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.

2007 was a difficult year for Vueling ; Apax Partners sold their then 21 % stake in the carrier in June of that year, followed by two profit warnings issued in August and October.

Alessandro Algardi ( 31 July 1598 – 10 June 1654 ) was an Italian high-Baroque sculptor active almost exclusively in Rome, where for the latter decades of his life, he was the major rival of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Andronikos III Palaiologos, Latinized as Andronicus III Palaeologus (; 25 March 1297 – 15 June 1341 ) was Byzantine emperor from 1328 to 1341, after being rival emperor since 1321.

The group encompassed a range of ideological outlooks, from conspiratorially-minded army officers to idealistic youths, sometimes tending towards republicanism, despite the acquisition of nationalistic royal circles in its activities ( the movement's leader, Col. Dragutin Dimitrijević or " Apis ," had been instrumental in the June 1903 coup which had brought King Petar Karađorđević to the Serbian throne following 45 years of rule by the rival Obrenović dynasty ).

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

* June 5 – Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, rival Holy Roman Emperor

* 1276 – June – King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival ; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the diet of Nuremberg in 1274.

* June – King Rudolph I of Germany declares war on King Otakar II of Bohemia, a political rival ; by November, Otakar II is forced to cede four important territories as demanded by the diet of Nuremberg in 1274.

* June 21 – Philip of Swabia, King of Germany and rival to Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV, is assassinated in Bamberg by German Count Otto of Wittelsbach, because Philip had refused to give him his daughter in marriage.

* June 15 – Battle of Fimreite: King Sverre of Norway defeats and kills his rival, Magnus Erlingsson, to take the throne.

On June 22, 2002 during pregame warmups for what would have been a day game in Chicago against the rival Cubs, team personnel noted Kile's absence.

In June 1992, nearly 200 delegates from dozens of opposition groups met in Vienna, along with Iraq's two main Kurdish militias, the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party ( KDP ) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ).

At the ball, Esther fills up a visiting girl's ( Lucille Ballard, played by June Lockhart ) dance card with losers because she thinks Lucille is a rival of Rose's.

It was released on June 19, 2000 as a low-cost alternative to AMD's own Athlon processor and the Pentium III and Celeron processor lines from rival Intel.

A rival Town Wilkesborough, just over a mile to the east, was laid out by James O. Barnard on 3 June of the same year.

On June 27, 2008, Presidential candidate Barack Obama and former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared together in Unity at their first public event since Clinton pulled out of the race to be the Democratic presidential candidate.

Collecting an army, Charles marched against the usurper and, on 15 June 923, in a stubborn and sanguinary battle near Soissons, Robert was killed, according to one tradition in single combat with his rival.

These moves were taken seriously by the rival resident ambassadors, but were ended in June 1553 by the belligerents, the continuance of war being more advantageous to them.

In 1806, the Mamluks defeated the Turkish forces several times, and in June the rival parties concluded a peace treaty by which Muhammad Ali, who had been appointed as governor of Egypt on 26 March 1806, was to be removed and the state authority in Egypt returned to the Mamluks.

Kruger was opposed by many liberal elements in South Africa, and, when, in June 1898, Kruger fired the Transvaal Chief Justice, his long-term political rival John Gilbert Kotzé, most lawyers were up in arms.

On June 13, 2011, a rival, and hostile bid from the Maple Group of Canadian interests, was unveiled.

On June 13, 2011, a rival bid from the Maple Group of Canadian interests, was unveiled: a cash and stock bid of $ 3. 7 billion CAD, in hopes of blocking the LSE Group's takeover of TMX.

The Battle of Seven Oaks ( known to the Métis people as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain ; also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre ) was a violent confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies on June 19, 1816, climaxing what was a long dispute in western Canada.

Despite being more expensive than the Astra H, the Astra I / J has been a strong sales success in the UK, where it was the best selling car in June 2010 with well over 10, 000 sales-outselling its crucial rival the Ford Focus by nearly 50 %.

In April 2003, the Sun-Times picked up the comic strip Beetle Bailey after the rival Chicago Tribune dropped it in June 2002 and gave up the rights to it in February 2003.

SoftKey took up The Learning Company's name and continued acquiring other software companies including Mindscape, Inc. in March 1998 for $ 150 million and, ironically, former rival Brøderbund in June of the same year for $ 416 million.