Japan has had 15 destructive ones ( eight of them disastrous ) since 1596.

The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.

He cited, as an example, how the American camera industry has been able to meet successfully the competition of Japan despite lower Japanese labor costs, by improving its production know-how and technology.

Japan, since 1957, has been `` voluntarily '' curbing exports of textiles to the U.S..

Japan has donated towards demining following the civil war.

The Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan.

The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Japan celebrates a similarly themed Greenery Day, held on May 4. Although it has a similar theme to Arbor Day, its roots lay in celebration of the birthday of Emperor Hirohito.

In Japan, a strong belief in astrology has led to dramatic changes in the fertility rate and the number of abortions in the years of " Fire Horse ".

The ASROC has been deployed on scores of warships of many other navies, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of China, Greece, Pakistan and others.

As a result of Kuroshio Current ( also known as the Japan Current ), which crosses the North Pacific Ocean, coastal British Columbia has a mild, rainy oceanic climate.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

Population density also has a major impact, where dense urbanisation such as in Japan and the far east has led to the adoption of high capacity long multi-axle buses, often double-deckers, while South America and China are implementing large numbers of articulated buses for bus rapid transit schemes.

EW has been used in battle by Japan and several other nations have developed and been accused of using an entomological warfare program.

Since the mid 1980s, the United States has had a growing deficit in tradeable goods, especially with Asian nations ( China and Japan ) which now hold large sums of U. S debt that has funded the consumption.

Over the last several years, Chile has signed FTAs with the European Union, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, China, and Japan.

To that end, it has signed trade agreements in recent years with New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, India, China, and most recently Japan.

As in Japan, philosophy in China has become a melting pot of ideas.

As in Japan, philosophy in China has become a melting pot of ideas.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has been lobbying for Council of Europe observer states who practice the death penalty, the U. S. and Japan, to abolish it or lose their observer status.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

However, the ROC does not actively pursue these claims in practice ; the remaining claims that the ROC are actively seeking are the Diaoyu Islands, whose sovereignty is also asserted by Japan and the PRC ; and the Spratly Islands in South China Sea, with multiple claimants.

Most of the world's foremost authorities on Gagaku music ( the ancient classical Shinto music of the imperial court of Japan ) are also Tenrikyo followers, and Gagaku music is actively promoted by Tenrikyo, although, strictly speaking, the Mikagura-Uta and Gagaku are separate musical forms.

During the Tang Dynasty in China, when esoteric Buddhist practices reached their peak, Japan was actively importing Buddhism, its texts and teachings, by sending monks on risky missions across the sea to stay in China for two years or more.

Later, China went to war with Japan and he actively engaged in resisting the Japanese attack in 1937.

The group is actively involved in day-to-day operation and scientific utilization of the Japan / US / UK Yohkoh mission for studies of high-energy solar physics.

From 1603 onward, Japan started to participate actively in foreign trade.

He was also actively involved in anti-shrine-consolidation protests and the nature conservation movement in Japan.

The Comintern realized the importance of Japan in achieving successful revolution in East Asia and actively worked to form the Japanese Communist Party, which was founded in July 1922.

Developers using these compounds were actively patented in the US, Europe and Japan, until 1990s but the number of such patents is very low since late-1990s, when the digital era began.

From the mid 1930s, Angell actively campaigned for collective international opposition to the aggressive policies of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

" maritime restrictions "), emphasizing the fact that Japan was not " closed " to the outside world, but was in fact very actively engaged in interactions with the outside world, albeit through a limited set of avenues.

The high-energy astrophysicist is not only a distinguished member of the global scientific community ; he also actively promotes the academic exchange between Japan and foreign countries.

Brunk was able to recover from the neck injuries and return to wrestling, and he even wore a neck brace in his return match in the United States a month following the injury at Taz's hands ; by Brunk's account, however, he started actively wrestling in Japan with his partner on a short tour a little over two weeks after that injury.

In countries such as France, Japan and the Russian Federation that are still actively pursuing the evolution of fast reactor technology, the situation is aggravated by the lack of young scientists and engineers moving into this branch of nuclear power.

The university has actively explored various possibilities to run schools jointly and has established cooperative relationships with several foreign universities, such as the Leeds University in Britain, the Missouri University, the Tokyo University in Japan, the South Australia University, the Adelaide Secondary School of English in Australia and the Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto in Brazil.

The university has always been actively engaged in international exchange, as evidenced by its close educational exchanges with foreign universities and research institutes such as those from The United States, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Great Britain, France, Germany, Greece, etc.

The university has always been actively engaged in international exchange, as evidenced by the fact that it has successively established liaisons with more than 50 universities and research institutes in about 20 countries and regions, such as The United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Greece, etc.

The Gen ' yōsha also actively supported the Donghak Movement, knowing that the uprising was likely to draw China and Japan into a war.

In Japan, he continued to actively advocate democratic notions and reforms by using his writings to raise support for the reformers ’ cause among overseas Chinese and foreign governments.