‘ … 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.

Denon's development dated from its work with Japan's NHK Broadcasting ; NHK developed the first high-fidelity PCM audio recorder in the late 1960s.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that he further stated " lacking military might, his country had to use the tools of diplomacy and promises of development aid to " get appreciation of Japan's position " on whaling.

Japan's New Town program is heavily informed by the Anglo-American Garden City tradition, American neighborhood design, as well as Soviet strategies of industrial development.

In 1985, the astronomy committee of Japan's science council gave top priority to the development of a " Japan National Large Telescope " ( JNLT ), and in 1986, the University of Tokyo signed an agreement with the University of Hawaii to build the telescope in Hawaii.

Terrified of Russia's push eastward, Kuroda returned to Tokyo and advocated quick development and settlement of Japan's northern frontier.

He was elected to the first Diet of Japan in 1870 and soon became Minister of Finance, in which capacity he instituted property and taxation reforms that aided Japan's early industrial development.

Rapid growth and structural change characterized Japan's two periods of economic development after 1868.

However, the zaibatsu ( Japan's family-controlled industrial conglomerates ) were ordered to be dismantled by the Allied powers in 1950, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was split into three regional companies, each with an involvement in motor vehicle development: West Japan Heavy-Industries, Central Japan Heavy-Industries, and East Japan Heavy-Industries.

The IJN's pursuit of the " decisive battle " was such that it contributed to Imperial Japan's defeat in World War II, and so rendered obsolete the doctrine of the decisive battle between fleets, because of the development of the submarine and the aircraft carrier.

Forms of economic nationalism and neomercantilism have also been key in Japan's development in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the more recent development of the Four Asian Tigers ( Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore ), and, most significantly, China.

Japan's economy and its political system had reached a watershed in their postwar development that would continue to play out into the 1990s.

The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo are often said to mark the re-emergence of Japan in the international arena: Japan's postwar development was showcased through innovations such as the Shinkansen high speed rail network.

He was honored by the government of Japan for having " contributed to mainstreaming Japan's development assistance policy through the United Nations.

The Mantetsu Research Wing was the centerpiece of Japan's colonial program, and instigated agricultural research into development of soybean farming.

Its southern half forms part of the Tama New Town project, Japan's largest residential development, constructed in the 1970s.

The key development for bombing Japan was the Boeing B-29, with an operational range of 1500 miles ( 2, 400 km ); almost 90 % of the bombs dropped on Japan's Home Islands ( 147, 000 tons ) were delivered by B-29s.

Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics known as wasan ; and he has been described as Japan's " Newton.

This continued through the beginning stages of Japan's post-World War II rapid economic growth period, leading Fukushima Prefecture to lag behind the country as a whole in industrial and economic development.

The dam initiated the development of Japan's first 275kV transmission system as well which allowed the transfer of electricity over greater distances.

The Gras rifle was partly the inspiration for the development of the Japanese Murata rifle, Japan's first locally-made service rifle.

It opened as Japan's first suburban shopping centre in 1969, and kick-started the development of similar stores around Japan.

The ( TNSC ) is one of Japan's space development facilities.

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 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.

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

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.

The Hibakusha (" explosion-affected people ") of Hiroshima and Nagasaki seek compensation from their government and criticize it for failing to " accept responsibility for having instigated and then prolonged an aggressive war long after Japan's defeat was apparent, resulting in a heavy toll in Japanese, Asian and American lives.

Square was founded in Yokohama in September 1983 by Masashi Miyamoto after he graduated from Waseda, one of Japan's top universities.

Nationalism meant the Han Chinese race standing up against Manchu rule and Japanese and Western interference, democracy meant elected rule modeled after Japan's parliament, and people's livelihood or socialism, meant government regulation of the means of production.

Curtin proved a popular leader, rallying the nation in the face of the danger of invasion by the Japanese after Japan's entry into the war in December 1941.

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

In 1820, Hokusai changed his name yet again, this time to " Iitsu ," a change which marked the start of a period in which he secured fame as an artist throughout Japan ( though, given Japan's isolation from the outside world during his lifetime, his fame overseas came after his death ).

During the Meiji period an edict was passed in 1871 abolishing the requirement of the wearing of daishō by samurai, and in 1876 the wearing of swords in public by most of Japan's population was banned ; this ended the use of the daishō as the symbol of the samurai, and the samurai class was abolished soon after the sword ban.

Noyori is currently a chairman of the Education Rebuilding Council, which was set up by Japan's PM Shinzō Abe after he came to power in 2006.

The Japanese promised not to interfere with the court at Huế, but in 1945, after ousting the French, coerced Bảo Đại into declaring Vietnamese independence from France as a member of Japan's " Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere "; the country then became the Empire of Vietnam.

Ichiro moved to the United States in 2001 after playing nine years for the Orix Blue Wave in Japan's Pacific League.

The new technology enabled Japan's cultured pearl industry to quickly expand after 1916 ; by 1935 there were 350 pearl farms in Japan producing 10 million cultured pearls annually.

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.

* 710: Japan's capital is moved from Fujiwara-kyō to Heijō-kyō, modeled after China's capital Chang ' an

However, after the end of occupation, much of Japan's educational system reverted to the older system.

It was named after an abduction at the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru in 1996, when members of a militant movement took hostage hundreds of people attending a party in the official residence of Japan's ambassador.

Japan's question time was closely modeled after that of the UK, and many Diet members travelled to the House of Commons to study the British application of the concept.

Soon after Japan's defeat, the Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek moved its capital back to Nanjing, destroyed Wang's tomb, and burned the body.

Like the rest of Japan's cinema industry, Ozu was slow to switch to the production of talkies: his first film with a dialogue sound-track was Hitori Musuko ( The Only Son ) in 1936, five years after Japan's first talking film, Heinosuke Gosho's The Neighbor's Wife and Mine.

In 2006, five years after the series finished airing in Japan, it was 93rd in TV Asahi's list of Japan's 100 favorite animated TV series.

Martial arts training in Japan was banned for five years by the Allied Forces after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.