Japan's Fisheries Agency estimated 2, 321 killer whales were in the seas around Japan.

The industrialized surimi-making process was refined in 1969 by Nishitani Yōsuke of Japan's Hokkaidō Fisheries Experiment Institute to process the increased catch of fish, to revitalize Japan's fish industry, and to make use of what previously was considered " fodder fish.

* Chairman, Evaluation Committee for the " National Contest of Flowers in City Development and Constructions " ( Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport-advocated project )

* 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

Japan's Tokyo Meteorological Observatory, the forerunner of the Japan Meteorological Agency, began constructing surface weather maps in 1883.

According to Japan's National Police Agency, another accomplice may also have died in North Korea.

In an audience poll ( with 80, 402 voters ) of 100 best animations of all time, conducted by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2007, Castle in the Sky was the second highest-ranked animated film, and third highest-ranked animation overall on the list.

On 7 January 1989, at 07: 55 JST, the grand steward of Japan's Imperial Household Agency, Shōichi Fujimori, announced Emperor Shōwa's death, and revealed details about his cancer for the first time.

Soon after, former deceased guitarist hide's management company, Headwax Organization, filed a lawsuit against Yoshiki and X Japan's management, Japan Music Agency, for using images of the former member without a formal agreement in place.

The river is now known for its exceptionally clean water and natural beauty, and was selected by Japan's Environment Agency as one of Japan's 100 Great Waters.

In 1977, Japan's National Space Development Agency launched the NEC geostationary meteorological satellite, named Himawari.

The SFU was launched by Japan's National Space Development Agency ( NASDA ) from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on 18 March 1995 aboard a Japanese H-II rocket ( HII-3 ), and spent ten months in orbit conducting automated research in materials science, biology, engineering, and astronomy.

In August 2006, the Asahi Shimbun reported in its article that Japan's Agency of Cultural Affairs ( Bunkacho ) would discontinue funding by fiscal year 2007 of the project to translate and transcribe the yukar compilations of Imekanu,, which consists of 92 yukar stories written in Romaji with the tenth story lost and 49 stories left untranslated.

Lawmakers made national security arguments for keeping Japan's solid-fuel rocket technology alive after ISAS was merged into the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which also has the H-IIA liquid-fuelled rocket, in 2003.

Shortly after the incident, Japan's National Police Agency established a Special Assault Team to deal with future acts of terrorism.

The representatives of 6 prefectures and 11 cities, including Yuichiro Ito, Governor of Kagoshima Prefecture, and Genjiro Kaneko, Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture, jointly submitted to the Agency for Cultural Affairs a proposal for addition of the " Modern Industrial Heritage Sites in Kyushu and Yamaguchi " to the Japan's tentative candidate list for World Heritage nomination.

Since 1998, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency started planning an Underground Research Laboratory at Honorobe to be able to conduct tests on the suitability of sedimentary rock for use as a deep geological repository for Japan's spent nuclear fuel ( a similar research facility in crystalline rock is also being constructed at Mizunami in Gifu Prefecture ).. Excavation began in 2003, and is scheduled for completion in 2017.

Originally developed by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Mu rockets were later operated by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency following its merger with ISAS.

The Xinhua News Agency reported that in the meeting held in Beijing between PRC and Japanese foreign ministers, the Japanese minister offered an apology for Japan's wrongdoings during World War II.

A new after-quake hit at 6: 11 a. m. April 20 on Japan's southern main island of Kyūshū, the Central Meteorological Agency reported.

Japan's Fire Defense Agency reported a total of 685 viewers, 310 boys and 375 girls, were taken to hospitals by ambulances.

He also served as director of Japan's Economic Planning Agency.

Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs gave Takeyama an award for his script for Sabu, and the Grand Prize for his work on Ten to sen ( 2008 ).

As early as 1980, the Science and Technology Agency, a component of the Kantei ( office of the Prime Minister ) announced the beginning of " the era of Japan's technological independence.

Ecology also has developed through contributions from other nations, including Russia's Vladimir Vernadsky and his founding of the biosphere concept in the 1920s and Japan's Kinji Imanishi and his concepts of harmony in nature and habitat segregation in the 1950s.

Historically, the succession to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne has always passed to descendants in male line from the imperial lineage.

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 ".

Japan's hydroelectric power potential has been exploited almost to capacity.

The Economist has suggested that improvements to bankruptcy law, land transfer law, and tax laws will aid Japan's economy.

Japan's road spending has been large.

Japan's road spending has also been large.

This has been reinforced by numerous visits to the Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese Prime Ministers, attempts to revise textbooks by Japanese nationalists, the continued dispute over Japan's atrocities in the Nanking Massacre, and the resurgence of nationalism and militarism in Japan.

The profusion is due to many factors, including the length of time the archipelago has been inhabited, its mountainous island terrain, and Japan's long history of both external and internal isolation.

It has always been a part of Japan's history and constitutes the main current of Shinto tradition.

Even though its authenticity has been called into question by some today, the Tanaka Memorial was widely accepted as authentic in the 1930s and 40s because Japan's actions corresponded so closely to these plans.

The Bank of Japan's policy of zero interest rates has discouraged yen investments, with the carry trade of investors borrowing yen and investing in better-paying currencies ( thus further pushing down the yen ) estimated to be as large as $ 1 trillion.

* July 26 – The Potsdam Declaration demands Japan's unconditional surrender ; Article 12 permitting Japan to retain the reign of the Emperor has been deleted by President Truman.

Japan's Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission has knowledge of more than 50 listed companies with ties to organized crime, and in March 2008, the Osaka Securities Exchange decided to review all listed companies and expel those with yakuza ties.

It is one of Japan's along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku ; it is a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a Historic Site, and has been submitted for future inscription on the World Heritage List as a Cultural ( rather than Natural ) Site.

* Branch of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Germany's occupation of Poland and the Japan's occupation of Korea has been mentioned as a case of cultural genocide.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

It has remained, however, an important brake on the growth of Japan's military capabilities.

The overall plan has also been criticized as an attempt to create an agency similar to Japan's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry, which was abolished in 2001 after some of its initiatives failed and it became seen as a hindrance to growth.

Japan's rise from the devastation of World War II to economic prominence in the post-war decades has been regarded as the trigger for what has been called a new epidemic.

The Shinkansen has had a significant effect on Japan's business, economy, society, environment and culture.

Chelsea has a sister city exchange program with the town of Shimizu in Hokkaido, Japan's northern island.

In November 1940, Wang's government signed the " Sino-Japanese Treaty " with the Japanese, a document that has been compared with Japan's Twenty-one Demands for its broad political, military, and economic concessions.