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.

* Japan's Prince Shotoku establishes a twelve level cap and rank system and is said to have authored a seventeen-article constitution.

The constitution 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.

In August 2005, the then Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, proposed an amendment to the constitution in order to increase Japan's Defence Forces ' roles in international affairs.

One of the Meiji oligarchy, Itō Hirobumi ( 1841 – 1909 ), a Chōshū native long involved in government affairs, was charged with drafting Japan's constitution.

Since then, Japan's constitution has prohibited the use of military force to wage war against other nations.

Like other holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in Japan's postwar constitution.

Like other Japanese holidays, this holiday was repackaged as a non-religious holiday for the sake of separation of religion and state in Japan's postwar constitution.

Unlike Japan's post-war constitution, which was written mostly by the staff of General Douglas MacArthur, who commanded the occupation forces, Iraq's interim constitution was created by Iraqi civilians.

* The Japanese Parliament ( the Kokkai ) is conventionally called the Diet in English, indicating the heavy Prussian influence on the Meiji Constitution, Japan's first modern written constitution.

The military in Japan is affected by Japan's pacifist post-war constitution.

Accordingly, they also support changing the Japanese constitution, especially Article 9 which is viewed as obsolete, so as to make progress towards " normalizing " Japan's status ( that is to enable the country to re-arm to the level of most other countries ).

He had stated that " we are reaching the limit in narrowing down differences between Japan's security and the interpretation of our constitution.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

Sake is mentioned several times in the Kojiki, Japan's first written history, which was compiled in 712

Bushidō written in kanjiThe Kojiki is Japan's oldest extant book.

Some of Japan's literary monuments were written during the Nara period, including the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the first national histories, compiled in 712 and 720 respectively ; the Man ' yōshū, an anthology of poems ; and the Kaifūsō, an anthology written in Chinese by Japanese emperors and princes.

Hiragana gave written expression to the spoken word and, with it, to the rise in Japan's famous vernacular literature, much of it written by court women who had not been trained in Chinese as had their male counterparts.

The most successful of them was a bunraku puppet play called Kanadehon Chūshingura ( now simply called Chūshingura, or " Treasury of Loyal Retainers "), written in 1748 by Takeda Izumo and two associates ; it was later adapted into a kabuki play, which is still one of Japan's most popular.

As writer Albrecht Fürst von Urach comments in his booklet " The Secret of Japan's Strength ," which was written during the Axis powers period:

Early yari are believed to have been derived from Chinese spears, these hoko yari are thought to be from the Nara period ( 710-794 )., and while they were present in early Japan's history, the term yari appeared for the first time in written sources in 1334 but this type of spear did not become popular until the late 1400s.

is a Yaoi manga series written by Maki Murakami. The story follows the attempts of Shuichi Shindo and his band, Bad Luck, to become Japan's next musical sensation and his struggles to capture Yuki's heart.

Directed by longtime animator Yoshiyuki Tomino, the creator of the Gundam series, written by Ichirō Ōkouchi, and featuring character designs by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Kinu Nishimura and Ken ' ichi Yoshida, the series ran from September 7, 2002 to March 22, 2003 on Japan's WOWOW network, spanning a total of 26 episodes.

She is enshrined on numerous locations throughout Japan ; for example, the Enoshima Island in Sagami Bay, the Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa and the Itsukushima Island in Seto Inland Sea ( Japan's Three Great Benzaiten Shrines ); and she and a five-headed dragon are the central figures of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kōkei ( 皇慶 ) in AD 1047.

The most successful of them was a bunraku play called Kanadehon Chūshingura ( now simply called Chūshingura, or " Treasury of Loyal Retainers "), written in 1748 by Takeda Izumo and two associates ; it was later adapted into a kabuki play, which is still one of Japan's most popular.

Prominent among those arguing for the existence of Yamashita's gold are Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, who have written two books relating to the subject: The Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family ( 2000 ) and Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold ( 2003 ).

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.

The decadent king of Yamato is trying to have his own version of Japan's history written.

Japan's oldest books ( e. g., Kojiki and Nihon Shoki ) and dictionaries ( e. g., Tenrei Banshō Meigi and Wamyō Ruijushō ) were written in kanji and kanbun.

The names of Japan's cities used to be written in Kanji exclusively.

" Richie also has written analyses of two of Japan's best known filmmakers: Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa.

Among this series, the installment Neo Gomanism Manifesto Special-On War, written with a different perspective on the Pacific War and Japan's role in it, attracted overseas attention including from newspapers The New York Times and Le Monde.

Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles into La Pérouse Strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.

On 19 October, North Korea reportedly ordered its diplomats to stay near their embassies to await " an important message ", according to Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, setting off renewed speculation about the health of the ailing leader.

Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles ( 5. 6 km ) into the strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.

Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles ( 5. 6 km ) into the strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.

Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles ( 5. 6 km ) into the strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.

In 2005, the Taiwan Society of New York selected Doraemon as a culturally significant work of Japanese otaku pop-culture in its exhibit Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture, curated by renowned artist Takashi Murakami.

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 ".

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.

By mid-1942, the Allies began to regroup and while some Allied aircraft such as the Brewster Buffalo and the P-39 were hopelessly outclassed by fighters like Japan's Zero, others such as the Army's P-40 and the Navy's Wildcat possessed attributes such as superior firepower, ruggedness and dive speed, and the Allies soon developed tactics ( such as the Thach weave ) to take advantage of these strengths.

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.

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.

* The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline, discussion paper by Julian Chapple in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 18 October 2004.

Television viewing spread so rapidly that, by 1987, 99 percent of Japan's households had color television sets and the average family had its set on at least five hours a day.

Resumption of Japan's multi-billion dollar investments to China and increased visits to China by Japanese officials, culminating in the October 1992 visit of Emperor Akihito, gave a clear indication that Japan considered closer ties with China in its economic and strategic interest.

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.

Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

* 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

* 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 industrial revolution is said to have started here, stimulated by the young students ' train station.

Nearly all the former League of Nations mandates had become sovereign states by 1990, including all of the former United Nations Trust Territories with the exception of a few successor entities of the gradually dismembered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( formerly Japan's South Pacific Trust Mandate ).

Humans live on average 31. 88 years in Swaziland and 82. 6 years in Japan, although Japan's recorded life expectancy may have been very slightly increased by counting many infant deaths as stillborn.

Despite its small area and few resources, the absorption of the territory by Japan would to some extent alleviate Japan's problem of an increasing population but an ever decreasing amount of available land to house it.

Following Japan's defeat in the Second World War, its mandate became a United Nations Trusteeship, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, ruled by the United States.

His interest in animation began during high school after watching Japan's first full-length feature animation The Tale of the White Serpent by Taiji Yabushita.