In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

The All Japan Kendo Federation specify the dimensions of bokken for use in the modern kendo kata, called Nippon kendo kata.

The end of the samurai era in the 1860s, along with the 1876 ban on wearing swords in public, marked the end of any practical use for mail and other armour in Japan.

Very few examples of historic butted mail have been found and it is generally accepted that butted mail was never in wide use historically except in Japan where mail ( kusari ) was commonly made from butted links.

In 1912, when Jiang Zhiqing was in Japan, he started to use the name Chiang Kai-shek ( Chinese: 蔣介石 ; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang Chieh-shih ) as a pen name for the articles that he published in a Chinese magazine he founded ( Voice of the Army ( Chinese: 軍聲 ).

In Japan, the government has approved the use of some medicinal mushrooms like Trametes versicolor, to counteract depression of the immune system in patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Made in Japan, this was also the first calculator to use an LED display, the first hand-held calculator to use a single integrated circuit ( then proclaimed as a " calculator on a chip "), the Mostek MK6010, and the first electronic calculator to run off replaceable batteries.

In Japan, there appears to have been what probably constituted a long held ' official ' company bias against use of the name " Datsun ".

In 2001, Nissan marketed its D22 pick-up model in Japan with the name Datsun, this time however the use of the brand name was wholly restricted to this one specific model name.

* 1995: First successful use of common rail in a production vehicle, by Denso in Japan, Hino " Rising Ranger " truck.

* Frequency: in Europe, in China, in Japan, in Latin America and in the US and Canada, and products may NOT be used in the UK or Ireland as they cause and suffer from interference with the UK and Ireland cellular networks with illegal use of such products being prohibited by UK agencies, and UK and Ireland DECT and products may NOT be used in the US and Canada as they cause and suffer from interference with US and Canada cellular networks and aircraft and for that reason is deemed illegal to use by US and Canadian agencies such as the Federal Communication Commission and Industry Canada.

Along with the martial use of the drums, they also held a strong foundation in the court style music called Gagaku, performed in the castles and shrines across ancient Japan.

For example, the previous emperor is usually called Hirohito in English, although he was never referred to as Hirohito in Japan, and was renamed Shōwa Tennō after his death, which is the only name that Japanese speakers currently use when referring to him.

The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

Who which the Futurians use in the present day to subjugate Japan.

Feeling sympathy for the Japanese, Emmy reveals the truth behind the Futurians ' mission: In the future, Japan became very wealthy and its economy surpassed that of the United States, Russia and China-the Futurians in fact stole the time machine and plan to use King Ghidorah to alter the future by devastating or subjugating present-day Japan, thus preventing its future economic reign.

Holm's discussion of the Ringu remakes presents this idea by stating, " It is, instead, to note that the Ring films make use of an untheorized notion of Japan ... that seek to directly represent the country.

* As of February 2008, all of the commercial lines in Japan use Boeing 929.

The Japanese seldom use the term hentai to refer to pornography in Japan.

At one extreme, Japan permits the use of all 14 channels for 802. 11b, while other countries such as Spain initially allowed only channels 10 and 11, and France only allowed 10, 11, 12 and 13.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

After Japan went to war with China in 1937, passenger car production was restricted, so by 1938, Datsun's Yokohama plant concentrated on building trucks for the Imperial Japanese Army.

The decade opened with the shut-down of the Pagewood, New South Wales production plant and introduction of the light commercial Rodeo, sourced from Isuzu in Japan.

In the mid 1930s, Alfred Rich Child opened a production line in Japan with the VL.

Nuclear power in Japan makes a quarter of electricity production and Japan would like to double it in the next decades.

Under the United States occupation at the end of World War II all armed forces in occupied Japan were disbanded and production of nihontō with edges was banned except under police or government permit.

* Anagama kiln-the Asian anagama kiln has been used since medieval times and is considered the oldest style of production kiln, brought to Japan from China via Korea in the 5th century.

While Tom Matano, Mark Jordan, Wu Huang Chin, Norman Garrett and Koichi Hayashi worked on the final design, the project was moved to Japan for engineering and production details.

Miso production is a relatively simple process and so home-made versions spread throughout Japan.

The CDZ was only officially sold in Japan during its production.

Today, a hybrid mollusk is used in both Japan and China in the production of akoya pearls.

In 2010, China overtook Japan in akoya pearl production.

Japan has all but ceased its production of akoya pearls smaller than 8 mm.

Japan maintains its status as a pearl processing center, however, and imports the majority of Chinese akoya pearl production.

The largest reciprocating engine in production at present, but not the largest ever built, is the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel engine of 2006 built by Japan ’ s Diesel United, Ltd.

A surge in imports of South Korean products into Japan in 1990 was partly the result of production by Japanese investors in South Korea.

Satsuma is well known for its production of sweet potatoes, known in Japan as 薩摩芋 ( satsuma-imo or " Satsuma potato ").

( 1964 ) The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan .</ REF > Sake production was a government monopoly for a long time, but in the 10th century, temples and shrines began to brew sake, and they became the main centers of production for the next 500 years.

While the rest of the world may be drinking more sake and the quality of sake has been increasing, sake production in Japan has been declining since the mid 1970s.

The success of the Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars, leading to the production of a second movie that would end the story.

During the first part of the Shōwa era, the governments of Imperial Japan launched a string of policies to promote total war effort against China or occidental powers and increase industrial production.

To improve its production, Shōwa Japan used millions of slave labourers and pressed more than 18 million people in East Asia.