1979 also brought Devo to Japan for the first time, and a live show from this tour was partially recorded.

Other instances, such as Emperor Go-Toba's 1221 rebellion against the Kamakura shogunate and the 1336 Kemmu Restoration under Emperor Go-Daigo, show the power struggle between the Imperial House and the military governments of Japan.

In February 1980 Mobile Suit Gundam was aired in Italy, the first country to broadcast the show abroad of Japan.

Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

The show is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, told from the point of view of the Japanese.

After the two-week run in Japan, the Residents took the show through the US.

On each show, a challenger, typically a famous chef from Japan or elsewhere, is pitted against one of the Iron Chefs ( with each Iron Chef specializing in a different kind of cuisine — Japanese, Chinese, French, and later Italian ).

The genre covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game show or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, Japanese variety shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s ( such as Gaki no tsukai ), to surveillance-or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother.

The British Government finally did not show interest, and the castaways were sent to Macau so that they could be returned to Japan.

The statue is believed to have been sculpted by Greek artist Praxiteles and is now on display to the public in a dedicated museum in the city, after having been on show at the Chamber of Deputies of Rome, and in Aichi, Japan.

Monterrey, Mexico based Parque Plaza Sésamo uses Sesame Street characters as does Universal Studios Japan in a three-dimensional movie based on the show.

It was long thought that a light pen can work with any CRT-based display, but not with LCDs ( though Toshiba and Hitachi displayed a similar idea at the " Display 2006 " show in Japan ) and other display technologies.

Foreign exhibits included a science and technology exhibit by Great Britain, while Mexico and Peru focused on handicrafts and Japan and India attempted to show both of these sides of their national cultures.

Zhou's diaries also show his concern over Chinese student strikes in Japan in May 1918, when the Chinese government failed to send the students ' scholarships, but he apparently was not deeply involved in the protest.

The clays, which contain layers of good coal and an abundant fossil vegetation, show that during the Miocene period, Sakhalin formed part of a continent which comprised north Asia, Alaska and Japan, and enjoyed a comparatively warm climate.

He is also shown as an inventor / huckster ( in the style of Ron Popeil ) on the television show I Can't Believe They Invented It !, with products such as the " Juice Loosener " in " Marge in Chains ", an inefficient juicer made in Japan which ultimately causes an influenza epidemic in Springfield ( due to one of the workers at the factory having the disease, but still going to work, thus spreading his germs through the packaging ).

Skelton wondered also whether the revisions in the far east were meant to represent Japan — they seem to show not only Honshu, but also Hokkaido and Sakhalin, omitted even from Oriental maps in the 15th century.

Taiwan is also known for their talk shows, like Japan, where they carry variety show elements and feature a handful of celebrities for each show.

At the last show of the tour, as the group considers venturing into a musical theatre production on the theme of Jack the Ripper entitled ' Saucy Jack ', Tufnel reappears and informs them that while their American reception is poor, the group is wildly popular in Japan.

Photographs were taken and a film produced about life in Teaneck, which were shown in Occupied Japan as a part of the United States Army's education program to show democracy in action.

While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show also aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan.

The period immediately following this was documented on the album Tokyo Dolls Live ( Fan Club / New Rose ), from a show in Japan in August 1975, in which Johansen, Sylvain and Jordan were joined by keyboardist Chris Robison and drummer Tony Machine.

The longest running children ’ s show in Japan,, still airs to this day on NHK-ETV.

Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.

For example the attack on Pearl Harbor that began at 1941-12-07T18: 18Z took place on 7 December according to Hawaii Time ( UTC-10: 30 ), and on 8 December according to Japan Standard Time ( UTC + 09 ).

The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9. 0 or larger was a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 ( as of March 2011 ), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

These records state that Bu began his rule before 477, was recognized as the ruler of Japan by the Liu Song, Southern Qi, and Liang dynasties, and continued his rule through to 502.

If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Buretsu is the last emperor of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.

If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Emperor Buretsu would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.

Anime and manga fandom began in the 1970s in Japan.

Australia's ties with the UK dwindled rapidly as Britain closed foreign bases, disengaged from its former territories East of Suez and began courting the EEC, as a result of which American investment in Australia increased dramatically and Australia's onetime enemy Japan replaced the UK as Australia's major trading partner.

In September 1972 Hoshino began a partnership with Elger Guitars to import guitars from Japan.

It began in the United Kingdom, then subsequently spread throughout Western Europe, North America, Japan, and eventually the rest of the world.

The Portuguese also began a channel of trade with the Japanese, becoming the first recorded Westerners to have visited Japan.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

Kickboxing boomed and became popular in Japan as it began to be broadcast on TV.

A new international terminal was built by the government of Japan and began operation since 2008, which is the first of three terminals to be opened so far.

Modern Shinto began as the various ancient animistic traditional spirituality of Japan, which only became an institutionalized spirituality much later as a result of efforts to separate out influences of other religions brought into Japan from abroad.

It began with four permanent members ( Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan ) and four non-permanent members that were elected by the Assembly for a three-year term.

Following a long record of instigating localized conflicts throughout the 1930s, Japan began a full-scale invasion of China on 7 July 1937.

Japan began as a permanent member of the Council, but withdrew in 1933 after the League voiced opposition to its invasion of Manchuria.

On March 27, 1933, Japan left the League of Nations, but continued to manage the islands, and in the late 1930s began building air bases on several atolls.

Mazda began as the Toyo Cork Kogyo Co., Ltd, founded in Japan in 1920.

Japan's Tokyo Meteorological Observatory, the forerunner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, began constructing surface weather maps in 1883.

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer and actress in the early 1960s, but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan.

The New Left in Japan began simultaneously with the British and American movements and rose to prominence in the country by occupying college campuses for several years in the 1960s.