It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

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.

In a June 2008 issue of the journal Autoimmunity Reviews, researchers S Planque, Sudhir Paul, Ph. D, and Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Ph. D of the University Of Texas Medical School at Houston announced that they have engineered an abzyme that degrades the superantigenic region of the gp120 CD4 binding site.

* June 8, 2008: The Akihabara massacre takes place on the Sunday-pedestrian-zoned Chūō street.

As of June 2008, 823, 502 companies were so registered ( of which 445, 865 were ' active ').

The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of € 15, 000, the largest of her fines to date.

* The meaning of the butterfly: Why pop culture loves the ' butterfly effect ,' and gets it totally wrong, Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe, June 8, 2008

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

The fabrication methods and device characteristics were described at the 50th Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara on June 25, 2008.

Chaosium released a new version of BRP on June 24, 2008 as single comprehensive book.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Bo Diddley died on June 2, 2008 of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

* 2008: Although confirmed before his death in June 2008, an honorary degree was posthumously conferred upon Diddley by the University of Florida in August 2008.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

There is a Fly TACV website, though as June 2008 no bookings can be made.

), Challenges of Security Sector Governance in West Africa, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces / Lit Verlag, June 2008, pp 75 – 92

In an interview with the magazine N ' Digo published in late June 2008, he spoke of today's mainstream urban music seemingly relishing the addictive euphoria of materialism and sexism, perhaps being the primary cause of many people harboring resentment towards the genre and its future.

Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.

In the April – June, 2008, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, computer scientists describe a potential new way to combat internet worms.

It was recovered in June 2008.

Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphéas ( from the water lilies series ) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19, for £ 36, 500, 000 ($ 71, 892, 376. 34 ) ( hammer price ) or £ 40, 921, 250 ($ 80, 451, 178 ) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist and representing one of the top 20 highest prices paid for a painting at the time.

Electronic Arts announced on June 24, 2009, that they are restructuring their RPG and MMO games development into a new group that includes both Mythic Entertainment and BioWare.

On June 20, 2006 EA purchased Mythic Entertainment, who are finished making Warhammer Online.

On June 24, 2009, EA announced it will merge two of its development studios, BioWare and Mythic into one single role-playing video game and MMO development powerhouse.

* Mythic Entertainment in Fairfax, Virginia, founded as Interworld Productions in 1995, acquired in June 2006.

* Origins ( No longer in development )-In June 2008, Mythic announced their Origins server project.

Electronic Arts purchased Mythic Entertainment and renamed the company EA Mythic on June 20, 2006.

On June 24, 2009, it was announced that as part of EA's restructuring plan Mythic Entertainment and BioWare would come together under a new RPG / MMO division headed by BioWare General Manager Dr. Ray Muzyka.

It was also revealed that current General Manager of Mythic Mark Jacobs had left EA on June 23, 2009 and would be replaced by Rob Denton.

On 24 June 2009, it was announced that longtime Mythic boss Mark Jacobs had left the company and that EA intended to merge Mythic with fellow RPG developer BioWare.

Jacobs left EA in June 2009 after the company decided to merge BioWare with Mythic Entertainment.

A June 25, 2007 Variety article confirmed that The Neverhood would be one of the first projects of the newly formed Frederator Films, a company formed for the purpose of creating animated feature films budgeted under $ 20 million.

On 23 June 2010 Vertigo Films announced that a live action 3-D film of Horrid Henry was being made.

On June 1, 2011, Baldwin joined Sobini Films ' indie film Sexy Evil Genius along with Seth Green, Harold Perrineau Jr., Katee Sackhoff, and Michelle Trachtenberg.

Two episodes aired on the ABC network ( a subsidiary of the Disney company, which also owns Miramax Films, the studio which released many of Smith's films, including Clerks ) in late May / early June 2000 before being pulled from the lineup.

* " Short Man of the Forest: The Search for Orang Pendek " from the Banyak Films, June 2006

The complete first series of The Raggy Dolls was released on DVD on 21 June 2010 through Revelation Films.

In June 2011, TIME named it one of " The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films ".

The series was licensed by ADV Films in June 2007 for $ 120, 000.

ABPC was taken over by EMI, becoming EMI Films, and at the end of June 1969, Newman was dismissed from the company, later describing his eighteen months there as " a futile waste ".

In June 2008, the MoMA honored two decades of Zeitgeist successes with a month long, twenty film retrospective entitled Zeitgeist: The Films of Our Time, exhibiting the distributor's twenty most critically acclaimed, intellectually stimulating titles.

In the United Kingdom, Pandora's Box was released on DVD on June 24, 2002 by Second Sight Films.

In June 2009, it was announced that Dimension Films was working with producers Sean and Bryan Furst on a remake of the film.

The soundtrack to both the TV series and the OVA were both released on CD by ADV Films and Right Stuf on June 5, 2001.

ADV Films released an uncut version of the series in the USA with an all-new English-language 5. 1 dub, on DVD starting on June 14, 2005.

The series is produced by Ecosse Films for Channel 4 in the UK and Showtime in the US, and premièred in the United States on 17 June 2007 at 22: 00 EST, on Showtime.

June Palmer began work as a topless dancer at the Windmill Theatre in London, appeared in 8mm glamour films made by Harrison Marks ( Flesh and Fantasie ( Nightmare at Elm Manor ), Photo Session, Star Strip, Dream Goddess, China Garden, The Naked World of June Palmer ), Russell Gay ( So Fur, So Good, Beauty and the Barn ), Express Films ( Body Beautiful ) and Arthur Howell ( June in Orbit, Calamity June, Castaway, Mission Possible, Special Agent ) and graduated to minor parts in movies, including The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders ( 1965 ), Taste the Blood of Dracula ( 1969 ) and Games That Lovers Play ( 1971 ).

A second and far superior newly remastered colorized version by Legend Films was released to DVD on June 16, 2009, which also includes a newly restored print of the original black & white film.

In June 2007 Laura Albert was sued by Antidote Films for fraud ; the firm claimed that the contract signed by JT LeRoy to make a feature film was null and void, as the person LeRoy does not exist.

* Ultimate Films 1994-1995 ( 21 June 1995 )

Following the announcement of the creation of SNL Studios, veteran Saturday Night Live producer Marci Klein was named as the president of SNL Studios Television in December 1999, while Richard Feldman was appointed head of SNL Studios Films in June of the same year.

On June 25, 2007 Variety article announced the studio had formed Frederator Films, dedicated to creating animated feature films budgeted under $ 20 million.