The details of the Kempeitai's military, executive and judicial police functions were defined by the Kempei Rei of 1898 which was subsequently amended twenty-six times before Japan's defeat in August 1945.

Its responsibilities include administration of Japan's judicial system and penal system.

However, the position was unique in among Japan's external possessions, as the Governor-General had sweeping plenipotentiary powers, and the position also entailed judicial oversight and some legislative powers.

The Tokyo District Court found in favor of Arita on 28 September 1964, Japan's first judicial recognition of the right to privacy.

* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.

‘ … 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.

In 1944, the USAF commenced Operation Matterhorn in order to bomb Japan's steel industry from bases to be constructed in mainland China.

Friedman's initial interest in cryptography came from reading " The Gold-Bug " as a child — interest he later put to use in deciphering Japan's PURPLE code during World War II.

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.

As of the early 21st century, Japan's succession law prohibits a female from ascending the throne.

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 ".

Additionally, Japanese pilots had received excellent training and many were combat veterans from Japan's campaigns in China.

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.

Japan's share of total foreign investment in ASEAN countries in the same period ranged from 70 to 80 percent in Thailand to 20 percent in Indonesia.

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.

The Anti-Comintern Pact marked the beginning of the shift on Germany's part from China's ally to Japan's ally.

Through Japan's ambassador to the United States, Kichisaburo Nomura, Konoe had in hand what he believed to be a promising peace proposal from the United States.

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.

During Japan's occupation, sugar cane became the main industry of the islands, and labor was imported from Japan and associated colonies ( especially Okinawa and Korea ).

It consists of hundreds of the Ryukyu Islands in a chain over long, which extends southwest from Kyūshū ( the southwesternmost of Japan's main four islands ) to Taiwan.

A notable exception is Japan's Cambridge and Oxford Society, probably arising from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.

* 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $ 2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

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.

The uchigatana was derived from the tachi and was the predecessor to the katana as the battle-blade of feudal Japan's bushi ( warrior class ), and as it evolved into the later design, the tachi and the uchigatana were often differentiated from each other only by how they were worn, the fittings for the blades, and the location of the signature ( mei ).

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

With the growing public and political pressure in recent years, since passage of Japan's blanket anti-gambling law, the police are more active in regulating parlors.

Japan's law prohibits possession of any lock picking tools and carries a penalty of one year imprisonment or a 500, 000 yen fine.

" District " is also a translation of chiku, defined by Japan's planning law.

The adoption of Japan's first military code of law — the Goseibai Shikimoku — in 1232 reflected the profound transition from court to militarized society.

The adoption of Japan's first military code of law — the Goseibai Shikimoku — in 1232 reflected the profound transition from court to militarized society.

She spent her first ten years in the House on the sidelines, but came to national attention in 1980 when she was highly critical of Japan's unequal treatment of women, specifically about women-only home economics degrees and the father-dominated family registration law.

Statutory law originates in Japan's legislature, the National Diet of Japan, with the approval of the Emperor as a formality.

These were called the roppo ( six codes ) and the term began to be used to mean the whole of Japan's statute law.

Japan's current corporate law is based upon the Commercial Code as amended through December 30, 2005.

" During a 13 March interview for Japan's Mainichi Shimbun, Afghan Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Mutawakel stated that the destruction was anything but a retaliation against the international community for economic sanctions: " We are destroying the statues in accordance with Islamic law and it is purely a religious issue ".

Japan's alcohol taxation law, as revised in April 2006, defines two categories of shōchū

In 1873 he was invited to lecture on constitutional and criminal law to some Japanese visitors to Paris, and received an invitation to work in Japan by the Japanese Ministry of Justice as one of several foreign legal scholars needed to assist with the drafting of Japan's legal codes and in the renegotiation of the unequal treaties.

He worked closely with Ume Kenjirō and Hozumi Nobushige in drafting much of Japan's criminal and civil law.

Under this law, motorboat races are held at 24 locations around the nation for the purpose of both bolstering the local economies and providing the revenue needed to support 1 ) the reconstruction of Japan's maritime industry, and 2 ) welfare projects around the country.

The ( abbreviated as ) is a law that formally established Japan's national flag and anthem.

Though, as Japanese law required, sexual organs and pubic hair were fogged on screen, the Asahi Shimbun calls it Japan's first hardcore pornographic movie.

Japan's intellectual property rights law prohibits audiovisual articles marketed for export from being sold domestically, and such sale of " re-imported " CDs are illegal.

Japan's Consul General Kametaro Iijima and lawyer Juichi Soyeda lobbied against the law.