely discovered — at the Sunabara Remains in Taki-chō, Izumo City — the oldest stone tools ever found in Japan.

Sargent ( 1894 ; The Forest Flora of Japan ) recorded the instance of a daimyō ( feudal lord ) who was too poor to donate a stone lantern at the funeral of the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu ( 1543 – 1616 ) at Nikkō Tōshō-gū, but requested instead to be allowed to plant an avenue of Sugi, " that future visitors might be protected from the heat of the sun ".

File: Kumamoto Castle 02n3200. jpg | Dry stone walls in Kumamoto Castle, Japan.

His work in Japan is remembered by a memorial stone in Tokyo.

Pinus pumila ( also known as the Siberian dwarf pine, dwarf Siberian pine, Japanese stone pine or creeping pine ) is a native of northeastern Asia, including the islands of Japan.

" The compositions of stone, already common China, became in Japan, veritable petrified landscapes, which seemed suspended in time, as in a certain moments of Noh theater, which dates to the same period.

In some regions of Japan, the coffin is nailed shut by the mourners using a stone.

Trading companies from Britain, the United States, France, Holland, Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Japan built stone mansions along the waterfront.

He lives in the mud under the islands of Japan, and is guarded by the god Kashima who restrains the catfish with a stone.

At the entrance to the park, in a wooded island filled with flowers between the circular entrance and exit road, there is a little-known monument: a taiko-gata stone lantern, a gift of friendship from the City of Yokohama, Japan, to the City of Seattle, given in 1930 in gratitude to Seattle's assistance to Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

They are normally made of wood, although the beads of some soroban, especially those made outside Japan, can be marble, stone, or even plastic.

In one particular garden at the cemetery, rows of stone statues of children represent the unborn children of Japan, including miscarried, aborted and stillborn children.

North of Mount Funabuse in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, a notable basaltic rock is quarried at a hill called Maru-Yama: Crystals of xenotime and zircon arranged in a radiating, flower-like pattern are visible in polished slices of the rock, which is known as chrysanthemum stone ( translated from the Japanese kiku-ishi ).