Following the term of service in Japan, each emissary returns for a brief visit to the campus to interpret his experience to the college community.

* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.

Japan, like China and Korea, had its own untouchable caste, shunned and ostracized, historically referred to by the insulting term Eta, now called Burakumin.

Doraemon is a term of common knowledge in Japan.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

Kugyō ( 公卿 ) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

Kugyō ( 公卿 ) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

Kugyō ( 公卿 ) is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras .– kugyō of Montoku-tennō ( in French )

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

is a collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras.

The Japanese seldom use the term hentai to refer to pornography in Japan.

Shōjo-ai (" girl love ") is a western term for the female equivalent of shōnen-ai ; in Japan these works are also called yuri.

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.

Growth in Japan throughout the 1990s at 1. 5 % was slower than growth in other major developed economies, giving rise to the term Lost Decade.

* 1898 – Itō Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan.

When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.

In Japan, the rough equivalent of this term is " Botchan Sayoku " ( leftist from rich family who is ignorant of the real world ).

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

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.

* Alnus japonica — Japanese alder, Japan

* 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Most of the 888 Japanese people living in Russia ( 2010 Census ) are of mixed Japanese-Ainu ancestry, although they do not acknowledge it ( full Japanese ancestry gives them the right of visa-free entry to Japan ).

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.

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.

Due to intermarriage with the Japanese and ongoing absorption into the predominant culture, there are no truly Ainu settlements existing in Japan today.

* 708 – Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time ( Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708 ).

* 1910 – The Japan – Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan – Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

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.

Japanese lamellar armour ( keiko ) passed through Korea and reached Japan around the 5th century.

* 1872 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician, 44th Prime Minister of Japan ( d. 1951 )

* 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian and oldest living person 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.

The Japan That Can Say No ( Simon & Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-671-75853-5, ISBN 4-334-05158-8 in Japanese )

By the summer of 1944, victories in the Southwest and Central Pacific had brought the war closer to Japan, with American bombers able to strike at the Japanese main islands from air bases secured during the Mariana Islands campaign ( June — August 1944 ).

The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period ( 14th-15th century ).