This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

Japan's Seventeen-article constitution written in 604, reportedly by Prince Shōtoku, is an early example of a constitution in Asian political history.

The profusion is due to many factors, including the length of time the archipelago has been inhabited, its mountainous island terrain, and Japan's long history of both external and internal isolation.

* 1896 – The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22, 000 people.

* Kabuki 21 — All about Japan's traditional Theatre Art of Kabuki: The art, the plays, the great stars of today, the legends of the past, the theaters, the history, the glossary, the traditions, the heroes and the derivatives.

* 1891 – The Mino-Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, strikes Gifu Prefecture.

His 1999 musical composition " Energy Flow ", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, was the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.

It has always been a part of Japan's history and constitutes the main current of Shinto tradition.

Sake is mentioned several times in the Kojiki, Japan's first written history, which was compiled in 712

Although Jews have been present in Japan and Judaism has been practiced since the 16th century, on a very limited scale, in Japan, Japan comprised but a small part of Jewish history from the ending of Japan's " closed-door " foreign policy to World War II.

Both countries agreed in a joint Japan and South Korea history project that Japan's interpretation of the 4th century was incorrect but the Japanese government did not agree with the historians of both countries.

This location has been a center of trade and culture since the beginning of Japan's recorded history.

Because it is in the middle of the island of Honshū, it has been the site of many decisive battles throughout Japan's history, the oldest major one being the Jinshin War in 672, which led to the establishment of Emperor Temmu as the 40th emperor of Japan.

On August 16, 2007, Tajimi set the record for the hottest day recorded in Japan's history — 40. 9 degrees Celsius.

A watershed moment of Japan's modern history took place in the late Taisho period: the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923.

Early yari are believed to have been derived from Chinese spears, these hoko yari are thought to be from the Nara period ( 710-794 )., and while they were present in early Japan's history, the term yari appeared for the first time in written sources in 1334 but this type of spear did not become popular until the late 1400s.

The western Allies ' substantial accession to Japan's territorial ambitions at China's expense led to the May Fourth Movement in China, a social and political movement that had profound influence over subsequent Chinese history.

After arriving in Tokyo on her first foreign trip representing the newly elected President Barack Obama, she made her way to this shrine in advance of meetings with Japan's leaders to show her " respect toward history and the culture of Japan.

She is enshrined on numerous locations throughout Japan ; for example, the Enoshima Island in Sagami Bay, the Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa and the Itsukushima Island in Seto Inland Sea ( Japan's Three Great Benzaiten Shrines ); and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kōkei ( 皇慶 ) in AD 1047.

It was the largest earthquake recorded in Japan's history.

The, spanning from 1336 to 1392, was a period that occurred during the formative years of the Muromachi bakufu of Japan's history.

Canadian Methodist missionary G. G. Cochran played a role in the establishment of Doshisha University, and his contribution to the improvement of Japan's educational system is considered an important episode in the early history of people of Japan-Canada relations.

The Kojiki, or " Record of Ancient Matters ", is the oldest surviving account of Japan's myths, legends and history.

" Tradition, as documented by the Nihon Shoki, a legendary account of Japan's history, puts the date of the Yayoi arrival in Japan at 660 BCE.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

Starting in 1549, with the arrival of Francis Xavier at Kagoshima, a large missionary campaign, led by the Society of Jesus, began to shake Japan's social structures.

Released in the midst of Japan's economic crisis, the Patlabor series and films projected a dynamic near-future world in which grave social crisis and ecological challenges were overcome by technological ingenuity, and were a big success in the mecha genre.

The image of the salaryman in each period is often reflective of Japan's social condition as a whole.

The story begins in 19th century Japan before the Meiji Restoration, a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure while the seeds of the revolution are being planted.

Part of He's success was due to the social confusion caused by Japan's Ichi-Go offensive in the areas of China that Japanese operations effected.

One element of this agenda was to acquire sufficient control over Japan's foreign policy so to not only guarantee social peace, but to also maintain Tokugawa supremacy over the other powerful lords in the country, particularly the tozama daimyo.

However, homosexuality, while relatively innocuous among celebrities in Japan, can still be considered an oddity due to Japan's regimented and conservative social structure.

In Japan, an estimated 1. 2 million people are part of the phenomenon of " Hikikomori " or " social withdrawal ", a problem often blamed on Japan's education system and social pressure to succeed.

Also, to a degree they did not deny the need for the future increase of the consumption tax and revoke temporary tax cut in order to improve the financial health of the government, which is the worst among the developed countries and nears that in wartime, and to cover the rising social security costs due to Japan's aging and declining population.

The " classic " Datsun logo, based on the Flag of Japan and Japan's Names of Japan | nickname as the " Land of the Rising Sun ".

In his 1998 paper, Japan's Trap, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman argued that based on a number of models, Japan had a new option.

Modern relations between the two countries are based on Vietnam's developing economy and Japan's role as an investor and foreign aid donor.

Priests were officially nominated and organized by the state, and they instructed the youth in a form of Shinto theology based on the official dogma of the divinity of Japan's national origins and its Emperor.

** Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu ( Astro Boy ), Japan's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga, debuts on Japanese television station Fuji TV.

There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of more than 3, 000 foreign experts ( called o-yatoi gaikokujin or ' hired foreigners ') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy, among others ; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, based on the fifth and last article of the Charter Oath of 1868: ' Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundations of Imperial rule.

The main indices tracking the TSE are the Nikkei 225 index of companies selected by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun ( Japan's largest business newspaper ), the TOPIX index based on the share prices of First Section companies, and the J30 index of large industrial companies maintained by Japan's major broadsheet newspapers.

Japan's current and next generation cellular systems are based on W-CDMA ( UMTS ) and CDMA2000 and all use SIM cards.

The line runs on viaducts or through tunnels for most of its length, with technology based mainly on Japan's Shinkansen system mixed with European standards and system components.

The war was draining down the talent level of Japan's land based air forces as well, with progressive air fleet activities in the New Guinea campaign and the Guadalcanal campaign drastically reducing the average skill level of Japan's land and sea based pilots by taking out the best of them in grinding battles.

Japan's indigenous religion, Shinto is based in animism, with a belief that supernatural beings dwell in nature.

" common language "), and while it was based initially on the Tokyo dialect, the language of Japan's capital has since gone in its own direction to become one of Japan's many dialects.

During the arrest, he continued to study Western sciences, and developed various electric machines based on the elekiter and the Daniell battery, Japan's first seismic sensor, as well as improvements to guns.

* August 24-WBA world Jr. Lightweight champion Ben Villaflor, a Hawaiian based Filipino, retains his world title with a second round knockout of Japan's future world champion, Yasutsune Uehara, in Honolulu.

Since Technōs Japan's closure, a company called Million has purchased the former intellectual properties of Technōs Japan and are producing new games based on them.

* In April 2008, Eight Peaks, a South Korean production company, announced that it had signed a joint production contract with Japan's Genome Entertainment to produce a live-action film based on Captain Harlock.

Also, Japan's presence in Korean peninsula with power in 391 is not possible for every Silla and Baekje based historical literature indicates that this did not occur.

Japan's current corporate law is based upon the Commercial Code as amended through December 30, 2005.

The basis of the Rescript was that Japan's unique kokutai was based on a historic bond between benevolent rulers and loyal subjects, and that the fundamental purpose of education was to cultivate virtues, especially loyalty and filial piety.