* 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved " 300 million yen robbery ", is carried out in Tokyo.

* December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved " 300 million yen robbery ", occurs in Tokyo.

Japan's biggest shipping line Nippon Yusen and Nippon Oil Corporation said solar panels capable of generating 40 kilowatts of electricity would be placed on top of a 60, 000 tonne car carrier ship to be used by Toyota Motor Corporation.

In Yokohama Chinatown, Japan's biggest Chinatown, tourists from all over Japan come to enjoy the festival.

Three of the singles from the Tin Drum album also peaked in the UK Top 40, with its unconventional single " Ghosts " reaching No. 5, becoming Japan's biggest domestic hit.

Japan's biggest postwar political crisis took place in 1960 over the revision of the Japan-United States Mutual Security Assistance Pact.

It was the biggest postwar failure in Japan's retail sector at the time.

In August 2002, PRIDE teamed up with Japan's leading kickboxing and fight promotion, K-1, and held the world's biggest fight event, Shockwave ( known as Pride / K-1 Dynamite !!

: CEO of Japan's biggest military contractor, and an obsessively protective mother, Akiko's greatest goals are to reclaim Ryunosuke from her husband and to capture Nuku Nuku in order to reverse engineer her.

Japan's military began to build the Gyeongui Line, while troop bases were established in connection with the railway, the biggest of them next to the terminus of the line, Yongsan Station in Seoul.

They promote events throughout Japan with their biggest event being their annual blowout show held every year on January 4 at the Tokyo Dome, which is Japan's version of WWE's annual WrestleMania event.

After back-to-back losses, Gomi found a new home in Japan's biggest MMA organization, the Pride Fighting Championships.

On November 29, 2009 the arena hosted one of the biggest fights in Japan's history as WBC Flyweight Champion Daisuke Naito defends his title against Koki Kameda.

TVXQ was also recognized by Japan's Oricon chart as the biggest selling international artist, recording a total of 3, 104, 000 single sales to date.

The first case of karōshi was reported in 1969 with the death from a stroke of a 29-year-old male worker in the shipping department of Japan's largest newspaper company.

After a long struggle, the conference attempted to resolve the issue politically and the British ambassador openly criticized Japan's shipping policies in 1955.

In February and March 2011, Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism sponsored a test of the route by shipping roof tiles to Europe via the Trans-Siberian.

() often refers to suicide attacks carried out by Imperial Japan's military aviators against Allied shipping towards the end of the Pacific campaign of World War II by crashing their planes into warships.

Most importantly, US submarines were responsible for severing Japan's shipping routes to their colonies in Southeast Asia, by sinking close to half of their merchant ships.

He was also an adviser to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan's largest shipping line.

Around this time, Japan's War Ministry informed the IGH that there was an insufficient amount of shipping to support both the effort to retake Guadalcanal and transport strategic resources to maintain Japan's economy and military forces.

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

View of East China Sea from Yehliu | Yeliou, Taiwan Under the United Nations ' Law of the Sea, the PRC claims the disputed ocean territory as its own Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) due to its being part of PRC's natural extension of its continental shelf, while Japan claims the disputed ocean territory as its own EEZ because it is within 200 nautical miles ( 370 km ) from Japan's coast, and proposed a median line as the boundary between the EEZ of China and Japan.

In 2001, Japan's emperor Akihito told reporters " I, on my part, feel a certain kinship with Korea, given the fact that it is recorded in the Chronicles of Japan that the mother of Emperor Kammu was of the line of King Muryong of Baekje.

The line runs on viaducts or through tunnels for most of its length, with technology based mainly on Japan's Shinkansen system mixed with European standards and system components.

The trains were the first Shinkansen trainsets built to run on Japan's new Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed line which opened in Japan in 1964.

The was a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train type operated by East Japan Railway Company ( JR East ) between 1992 and 2010 on Tsubasa services on Japan's first Mini-shinkansen line, the Yamagata Shinkansen branch from the main Tōhoku Shinkansen.

** Tokyo's ( and Japan's ) first rail line opens between Shimbashi ( now Shiodome ) and Yokohama

Nippon supplied Japan's Ministry of Communications with nonloaded line carrier equipment for long distance telephone channels in 1937.

In 1927, Tokyo Underground Railway ( now Tokyo Metro ) opened Japan's first subway line from here to Asakusa Station.

Shimbashi is the original terminus of Japan's first stretch of railway, the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is one of Japan's oldest stations ( the oldest station being Shinagawa, a few kilometres down the line ).

Japan's first subway line, operated by the Tokyo Underground Railroad Company, was extended to Shimbashi in 1934.

The Tōkaidō Main Line, Japan's busiest line, completed electrification in 1956 and Tōkaidō Shinkansen was complete in 1964.

The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line, connecting Tokyo with Aomori in Aomori Prefecture for a total length of 674 km, Japan's longest Shinkansen line.

Still under Japanese occupation, the line was extended to Andong in October 1937, but that section was dismantled to use the material elsewhere as Japan's military faced material shortages during World War II.

Despite opposition from Japanese Army leaders, who still hoped that Guadalcanal could eventually be retaken from the Allies, on December 31, 1942 Japan's Imperial General Headquarters, with approval from the Emperor, agreed to the evacuation of all Japanese forces from the island and the establishment of a new line of defense for the Solomons on New Georgia.

It was also the original manufacturer of the Pound Puppies toy line, and in the late 1980s were the U. S. licensees of products inspired by Maple Town, an animated series from Japan's Toei Dōga.

He was also released in Japan's REVOLTECH Sci-fi line in 2010, along with the Japanese monsters, Gamera and Gyaos.

At roughly the same time, Kitabatake Chikafusa ( 北畠親房, 1293 – 1354 ) wrote his Jinnō Shōtōki ( 神皇正統記: Chronicles of the Authentic Lineages of the Divine Emperors ) which defines Japan's superiority in terms of the divinity of its imperial line and the divinity of the nation itself ( Shinkoku: 神国 ).

The 6 TrainRobo were also produced in the same sub-line as the Constructicons, but would only become Transformers ( as the Trainbots ) in Japan's 1987 line.

* 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan's first television show, including its first TV advertisement.

Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ), Ichiro moved to North America in 2001 to play in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons.

* All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest airline

The Nippon Professional Baseball league is Japan's largest professional sports league.

NHK World is the international broadcasting service of NHK ( Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai-Japan Broadcasting Corporation ), Japan's public broadcaster.

* Pacific League, one of the two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball

Japan's Nippon temple is shaped like a pagoda.

In Doby came out of retirement and became the third American to play professional baseball in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball league, after Wally Kaname Yonamine and Don Newcombe, when he signed a contract with the Chunichi Dragons.

* Central League, one of two leagues in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball

Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman ( played by former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas ), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

It is one of Japan's three largest newspapers in terms of circulation and number of employees, and has 79 associated companies, including Tokyo Broadcasting System ( TBS ), Mainichi Broadcasting System ( MBS ) and the Sports Nippon Newspaper.

Kamaishi played its part in Japan's post-war boom, continuing its reputation as a steel town, a reputation reflected in the name of its rugby team-the Kaminashi Nippon Steel Rugby Club.

On August 3 2012 the party in concert with six other minor opposition parties ( People's Life First, Kizuna Party, Japanese Communist Party, Your Party, New Party Nippon ( which has no lower-house lawmaker ) and the New Renaissance Party ) agreed to submit a no confidence motion against Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in an effort to block the passage of the bill raising Japan's consumption tax from 5 % to 10 %.

In 1929 Nippon Electric provided Japan's Ministry of Communications with the A-type switching system, the first of these systems to be developed in Japan.

In addition, the Japan Robins included a player named " Oh ," presumably after Sadaharu Oh of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

After playing the first ten seasons of his career for the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, he played the next seven seasons, from 2003 – 2009, for the New York Yankees of North America's Major League Baseball.

Hamada gathered investments from 29 other individuals who were interested in establishing a low-cost airline to compete with Japan's major domestic carriers ( All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and Japan Air System ) on flights between Hokkaido cities and Tokyo.

* Yuki Karakawa ( born 1989 ), Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher with the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's Pacific League

Japan's first aircraft manufacturer, it was founded in 1918 by a naval engineer, Chikuhei Nakajima, and a textile manufacturer, Kawanishi Seibi as Nihon Hikoki ( Nippon Aircraft ).

On May 28, 1962, Newcombe signed with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

Wallace Kaname " Wally " Yonamine ( June 24, 1925 – February 28, 2011 ), also known as Wally Yonamine, was a multi-sport American athlete who played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) and Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

In the 1980s, Taiwanese pitchers Tai-Yuan Kuo and Katsuo Soh ( 莊勝雄 ) posted impressive numbers at the Seibu Lions and Chiba Lotte Marines, in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.