China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 ( 1992 ), essays by scholars ; online from Questia ;

Counter-Strike Online is available in South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia, and is now fully online.

* Sansom, G. B. Japan: A Short Cultural History ( Stanford University Press, 1978 ) pp 108 = 187 online

After the official launch on Ottawa Cablevision in October 1983, the NABU Network was introduced by Ottawa's Skyline Cablevision in 1984 and a year later in Sowa, Japan, via a collaboration between NABU and ASCII Corp. NABU machines used Telidon for online banking and other services.

* Listen to John Curtin declaring that Australia is at war with Japan in 1941 on australianscreen online

Catgirls are found in various fiction genres, and in particular Japanese anime and manga where they are more commonly referred to as neko ( 猫, literally cat ) or nekomimi ( 猫耳, literally cat ear ( s )), in cosplay activities both in Japan and around the world, in video games, and in online virtual worlds such as Second Life.

Single-8 is readily available in its home country of Japan where even used cameras can reach high prices in online auctions on Yahoo!

In 2005, Google Earth's decision to use the name " East Sea " instead of Sea of Japan in their online maps led to widespread news coverage in Japan, including a profile in the Asahi Shimbun.

In 2008, after Mao Asada of Japan won a come-from-behind victory against Kim Yu-Na in a figure skating GP final, a Japanese Web site called 2ch, Japan's largest online community apparently helped some of its members target VANK online.

" A Short History of the Retired Emperor's Palace in the Edo Era ", Architectural Institute of Japan: The Japanese Construction Society Academic Dissertation Report Collection ( 日本建築学会論文報告集 ), No. 61 ( 19590325 ). link to online catalog ( English ) link to digitized text / drawings ( Japanese )

Only in Japan, SNK Playmore has released the NeoGeo Online Collection for the PS2 containing some of its older games, containing emulations of its classic games, with the ability to play online by way of the KDDI matching service.

The genre has undergone something of a resurgence with the release of the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii online services, while in Japan arcade shoot ' em ups retain a deep-rooted niche popularity.

The Yoshida Memoirs: The Story of Japan in Crisis ( 1961 ), on Occupation, 1945-51 online

China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 ( 1992 ), essays by scholars ; online from Questia ; also excerpt and text search

As the Super NES had the Satellaview online service in Japan, the Nintendo 64DD had the Randnet service ( named for the two companies involved with the project, ' Recruit ' and ' Nintendo ').

PCCW Japan itself acquired on April 2001 the VR-1 Group which included VR-1 Entertainment, a U. S. developer of massively multiplayer online role playing games, to bring a more global focus to its current and future software endeavors.

In 2010, this partnership was dissolved due to unprofitability and the Asahi Shimbun now operates the Asia & Japan Watch online portal for English readers.

TradeStation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc., one of Japan ’ s largest online financial services providers.

Monex Group, Inc. ( Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st section: 8698 ; Chairman and CEO: Oki Matsumoto ) provides online investment and trading services for retail and institutional customers around the world through its subsidiaries, including Monex in Japan, TradeStation in the U. S. and Europe, Monex Boom in Hong Kong, and IBFX for forex business.

Its main subsidiary, Monex Inc., one of Japan ’ s largest online securities brokerages, provides advanced and unique financial services to its nearly 1 million individual investors.

It was affiliated with Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan from 1990 to 2004, and during that time it was named Teikyo Post University. The university offers day, evening, and online courses, and has three satellite centers in Meriden, Danbury, and Norwalk.

Currently the products are sold through children's stores in Sweden and online, with pilot stores under development in Norway and Japan.

EE Times has editions both in print and online in Europe, Asia and Japan.

This was the case with the overseas versions of Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Rogue Galaxy, which contained additional features ( such as new difficulty settings for Metal Gear Solid ), resulting in re-released versions of those respective games in Japan ( Final Fantasy VII International, Metal Gear Solid: Integral and Rogue Galaxy: Director's Cut ).

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

Miso production is a relatively simple process and so home-made versions spread throughout Japan.

While standard versions of ramen are available throughout Japan since the Taisho era, the last few decades have shown a proliferation of regional variations.

Their tour schedules brought them to Japan, South America, Europe, the United States and Canada, playing new versions of older work.

Konami created two versions of The Goonies for the MSX ( The Goonies ) in Japan and Europe, and Family Computer ( The Goonies ) in Japan.

The NES and Game Boy versions were first released in Japan on November 21, 1992.

Later that year, the band recorded a Japanese version of " Kiss Me ", which was released exclusively in Japan on an EP with numerous versions of the song, as well as remixes of other songs on the self-titled album.

In the versions of the sutra widely known in China, Vietnam, Korea and Japan, Dharmakāra's eighteenth vow was that any being in any universe desiring to be born into Amitābha's Pure Land and calling upon his name even as few as ten times will be guaranteed rebirth there.

In fact, many Game Gear titles that were released in North America and Japan, were released alongside Master System versions of those games in Europe.

France, Germany, Russia and Japan largely built licenced or locally improved versions of the Armstrong Siddeley, Bristol, Wright, or Pratt & Whitney radials.

The series is published by Square Enix ( formerly Enix ), with localized versions of later installments for the Nintendo DS ( NDS ) being published by Nintendo outside of Japan.

The Tall Snake EP was released in Japan featurings all three versions of Duvet and two songs ( Little Miss and Two Steps ).

Fender currently produces a Marcus Miller signature Fender Jazz Bass in four-( made in Japan ) and five-string ( made in U. S ) versions.

Released in four different languages in late 1964, " Downtown " was a success in the UK, France ( in both the English and the French versions ), the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Italy and also Rhodesia, Japan and India.

There are four versions of this cover art, which consist of modified photographs of nature around the band's Mosfellsbær studio, sold in four parts of the world: Europe, the United States, Australia, and Japan.

Tracks 8-11 only appear on the US and Japan versions of the album.

There are also different versions available only in certain countries, such as Banana Java Chip and Mango, Azuki in the Philippines and azuki ( red bean ) in Japan.

Prime was released in three versions: the original North American version ; a second version, released in North America and Japan, with resolved technical issues ( such as a glitch that occasionally caused the game to freeze when navigating through three specific rooms in the Chozo Ruins ); and the European version, with resolved glitches and altered certain elements of the gameplay to prevent sequence breaking.

However, as Japan had filmed and aired its own live action versions of the popular manga, with its own cast of four, the publisher felt that there may be confusion over the name in different countries.

The standard modern edition of the Buddhist Chinese canon is the Taisho Tripitaka, redacted during the 1920s in Japan, consisting of eighty-five volumes of writings which, in addition to numerous Mahāyāna texts, both canonical and not, also include Āgama collections, several versions of the vinaya, abhidharma and tantric writings.

The DC2 Type R came standard with a 200 PS ( figure may vary in different countries, 195 hp USDM ) 1. 8 L DOHC VTEC engine, known as the B18C5 ( US ) or B18CR ( Japan ), and other versions depending on the country where it was sold.

Many artists from Japan, Israel, Russia, the United States ( where there is a Georges Brassens fan club ), Italy and Spain have made cover versions of his songs.