During the closing stages of the war, Japan's fighter arm could not seriously challenge raids over Japan by American B-29s, and was largely relegated to Kamikaze tactics.

During Japan's Heian period ( 794 – 1192 AD ), the kimono became increasingly stylized, though one still wore a half-apron, called a mo, over it.

During Japan's occupation, sugar cane became the main industry of the islands, and labor was imported from Japan and associated colonies ( especially Okinawa and Korea ).

During the Meiji period an edict was passed in 1871 abolishing the requirement of the wearing of daishō by samurai, and in 1876 the wearing of swords in public by most of Japan's population was banned ; this ended the use of the daishō as the symbol of the samurai, and the samurai class was abolished soon after the sword ban.

During Japan's imperial period, and particularly during the Pacific War ( parts of which are considered the Pacific theatre of World War II ), Japan established a number of states that historians have come to consider puppet régimes.

During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign of Japan's internal waterways.

A major influence on ambient house was Japan's Yellow Magic Orchestra, sometimes cited as one of the pioneers of ambient house. During the early 1990s, the term " ambient house " became synonymous with intelligent dance music in general, but was eventually replaced by several other terms.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Katō served as chief of staff to Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō on the battleship, assisting in Japan's victory at the Battle of Tsushima.

During his short four month tenure, Abe sought to quickly end the Second Sino-Japanese War, and to maintain Japan's neutrality in the growing European conflict.

During his last term in office, he also gained notoriety among the various non-Japanese ethnic groups in Japan ( particularly the sizeable Korean minority ) for proclaiming that Japan's success was because it did not have ethnic minorities, like the US.

During the entire post-war era, until at least 1991, the Bank of Japan's monetary policy has primarily been conducted via its ' window guidance ' ( 窓口指導 ） credit controls ( which are the model for the Chinese central bank's primary tool of monetary policy implementation ), whereby the central bank would impose bank credit growth quotas on the commercial banks.

During the pre-1945 period, Japan moved into political totalitarianism, ultranationalism and fascism culminating in Japan's invasion of China in 1937.

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Nagoya Airport was a busy international airport because of overflow from Japan's other international airports, New Tokyo International Airport ( now Narita International Airport ) near Tokyo and Osaka International Airport ( Itami Airport ) near Osaka.

During World War II, most Buddhist schools ( with the exception of the Sōka Gakkai ), strongly supported Japan's remilitarization.

During Japan's Edo period, Nakatsugawa was a post town, known as Nakatsugawa-juku, one of the 69 Stations of the Nakasendō along the Nakasendō.

During the arrest, he continued to study Western sciences, and developed various electric machines based on the elekiter and the Daniell battery, Japan's first seismic sensor, as well as improvements to guns.

During World War II, its buildings were given Japanese names and its curriculum was stripped of its pro-Western elements, however the pre-war conditions were restored after Japan's surrender.

During his reign there was much internal turmoil as a result of Japan's first major contact with the United States, which occurred under Commodore Perry in 1853 and 1854, and of the subsequent " re-opening " of Japan to western nations.

* Tanaka, Yuki Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II and the U. S. Occupation, London, Routledge: 2002.

" During a 13 March interview for Japan's Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions: " We are destroying the statues in accordance with Islamic law and it is purely a religious issue ".

During Japan's stifling hot and humid summer, the Noryo Hometown Festival gives the people of Wanouchi the chance to enjoy Obon dancing in the cool of the evening.

During this period, he enacted the " Mori Reforms " of Japan's education system, which included six years of compulsory, co-educational schooling, and the creation of high schools for training of a select elite.

' During the height of Aum Shinrikyo arrests [...], Japan's teenage girls found an icon: Joyu Fumihiro, the cult's " Information Minister.

During this time, Mutoh challenged and defeated Tenryu for All Japan's Triple Crown Championship, as well as capturing All Japan's Double Cup Tag Title with Taiyō Kea.

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During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.

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) During the initial collapse, this pre-main-sequence star generates energy through gravitational contraction.

During the initial years of Go-Ichijō's reign, Fujiwara no Michinaga actually ruled from his position as sesshō ( regent ).

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During the initial period ( 1985 – 87 ) of Mikhail Gorbachev's time in power, he talked about modifying central planning, but did not make any truly fundamental changes ( uskoreniye, acceleration ).

During his college years in PMA and initial joint military testings, Musharraf shared a room with PQ Mehdi of PAF and Abdul Aziz Mirza of Navy ( both reached to four-star assignments and served with Musharraf later on ) and after giving the exams and entranace interviews, all three cadets went to watch a world-acclaimed Urdu film, Savera ( lit.

During the initial explorations of Lechuguilla Cave in the late 1980s, a chamber was named " Pellucidar " in honor of these stories.

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Typically, this system works as follows: During the initial high-impulse orbit-raising maneuvers, the system operates in a bipropellant fashion, providing high thrust at high efficiency ; when it arrives on orbit, it closes off either the fuel or oxidizer, and conducts the remainder of its mission in a simple, predictable monopropellant

During the Zhou Dynasty, the origins of native Chinese philosophy developed, its initial stages beginning in the 6th century BC.

During the 1950s, the Korean War, the Algerian War, the Cold War and other political tensions such as the Cuban Revolution, as well as widespread political and economic changes in Africa during the initial stages of European Decolonization, did not stop the Dow's bullish climb higher.

During this time, the Portuguese gradually switched from an initial plan of establishing trading posts to extensive colonization of what is now Brazil.

During this time, however, the court was divided 4-4 following the initial conference call because Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, one of the three liberal justices who continuously voted to uphold New Deal legislation, was absent due to an illness ; with this even division on the Court, the holding of the Washington Supreme Court, finding the minimum wage statute constitutional, would stand.

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During the film's initial release in selected cities, it was a roadshow attraction, with only two presentations per day and tickets sold on a reserved-seat basis.

During an initial three-month stay at Havana, his first tasks were to properly survey that city and the nearby towns of Guanabacoa, Regla and Bejucal.

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During its initial years, the NSC suffered from haphazard staffing and irregular meetings and was sometimes bypassed entirely.

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