In his book Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley details several instances of cannibalism of World War II Allied prisoners by their Japanese captors.

In late 2009, Bandai created a webpage in Japanese showing a new game to be released in 2010 called Digimon Story: Lost Evolution, which uses the same engine as their predecessors Digimon World DS and Digimon World Dawn and Dusk and was released on July 1, 2010.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

Some notable Japanese films are Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Ugetsu, Tampopo, In the Realm of the Senses, and Godzilla.

Oshima's Cruel Story of Youth, Night and Fog in Japan and Death By Hanging, along with Shindo's Onibaba, Hani's Kanojo to kare and Imamura's The Insect Woman, became some of the better-known examples of Japanese New Wave filmmaking.

In particular, variations of " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty ) and " Bibo No Aozora " ( from 1996 ) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story ( 2003 ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel ( 2006 ), respectively.

A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s and Japanese Story, The Proposition and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 2000s.

Shīton Dōbutsuki Risu no Banā ( Japanese: シートン動物記 りすのバナー, English: " Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel ") is a 26-episode animation produced by Nippon Animation.

* Love Story ( video game ), a 2000 Japanese full motion game for the PlayStation 2

* Blood and Rage, The Story of the Japanese Red Army, by William R Farrell, Lexington Books: Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s, and Japanese Story, The Proposition " Van Diemen's Land and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 21st century.

Japanese panel games include おしゃべりクイズ疑問の館 (" Chat House Quiz Questions "), 二十の扉 (" Twenty Doors ", based on Twenty Questions ), 話の泉 (" Source of the Story ", based on Information Please ), ABOBAゲーム (" ABOBA Game "), 一攫千金ヤマワケQ!

The success of A Better Tomorrow and A Chinese Ghost Story made his name known in the Japanese and South Korea film markets.

He goes on to say that “ the flow of town and history, of the Japanese people and the cannery, especially of the river and language, are more securely rooted in place and concentrated in the writing consciousness than in any other of her books .” And according to www. athabascau. ca, Net Work: Selected Writing is “ a selection of poetry spanning from Frames of a Story ( 1968 ) to What Matters ( 1980 ) is an excellent cross-section of her early poetry .” It is through these pieces and earlier pieces that Marlatt ’ s feminist theory begins to emerge.

Alexander O. Smith is responsible for the English localization of Vagrant Story, using archaic English as compared to its straightforward Japanese version.

His effort on translating Vagrant Story was described by Andrew Vestal as an " unparalleled — and unprecedented — work " of Japanese to English video game translation, " in spite of the occasional typo or grammatical hiccup ", as quoted by IGN.

* 1200 Days, A Bataan POW Survivor's Story A biography of Russell A. Grokett's survival of the Bataan Death March, including three years as a Japanese Prisoner of War.

The city is featured in the classic Japanese film Tokyo Story.

Fuchida also wrote and co-wrote books including, From Pearl Harbor to Golgotha ( aka From Pearl Harbor to Calvary ) and a 1955 expansion of his 1951 book Midway ( aka Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story ).

Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy's Story.

*" Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community ," by James Welker

On the recommendation of his mentor Hideo Kobayashi, he published an autobiographical short-story of his experiences as a prisoner of war entitled Furyoki (" Taken Captive: A Japanese POW's Story ", 1948 ), in separate parts between 1948 and 1951.

Taken Captive: A Japanese POW's Story.

* Toy Story 2-Airline Rep, Japanese Collector, Sign-Off

* 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer ( b. 1976 )

Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune said he did not see Matsui as a rookie in 2003 because " it would be an insult to the Japanese league to pretend that experience didn't count.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

* 1976 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer ( d. 2003 )

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

Since August 2003, the site has been translated into ten other written languages: Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch and French.

" The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has attempted to disrupt illegal Japanese whaling in the Australian Antarctic Territory since 2003.

** You Inoue, Japanese voice actress ( d. 2003 )

* July 4 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer ( d. 2003 )

In 2002 a Japanese group propelled a tiny aluminium airplane by using a laser to vaporize a water droplet clinging to it, and in 2003 NASA researchers flew an 11 ounce ( 312 g ) model airplane with a propeller powered with solar panels illuminated by a laser.

Tharp has written three books: an early autobiography, Push Comes to Shove ( 1992 ; Bantam Books ); The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life ( 2003, Simon & Schuster ), translated into Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Thai and Japanese ; “ The Collaborative Habit ” ( 2009, Simon & Schuster ), also translated into Thai, Chinese and Korean.

* Social Capital Theory in the Context of Japanese Children, article by Cherylynn Bassani in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 8 May 2003.

* Japanese singer Ayaka Hirahara released a pop version of " Jupiter " in December 2003.

* Japanese — Kōtaro Isaka: A Pierrot a. k. a. Gravity Clown ( 2003 ; a film based on the novel was released in 2009 ).

Japanese rule ended the practice by 1930, but some elder Taiwanese can recall the practice ( Yeh 2003 ).

* 2003: Daijiro Kato is killed during the Japanese GP MotoGP class at Suzuka when he hits the barrier at 340R.

It has been debated that, “ when declared support for the U. S .- led war on Iraq in March 2003, and when he sent Japanese forces to aid the occupation in January 2004, it was not Iraq that was in the Japanese sights so much as North Korea .” Japan ’ s unstable relations with North Korea, as well as other neighboring Asian countries has forced Japan to batter and bend Article 9 to “ permit an increasingly expansive interpretation ” of the constitution in the hopes of guaranteeing U. S. support in these relations.

The etymology of the Japanese word bushido, stemming from the < i > Zhou </ i > Dynasty ( 1111 – 256 BCE )( Zhang, and Fan, 2003 )< ref > 中国历史与文明 The History and Civilization of China, 五月 2003 ( May 2003 ), 页 26 ( pg.

134 ), ISBN 7-5600-3105-6 </ ref > is the same as "< i > do </ i >" in Japanese, meaning " way of " ( Dao, 2003 )< ref > 易經道 Yijing Dao, 鳴鶴在陰, Calling crane in the shade, Biroco-The Art of Doing Nothing, 2003-2012, 馬夏 ( Ma, Xia ) < i > et </ i >.

* Lee Teng-hui, former President of the Republic of China, " 武士道解題 做人的根本 蕭志強譯 " in Chinese ， 前衛, "「 武士道 」 解題 ― ノーブレス ・ オブリージュとは " in Japanese ， 小学館 ，( 2003 ), ISBN 4-09-387370-4