He spent months travelling Western Europe, including extended stays in France and Switzerland, and spontaneously decided to visit Japan.

Because of political decisions on local, prefectural, and nation levels, Japan decided not to exploit its forest resources for economic gain.

Meanwhile, Hitler had decided that a more firm alliance with Japan would secure a potential ally against the Soviet Union.

Like many children in postwar Japan, Miyazaki decided he wanted to become a manga artist during high school.

To eliminate any possible doubts, Nichiren decided to spend some time at Mount Kōya, the centre of esoteric Buddhism, and also in Nara, Japan ’ s ancient capital, where he studied the Ritsu sect, which emphasized strict monastic discipline and ordination. During this time, he became convinced of the pre-eminence of the Lotus Sutra and in 1253, returned to Seichoji.

Unsure of what to do with Nichiren, Hei no Saemon decided to banish him to Sado, an island in the Japan Sea known for its particularly severe winters and a place of harsh exile.

Moreover, in 1941, Phibun regime decided to ally with Japan.

Nintendo finally decided in 1985 to release its Famicom ( released in 1983 in Japan ) in the United States under the name Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES ).

He decided to deploy the Japan Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, which was the first military mission in active foreign war zones since the end of the World War II.

Meanwhile, Katsura had decided that Man-Kan kōkan was no longer desirable for Japan, which should not renounce activity in Manchuria.

As a consequence, the board of directors of the Japan Sumo Association decided in an extraordinary meeting to cancel the March 2011 tournament in Osaka, the first time this had happened since 1946.

On 9 March 1945, with France liberated, Germany in retreat, and the United States ascendant in the Pacific, Japan decided to take complete control of Indochina.

Sanrio decided to make Hello Kitty British because at the time when she was created, foreign countries, in particular Britain, were trendy in Japan.

The minister for Financial Services in Japan announced in late June 2011 that mandatory application of the IFRS should not take place from fiscal year-ending March 2015 ; five to seven years should be required for preparation if mandatory application is decided ; and to permit the use of U. S. GAAP beyond the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.

Prime Minister Keizō Obuchi of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) decided to draft legislation to make the Hinomaru and " Kimigayo " official symbols of Japan in 2000.

After unsuccessfully attempting to persuade Chiang to voluntarily join forces with the CCP to meet the impending threat of Japan, Zhang and Yang finally decided to take matters into their own hands.

The People's Republic of China decided to accelerate the modernization process by stepping up the volume of foreign trade by opening up its markets, especially the purchase of machinery from Japan and the West.

Following a few years of consistent touring and local gigs, The Spunks disbanded when members Hajime and Joji decided to move back to Japan after having lived in the US for almost 9 years.

Isezaki city in Gunma prefecture, Japan, decided to ban beards for male municipal employees on May 19, 2010.

Before a tour of Japan beginning in September, Lynott decided to bring in another guitarist, Dave Flett, who had played with Manfred Mann's Earth Band, to enable Ure to switch to playing keyboards where necessary.

Kolchak visited the American Fleet and its ports, and decided to return to Russia via Japan.

In one notable case, U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had planned to visit Japan during a 1960 tour of Asia, but so many Zengakuren turned out to protest at the airport that he decided not to land.

Following Japan's defeat in World War II, the emperor's role is defined in Chapter I of the 1947 Constitution of Japan, as decided by the foreign powers that had defeated Japan in the war.

In May 1933, the Soviet Union decided to have Sorge organize a spy network in Japan.

In the 1980s, geologists found evidence that an earthquake, powerful enough to send a tsunami all the way to Japan, hit the American Pacific Northwest in 1700.

The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Japan also send volunteers.

Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the Korean government's aid.

Because of their roles as aggressors in World War II, Germany and Japan were not invited to participate ; the USSR were invited but chose not to send any athletes.

Zhou's diaries also show his concern over Chinese student strikes in Japan in May 1918, when the Chinese government failed to send the students ' scholarships, but he apparently was not deeply involved in the protest.

Under the unequal Treaty of Ganghwa, which the Koreans signed with reluctance in 1876, Japan was allowed to send diplomatic missions to Hanseong, and opened trading posts in Incheon and Wonsan.

In a treaty signed between Japan and Qing, the two parties agreed only to send troops into Korea after notifying the other.

This caused an incident between Japan and China, but was eventually settled by the Sino-Japanese Convention of Tientsin of 1885 in which the two sides agreed to ( a ) pull their expeditionary forces out of Korea simultaneously ; ( b ) not send military instructors for the training of the Korean military ; and ( c ) notify the other side beforehand should one decide to send troops to Korea.

Châu's plan was to send Vietnamese students to Japan to learn modern skills, so that in the future they could lead a successful armed revolt against the French.

His government passed a law allowing Japan to send its forces overseas for peacekeeping missions as well as negotiating a trade agreement with the United States.

Following the Iraq War, in 2003, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet approved a plan to send about 1, 000 soldiers of the Japan Self-Defense Forces to help in Iraq's reconstruction, the biggest overseas troop deployment since World War II without the sanction of the UN.

After hearing arguments from scientists and military officers over the possible uses of the weapons against Japan ( though some recommended using them as " demonstrations " in unpopulated areas, most recommended using them against " built up " targets, a euphemistic term for populated cities ), Truman ordered the use of the weapons on Japanese cities, hoping it would send a strong message that would end in the capitulation of the Japanese leadership and avoid a lengthy invasion of the islands.

As a result, Japan at this period was a state which received no title from Chinese dynasties while they did send.

Honjō moved the Kwantung Army headquarters to Mukden and ordered General Senjuro Hayashi of the Chosen Army of Japan in Korea to send in reinforcements.

The Japanese could not even pick up their dead, they instead cut an arm from their corpses limbs for cremation to send back to Japan.

Eventually the Gwangmu Emperor was forced to abdicate in 1907 in favor of his son, Emperor Sunjong, who became the second and last emperor of the Empire of Korea, due to his attempt to send delegates to the Hague Peace Conference ( Hague Convention of 1907 ) in violation of the Japan – Korea Treaty of 1905.

After heated debate in the Diet, the government of Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake agreed to send 12, 000 troops, but under the command of Japan, rather than as part of an international coalition.

The school is unfortunately an all-boys school and Mizuki convinces her parents to send her to Japan by herself.

The incident also caused Japan to send reinforcements to the Shanghai area on August 10.

NISA was also planning to send similar instructions to two other nuclear power plant operators in the Fukui area: Kansai Electric Power Company, and Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

China, with its Jiaolong project in 2002, was the fifth country to send a man 3, 500 meters below sea level, following the US, France, Russia and Japan.

With the information gathered, the LCMS came to the conclusion that they should send missionaries to northern Japan where the Lutheran presence was scarce in order to avoid redundancies among the various Lutheran churches and missions operating in Japan and a resolution was adopted accordingly.

The user still had to provide a personal computer ( IBM-PC or Macintosh ; NEC PC-9801 was also supported in Japan ) to write the computer code, compile it, and send the program to the PlayStation.