From 2004 to 2005, Japanese TV network NHK produced a 39 episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, which features both Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

From the early 1930s the Japanese had been at war against both the Chinese Nationalists and the Russians in China, and used the experience to improve both training and aircraft, replacing biplanes with modern cantilever monoplanes and creating a cadre of exceptional pilots for use in the Pacific War.

From July 2012 a new registration system will be enacted: all residents ( both Japanese and resident foreigners ) will be recorded by municipal offices in the jūminhyō system.

From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

* — " From Japan ," discussions in Japanese

From 1943 – 1945, the OSS played a major role in training Kuomintang troops in China and Burma, and recruited Kachin, and other indigenous irregular forces for sabotage as well as guides for Allied forces in Burma fighting the Japanese Army.

From 1914 to 1922, the Japanese Imperial Navy had been in control.

From July 1942, a few Australian reserve battalions, many of them very young and untrained, fought a stubborn rearguard action against a Japanese advance along the Kokoda Track, towards Port Moresby, over the rugged Owen Stanley Ranges.

* Sato, Hiroaki, and Burton Watson, editors and translators, From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry, multiple editions available

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

From left, clockwise: The Wright brothers achieve the first manned flight by airplane, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | Kitty Hawk in 1903 ; U. S. President William McKinley is William McKinley assassination | assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition ; An 1906 San Francisco earthquake | earthquake on the San Andreas Fault destroys much of San Francisco, killing at least 3, 000 in 1906 ; United States | America gains control over the Philippines in 1902, after the Philippine – American War ; Rock being moved to construct the Panama Canal ; Admiral Heihachiro Togo | Togo before the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, part of the Russo-Japanese War, leading to Japanese victory and their establishment as a great power.

From late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese launched over 9, 300 of these fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the U. S. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were ineffective as weapons: causing only six deaths ( from one single incident ) and a small amount of damage.

From the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

From the Japanese Wikipedia article

Negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth ( 1905 ) — From left to right: The Russians at far side of table are Korostovetz, Nabokov, Sergei Witte | Witte, Roman Rosen | Rosen, Plancon and the Japanese at near side of table are Mineichirō Adachi | Adachi, Ochiai Kentaro | Ochiai, Komura Jutarō | Komura, Takahira Kogoro | Takahira, Aimaro Sato | Satō.

From 1937 to 1945, 126, 750 Taiwanese joined and served in the military of the Japanese Empire, while a further 80, 433 were conscripted between 1942 to 1945.

From this diversity only two species, the hexaploid European plum ( Prunus domestica ) and the diploid Japanese plum ( Prunus salicina and hybrids ), are of worldwide commercial significance.

From 22 August to 23 August, most of the remaining Japanese units announced a truce.

From 9: 30 am until about 4: 30 pm, Japanese planes made five fly-overs, a total of ninety-five sorties, and dropped about 500 bombs, resulting in more than 600 civilian casualties.

From December 3 to 6, Japanese 16th and 9th Divisions punched into the cordon lines of the Chinese 83rd and 66th Corps, took over Jurong on 4th, and pushed to the area of Huangmei, Tuqiao and Hushuzhen.

Kenji Uchiyama translated Seton's Work for the manga From English into Japanese.

From the moment of the occupation Lublin became a focal point.

From 16 June 1940-1942 the colonial administration remained loyal to Vichy France ( from 1942, under Free French ), but 25 September 1942-13 October 1946 they were, like Madagascar, under British occupation.

From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.

* The Nazi occupation of Poland and the Allied bombing of Peenemünde are depicted in the British feature film Battle of the V-1 ( 1958 ) ( called Missiles From Hell in the United States and some other countries ), which starred the actor Michael Rennie.

From the guild control originated the term mystery play or mysteries, from the Latin misterium meaning " occupation " ( i. e. that of the guilds ).

From 1944, the advancing Red Army was also seen as a foreign occupation force, prompting skirmishes with the Soviets as well as Soviet-backed partisans.

From 1945 to 1950, the camp was used by the Soviet occupation authorities as an internment camp, known as NKVD special camp number 2.

From the very first years of the British occupation, a post office, a telegraph office and a hospital began to operate.

From the 13th century onwards, the Hiberno-Norman occupation in the rest of Ireland at first faltered then waned.

From the 16th century through 1898, there were about 16 military campaigns against the sultans five of these resulting in a short occupation, except for the last one.

From 1940 to 1942, the first years of the German occupation of France, there was no thoroughly-organized Résistance capable of fighting in a coordinated fashion throughout France.

Lucas's poem " Spain 1809 " ( in From Many Times and Lands, 1953 ), the story of a Spanish village woman's courage during the French occupation, was turned into the play A Kind of Justice by Margaret Wood ( 1966 ).

From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

From 1667 to 1793 Jever was an exclave of Anhalt-Zerbst, and after Napoleonic occupation the westernmost exclave of Russia.

From 2003 to 2005 Overton was the seat of government of the Republic of Texas, a separatist group who are an independence movement that claims that the annexation of Texas by the United States was illegal and that Texas remains an independent nation under occupation.

From August 1944, the AJB decided to revolt and hid the children until the end of the occupation.

From there he expanded the occupation of Dorthonion with such sorcery and horror that even the Orcs would only pass through it with speed.

From Bohemia, Frederick was powerless to stop the occupation of his ancestral homeland.

From January, 1 2008 on, compensation is granted by Lithuanian law for those persons who suffered on account of World War II and the Soviet occupation.

From 1946 to 1947, he worked alongside Hans Werner Richter to publish the monthly literary journal Der Ruf, which was sold in the American occupation zone of Germany.

From 1972 the band became a full-time occupation for the friends, and they called the band Split Ends.

From 1945 – 46, it was renamed Greater Hesse () and was part of the US occupation zone in Germany.

From 1987, a cycle of mass demonstrations featuring spontaneous singing eventually collected 300, 000 Estonians in Tallinn to sing national songs and hymns that were strictly forbidden during the years of the Soviet occupation, as Estonian rock musicians played.

From the battles fought against the British occupation to the civilian unrest in the 1980s, the city has lost its glory of past and much of its cultural and architectural heritage lies in tattered ruins.

From the earliest days of the occupation, he took an important part in the resistance and was even imprisoned for a while.