During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

During this time the Ainu were forced to learn Japanese, required to adopt Japanese names and ordered to cease religious practices such as animal sacrifice and the custom of tattooing.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

During World War II, the ACLU defended Japanese American citizens who were forcibly relocated to internment camps.

During World War II, Japanese soldiers would yell in English, " To hell with Babe Ruth ", in order to anger American soldiers.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

During World War II, Japanese forces gained control of Borneo ( 1941 – 45 ).

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 World War II, a US submarine, the USS Puffer ( SS-268 ), came under several hours of depth charge attack by a Japanese surface vessel until the ship became convinced the submarine had somehow escaped.

During the Nationalist's retreat from Nanjing, the dams around the city were deliberately destroyed by the Nationalist army in order to delay the Japanese advance, killing 500, 000 people in the subsequent 1938 Yellow River flood.

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.

During his time as Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Theatre, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General William Slim.

During El Niño years, the break in the subtropical ridge tends to lie near 130 ° E, which would favor the Japanese archipelago.

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 ).

During the Japanese invasions of Korea ( 1592 – 1598 ), Admiral Yi commanded his navy with kites.

* 1942 – World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies

During World War II a Japanese invasion force landed at Reo on 14 May 1942 and occupied Flores.

During this period, the Japanese population grew to over 100, 000 throughout Micronesia, while the indigenous population was about 40, 000.

During the Heian period of Japanese history, the Hokke managed to establish a hereditary claim to the position of regent, either for an underage emperor ( sesshō ) or for an adult one ( kampaku ).

During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

" American Involvement in the Filipino Resistance on Mindanao During the Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945 ".

During the Cold War, Japanese foreign policy was not self-assertive, relatively focused on their economic growth.

During the Meiji Era, China was one of the first countries to feel Japanese Imperialism.

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During the Serbian Occupation the first Albanian state of the Middle Ages was created.

During the World War II Occupation of Czechoslovakia, the Škoda works was turned into part of Reichswerke Hermann Göring serving the German World War II effort.

During World War II, the Axis Occupation of Greece established a concentration camp there for the prisoners of the Greek National Resistance movement, while remaining today are the two-storied building that served as the Headquarters of the Italian army, a small church, and the wall against which those condemned to death were shot.

During the Occupation of Japan following the war, Tsuburaya's wartime association with such propaganda films proved a hindrance to his finding work for some time.

During May 1968, he wrote: " Is it the return of the Occupation?

During the Occupation of East Poland by the Soviet Union, the Soviets liquidated the Polish state, and a German-Soviet meeting addressed the future structure of the " Polish region.

During the occupation of Paris he was a member of the Front National des Musiciens ; after Milhaud was forced to leave France, Désormière saved his paintings and personal possessions as well as paying the apartment rent during the Occupation.

During the Occupation of Japan ( 1945 – 1952 ) Chiba Prefecture was controlled by American forces from the second floor of the prefectural capitol building in the city of Chiba.

* Robert Gildea, ( 2002 ), Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation, Picador.

During the Occupation, Antoine Pinay remained mayor of Saint-Chamond, although he had been urged by General Georges to move to Algiers, in order to better protect the residents of this city.

During World War II under the Japanese Occupation, The Philippine Commonwealth Army has the re-establishment of the Military General Headquarters, Military Bases and Camps here in the province of Nueva Ecija on 1942 to 1946 before the engagements of the Anti-Japanese Imperial Military Operations in Central Luzon include Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, Zambales, Bulacan and Northern Tayabas ( now.

During the Japanese Occupation, under the Sook Ching Operation, Chinese men who were suspected, often arbitrarily, of being involved in anti-Japanese activities were brutally killed.

During the Second World War under the Japanese Occupation, over several pre-war infantry divisions and regular units of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was re-established from 1942 to 1946 at the general headquarters, camps and garrisoned here the province of Cagayan and begins the battles and invasions for the Anti-Japanese Operations in Cagayan Valley included to sending the province of Cagayan and Isabela and helping the local soldiers of the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the USAFIP-NL, the local guerrilla fighters and the U. S. liberation forces was defeated and fought against the Japanese Imperial forces from 1942 to 1945.

During the first years of Occupation of Denmark, the governments of Prime Ministers Vilhelm Buhl and then Erik Scavenius cooperated with the Nazi occupiers.

During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong in 1941-1945, the boulder was dislodged from its place when the Sacred Hill was leveled for an extension of the Kai Tak Airport.

* Whitcomb, Philip W., France During The German Occupation 1940 – 1944, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1957, In three vol.

During the Serbian Occupation was created the first Albanian state in Middle Ages.

During the Japanese Occupation of Malaya, Ipoh was made the capital of Perak, in place of Taiping.

During the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, the competing Yaumati Ferry was allowed to continue, while the Japanese commandeered the Star Ferry for their own purposes.

During the Nazi Occupation of Italy in the Second World War, pro-Nazi German scholars presented supposed evidence for the " profound influence " German culture and language have had on the Friulians, including loan words and medieval place-names.

During the Occupation of the Channel Islands | German occupation of Jersey, a stonemason repairing the paving of the Royal Square ( Jersey ) | Royal Square incorporated a V for victory under the noses of the occupiers.

During the Occupation, little original writing was permitted to be published by the German censorship.

During the Axis Occupation of Greece, the Italians tried to set up an autonomous Aromanian state in Northern Greece, the " Principality of Pindus ".