During a 1933 tsunami in Japan the sea glowed brilliantly at night.

* Herbert von Dirksen: German Ambassador to the Soviet Union ( 1928 – 1933 ), Japan ( 1933 – 1938 ), and the United Kingdom ( 1938 – 1939 )

His title gave him a seat in the Upper Chamber of the Diet of Japan, and in 1933, he was elected President of the House of Peers.

He was also popular with the Japanese public, having established himself as the man who angrily led Japan out of the League of Nations in 1933.

The report passed 42 – 1 in the Assembly in 1933 ( only Japan voting against ), but instead of removing its troops from China, Japan withdrew from the League.

Japan began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1933 after the League voiced opposition to its invasion of Manchuria.

On March 27, 1933, Japan left the League of Nations, but continued to manage the islands, and in the late 1930s began building air bases on several atolls.

Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to mother Isoko Ono, the great-granddaughter of Zenjiro Yasuda of the Yasuda banking family, and to father Yeisuke Ono, a banker and one-time classical pianist who was a descendant of an Emperor of Japan.

In 1933, the League of Nations adopted the Lytton Report, declaring that Manchuria remained rightfully part of China, leading Japan to resign its membership.

However, by 1933 he was welcomed back as a minor celebrity to Japan where he stayed and became a noted producer of militaristic propaganda during the war.

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

Japan had invaded North-East China in 1931 only coming to a temporary halt in 1933 having captured the province of Rehe.

In 1933, Hirota became Foreign Minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Saitō Makoto, just after Japan withdrew from the League of Nations.

In May 1933, the Tanggu Truce between China and Japan was concluded, which established a demilitarized zone between Manchukuo and China proper.

By 1926, the Japan Communist Party had been forced underground, by the summer of 1929 the party leadership had been virtually destroyed, and by 1933 the party had largely disintegrated.

His compositions for piano include In Sleepy Hollow ( 1913 ), Five American Dances ( 1919 ), Adirondack Sketches ( 1922 ), Mongoliana ( 1922 ), Eastern Seas ( 1925 ), Sold Down the River ( 1928 ), Pantomimes ( 1933 ), Fourth of July ( 1935 ), Here Are Ladies ( 1944 ), Jesuit's Journey ( 1947 ), Central Park, Colonial Suite, Flower of Old Japan, Knee-High to a Grasshopper.

He served as Secretary to Garter Mission, Japan, in 1906, as 2nd Secretary at Tokyo, Japan, between 1908 and 1910, as 2nd Secretary at Sofia, Bulgaria in 1911, as 1st Secretary at Peking in 1916, as Acting British High Commissioner in Siberia in 1920 and as British Minister to China between 1926 and 1933.

In May 1933, the Soviet Union decided to have Sorge organize a spy network in Japan.

Sorge built a network in 1933 and 1934 to collect intelligence for the GRU in Japan.

The League set up a commission of inquiry that condemned Japan, the League duly adopting the report in February 1933.

There are two years that define the way Goju-ryu has been considered by the Japanese establishment: the first, 1933, is the year Gōjū-ryū was officially recognized as a budō in Japan by Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, in other words, it was recognized as a modern martial art, or gendai budō.

In 1933 the Ro-Pat-In company's name was changed to Electro String Instrument Corporation and its instruments labeled simply as " Electro ".

Since 1933, the main scientific journal of the Soviet Academy of Sciences was the Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences ( Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR ); after 1992, it became simply Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences ( Doklady Akademii Nauk ).

Exhumed in 1933, her body was judged to be incorrupt by the church, and it now lies in a glass coffin at the side altar of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal ( often simply called by its address, 140 Rue du Bac ), Paris, one of the spots where the Blessed Mother appeared to her.

It was not until 1933 that the brand name appeared on a camera, a copy of the Plaubel Makina simply called " Minolta.

The first manifesto, entitled simply A Humanist Manifesto, was written in 1933 primarily by Roy Wood Sellars and Raymond Bragg and was published with thirty-four signatories including philosopher John Dewey.

Ralph Gordon Stair ( born May 3, 1933 ), also known as Brother R. G. Stair, or simply Brother Stair, is an American radio preacher based in Walterboro, South Carolina.

Thomas Francis Dermot Pakenham, 8th Earl of Longford ( born 14 August 1933 ), known simply as Thomas Pakenham, is an Anglo-Irish historian and arborist who has written several prize-winning books on the diverse subjects of Victorian and post-Victorian British history and trees.

Racing Club de Strasbourg ( commonly known as RC Strasbourg, RCS, or simply Strasbourg ) is a French association football club founded in 1906 and professional since 1933, based in the city of Strasbourg, in Alsace.

José Vital Branco Malhoa, known simply as José Malhoa ( Caldas da Rainha, 28 April 1855 ; Figueiró dos Vinhos, 26 October 1933 ) was a Portuguese painter.

On neither occasion had the idea been taken up by the industry: In 1933 the film industry was simply not ready for stereo, while in 1955 the future of film sound was assumed to lie with magnetic recording.

From 1927 until 1933, General Augusto César Sandino who rejected the negotiated agreement led a sustained guerrilla war, first against the Conservative regime and subsequently against the U. S. Marines, who withdrew upon the establishment of a new Liberal government.

In 1933, the Marines withdrew and left the National Guard in charge of internal security and elections.

The concept of responsible government is associated in Canada more with self-government than with parliamentary accountability ; hence the notion that Newfoundland " gave up responsible government " when it withdrew its dominion status in 1933.

With his Nazi political engagement in 1933, however, Heidegger came out as a champion of the " German Spirit ," and only withdrew from an exalting interpretation of the term in 1952.

Discouraged by the lack of official response to the land claims he was putting forward, he began an association with British Communists, who published articles he wrote in their publications. In 1932 to 1933, he briefly studied economics in Moscow at the Comintern School, KUTVU ( University of the Toilers of the East ) but left after the Soviet Union ( worried about Hitler's growing power and seeing Britain and France as potential allies ) withdrew its support for the movement against British and French colonial rule in Africa.

In response, the de Noailles family withdrew L ’ Âge d ’ or from commercial distribution and public exhibition for more than forty years ; nonetheless, three years later, in 1933, the film was privately exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.

As the quality of senior football improved, university teams realized they were no longer able to compete on equal footing and withdrew from competition for the Grey Cup in 1933.

Flying the Gee Bee " Model R-2 "-P & W Wasp, he withdrew from the 1933 race.

" Nazi racial pseudo-science was couched in Völkisch terms, as when Eugen Fischer stepped into the vacuum, as other scholars withdrew from the University of Berlin in 1933, and delivered his inaugural address as Nazi rector, " The Conception of the Völkisch state in the view of biology " ( 29 July 1933 ).

The government's moves to introduce tariffs caused further friction for the Liberals and Samuel withdrew the party from the government in stages, first obtaining the suspension of cabinet collective responsibility on the matter to allow Liberal members of the government to oppose tariffs, then in October 1932 the Liberal ministers resigned their ministerial posts but continued to support the National Government in Parliament, and finally in November 1933 Samuel and the bulk of the Liberal MPs crossed the floor of the House of Commons to now oppose the government outright.

In 1933 the official Liberals withdrew completely their support for the National Government but Runciman remained holding office, even though he was President of the extra-Parliamentary National Liberal Federation until 1934.

When the League of Nations demanded that Japan stop hostilities, the Japan withdrew from the League on March 27, 1933.