Throughout the early years of World War 2,, reports persisted that the Axis powers had used gas -- Germany in Russia, Japan in China again.

* 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.

* 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and begins the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation.

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

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* 1945 – Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender ( August 15 in Japan Standard Time ).

* 1863 – The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom ( Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863 ).

* 1945 – World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

After World War II, most of the Ainu living in Sakhalin were deported to Japan.

* 1914 – World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Andaman and Nicobar islands were later occupied by Japan during World War II.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

* 1942 – World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.

Category: Battles of World War II involving Japan

Japan, she said, smelled pugh because people let dead fish lie on the beaches till the fish got hard as rocks ; ;

Organ donation in Japan is regulated by a 1997 organ transplant law, which defines " brain death " and legalized organ procurement from brain dead donors.

According to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul ; whether they be living, dying, or already dead.

In modern times, the custom of burying dead people below ground with a stone marker to indicated the burial place is used in most modern cultures, although other means such as cremation are becoming more popular in the West ( cremation is the norm in India and mandatory in Japan ).

Adashino Nembutsuji in Kyoto, Japan stands on a site where Japanese person | Japanese people once abandoned the bodies of the dead without burial

Because in Japan birds have long had a connection with the dead, this may mean it was born in connection with some prehistorical funerary rite.

The intense fighting that ensued cost 8, 000 killed and 30, 000 wounded in the Sixth Army, compared to 190, 000 dead for Japan.

Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Omitaka-yama, breaking the record for aircraft-crash casualties with 520 dead and only four survivors.

The Japanese War Cemetery holding the dead from the Breakout was tended to after WWII by members of the Cowra RSL and ceded to Japan in 1963.

The Japanese could not even pick up their dead, they instead cut an arm from their corpses limbs for cremation to send back to Japan.

White is used, because in Japan it symbolizes death — in this case, the bride becomes dead to her family.

The organization also reported, " we have tried through humane people in Japan, and through another Japanese producer to determine if these rumors are true, but everything has led to a dead end.

Other marine dead zones have apparently appeared in coastal waters of South America, China, Japan, and New Zealand.

The Japanese War Cemetery holding the dead from the Cowra Breakout was tended to after WWII by members of the Cowra RSL and ceded to Japan in 1963.

They usually appear between 2 and 3 a. m, the witching hour for Japan, when the veils between the world of the dead and the world of the living are at their thinnest.

Several changes were made to conform with the different censorship standards outside Japan, mainly due to sexual content: Katrina's age was changed from 14 in the Japanese version to 18 in the English version — due to a nude shower scene she has in the game — and the exposed breast of a dead Snatcher was covered up.

A few of these so-called curses are similar to those urban legends told in many schools in Japan, such as the " blood in the well ", and many others, with stories related to toilets most popular ( e. g. Taro and Hanako, dead students whose spirits are said to haunt the school toilets ).

The Charade was a surprise bestseller in Japan, where ever tighter emissions standards had made many observers consider the 1 liter car dead in the marketplace.

Jungle Crow ( Corvus macrorhynchos ) scavenging on a dead shark at a beach in Kumamoto, Japan

For Japan, the cost of capturing this landmark was great, with over 8, 000 dead and wounded in the final assault alone.

Other marine dead zones have appeared in coastal waters of South America, China, Japan, and New Zealand.

Having published over 350 books by 2005, and still more every year, Araki is considered one of the most prolific artists alive or dead in Japan and around the world.

As a result the dead rise to their feet in the countryside setting of Asahi, Japan, with an appetite for flesh.

His whereabouts are unknown after the events of the Bloody New Year's Eve and was presumed dead, but later reappears under the alias of ( a reference to the main character of Tomorrow's Joe ), revealing that after barely escaping the robot's explosion, he suffered amnesia and wandered throughout Japan, only to regain his memory after the end of the year 2015.