However, the two most populous constitutional monarchies in the world are in Asia: Japan and Thailand.

However, Japan reacted by an attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy.

However, Emmy's companions reveal that their ship is bound to automatic time warp in the event of sabotage, allowing them to return to a future where Japan has been destroyed either way.

However, the commonly held idea that Japan was entirely closed is misleading.

However, the ROC does not actively pursue these claims in practice ; the remaining claims that the ROC are actively seeking are the Diaoyu Islands, whose sovereignty is also asserted by Japan and the PRC ; and the Spratly Islands in South China Sea, with multiple claimants.

However, except for a few sheltered inland valleys during December and January, precipitation in Japan is above of rainfall equivalent in all months of the year, and in the wettest coastal areas it is above per month throughout the year.

However, in the second half of the 1980s, rising stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble caused by the policy of low interest rate by Bank of Japan.

However, both the former Prime Minister of Japan, Fukuda Yasuo, and Korean President Lee Myung-bak emphasized the importance of " open a new era in Japan – South Korea relations.

However, during the Edo period, Edo ( now Tokyo ) developed into the largest city in Japan, and Edo Tokyo dialect became the Standard Japanese position.

However, in Japan, union organisation is slightly different due to the presence of enterprise unions, i. e. unions that are specific to a specific plant or company.

However, in 1942, with the entry of Japan into the Second World War, the island gained a strategic importance in the Indian Ocean and thus the British government hastily built a new airport in the south of the island at Plaisance.

However, in 2007 the original series was released on DVD in Japan, which sold over 100, 000 copies within a month's time from December 21, 2007 to January 21, 2008.

However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there.

However, that was followed by a brief Allied military intervention by the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and others against the Bolsheviks.

However, subsequent singles charted in Europe and Japan.

However, by the end of that war, Japan was defeated and the U. S. Pacific Fleet was the virtual master of the ocean.

However, the ruling party then lost its majority in by-elections in 2005, as discontinued reform plans, continual labor unrest, Roh's personal feuds with the media, diplomatic friction with the United States and Japan, caused criticism of the government's incompetence of political, socioeconomical issues and foreign affairs.

However Shinto does not actually require professing faith to be a believer or a practitioner a person who practices " any " manner of Shinto rituals may be so counted, and as such it is difficult to query for exact figures based on self-identification of belief within Japan.

However, the concept of religion in Japan is a complex one.

However, new players on the scene — beer, wine, and spirits — became very popular in Japan, and in the 1960s beer consumption surpassed sake for the first time.

However, the distinction between Daojia and Daojiao is rejected by the majority of modern scholars ( at least in Japan and the West ).

However, an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot — driven mad by the deaths of his son and brother during the previous conflict — flies his Boeing 747 directly into the U. S. Capitol.

However, the Treaty of Peace with Japan was not signed until 1951, and that with Germany not until 1990.

However, tyrannosaurid forelimbs were extremely small for their body size and retained only two digits.

However, more vital propositions, such as Hume's argument for the role of habit in a theory of knowledge, are retained.

However, when he abdicated later the same year, he retained ownership.

However, servants of the debtor could be retained beyond that deadline by the creditor and were often forced to serve their new lord for a lifetime, usually under significantly harsher conditions.

However, all factions retained their respective factional structure and the Bolsheviks formed the Bolshevik Center, the de-facto governing body of the Bolshevik faction within the RSDLP.

However, the term is applied to multidimensional data as well as to univariate data and in situations where a transformation of the data values for some or all dimensions would usually be considered necessary: in the latter cases, the notion of a " central location " is retained in converting an " average " computed for the transformed data back to the original units.

However, Sovnarkom, in which the majority belonged to the representatives of RSDLP ( b ) retained the right to approve members of the collegium of the VCheKa.

However, many units retained cuirasses and helmets for their protective value against sword and bayonet strikes and the morale boost these provide to the wearers.

However, the current DCI standards were made with the intention of standing the test of time, much like 35 mm film which has evolved but still retained compatibility over a substantial part of a century.

However, the English one underwent a great upward mobility during the Middle Ages, becoming associated with the aristocracy, while its German equivalent retained the humble meaning of " servant ".

However after winning the trophy, where Hagi scored the only goal of the game, Steaua did not want to release him back to Sportul Studențesc and retained him.

However, he remained in autocratic control of the country as de-facto dictator, as he retained full control over the Libyan Armed Forces.

However, under the Conservative government, the 1874 and 1875 Acts retained the judicial aspect of the House of Lords and ensured the quality of judicial appointments to the House of Lords was ensured by legislating, under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, for the mechanism of judicial life peers.

However, Gaddafi retained virtually all power, continuing to operate and control vestiges of the military junta put in place in 1969.

However, he retained the witches ' songs and added a moralizing speech for Macbeth to the conclusion.

However, the language still retained a final-m, which has merged with-n in modern dialects, and initial voiced fricatives.

However, the law of the excluded middle is retained, because P and not-P implies P or not-P, since " or " is inclusive.

However, because preemptive rights were given to people who had ties with landowners before liberation, many pro-Japanese groups obtained or retained properties.

However, the yamabushi kagura tradition has retained its ritualistic and religious nature.

However, this was not accepted by the taxonomic community at large ; the name S. harrisii has been retained and S. laniarius relegated to a fossil species.

However, some UU congregations have grown to appreciate alternative terms such as fellowship and retained them even though they have grown much larger or lost features sometimes associated with their use ( such as, in the case of fellowships, a traditionally lay-led worship model ).

However, according to scholar of Islam William Montgomery Watt, the clientship of the Jewish tribes is not borne out by the historical accounts of the period prior to 627, and he maintained that the Jews retained a measure of political independence.

However, earlier traditions from Chinese history have retained their influence, even to the present.

However, Canada was not established as fully independent, since the United Kingdom retained legislative control over Canada and full control over Canadian foreign policy.

However the welfare state system was retained and expanded by successive National and Labour governments until the 1980s.