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

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.

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 ).

In introducing karate from Okinawa to Japan, Gichin Funakoshi changed the name of the kata from Niseishi to Nijūshiho.

The practice of forms ( kata ) is an old way of teaching traditional martial arts in Japan, and is the core of many " old school / flow " ( koryū ) martial arts.

The versions of the kata in this book are the versions officially recognized in Japan by the Japan Karate-do Federation ( JKF ).

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It has, however, been removed from the Japan Karate Association teaching and grading syllabus.

Much of the aiki-ken syllabus was developed by Morihei Ueshiba ( 植芝 盛平 Ueshiba Morihei, 1883 – 1969 ) at his dojo in Iwama, Japan, at the same time he developed aikido's staff training ( called aiki-jō ).

Henry Dyer was appointed in charge and wrote the syllabus for the first year of the college whilst travelling by ship from his native Scotland to Japan.

Kyoto is the ancient capital of Japan and still its cultural center.

It, along with Nara, was untouched by the war -- and is now a beautiful example of the loveliness of prewar Japan.

This is a significant fact in Japan, for only a few years ago he would have had no choice.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

Our Masu is one of the very few architects in Japan who is trying to plan homes around family functions and women's needs.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

The abacus is still manufactured in Japan today even with the proliferation, practicality, and affordability of pocket electronic calculators.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

* 1875 – The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

* 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).

* Shinto, the traditional religion of Japan, is highly animistic.

* 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a " divine wind " for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.

* 1978 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is signed.

This is due to confusion over mixed heritages and to ethnic issues in Japan resulting in those with Ainu backgrounds hiding their identities.

In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.

The only places outside of Japan in which Y-haplogroup D is common are Tibet and the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The same editorial continued that `` We expected to democratize Japan and Korea and to see a new China pattern itself easily on our institutions.

Japan did something to a man -- and it wasn't just Japan, either, because the same thing applied anywhere overseas.

In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

These were people of the same race, same religion and same culture as their neighbors yet were considered morally impure by birth, repulsive and shunned, just like the Burakumin caste of Japan and Osu caste of Nigeria.

Japan also invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies at the same time ( December 8 in Asia ).

Around the same time as Daihachi Oguchi ’ s Taiko ensemble's name was spreading around Japan via radio and television broadcasts, another pioneer in the field called, Sukeroku Daiko, emerged.

In Japan, in the late 19th century / early 20th century, dragoons were deployed in the same way as in other armies, but were dressed as hussars.

Dress daggers were used by several other countries as well, including Japan but never to the same extent as those worn by the Military and Political bodies of the Third Reich or Fascist Italy.

Most of their titles are associated with The Vanilla Series, a series of hentai titles produced in Japan by Digital Works which are tied-in with eroge games of the same title.

The same happened after the Fukushima disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

The IAEA says that the same happened after the Fukushima disaster in Fukushima, Japan.

In the same period, the Empire of Japan, following the Meiji Restoration ; the German Empire, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ; Tsarist Russia ; and the United States, following the Spanish-American War in 1898, quickly emerged as new imperial powers in East Asia and in the Pacific Ocean area.

In 1929, Canada opened its Tokyo legation, the first in Asia ; and in that same year, Japan its Ottawa consulate to legation form.

At the same time, government and business leaders see Japan as a vital export market and an essential element in Australia's strong future growth and prosperity in the Asia Pacific region.

In the same report, Ribbentrop advised Hitler to abandon the idea of a British alliance, and instead embrace the idea of an alliance of Germany, Japan, and Italy, to destroy the British Empire.

In recognition of his improvement of the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and earned the Japan Prize in the same year.

In 1933, Japan simply withdrew from the League rather than submit to its judgement, as did Germany the same year ( using the failure of the World Disarmament Conference to agree to arms parity between France and Germany as a pretext ), and Italy in 1937.

In Japan, the same period marks the formation of the modern forms of judo, jujitsu, karate, and kendo ( among others ) based on revivals of old schools of Edo period martial arts which had been suppressed during the Meiji Restoration.

It is likely that Hishio, and other fermented soy-based foods, were introduced to Japan at the same time as Buddhism in the 6th century AD.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

At the same time, Urban repealed the Jesuit monopoly on missionary work in China and Japan, opening these countries to missionaries of all orders.