Akashi was an important city during Japan's pre-modern period due to the presence of Akashi Castle, headquarters of the Akashi Domain.

Japan's foreign minister Hirofumi Nakasone and South Korea's Minister of Foreign Affairs Yu Myung-hwan agreed that early April 5, 2009 launch of the North Korean Unha-2 satellite violated UN resolutions 1695 and 1718 of July 2006.

The article was published as a rebuttal to a UN political officer who criticised Ozawa's position to oppose Japan's continual support of the maritime interdiction forces in the Indian Ocean.

To others, support for the UN would be useful in masking or diluting Japan's almost total dependence on the United States for its security.

As Japan's role increased and its contributions to UN socioeconomic development activities grew, many Japanese began to ask whether their country was being given an international position of responsibility commensurate with its economic power.

* 2005 – Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes for Japan's war record.

He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, before even Kamen Rider ( the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009 ), and was the inspiration for RoboCop.

In the Japanese language, the word tennō is restricted to Japan's own monarch ; kōtei ( 皇帝 ) is used for foreign emperors.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

In June 2011, the IAEA chief said he had " broad support for his plan to strengthen international safety checks on nuclear power plants to help avoid any repeat of Japan's Fukushima crisis ".

So Japan's currency code is JPY — JP for Japan and Y for yen.

As of the most recent census ( October 2010 ), Japan's population is 128, 057, 352 ; for March 2012 the estimated population is 127, 650, 000 making it the world's tenth most populated country.

In a strong move, on 8 August 2005, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called for a snap election to the lower house, as threatened, after LDP stalwarts and opposition DPJ parliamentarians defeated his proposal for a large-scale reform and privatisation of Japan Post, which besides being Japan's state-owned postal monopoly is arguably the world's largest financial institution, with nearly 331 trillion yen of assets.

Japan's aid to the ASEAN countries totaled US $ 1. 9 billion in Japanese fiscal year ( FY ) 1988 versus about US $ 333 million for the United States during U. S. FY 1988.

Japan's political goals in its relationship with Bangladesh include gaining support for their bid to join the United Nations Security Council, and securing markets for their finished goods.

The United States is Japan's closest ally, and Japan relies on the U. S. for its national security to a high degree.

* 1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi leads a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China ; later, a document detailing these plans, the " Tanaka Memorial " is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery.

* 1976 – Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War

" The Illegality of the Forced Treaties Leading to Japan's Annexation of the Great Han Empire ", In the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Vol.

The minimum demands included a halt to the economic and oil embargoes, withdrawal of political and economic support for the Chinese Nationalist government, agreement to keep Western military forces in the Pacific at their current level, and non-interference in Japan's attempts to bring " peace " to China.

The Mukden Incident, also known as the " Manchurian Incident " or the " Far Eastern Crisis ", was one of the League's major setbacks and acted as the catalyst for Japan's withdrawal from the organization.

While Stalin had little faith in Japan's commitment to neutrality, he felt that the pact was important for its political symbolism, to reinforce a public affection for Germany.

He left Seichō-ji shortly thereafter to study in Kamakura and several years later traveled to western Japan for more in-depth study in the Kyoto – Nara area, where Japan's major centers of Buddhist learning were located.

After making his declaration, which all schools of Nichiren Buddhism regard as marking their foundation ( 立宗: risshū ), Nichiren began propagating his teachings in Kamakura, then Japan's de facto capital since it was where the shikken ( regent for the shogun ) and shogun lived and the government was established.

To the tune of a Susa march, they bid Japan " Please Hello " and are followed by a Gilbertian British Admiral, a clog-dancing Dutch Admiral, a gloomy Russian and a dandified Frenchman all vying for access to Japan's markets.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

This honor was intended, in part, to commemorate the diplomatic and trading history which existed long before other Western nations were officially aware of Japan's existence.

Of Japan's influence on the genre, William Gibson said, " Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk.

In Japan's history, social strata based on inherited position rather than personal merits, was rigid and highly formalized.

In fact Nissan's involvement in Japan's military industries was substantial.

The constitution, also known as the, or the, was drawn up under the Allied occupation that followed World War II and was intended to replace Japan's previous militaristic and absolute monarchy system with a form of liberal democracy.

It was the first tool showing the AI ​​ defined by Edward Feigenbaum in his book about the Japanese Fifth Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World ( 1983 ): " The machines will have reasoning power: they will automatically engineer vast amounts of knowledge to serve whatever purpose humans propose, from medical diagnosis to product design, from management decisions to education ", " The reasoning animal has, perhaps inevitably, fashioned the reasoning machine ", " the reasoning power of these machines matches or exceeds the reasoning power of the humans who instructed them and, in some cases, the reasoning power of any human performing such tasks ".

It is assumed that this was Japan's first large-scale engineering works undertaking.

During the closing stages of the war, Japan's fighter arm could not seriously challenge raids over Japan by American B-29s, and was largely relegated to Kamikaze tactics.

In Asia, there are very few harps today, though the instrument was popular in ancient times ; in that continent, zithers like China's guzheng and guqin and Japan's koto predominate.

The Brothers Grime was a three-video cartoon-pornography series produced by Excalibur Films in 1986, 1987, and 1988, using titles primarily from the Cream Lemon series, the most popular of Japan's erotic anime before Urotsukidoji.

Koizumi was elected as Japan's 87th Prime Minister on 26 April 2001.

He was the Japan's youngest post-World War II prime minister and the first born after the war.

Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was working on Japan's economic revival, signed a treaty with Saudi Arabia and UAE about the rising prices of oil.

By 1990 Japan's interaction with the vast majority of Asia-Pacific countries, especially its burgeoning economic exchanges, was multifaceted and increasingly important to the recipient countries.

Japan's consulate in Vancouver was established in 1889, 40 years before its embassy was opened in Ottawa in 1929.

President Álvaro Obregón was awarded Japan's Order of the Chrysanthemum at a special ceremony in Mexico City.

The relationship probably hit a post-war nadir around the early 1990s, when Japan's " economic rise " was seen as a threat to American power.

In 1944, Otsuka was appointed Japan's Chief Karate Instructor.

Konoe knew he was not acquiring a tame cabinet member, but he hoped that Matsuoka would be able to navigate the deeply complex international waters to Japan's advantage.

The United States was forewarned of this move through its monitoring of Japan's cable traffic.

Over 80 % of Japan's need was being met through American imports.