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 initial conquest it captured of oil (~ 5. 5 × 10 < sup > 5 </ sup > tonnes ) left behind by retreating Allied forces, and by 1943 was able to get production in the Dutch East Indies up to, 76 percent of its 1940 output rate.

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.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

During World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

During the Japanese occupation, the Dayaks played a role in guerilla warfare against the occupying forces, particularly in the Kapit Division, where headhunting was temporarily revived towards the end of the war.

During the German occupation of France he joined the Maquis ( FTP ), a part of the French Resistance.

During the medieval period and prior to the Ottoman occupation of Debarewa in 1557, Eritrea ’ s historical name was Bahre-Negash ( Kingdom of the Sea ).

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

During the French occupation, Eindhoven suffered again with many of its houses destroyed by the invading forces.

During the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, Elbląg and Danzig ( Gdańsk ) were placed under military occupation by Russia and Saxony.

During their occupation of the town, they made such gestures as flying the tricolour over the Atheneum theatre, which they had made their headquarters, and parading uniformed in the streets.

During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation ( 1943 – 1944 ) and was declared an open city.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans founded a number of important settlements, many of which still survive.

During their occupation of Britain the Romans built an extensive network of roads which continued to be used in later centuries and many are still followed today.

During the Italian occupation, Albania's population was subject to a policy of forced Italianization by the kingdom's Italian governors, in which the use of the Albanian language was discouraged in schools while the Italian language was promoted.

During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper (), and he was briefly taken in for interrogation after the war.

During the French occupation of Algeria in the 1830s five manuscripts were discovered in Constantine, including two that contained more complete versions of the text.

During the early Iron Age Brythonic culture held sway, there being no evidence that the Roman occupation of southern Scotland extended to these islands.

During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile ; in the Diasporas, they have been in contact with and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment ( see Haskalah ) and the rise of nationalism, which would bear fruit in the form of a Jewish state in the Levant.

During the German military occupation 1940-1945, light railways were re-established by the Germans for the purpose of supplying coastal fortifications.

" During the Nazi occupation of France, Cocteau's friend Arno Breker convinced him that Adolf Hitler was a pacifist and patron of the arts with France's best interests in mind.

During the German occupation of Denmark, Fritz Michael Hartmann worked as a civil servant and joined a resistance group ( Frit Danmark ), actively counteracting any pro-German and pro-Nazi colleagues in his department.

During the Japanese occupation of Hainan ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Li suffered heavily.

During this period, Beria supervised deportations of people identified as political enemies from Poland and the Baltic states after Soviet occupation of those regions.

During the first three years of occupation of Germany the UK and US vigorously pursued an industrial disarmament program in Germany, partly by removal of equipment but mainly through an import embargo on raw materials and deliberate economic neglect.

During British occupation, Burma was the wealthiest country in Southeast Asia.

During World War II under German occupation, militia usually called the French Resistance emerged to conduct a guerrilla war of attrition against German forces and prepare the way for the D-Day Allied Invasion of France.