My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work — including his final two epics, Kagemusha ( 1980 ) and Ran ( 1985 )— continued to win awards, including the Palme d ' Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

He co-authored the 1991 book The Japan That Can Say No with politician Shintaro Ishihara, where they criticized American business practices and encouraged Japanese to take a more independent role in business and foreign affairs.

It is popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Hong Kong and parts of the United States and more recently in Japan.

Although central banks today are generally associated with fiat money, the 19th and early 20th centuries central banks in most of Europe and Japan developed under the international gold standard, elsewhere free banking or currency boards were more usual at this time.

Mail was also common in East Asia, primarily Japan, with several more patterns being utilised and an entire nomenclature developing around them.

Christopher Wolfgang Alexander ( born October 4, 1936 in Vienna, Austria ) is a registered architect noted for his theories about design, and for more than 200 building projects in California, Japan, Mexico and around the world.

The game is now played in more than 40 countries worldwide, primarily in North America, Central and Western Europe, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

It is much more likely that he was a chieftain, or local clan leader, and the polity he ruled would have only encompassed a small portion of modern day Japan.

It is much more likely that he was a chieftain, or local clan leader, and the polity he ruled would have only encompassed a small portion of modern day Japan.

Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia.

His successors, such as de Nobili, Ricci, and Beschi, attempted to convert the noblemen first as a means to influence more people, while Francis had initially interacted most with the lower classes ( later though, in Japan, Francis changed tack by paying tribute to the Emperor and seeking an audience with him ).

Anjiro helped Xavier as a mediator and translator for the mission to Japan that now seemed much more possible.

Xavier worked for more than two years in Japan and saw his successor-Jesuits established.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

By that time the military and strategic situation of Russia had become more difficult due of the rise of Germany and Japan, and Russian central administration and the idea of Pan-Slavism had grown in Saint Petersburg.

Japan prohibits handguns entirely and long guns are restricted to shotguns and single-shot or semi-automatic rifles holding up to no more than five rounds within the magazine.

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert and Sullivan to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by clothing them in superficial Japanese trappings.

In 1938, as part of his preparations for war, Hitler ended the German alliance with China, and entered into an agreement with the more modern Japan.

In fact, in many occurrences the manipulation of horror presents cultural definitions that are not accurate, yet set an example to which a person relates to that specific cultural from then on in their life .< ref name = Carta > The visual interpretations of a films can be lost in the translation of their elements from one culture to another like in the adaptation of the Japanese film Ringu into the American film The Ring .< ref name = Holm > The cultural components from Japan were slowly " siphoned away " to make the film more relatable to an American audience.

Adult manga is often sold in convenience stores, book stores, and magazine stores in Japan, and also other public places such as airports, and is far more prolific and accessible than the U. S. adult comic book market.

Primary industry is a larger sector in developing countries ; for instance, animal husbandry is more common in Africa than in Japan.

Thus, though there are no reproductive rookeries in Japan, there are several consistent haulouts around Hokkaidō in the winter and spring.

Following a few years of consistent touring and local gigs, The Spunks disbanded when members Hajime and Joji decided to move back to Japan after having lived in the US for almost 9 years.

Takayama along with many other cities and towns exposed to the Sea of Japan experience lake effect snow, generating some of the highest, most consistent snowfall in the world.

Further investigations on the entire mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence indicate that the divergence of continental and Japanese black bear populations might have occurred when bears crossed the land bridge between the Korean peninsula and Japan 500, 000 years ago, which is consistent with paleontological evidence.

However, he would held the IWGP Championship as Keiji Mutoh, and the Triple Crown Championship as his alter-ego The Great Muta ) In addition, Keiji Mutoh and Satoshi Kojima are both New Japan Pro Wrestling alumni, but have played a consistent role in the main event picture of All Japan Pro Wrestling since their arrival to the promotion.

Some dōjō in Japan recommend that only alloy blades be used for practicing iaidō until the practitioner ’ s skill is consistent enough to safely use a sharp-edged sword, i. e., a nihontō or shinken.

Gretsch also introduced new models consistent with its heritage but aimed at modern players, with features like premium pickups manufactured by TV Jones, locking Sperzel tuners, and ML bracing designed by Mike Lewis of FMIC and Masao Terada of the Terada company in Japan, where all Gretsch pro-line guitars are now built.

Several parties have placed reservations on this clause, allowing it to be interpreted in a manner consistent with their constitutions ( China, Mexico ), or extending the restriction of union rights to groups such as fire-fighters ( Japan ).

By default, TurboPlay was the only resource Turbo fans could turn to for more in-depth, consistent and timely coverage of TG-16 domestically and PC-Engine in Japan.

The double Orleans Live CD set came out in Japan in February 1991, followed in April by their first trip to perform in Japan ( with a lineup of John, Larry, Lance, Leinbach, O ' Brien and Paul Branin ).

The first side featured new studio recordings, while the second side was taken from live recordings of a concert in Tokyo, Japan, featuring the full band lineup of Zawinul, Shorter, Vitouš, Gravatt and Um Romão ( and later available in full as the Japan-only double album Live in Tokyo ).

A two-song set on the January 27, 1979 broadcast of Saturday Night Live ( with guest host Michael Palin ) marked the final television appearance of this lineup, and a brief tour of Japan marked the last live performances of the band in its middle-period configuration.

The original lineup consisted of the KX-20xx1 20 " and KX-27xx1 27 " monitors ( the " xx " is an identifier, PS for Europe, HF for Japan, etc.

He used an all-star lineup in his first live " Alec Empire " show at the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan: Charlie Clouser ( ex-Nine Inch Nails ) played synths, Masami " Merzbow " Akita and Gabe Serbian ( The Locust ) both played drums, and Endo played synths and keyboards.

It was written by Yoshiki and recorded with all X Japan members of the pre-breakup lineup, as it utilizes previously unreleased guitar tracks by hide.

This vehicle debuted in Japan in 1985 as the Honda Quint Integra, available only at Honda's Japanese dealership sales channel Honda Verno before going on sale a year later in North America as part of the then-new luxury Acura lineup.

Following a reunion between Mavers and John Power, The La's reformed in June 2005 with a lineup of Lee Mavers ( vocals, guitar ), John Power ( bass, backing vocals ), ex-Cracatilla frontman Jay Lewis ( guitar ) and Nick Miniski ( drums ), playing dates in England and Ireland ahead of an appearance at the Summer Sonic festival in Japan and other UK festivals.

In April of that year, a Jobson-Wetton " UK " reunion tour provided performances in Japan and the US, with Alex Machacek ( guitar ) and Marco Minnemann ( drums ) completing the 4-piece lineup.

In early 2012, Jobson confirmed that he re-formed the U. K. trio lineup — Jobson, John Wetton, and Terry Bozzio -- for a one-off world tour, which took place from from May – June 2012, with the trio playing dates in North America and Japan and Alex Machacek ( guitar ) and Gary Husband ( drums ) substituting for Bozzio in the band lineup during the European dates and a final added show in which the band played at NEARFest Apocalypse in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as the Sunday headliner.

The band toured Japan before internal frictions saw Garry Frost leave the group in 1984, with Joey Amenta a temporary replacement until Kevin Bennett joined the lineup.

He was in the starting lineup for all three Group Stage games against Japan, Brazil and Croatia as Australia qualified for the second round.

Mega Man Anniversary Collection shares qualities with Rockman Complete Works, a lineup of remakes of the first six games in the original Mega Man series, released for the PlayStation in Japan in late 1999.

After the success of the initial tour dates, Testament announced more dates in the U. S., Europe and Japan with the classic lineup.

Honda introduced the model in Japan on October 22, 1985 to be their premier luxury model and in North America in 1986 as the top of the line model for its then-new Acura lineup.

In Japan and South Korea, the third, fourth, and fifth batters in a lineup are referred to as " cleanup " ( also " cleanup trio ").

They appeared as part of the lineup of the December 30, 2009 Countdown Japan 09 / 10.

Both three-and five-door hatchback body styles were offered, although the three-door was not offered as part of the regular lineup in Japan.

The full lineup recorded the second full-length album, Conqueror, which was released on February 20, 2007 in the United States, February 19 in the United Kingdom and Europe, and on February 2 in Japan.

The release of the fifth generation Mirage to Japan in October 1995 introduced a rationalized lineup as a result of the fragile post-bubble economy in Japan.

On September 4, 2008, the English language version was released in Japan as, as part of Square's Ultimate Hits lineup.