Just to remind the Communists that the bombs dropped on Japan were to end a war not start one.

After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.

The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.

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 returning to the United States and raising the money, he discovered on getting back to Japan that the hours were no longer available.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

Australia, the Philippine Islands, Japan, and northern China were inhabited by those members of the Haijac Union that spoke American.

But by the 1940s, many of Boas ' anthropologist contemporaries were active in the allied war effort against the " Axis " ( Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan ).

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

The Ainu were distributed in the northern and central islands of Japan, from Sakhalin island in the north to the Kuril islands and the island of Hokkaidō and Northern Honshū, although some investigators place their former range as throughout Honshū and as far north as the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula in what is now Cape Lopatka.

The Ainu population, as previously Japanese subjects, were " repatriated " to Japan.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

After World War II, most of the Ainu living in Sakhalin were deported to Japan.

The Andaman and Nicobar islands were later occupied by Japan during World War II.

Cuirasses and helmets were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century. Tankō, worn by foot soldiers and keikō, worn by horsemen were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese armour constructed from iron plates connected together by leather thongs.

It is known that tests were undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, Liberia, in South Korea, and in Japan ’ s satellite province of Okinawa in 1961, or earlier.

Bokken were designed to lessen the damages caused by fighting with real swords and were used for the training of samurai warriors in feudal Japan.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

Intelligent people will admit that bombs and rockets of destruction are frightening whether they fall on Japan, London or Pearl Harbor.

The same editorial continued that `` We expected to democratize Japan and Korea and to see a new China pattern itself easily on our institutions.

Japan, she said, smelled pugh because people let dead fish lie on the beaches till the fish got hard as rocks ; ;

Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia.

* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

* 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

Ambergris can be found in the Atlantic Ocean and on the coasts of Brazil, Madagascar, the East Indies, The Maldives, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the Molucca islands.

* 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

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.

In Japan, this is generally known as, and served at many temples, especially in Kyoto.

Very few examples of historic butted mail have been found and it is generally accepted that butted mail was never in wide use historically except in Japan where mail ( kusari ) was commonly made from butted links.

Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.

Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

The Pacific coastline north of Tokyo, the coast of Hokkaidō, and the Sea of Japan coast are generally unindented, with few natural harbors.

Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity.

Sunshine, in accordance with Japan ’ s uniformly heavy rainfall, is generally modest in quantity, though no part of Japan receives the consistently gloomy fogs that envelope the Sichuan Basin or Taipei.

In academic studies, Japan is generally considered a constitutional monarchy with a system of civil law.

Japan is the world's largest creditor nation, generally running an annual trade surplus and having a considerable net international investment surplus.

Throughout history, bilateral foreign relations between Japan and India have generally been friendly and strong.

He generally put his alliance with Chiang against Japan ahead of helping his ideological allies in China in his priorities.

Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan karate, is generally credited with having introduced and popularized karate on the main islands of Japan.

In Japan, consumers generally prefer a less saturated image.

Throughout history two-handed swords have generally been less common than their one-handed counterparts, one exception being their common use in Japan.

Due to the syncretic nature of Shinto and Buddhism, most " life " events are handled by Shinto and " death " or " afterlife " events are handled by Buddhism — for example, it is typical in Japan to register or celebrate a birth at a Shinto shrine, while funeral arrangements are generally dictated by Buddhist tradition — although the division is not exclusive.

Smelt is popular in Japan, as the species Sprinchus lanceolatus, and is generally served grilled, called shishamo, especially when full of eggs.

The Game Gear was not very popular in Japan, where it was released to a generally apathetic audience, with build quality issues plaguing earlier revisions of the unit in its service life.

Penhold styles are popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Traditionally, penhold players use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play, and the side which is in contact with the last three fingers is generally not used.

While the genre became generally far less popular than it once was, arcades and their attendant fighting games are still reasonably popular in Japan.

Although the Empire of Japan was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937, the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth.

The spelling whisky ( plural: whiskies ) is generally used in Canada, Japan, Scotland, and Wales, while whiskey ( plural: whiskeys ) is more common in Ireland and the United States.

Although think tanks existed in Japan for some time, they generally lacked independence, having close ties to government ministries or corporations.

Kokuji (, " national characters ") are characters particular to Japan, generally devised in Japan.