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.

* Epoch ( album ), a 2006 album released by the Japanese hip hop group Rip Slyme

In 2006, Japanese and Cambodian governments signed an agreement outlining a new Japanese aid program worth US $ 59 million.

* 2006 – Nijiro Tokuda, Japanese super-centenarian ( b. 1895 )

* 1986 – Azumi Muto, Japanese model and actress ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress ( b. 1943 )

* 1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese seiyu ( d. 2006 )

* 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress ( d. 2006 )

Partially as a result but also to deploy USFJ more efficiently, the U. S. and Japanese governments agreed in 2006 to the relocation of the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and other minor bases.

On April 4, 2006, Clemens made an insulting remark when asked about the devotion of Japanese and South Korean fans during the World Baseball Classic: " None of the dry cleaners were open, they were all at the game, Japan and Korea ".

In particular, variations of " Chinsagu No Hana " ( from Beauty ) and " Bibo No Aozora " ( from 1996 ) provide the poignant closing pieces for Sue Brooks's Japanese Story ( 2003 ) and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel ( 2006 ), respectively.

An interesting phenomenon has been the continuing collaboration between French and Japanese animators, resulting in a series of French-Japanese cartoons / anime, including such titles as Ulysses 31 ( 1981 ), The Mysterious Cities of Gold ( 1982 ), and more recently, Ōban Star-Racers ( 2006 ).

* 1926 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director ( d. 2006 )

In 2006, construction of new plants owned by Sharp Corporation and other companies of mainly Japanese origin has started in the neighboring community of Łysomice ( about 10 km from city center ).

In 2006, AB Volvo acquired from Nissan Motor Co Ltd, 13 % of the shares in the Japanese truck manufacturer UD Trucks former Nissan Diesel, and became a major shareholder.

* June 15 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist ( d. 2006 )

* The current ( as of 2006 ) design of the Japanese 10 yen coin is put into circulation.

* July 17 – Yukio Aoshima, Japanese politician and comedian ( d. 2006 )

* Taira Hara ( はら たいら, 1943 – 2006 ), a Japanese manga artist

According to a 2006 speech by Mitsuhiro Suganuma, a former officer of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, around 60 percent of yakuza members come from burakumin, the descendants of a feudal outcast class and approximately 30 percent of them are Japanese-born Koreans, and only 10 per cent are from non-burakumin Japanese and Chinese ethnic groups.

is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006.

* Japanese ( manga )— Katsura Hoshino: D. Gray-man, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump ( 2004 – present ; main character, Allen Walker, is " the pierrot who will cause the akuma to fall "; anime based on manga released 2006 – 2008 ); Takashi Hashiguchi: Yakitate !!

* Japanese — Közi often wore a Pierrot costume while a member of the visual rock band Malice Mizer ( 1992 – 2001 ); Pierrot was a rock band active from 1994 to 2006.

Recent acting performances can be seen in a 2006 episode of Crossing Jordan and the Sci Fi original film A. I.

In Hunters of Dune ( 2006 ), the continuation of the original series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the Baron is resurrected as a ghola ( 5, 029 years after the death of Alia ) by the Lost Tleilaxu Uxtal, acting on orders from the Face Dancer Khrone.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

There also were large deliveries to brokers acting as intermediaries for several countries including Libya in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

In the 2006 Battlestar Galactica episode " Collaborators ", the acting president of the Twelve Colonies authorized a Star Chamber which was known as ' The Circle '.

* Gurbanguly Mälikguliýewiç Berdimuhamedow ( 21 December 2006 – present ) ( acting until 14 February 2007 )

After Lloyd sustained a season-ending injury in Round 3 of 2006, Hird served briefly as acting captain until young ruckman David Hille was named captain for the remainder of the 2006 season.

* 2006: Moscow International Film Festival: Stanislavsky Award for the outstanding achievement in the career of acting.

From 1972 to 2006 an Italian acting award, " The Rudolph Valentino Award ", was handed out every year.

In July 2006 the Charity Commission completed an investigation into The Tate's purchase of Ofili's work, censuring the gallery for acting outside its legal powers.

* In 2005, there was a scandal over the Tate's purchase of its trustee Chris Ofili's work The Upper Room for £ 705, 000, and accusations of conflict of interest In July 2006, the Charity Commission completed an investigation into this and censured the gallery for acting outside its legal powers

In October 2006, Curtis told Access Hollywood that she had closed the book on her acting career to focus on her family.

Olsen's first solo acting appearance was in the movie Factory Girl, released in December 2006.

Norris disputed this story during a February 9, 2006 appearance on The Adam Carolla Show, Norris insisted that he was not offered the role, and that he was already acting in leading roles at that time anyway.

Immediately south of the Ferrier Estate is Sutcliffe park which includes a lake, acting as a flood defence, and created by partly releasing the Kyd Brook from concrete conduits underground in which it had run until 2006.

* 2006: Yede van Dijk, acting

" Sandia began acting as the lead laboratory on October 1, 2006.

Following a four-year break from acting, Khan made his comeback playing the title role in the historical drama Mangal Pandey: The Rising ( 2005 ), and later won a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his role in Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ).

In 1952 she divorced her first husband, film producer Sir Anthony Havelock-Allan ( 1904 – 2003 ), and married MP John Profumo ( 1915 – 2006 ) in 1954, giving up acting shortly afterwards.

Despite his earlier stated intention to take a break from acting, in May 2006, he signed on to star in the R-rated teen-sex comedy Extreme Movie.

Although Hulce largely retired from acting in the mid-1990s, he had bit parts in the recent movies Jumper ( 2008 ) and Stranger Than Fiction ( 2006 ).

The episode provided a television format that came to be known as the " Doctor-lite episode ", an annual tradition for Doctor Who from 2006 to 2008, often featuring a significant guest star carrying the bulk of the acting responsibilities as Doctor Who has a much smaller cast than Buffy.