In addition, the Japan Robins included a player named " Oh ," presumably after Sadaharu Oh of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Oh holds the world career home run record outside of Major League Baseball with 868 home runs, as well as Japan's single-season home run record of 55, set in 1964.

* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

In 1944, the USAF commenced Operation Matterhorn in order to bomb Japan's steel industry from bases to be constructed in mainland China.

Friedman's initial interest in cryptography came from reading " The Gold-Bug " as a child — interest he later put to use in deciphering Japan's PURPLE code during World War II.

Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.

Historically, the succession to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne has always passed to descendants in male line from the imperial lineage.

As of the early 21st century, Japan's succession law prohibits a female from ascending the throne.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

Additionally, Japanese pilots had received excellent training and many were combat veterans from Japan's campaigns in China.

The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

Japan's judicial system-drawn from customary law, civil law, and Anglo-American common law-consists of several levels of courts, with the Supreme Court as the final judicial authority.

Japan's share of total foreign investment in ASEAN countries in the same period ranged from 70 to 80 percent in Thailand to 20 percent in Indonesia.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

The Anti-Comintern Pact marked the beginning of the shift on Germany's part from China's ally to Japan's ally.

Through Japan's ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, Konoe had in hand what he believed to be a promising peace proposal from the United States.

The Mukden Incident, also known as the " Manchurian Incident " or the " Far Eastern Crisis ", was one of the League's major setbacks and acted as the catalyst for Japan's withdrawal from the organization.

During Japan's occupation, sugar cane became the main industry of the islands, and labor was imported from Japan and associated colonies ( especially Okinawa and Korea ).

It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū ( the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands ) to Taiwan.

A notable exception is Japan's Cambridge and Oxford Society, probably arising from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.

* 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $ 2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

The Hibakusha (" explosion-affected people ") of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seek compensation from their government and criticize it for failing to " accept responsibility for having instigated and then prolonged an aggressive war long after Japan's defeat was apparent, resulting in a heavy toll in Japanese, Asian and American lives.

Square was founded in Yokohama in September 1983 by Masashi Miyamoto after he graduated from Waseda, one of Japan's top universities.

The uchigatana was derived from the tachi and was the predecessor to the katana as the battle-blade of feudal Japan's bushi ( warrior class ), and as it evolved into the later design, the tachi and the uchigatana were often differentiated from each other only by how they were worn, the fittings for the blades, and the location of the signature ( mei ).

Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun urged " that both the United States and the Soviet Union should use their new knowledge and techniques for the good of mankind ," and Egypt's Akhbar El Yom likewise expressed hopes that the cold war would " turn into a peaceful race in infinite space " and turn away from armed conflicts such as the Laotian Civil War.

Due to the Yomiuri company's vast influence in Japan as a major media conglomerate, the Giants are successfully marketed to the Japanese people as " Japan's Team.

On 19 October, North Korea reportedly ordered its diplomats to stay near their embassies to await " an important message ", according to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, setting off renewed speculation about the health of the ailing leader.

The anime series aired first on Japan's Yomiuri TV on October 17, 1994, and ended on November 27, 1995.

" It was under the alias of Wagon Christ ( along with other equally vital monikers like Plug, Vibert & Simmonds, and later more simply in his own name ) that Vibert helped to redefine the rules of electronic music in the UK in the early to mid ' 90s-alongside a bunch of reprehensible mates that included Richard D. James ( a. k. a. Aphex Twin ), Tom Jenkinson ( Squarepusher ), Mike Paradinas ( µ-Ziq ), Chris Jeffs ( Cylob ), and the labels Rephlex and Warp ," assessed journalist Andrez Bergen in an article that appeared in Japan's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2003.

It is part of the Yomiuri Group, Japan's largest media conglomerate.

The New York Times reported on similar statements previously, writing that " The nation's ( Japan's ) largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, applauded the revisions " regarding removing the word " forcibly " from referring to laborers brought to Japan in the prewar period and revising the comfort women controversy.

Yomiuri also publishes The Daily Yomiuri, Japan's largest English-language newspaper.

His innovations included sensational news coverage, a full-page radio program guide, and the establishment of Japan's first professional baseball team ( now known as the Yomiuri Giants ).

In August 2006, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's top-selling newspaper, published the results of a year-long research project into the general question of who is responsible for the " Showa war ".

" Oshii's work ... steers clear of such stereotypes in both image and sexual orientation ," wrote Andrez Bergen in an article on Oshii that appeared in Japan's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2004.

After playing the first ten seasons of his career for the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, he played the next seven seasons, from 2003 – 2009, for the New York Yankees of North America's Major League Baseball.

In October 1968, following Japan's bronze medal triumph at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and the massive interest in football that ensued, Japan Football Association president Ken Nozu visited Yomiuri Giants chairman Matsutaro Shoriki to ask him if Yomiuri was willing to ride on the wave of the game by establishing their own football club.

In February, Alfonzo signed a one-year contract with the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Central League.

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" Shooting it in Japan was impossible ," Oshii advised interviewer Andrez Bergen in a major article that appeared in Japan's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2004.

Less than one month after the Red Sox dramatic 2004 World Series victory over the Cardinals, Kapler departed for Japan's Yomiuri Giants.