Ironically, Brand, a genuine decorated veteran, portrays a phony war hero, a coward who obtained his prize trophy ( a Japanese soldier's sword ) by murdering a Japanese officer after he had surrendered.

Ironically, even though he enjoyed less success, he became progressively more popular with Japanese fans due to his continuous fighting spirit, increasing bulk, and amiable personality.

Ironically, persecution by the Tokugawa shogunate forced Jesuits to rely increasingly on Japanese believers.

Ironically, at the same time, Gichin Funakoshi, the father of modern Karate, was responsible for hand-to-hand training of many members of the Japanese military ( Funakoshi 88 ).

Ironically, Fujitsu was originally the data division of Fuji Electric, whose name was derived from its founders ; " Fu " from the Furukawa Electric zaibatsu, and " Ji " from jiimensu, the Japanese transliteration for Siemens.

Ironically, a number of service members who are buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery were interned in the stables at the nearby Tanforan Racetrack during the early part of the Japanese American internment.

Ironically, " Japanese Management " and Theory Z itself were based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's famous " 14 points ".

Ironically, Peter Ruckman, a BJU graduate, has argued the most extreme version of the KJV-only position, that all translations of the Bible since the KJV have been of satanic origin.

Ironically, Mazda's version was unsuccessful, while the Ford ( available from the start as a 4-door or 2-door model ) instantly became the best selling sport-utility vehicle in the United States and kept that title for over a decade.

Ironically, her co-star in Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hyde, Fredric March, starred in the 1934 film version of Death Takes a Holiday, but Ms. Hobart did not play Grazia in the film.

Ironically, the Tracy version was much less well received and March jokingly sent Tracy a telegram thanking him for the greatest boost to his reputation of his entire career.

Ironically, Rundgren's biggest solo hit was an up-tempo version of Nazz ' first unsuccessful single, " Hello It's Me " from his 1972 Something / Anything?

Ironically, while the film disappeared from cinemas by the end of 1963, the Broadway version continued for another full year.

Ironically, In the early 1940s, radio stations in the USA would not play his own version on the grounds of its using the copyrighted name, Coca-Cola, and its references to prostitution and alcohol.

Ironically, the cross is also used as the symbol of the fascist Norsefire party in the film version of the graphic novel V for Vendetta.

Ironically, immediately following the disappointing performance of the album and its singles, Texas released a new cover version of the Al Green classic " Tired of Being Alone " in April 1992.

Ironically, Humphrys is also the presenter of the revived version of Mastermind, which has also been accused of ' dumbing down '.

Ironically, the AGA version of Naughty Ones was cracked by Crystal ( though released under the Paradox label ; the OCS version was cracked by a group called Kingdom ).

Ironically, although the transport protocols were different, much of the on-screen functionality of Antiope was recreated in the extended so-called Hi-Text Level 2. 5 version of the European standard, first broadcast in 1994 by the bilingual French-German channel ARTE.

Ironically James Peale painted a version of " Battle of Princeton " which shows in the background a very indistinct portrait of Mercer being helped from the ground.

Ironically the Super Nintendo version, in which the particular fatality was removed entirely, displaying a " No Cheeze!

Ironically, the Tendency has its version of Special Circumstances.

Ironically, in the live-action version on the SNL episode hosted by Ed Helms, Jon Hamm and Jimmy Fallon play Ace and Gary while the Colbert and Carell played Dr. Brainio and Bighead )

Ironically, before launching the channel, the labels offered to fund MTV in a German speaking version, but were rejected by MTV management at the time who espoused a " one world, one language " programming philosophy ( at least for Europe since their Latin American Channels used Spanish and Portuguese ).

Ironically, in his preferred version of the Treaty that was rejected, the republicans ' leader Éamon de Valera had offered in Article 8 to allow the same status in the same ports, but only for a period of five years.

Ironically, Stephen Morris disliked the re-recorded version ;

Ironically, since Hasbro released Jetfire first, there was never a U. S. release of an authentic transforming version of the toy for Robotech, even though the design was the series ' most recognizable and popular mecha.

Ironically the most successful Schnellbomber of the war was the bomber version of the British de Havilland Mosquito.

Ironically, " Papa Was a Rollin ' Stone " was re-recorded by The Temptations shortly after its release, and the re-recorded version became not only a # 1 pop hit, but a three-time Grammy Award winner as well.

Ironically, this album was available in the US in a " clean version " with its anti-authoritarian title censored to " F *** the System " and edits made to the tracks themselves.

Ironically, although Lear's shows are often considered somewhat autobiographical and closely identified with his personal experiences, his early hits were actually all adapted from someone else's creations: the two aforementioned British adaptations and Maude, while reputedly based on Lear's wife, was actually the brainchild of series producer Charlie Hauck.

Ironically England won the series at Trinidad with no help from Snow ( 0 / 68 and 1 / 29 ) thanks to a sporting declaration by Gary Sobers giving England two and three quarter hours to make 215 for victory, which they did for the loss of three wickets with three minutes to spare.

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.

Ironically, however, within a few years the Post Office found that stamps in the old denominations were needed after all, and so, added a 10 ¢ value to the series in 1855, followed by a 5 ¢ stamp the following year.

Ironically, he himself died of dysentery in the Crimea on 29 June 1855 at a time when his forces were afflicted with cholera and reeling from a disastrous series of military failures.

A long series of Shakespeare adaptations were the first done of the Bard's works in the U. S. The 1915 feature The Battle Cry of Peace ( written and directed by Blackton ) was one of the great propaganda films of World War I. Ironically, after America declared war, the film was modified for re-release because it was seen as not being sufficiently pro-war, thus it also earns a place in the history of censorship.

Ironically, the League also decided to expand the top division after the Test Match series of 1897 – 98 and the other two teams also went into the top division for the following year, negating the effect of Burnley and Stoke's reputed collusion.

Ironically ( given the history of competition between the two logic series ), the 74HC series has grown to include pin-compatible versions of several members of the 4000 series chips, such as the 74HC4051.

Ironically, he spent most of series 8 either in his prison jumpsuit or his battle fatigues.

Ironically, the CBC subsequently aired Pleasant Irish Priests in a Best of CODCO special just a few months after the regular series ended.

Ironically this is the reason for the series cancellation.

Ironically, even though Plucky would gripe about how he deserved to have as much or more air-time on the show than Buster and Babs, a massive chunk of the series ' episodes usually revolved around him in some manner.

Ironically, in the Autumn of 2003 after a series of particularly strong solar flares MARIE started malfunctioning, probably as a result of being exposed to the solar flare's intense blast of particle radiation.

Ironically Davis would out live Baxter by four years and the series itself by over a year.

Ironically, WDTV does not produce original programming for Disney Channel or Disney XD, outside of animated series produced by WDTV's animation division.

Ironically, Fields ' last television appearance before her surgery was in a rare straight dramatic guest-starring role on the CBS-TV drama series Medical Center, which aired on February 23, 1976.

Ironically, NBC chose to hire Rob Weller, as host, over Lauer when the program was picked up as a daily series.

Ironically, Tucker was touring with Merrill in a national series of joint concerts when, on January 8, 1975, he died of a heart attack while resting before an evening performance in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Ironically Zero became quite popular anyway, obtaining his own game series years later ( Mega Man Zero ).

Ironically, through the series of fires, Apartment # 1 escaped with only minor damage.

Ironically, series creator Matt Groening admitted that he had not seen The Shining and most of the references to the film were entirely lost on him.

Ironically, the character would later be used for the same purpose in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold ( see below ).