* 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.

* 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.

* 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay.

For example, the identifier for Japan Airlines International is JAL and the designator is Japan Air, but Aer Lingus is EIN and Shamrock.

Thus, a Japan Airlines flight numbered 111 would be written as " JAL111 " and pronounced " Japan Air One One One " on the radio, while a similarly numbered Aer Lingus would be written as " EIN111 " and pronounced " Shamrock One One One ".

The two main airlines are Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.

* 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

In 1988, Streamline Pictures produced an exclusive dub for use on transpacific flights by Japan Airlines and its Oneworld partners.

Japan Airlines has publicly acknowledged they are running z / TPF.

** Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 crashes while landing at Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 persons on board.

** Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members.

* February 9 – Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 among the 174 people on board.

* August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people ( the worst single-aircraft disaster in history ).

Nonetheless, terrorism was officially ruled out as the cause by the National Transportation Safety Board, which instead attributed the disaster to the first officer's overuse of rudder controls in response to wake turbulence released by a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400.

The A300-600 took off immediately after a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 on the same runway.

Vietnam Airlines ’ code will apply to American Airlines flights from the United States to Vietnam, Japan, and Europe.

American Airlines ’ code will apply to Vietnam Airlines flights from Vietnam to Japan and Europe.

Iberia has a codeshare agreement with several Oneworld members: Cathay Pacific on flights from Amsterdam and London Heathrow to Hong Kong, Japan Airlines on flights from Amsterdam to Tokyo Narita and Royal Jordanian from Madrid to Amman, and with LAN Airlines for flights connecting Latin America and most of Europe.

In 2003, the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF ) introduced a set of basic exercises using a bokuto called Bokuto Ni Yoru Kendo Kihon-waza Keiko-ho.

The All Japan Kendo Federation specify the dimensions of bokken for use in the modern kendo kata, called Nippon kendo kata.

Destroy All Monsters, ( released in Japan as, is a 1968 Japanese Science fiction Kaiju film produced by Toho.

* Gemmological Association of All Japan ( GAAJ-ZENHOKYO ), Zenhokyo, Japan, active in gemological research.

All other prefectures have coasts on the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Japan, Seto Inland Sea or have a body of salt water connected to them.

* All Geography of Japan information taken from the.

* 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

In 1971 the All Japan Kickboxing Association ( AJKA ) was established and it registered approximately 700 kickboxers.

Edler defended the All Japan title several times and abandoned it.

Many examples can be seen at an annual competition hosted by the All Japan Swordsmith Association, under the auspices of the Nihontō Bunka Shinkō Kyōkai ( Society for the promotion of Japanese Sword Culture ).

The All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF or ZNKR ) was founded in 1952, immediately following the restoration of Japanese independence and the subsequent lift of the ban on martial arts in Japan.

The " Kodansha Meibo " ( a register of dan graded members of the All Japan Kendo Federation ) shows that as of September 2007, there were 1. 48 million registered dan graded kendōka in Japan.

According to the survey conducted by the All Japan Kendo Federation, the number of active kendo practitioners in Japan is 477, 000 in which 290, 000 dan holders are included.

From these figures, the All Japan Kendo Federation estimates that the number of " kendōka " in Japan is 1. 66 million by adding the number of the registered dan holders and the active kendo practitioners without dan grade.

In 1975, the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF ) developed then published " The Concept and Purpose of Kendo " which is reproduced below.

All official MIDI standards are jointly developed and published by the MMA in Los Angeles, California, USA, and for Japan, the MIDI Committee of the Association of Musical Electronics Industry ( AMEI ) in Tokyo.

In Japan, it is New Japan Pro Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling NOAH.

* The Nippon Sei Ko Kai ( Japan )

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

The broadcast industry has been dominated by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation ( Nippon Hoso Kyokai — NHK ) since its founding in 1925.

Funakoshi changed the names of many kata and the name of the art itself ( at least on mainland Japan ), doing so to get karate accepted by the Japanese budō organization Dai Nippon Butoku Kai.

Ogawa named the element nipponium, after Japan ( which is Nippon in Japanese ).

The Asia Leaders Programme, a Dual Campus Master Programme, is a shared initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University for Peace, in collaboration with Ateneo de Manila University, which aims to provide students from Japan and other Asian countries with an opportunity to pursue a peace studies post graduate degree with a content-based language-training module.

The date ( expressed as the year in the reign of the emperor at the time the coin was stamped ) is on the reverse of all coins, and, in most cases, country name ( through 1945, 大日本 or Dai Nippon, " Great Japan "; after 1945, 日本国, Nihon koku, " State of Japan ") and the value in kanji is on the obverse, except for the present 5-yen coin where the country name is on the reverse.

* July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet ; 162 people are killed.

** Two Japanese government-owned corporations, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.

Since Japan has a demand for fiber to the home, Japan is looking into tapping a fiber-optic backbone line of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone ( NTT ), a domestic backbone carrier, in order to deliver this service at cheaper prices.

Seitei Iaido ( 制定 ) (" basis of the Iaido ") or Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iaido is the standard set of iaido kata created in 1968 by a committee formed by the All Japan Kendo Federation ( AJKF, Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei or ZNKR ).

*" Zen Nippon Kendo Renmei Iai ", English Version Manual, 3rd edition, published December 2009, by All Japan Kendo Federation, Tokyo, Japan.

* Japan Iaido Federation ( Nippon Iaido Renmei / NIR ).

This process of standardization of martial training continued when, in 1895, a body for martial arts in Japan, the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, was established.