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.

Current cable links between China and the US run through Japan.

National Geographic News reported that Japan " the agency has kept access to the tombs restricted, prompting rumors that officials fear excavation would reveal bloodline links between the " pure " imperial family and Korea — or that some tombs hold no royal remains at all.

In recent years, Kunming's transport links to Southeast Asia and elsewhere, particularly its air links, are steadily expanding, with direct routes already existing to all major Chinese cities, most major Southeast Asian cities and some major cities in Japan and South Korea.

Eduniversal ranked Hokkaido as 2nd in the rankings of " Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and / or with continental links " in Japan.

It has approximately 30 Research Centers located on its five main campuses and at other facilities for advanced research in Japan Keio's School of Medicine has long-standing research links with the Harvard Medical School.

Central Saint Martins has exchange links with the Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, USA the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo, Japan and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( SAIC ).

JAA was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of JAL on 8 August 1975 and given the responsibility of providing air links between Japan and Taiwan, the Republic of China ( ROC ) formerly offered by JAL.

Further a field the college has links with colleges in Japan and America, with students taking part in projects at New York Studio School and Yale School of Art.

The town of Geihoku revolves around its location on Route 191 which links southern Hiroshima prefecture to the Japan Sea coast at Masuda in Shimane prefecture.

Transportation links from and to mainland Japan are under tremendous economic pressure.

He also had links with many other Japanese leaders, including Saigō Takamori of Satsuma ( who became a friend ), and toured the hinterland of Japan with A. B.

is a train station on the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Railway ( which links directly into the Osaka Municipal Subway Midosuji Line ) and Osaka Monorail located in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

Proposed expansion of the Eurasian Land Bridge includes construction of a railway across Kazakhstan that is the same gauge as Chinese railways, rail links to India, Burma, Thailand and Malaysia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, construction of a rail tunnel and highway bridge across the Bering Strait to connect the Trans-Siberian to the North American rail system, and construction of a rail tunnel between Korea and Japan.

Later when Japan signed the Tripartite Pact, the Japanese Secret Services formed formal links with these intelligence units, now under German and Italian fascists, known as the Abwehr and the Italian SIM.

Here she opens her own small teahouse for entertaining Japanese men on business in the United States, which Mother takes a financial interest in, but Sayuri severs her links to the Nitta okiya and in effect, Japan.

We have so far established links with over 20 universities, academic institutions and cultural organizations in the U. S. A, UK, Russia, Korea, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Singapore and Malaysia etc. Hebei University of Economics and Business, a merger of the Trade & Finance Institute, the College of Trade & Economics and Hebei Commerce College, was founded in 1995. It is a key university with an emphasis in Hebei Province.

We have so far established links with over 20 universities, academic institutions and cultural organizations in the America, UK, Russia, Korea, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, Singapore and Malaysia etc.

Such countries with strong links back to Chen Village include USA, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.

The Academy is a specialist Language College with links to a school in Nagano, Japan.

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Fairbank and his colleagues at Harvard, Edwin O. Reischauer and Albert Craig wrote the dominant textbook on China and Japan, A History of East Asian Civilization and Fairbank established strong links to influential figures in Washington D. C. both by training journalists, government officials, and others and by working with the government on China policy.

It printed the Turan magazine, with frequent articles on Japan, sent a cultural mission to Japan in 1922 and supporting greater links between the Hungarian Royal Household and the Japanese Imperial Family ;

In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

Also war-time propaganda and cooperation had `` obscured the differences between Russian and Western ideas of democracy '', and it seemed better to have them covered by verbal formulae than to imperil the military victories over Germany and Japan.

With the loss of the Emperor diety in Japan, the people are left in confusion with no God or moral teachings that have strength.

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.

I think I would have been much disappointed in Japan if I had not seen Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima.

This is a significant fact in Japan, for only a few years ago he would have had no choice.

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.

The Intelligent Robotics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Ishiguro at Osaka University, and Kokoro Co., Ltd. have demonstrated the Actroid at Expo 2005 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

The Waseda University ( Japan ) and NTT Docomo's manufacturers have succeeded in creating a shape-shifting robot WD-2.

The Ainu have often been considered to descend from the Jōmon-jin people, who lived in Japan from the Jōmon period.

Specifically, commodities such as sugar are heavily distorted by subsidies on behalf of powerful economies ( the United States, Europe, and Japan ), who have a disproportionate influence in the WTO.

Architects who have been strongly influenced by the anthroposophic style include Imre Makovecz in Hungary, Hans Scharoun and Joachim Eble in Germany, Erik Asmussen in Sweden, Kenji Imai in Japan, Thomas Rau, Anton Alberts and Max van Huut in Holland, Christopher Day and Camphill Architects in the UK, Thompson and Rose in America, Denis Bowman in Canada, and Walter Burley Griffin and Gregory Burgess in Australia.

They thought that the deity which was the most popular fire-controlling deity in central and eastern Japan must have been enshrined in it.

EW has been used in battle by Japan and several other nations have developed and been accused of using an entomological warfare program.

Economies such as Canada, Japan, and Germany which have savings surpluses, typically run trade surpluses.

Germany, France, Japan, and Canada have maintained higher savings rates than the U. S. over the long run.

Examples of this have been argued to include the keiretsu of post-war Japan, the print media in India, the chaebol of South Korea, and the powerful families who control much of the investment in Latin America.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

For example the People's Bank of China and the Bank of Japan have on occasion bought several hundred billions of U. S. Treasuries, presumably in order to stop the decline of the U. S. dollar versus the renminbi and the yen.

These scholars have held that, if not for Confucianism's influence on these cultures, many of the people of the East Asia region would not have been able to modernize and industrialize as quickly as Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and even China have done.

Japan still imposes the death penalty, although some recent justice ministers have refused to sign death warrants, citing their Buddhist beliefs as their reason.

Bilateral sanctions have been imposed on the basis of national legislation ( e. g. the USA used certification under the Pelly Amendment to get Japan to revoke its reservation to hawksbill turtle products in 1991, thus reducing the volume of its exports ).

In Japan, commuter rail systems have extensive network and frequent service, and are heavily used.