Most of their titles are associated with The Vanilla Series, a series of hentai titles produced in Japan by Digital Works which are tied-in with eroge games of the same title.

Referred to as the " Triforce Series ", the games were known as The Legend of Zelda: The Mysterious Acorn: Chapter of Power, Chapter of Wisdom, and Chapter of Courage in Japan and The Legend of Zelda: Mystical Seed of Power, Mystical Seed of Wisdom, and Mystical Seed of Courage in the US.

The NES version was ported twice to the Game Boy Advance: first in 2004 as one of thirty games in the Classic NES Series ( known as the Famicom Mini Series in Japan ), then bundled with a version of the Puzzle League series in 2005 under the title Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

A Series C 1, 000 yen note of Japan.

A portrait of Itō Hirobumi was on the Series C 1, 000 yen note of Japan from 1963 until a new series was issued in 1984.

In Japan, Kinya Aikawa played Megure, a Japanese-born equivalent to the French Maigret, reinvented in a modern Japanese setting, in Tōkyō Megure Keishi, a 25-episode TV Series aired from April 14 to May 29, 1978 on Asahi TV.

The Promotion / Relegation Series concept dates as far back as 1965 and the first season of the Japan Soccer League.

The Japan Football League, the current Japanese third division, uses the Promotion / Relegation Series only when the number of clubs in the league needs to be filled with clubs from the Japanese Regional Leagues.

And the second time was between 2004 – 2006, which the top three team will play a two-staged stepladder knockout ( 3 games in first stage and 5 games in second stage ) the decide the League Champion ( and the team playing in Japan Series ).

After applied with such system, the Seibu Lions ( now Saitama Seibu Lions ), Chiba Lotte Marines and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, which claimed the Pacific League Champion under such system, were all able to clinch the following Japan Series in that season.

In 2007, a new playoff system, named " Climax Series ", is introduced to both professional leagues in NPB to decide the team playing in Japan Series.

But unlike the previous playoff system, Climax Series does not affact teams ' standing nor individual records in regular season which the previous playoff system in Pacific League did, this means the winner of Japan Series may not be the winner of the League.

The Chunichi Dragons takes the advantage of such system in the first Climax Series-implemented season, finishing second in regular season, but swept Hanshin Tigers and League Champion Yomiuri Giants in Central League Climax Series, and beat the Champion of Pacific League Climax Series Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to claim their first Japan Series in 52 years.

In Japan, Nissan Diesel Motor was manufacturing Uniflow Two-stroke Diesel Engine: ja: ユニフロー掃気ディーゼルエンジン ) from General Motors from under a license of Detroit Diesel Series 71.

* N700 Series Shinkansen ( except N700-7000 / 8000 series ) ( Japan, 2007 ), introduced by JR Central and JR West, used for Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen lines.

* E5 Series Shinkansen ( Japan, 2011 ), introduced by JR East, used for Tōhoku Shinkansen lines.

* E6 Series Shinkansen ( Japan, 2013 ), introduced by JR East, used for Tōhoku Shinkansen and Akita Shinkansen lines.

BMW 5 Series ), Honda Japan suggested that it could charge more, though Honda Canada disagreed.

Each season the winning clubs from the two leagues compete in the Japan Series, the championship series of NPB.

In recent decades, the two leagues each scheduled 130, 135 or 140 regular season games with the best teams from each league going on to play in the " Nippon Series " or Japan Series.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1993 – Heavy rains and debris kill 72 in the Kagoshima and Aira areas of Kyushu, Japan.

* 1180 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan ( d. 1239 )

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

* 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1313 – Emperor Kōgon of Japan ( d. 1364 )

* 1377 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan ( d. 1433 )

* 1783 – Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35, 000 people.

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.

* 1079 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan ( d. 1107 )

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

* 1183 – Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1297 – Emperor Hanazono of Japan ( d. 1348 )

* 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a " divine wind " for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

* 1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.