Japanese lawmakers endorsed the acting Bank of Japan chief as its governor April 9, 2008, Masaaki Shirakawa, ending a power vacuum at the central bank's helm by approving the government's third candidate for the job.

# Masaaki Shirakawa ( March 20, 2008 – )

In 2008, Trichet ranked fifth on Newsweek ’ s list of the world's most powerful along with economic triumvirs Ben Bernanke ( fourth ) and Masaaki Shirakawa ( sixth ).

The Bujinkan ( 武神館 ) is an international martial arts organization based in Japan and headed by Masaaki Hatsumi.

Masaaki Hatsumi has attempted to join the Nihon Kobudo Shinkokai, the oldest koryu organization in Japan, but was refused entry when he did not provide evidence of a historical link between the teachings of the Bujinkan and ninjutsu for inspection.

* Baroque Arias, Masaaki Suzuki, Yoshikazu Mera, Bach Collegium Japan 1996

37, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Robin Blaze, BIS 2006

1, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Yumiko Kurisu, Akira Tachikawa, Koki Katano, Peter Kooy, BIS 751, 1995

* April 6 – 9 – Masaaki Iinuma ( pilot ) and Kenji Tsukagoshi ( flight mechanic and navigator ) fly the Mitsubishi Ki-15 J-BAAI Kamikaze 15, 366 km ( 9, 542 statute miles ) from Tachikawa, Japan, to Croydon Airport in London in a record 94 hours 17 minutes 56 seconds, of which 51 hours 17 minutes 23 seconds is spent in the air at an average speed of 162 km / hr ( 101. 2 mph ).

The, also known as or, is the most common name for the sword that the ninja of feudal Japan are portrayed to have carried in movies, on television, and in numerous books written by modern ninjutsu practitioners including Masaaki Hatsumi, Stephen K. Hayes, and Ashida Kim.

Masaaki Kimura has suggested that certain underwater features located off the coast of Yonaguni Island, Japan ( popularly known as the Yonaguni Monument ) are ruins of Mu ( or " ruins of the lost world of Muin " according to CNN ).

During a trip to Japan in February 2003, Jon earned his 5th degree black belt directly from the 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ryu Ninjutsu, Masaaki Hatsumi.

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, released in Japan as is a 2002 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka, written by Wataru Mimura, and produced by Toho Co., Ltd.

Godzilla: Tokyo S. O. S., released in Japan as, is a 2003 science fiction kaiju film directed by Masaaki Tezuka.

He then defeated K-1 Japan Grand Prix champion and K-1 World GP runner-up Masaaki Satake as well as MMA legend Kiyoshi Tamura.

34 ( Cantatas from Leipzig 1725 ), Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Carolyn Sampson, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy, BIS 2005

18-Cantatas from Leipzig 1724-BWV 66, 67, 134, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Robin Blaze, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooy, BIS 2001

Two months later, on 4 May 1995 he made his first K-1 World Grand Prix appearance in Tokyo, Japan, knocking out both Masaaki Satake and Mike Bernardo, before losing to Peter Aerts in the tournament finals.

29-Cantatas from Leipzig 1724, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan & Concerto Palatino Brass Ensemble, Pascal Bertin, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy, BIS 1461 2004

29, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Dorothee Mields, Pascal Bertin, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy, BIS 2004

Bach Cantatas, Volume 1, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Yumiko Kurisu, Koki Katano, Akira Tachikawa, Peter Kooy, BIS 1995

27-Cantatas from Leipzig 1724, Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Susanne Rydén, Pascal Bertin, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooy, BIS 2003

22 ( Cantatas from Leipzig 1724 ), Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Robin Blaze, Jan Kobow, Peter Kooy, BIS 2002

Both variants have been recorded: the aria by Ton Koopman with Klaus Mertens as the bass soloist and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and the chorus by Koopman's pupil Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan in addition to the full cantata in E.

* Masaaki Suzuki ( conductor ), Bach Collegium Japan, soprano Yukari Nonoshita, alto Robin Blaze, tenor Gerd Türk, bass Peter Kooy ; 2004, BIS-CD1351

23 ( Cantatas from Leipzig 1725 ), Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan, Yukari Nonoshita, Matthew White, Makoto Sakurada, Peter Kooy, BIS 2002

* 1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan ( d. 1129 )

* Shirakawa, Emperor of Japan

* July 24 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan ( b. 1053 )

* Emperor Shirakawa ascends to the throne of Japan.

* Emperor Shirakawa, an eleventh-century emperor of Japan

* Shirakawa, Fukushima, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

** Shirakawa Domain, a feudal domain of Edo-period Japan

* Shirakawa, Gifu ( town ), a town in Gifu Prefecture, Japan

* Shirakawa, Gifu ( village ), a World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture, Japan

* Shirakawa, Miyagi, a town in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan

* Shirakawa, Saitama, a town in Saitama Prefecture, Japan

* July 7 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan ( d. 1129 )

* Emperor Shirakawa of Japan starts his cloistered rule.

The Shirakawa Barrier and the Nakoso Barrier were built around the 5th century to protect ' civilized Japan ' from the ' barbarians ' to the north.

* Shirakawa, Fukushima, Japan, since 1988

Shirakawa was formerly known as the gateway to the old Mutsu Province of Japan.

* Shirakawa, Fukushima ( Japan )- November 9, 1998

One of the snowiest places in Japan, 95. 7 % of Shirakawa is covered by forests.

Shirakawa Village and its surrounding area are a moderately inhabited province, featuring some of the heaviest snowfall found not just within mainland Japan but the whole world.

* Ōshū Kaidō ( 奥州街道 ) to Shirakawa and other places of northern Japan

Nishigo is also one of the smallest towns in Japan to have a Shinkansen ( bullet train ) station, located at Shin-Shirakawa ( new Shirakawa ) on the Tōhoku branch.

His son Nagashige later became lord of Shirakawa Castle in northern Japan, and by the time of Nagahide's grandson Mitsushige, the family's 100, 000 koku landholding was moved to Nihonmatsu, where they remained for the duration of the Edo Period.

The anime follows the story of three friends living in Aomori on the northern end of southern Japan: two boys, Hiroki Fujisawa and Takuya Shirakawa, both child prodigies ; and one girl, Sayuri Sawatari.