In Japan, the number of ISDN subscribers dwindled as alternative technologies such as ADSL, cable Internet access, and fiber to the home gained greater popularity.

However, in 1942, with the entry of Japan into the Second World War, the island gained a strategic importance in the Indian Ocean and thus the British government hastily built a new airport in the south of the island at Plaisance.

Motels then gained international popularity in many countries, such as Thailand, Germany, and Japan.

Although the United States gained control of Guam and the Philippines from Spain in 1898, Japan controlled most of the western Pacific by 1914 and occupied many other islands during World War II.

and gained an exposure to Kabuki theatre ; These studies would lead him to travel to Japan.

Minamoto no Yoritomo seized certain powers from the central government and aristocracy and established a feudal system based in Kamakura in which the private military, the samurai, gained some political powers while the Emperors of Japan and the aristocracy in Japan remained the de jure rulers.

In Asia, Japan became a rising power and gained more respect from Western powers after its victory in the Russo-Japanese War.

In the 1930s, Japan gained significant influence in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria after it invaded Manchuria.

By way of example, and following Germany's decision after the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) to extract reparations to facilitate a move to the gold standard, Japan gained the needed reserves after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895.

Judging for ice dancing has been more controversial than other figure skating disciplines in the Olympics, and this gained considerable negative publicity at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan.

Hamas gained popularity in Palestinian society by establishing hospitals, education systems, libraries and other services, but it has also claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians, leading to its being characterized by the European Union, Israel, Japan, Canada, and the United States as a terrorist organization.

The first single released in Japan was " Set Your Heart " which gained significant airplay there and was used in the advertising campaign for the 2008 Toyota Car Model ( Mark X ZIO ) starring actor and singer Takeshi Kaneshiro.

Association football has gained wide popularity since the founding of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992.

Doom metal has also gained an audience in Japan.

Dragon Ash has gained some popularity outside Japan when the song Shizuka na Hibi no Kaidan Wo was used as the ending theme for the popular Japanese movie, Battle Royale.

It was in this period that Japan first gained Buddhism, the Chinese writing system, and law system.

As head of MITI, Tanaka gained public support again by standing up to U. S. negotiators who wanted Japan to impose export caps on several products.

During his last term in office, he also gained notoriety among the various non-Japanese ethnic groups in Japan ( particularly the sizeable Korean minority ) for proclaiming that Japan's success was because it did not have ethnic minorities, like the US.

After several large-scale military successes during the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and the Pacific War, the Empire of Japan also gained notoriety for its war crimes against the peoples of the countries it conquered.

Japan made territorial delimitation treaty with Russia in 1875, Japan gained all the Kuril islands in exchange for Sakhalin island.

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.

Portugal, with its vast sea power, and the Catholic Church, principally through the Spanish Order of the Jesuits, have gained a foothold in Japan and seek to extend their power.

In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

On the fateful day in 1896 when the great waves approached Japan, fishermen at sea noticed no unusual swells.

Central control of Japan had continued to decline, and the Fujiwara, along with other great families and religious foundations, acquired ever larger shōen and greater wealth during the early tenth century.

Sri Lanka and Japan are two close friends since the early stages of post World War ( II ) since Sri Lanka extended a great support for Japanese development plans at the UN secretarial discussions.

After the Meiji Restoration ( 1868 ), the Japanese government adopted a policy of turning Japan into a great economic and military power in East Asia.

As Nobunaga conquered Japan and amassed a great amount of wealth, he progressively supported the arts for which he always had an interest, but which he later and gradually more importantly used as a display of his power and prestige.

He enlists the aid of Manjiro, the only man in Japan who has dealt with Americans, and disguised as a great lord, Manjiro gets an answer from them: Commodore Perry announces that he must meet the Shogun within six days or else he will shell the city.

Before the Second World War, researchers in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, independently and in great secrecy, developed technologies that led to the modern version of radar.

In Japan, during the Sengoku era from the fifteenth to 17th century, the great struggle for feudal supremacy was fought, in part, by coastal fleets of several hundred boats, including the atakebune.

The Komaki Campaign was the only time any of the great unifiers of Japan fought each other: Hideyoshi vs. Ieyasu.

* January 17 – A magnitude 6. 8 earthquake called the " Great Hanshin earthquake " occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6, 434 people.

* February – English merchants of the East India Company complain that the great troubles and wars in Japan since their arrival have put them to much pains and charges.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

* November 26 – A great earthquake strikes Japan.

* January 29 – In Japan, Prince Mino is appointed Commissioners for the erection of the great Temple of Takechi ( Ōmiya no Ōdera ).

* In Japan, Kamo no Chōmei writes the Hōjōki, one of the great works of classical Japanese prose.

The school suffered a great loss in 1922 when Hughes became ill, and died in Japan while on his way back to England on sick leave.

* Japan begins 30-year period of great influence in Korea.

Marquis Ito: the great man of Japan.

Raeder believed that once Britain was defeated, Germany would have to take on and destroy Japan to properly achieve its " world power status " because as a great sea power, Japan was bound to become an enemy of the Reich sooner or later.

The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations, such as Ancient Japan, Greece and Rome, China, India, Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica.

The history of Tenrikyo is turbulent, having been established during a time of great change within Japan.

This is the reason for the great decline in population of snail with larger shells upon the introduction of black rats to the Ogasawara islands of Japan.