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

In early 1950, the U. S. took its first efforts to oppose communist forces in Vietnam ; planned to form a West German army, and prepared proposals for a peace treaty with Japan that would guarantee long-term U. S. military bases there.

Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.

Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100, 000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

( In Europe and Japan however, there is still a significant presence of HDTV for theatrical presentations.

In ancient Japan, there were four noble clans, the Gempeitōkitsu ( 源平藤橘 ).

In ancient Japan, there were four noble clans, the Gempeitōkitsu ( 源平藤橘 ).

The relic was destined for Japan but religious persecution there persuaded the church to keep it in Macau's Cathedral of St. Paul.

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

In an article about the film, it is incorrectly stated that there were two endings and " If you see King Kong vs Godzilla in Japan, Hong Kong or some Oriental sector of the world, Godzilla wins!

It was also noted that there was considerable negative publicity regarding economic tensions between the United States and Japan at the time the film was made.

Soon, Godzilla appears on an island off the coast of Japan, determined to feed off a nuclear power plant there.

Only women compete in rhythmic gymnastics although there is a new version of this discipline for men being pioneered in Japan ( see Men's rhythmic gymnastics ).

Hence, there are censoring mosaics in Japan, and scene removals and different ages of characters in America.

According to Hideo Tokuoka, " When Americans think of incest, they think of fathers and daughters ; in Japan one thinks of mothers and sons " due to the extensive media coverage of mother-son incest there.

In December there is a very pronounced sunshine gradient between the Sea of Japan and Pacific coasts, the former side can receive less than 30 hours and the Pacific side as much as 180 hours.

In the year 2005, the toll collecting companies, formerly Japan Highway Public Corporation, have been transformed into private companies in public ownership, and there are plans to sell parts of them.

It was never distributed because Emperor Hirohito had been depicted and labeled as a war criminal ; and as the film was due for release there had been an American government policy shift to keep the Emperor after the war as a means of maintaining order in post-war Japan.

Another German diplomatic historian, Wolfgang Michalka argued that there was a fourth alternative Nazi foreign policy programme, and that was Ribbentrop's concept of a Euro-Asiatic bloc comprising the four totalitarian states of Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan.

Although knitting needle diameter is often measured in millimeters, there are several different size systems, particularly those specific to the United States, the United Kingdom and Japan ; a conversion table is given at knitting needle.

Web Japan ( sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs ) claims there are 50 million karate practitioners worldwide and the WKF claims there are 100 million practitioners.

In modern day Japan it appears to be difficult to find authentic ritual possession, called kamigakari, in kagura dance.

The Japan Sumo Association's investigative panel stated in May 2011 that match-fixing appears to have been widespread.

The fungus appears to have been introduced from either China or Japan.

In The Dream Hunters, which is set in ancient Japan, Morpheus appears as a Japanese man to a Buddhist monk and as a fox to a fox spirit.

Reptiles are rarely taken over most of the range but prey such as large snakes and lizards appears to be fairly common in the southern reaches of its Asian range, as well as in Japan and in desert-like regions of central Eurasia.

Pukko has what appears to be either a haircut or wig that resembles that worn by The Beatles ; probably added by Tezuka due to The Beatles ' enormous popularity in Japan at the time.

It currently appears that the earliest pottery in the world may have been made in Japan, before the start of the Jōmon period.

In May 2009, researchers in Japan identified a gene, SOX21, that appears to be responsible for hair loss in people.

STS-47 Mission Specialist Mae Jemison appears to be clicking her heels in zero gravity in the center aisle of the Spacelab Japan ( SLJ ) science module aboard the Earth-orbiting Endeavour, Orbiter Vehicle ( OV ) 105.

23 July 2010 < http :// kids. britannica. com / comptons / article-206069 / paint-and-varnish >.</ ref > The ancient Egyptians were well acquainted with the art of varnishing, but its origin appears to be far east of there in India, China and Japan, where the practice of lacquer work, a species of varnish application, was known at a very early date.

* Orochi appears in the 1959 Japanese film The Birth of Japan.

Isao Honda's World of Origami ( Japan Publications ISBN 0-87040-383-4 published in 1965 ) appears to have the same model, where it is called the ' Cubical Box '.

An epilogue to the story exists but appears to only be available on CD in Japanese in Japan.

The Konami Code, known in Japan as the, is a cheat code that appears in many Konami video games, although the code also appears in some non-Konami games.

The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England ( from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ), Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland ( from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland ), Gilitrutt in Iceland, Joaidane جعيدان in Arabic ( he who talks too much ), Khlamushka Хламушка ( junker ) in Russia, Rampelnik in Czech Republic, Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia, Ruidoquedito ( meaning " little noise ") in South America, Pancimanci in Hungary ( from A Csodafurulya by Kolozsvari Grandpierre Emil ), Cvilidreta ( whine-screamer ) in Croatia, Tremotino in Italy, Ootz-li Gootz-li עו ּ ץ-לי גו ּ ץ-לי in Israel ( a compact and rhymy touch to the original sentence and meaning of the story, " He advised me and then turned me into a joke "), Daiku to Oniroku ( daiku means " a carpenter ", to means " and ", and Oniroku is an ogre's name ), or " 大工と鬼六 " in Japan.

Omura's whale appears to be restricted to the shelf and nearshore areas of tropical and subtropical waters, with records mostly from the eastern Indian Ocean ( off Cocos Islands ), Indonesia, the Philippines, the Sea of Japan, and the Solomon Sea.

In the Japanese game shogi, there used to be a piece known as the " Drunken Elephant "; it was, however, dropped by order of the Emperor Go-Nara and no longer appears in the version played in contemporary Japan.

: Fujihime appears in a book-world that corresponds to the samurai era of Japan.

Kevin appears later in the series in the " friendly " match between the U. S. and Japan.

Da Pump often appears in TV shows, movies, and magazines throughout Japan.

Though acute social withdrawal in Japan appears to affect both genders equally, because of differing social expectations for maturing boys and girls, the most widely reported cases of hikikomori are from middle-and upper-middle-class families whose sons, typically their eldest, refuse to leave the home, often after experiencing one or more traumatic episodes of social or academic failure.

When compared to the population trends of Japan, the city of Kahoku appears to be matching the national trend of a larger Aging population, while also keeping with the Japanese trend of a decreasing birth rate.