My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

In this role, he could and did remain active in the political life of Japan.

Late in the war, Japan did begin to produce new fighters such as the Nakajima Ki-84 and the Kawanishi N1K to replace the venerable Zero, but these were produced only in small numbers, and in any case by that time Japan lacked trained pilots or sufficient fuel to mount a sustained challenge to Allied fighters.

Left-wing organizations, such as the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, quickly reestablished themselves, as did various conservative parties.

If Konoe's negotiations did not bear fruit by mid-October, Japan would commence hostilities against the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.

Germany withdrew from the League, as did Japan, Italy, Spain and others.

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.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

As of 2008, there were approximately 7. 6 million Mahjong players in Japan and an estimated 8, 900 Mahjong parlors did ¥ 300 billion in sales.

However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there.

On the return trip from the Philippines to Mexico, the galleons did not call at Guam as the eastern winds were farther north, near the coast of Japan.

Mongol messengers demanding Japan's fealty had frightened the authorities into believing that Nichiren's prophecy of foreign invasion would materialize ( which it did in October ; see Mongol Invasions of Japan ).

Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.

Mistakes do occur and the designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by an earthquake would disable the backup systems that were supposed to stabilize the reactor after the earthquake.

The Dutch East India Company did not, however, actually employ the Swedish botanist and physician Carl Peter Thunberg ( 1743 – 1828 ), who arrived in Japan in 1775.

Mike Schmidt did wear the uniform during the MLB All-Star Tour of Japan following the 1979 season.

Towards the end of the conference, Japan was given an ultimatum to surrender ( in the name of the United States, Great Britain and China ) or meet " prompt and utter destruction ", which did not mention the new bomb.

An investigation by the Japan Times in July 2011 found that though drink spiking occurred, most of the incidents did not involve criminal activity.

This requires some retconning — Spenser stopped making reference to his military service in the Korean War as an eighteen-year-old, as he did in the first novels — although in 2006's Hundred Dollar Baby Spenser mentions being on " R and R " in Japan before going back to the war, although exactly which war is not made clear.

This edition was also translated and published abroad in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, and Japan, and it entered these markets before Dungeons & Dragons did in most cases.

As interest in the tea ceremony rose among the ruling class, so too did demand for fine ceramic implements, and during the course of the Korean campaigns, not only were large quantities of prized ceramic ware confiscated, many Korean artisans were forcibly relocated to Japan.

Japanese military victories did not bring about the collapse of Chinese resistance that Japan had hoped to achieve, instead the Chinese government relocated inland to Chongqing and continued the war.

In fact, Germany assured Japan that it would help broker a neutrality agreement with the Russians — something that Matsuoka dearly sought.

Popular Japanese ramen chains serve ramen alongside distinctly Japanese dishes such as tempura and yakitori, something which would be seen as odd in Japan.

Also, it is believed that a ring, defined as something other than simply the area given to the wrestlers by spectators, came into being in the 16th century as a result of a tournament organized by the then principal warlord in Japan, Oda Nobunaga.

Most notably, the 1954 film Gojira ( romanized as Godzilla ) depicted the title monster as an analogue for nuclear weapons, something Japan experienced first-hand.

Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U. S. at the time of his death.

During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records ; the album was released only in Japan and has since become something of a collectors item .< ref name = Orrore >

The Japanese word kimono means " something one wears " and they are the traditional garments of Japan.

From Okakura, he gained much of his fascination for aesthetics and perhaps foreign languages, as indeed his fascination with the peculiar cultural codes of the pleasure quarters of Japan owes something to the fact that his mother had once been a geisha.

However, considering the wholesale enthusiastic support for the war expressed by the entire religious establishment in Japan at the time, this fact is significant in showing something of the character of the man.

This sparked Suzuki's long held desire to teach Zen to Westerners, something he had thought about ever since an encounter he had had with a British woman in Japan as a young man.

In China, Vietnam and Japan, for instance, there is a superstition that if talking behind someone's back causes the person being talked about to sneeze ; as such, the sneezer can tell if something good is being said ( one sneeze ), something bad is being said ( two sneezes in a row ), even if someone is in love with them ( three sneezes in a row ) or if this is a sign that they are about to catch a cold ( multiple sneezes ).

National unity was something he stressed as relations with Japan deteriorated further.

The genre has undergone something of a resurgence with the release of the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii online services, while in Japan arcade shoot ' em ups retain a deep-rooted niche popularity.

Certain conservatives such as Gondō Seikei and Asahi Heigo saw the rapid industrialization of Japan as something that had to be tempered.

It seemed, for a time, that Japan was becoming too " Westernized " and that if left unimpeded, something intrinsically Japanese would be lost.

I am at liberty to reveal that it has something to do with an incident in my youth that happened in Japan.

Conder's work still adheres to the four-way classification, but in his eye for detail he puts together much historical work to create something resembling our modern Western image: he includes Druze, Yezidis, Mandeans, and Elamites under a list of possibly monotheistic groups, and under the final category, of " polytheism and pantheism ", he lists Zoroastrianism, " Vedas, Puranas, Tantras, Reformed sects " of India as well as " Brahminical idolatry ", Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Lamaism, " religion of China and Japan ", and " illiterate superstitions ".

Ōe's son, Hikari Ōe, despite his disability has made something of a name for himself in Japan through musical composition.

Book reviewer Kris Kosaka of The Japan Times panned the novella, stating that “ Arudou's underwhelming style insults the seriousness of international child abduction, the literary form itself, and any reader expecting something more than sludge .”

They later signed with Virgin Music America and Toshiba-EMI in Japan, due to that label's promises to break the group into the American market — something Sony was unwilling to do.

Japan Hero called the film " a work of art " and " a must see for anyone who loves Godzilla " that features " something for everyone "

In Japan, something like a corn dog can be found at many supermarkets and convenience stores as " American Dogs " ( katakana: アメリカンドッグ ) for their American origin.