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.

* 1869 – The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.

2008 also saw a Japan exclusive box set containing the band's first six albums, This is the Devo Box.

The family reached the peak of its power under Fujiwara no Michinaga ( 966-1027 ), a longtime kampaku who was the grandfather of three emperors, the father of six empresses or imperial consorts, and the grandfather of seven additional imperial consorts ; it is no exaggeration to say that it was Michinaga who ruled Japan during this period, not the titular Emperors.

Its varied geographical features divide Japan into six principal climatic zones.

Five or six typhoons pass over or near Japan every year from early August to early September, sometimes resulting in significant damage.

It could take one of six possible routes at approximately 280 km, reduce the transit time from New York to California by one day and a total of 800 km, would considerably reduce transit costs from Europe to China and Japan, and have capacity for ships of up to 250, 000 tons.

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.

Japan invaded Thailand and engaged the Thai army for six to eight hours before Phibunsongkhram ordered an armistice.

In Asia at the same time, China had roughly six times the population of Japan, but only an 89 percent higher GDP ; this is reduced to three times the population and only a 38 percent higher GDP if Japanese colonies are included.

The United States, the European Union, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Japan and the Middle East collectively produce about one billion tires annually, with estimated accumulations of three billion in Europe and six billion in North America.

In June 2007, four North Korean defectors reached Aomori Prefecture, after having been at sea for six days, marking the second known case ever where defectors have successfully reached Japan by boat.

He toured both Korea and Vietnam during wartime and once spent six months touring Korea, Japan, and the Philippines.

The conditions imposed by Japan on China led to the Triple Intervention of Russia, France, and Germany, western powers all active in China, with established enclaves and ports, just six days after its signing.

Kolbe left Poland for Japan in 1930, spending six years there.

Dizygotic twinning ranges from six per thousand births in Japan ( similar to the rate of monozygotic twins ) to 14 and more per thousand in some African countries.

This is in marked contrast to dizygotic twinning, which ranges from about six per thousand births in Japan ( almost similar to the rate of identical twins, which is around 4 – 5 ) to 15 and more per thousand in some parts of India and up to over 20 in some Central African countries.

Bigelow recently announced that it has agreements with six sovereign states to utilize on-orbit facilities of the commercial space station: United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Sweden.

Takamatsu died in Nara, Japan in 1972 after advancing Hatsumi from student and bestowing on him " all the art of the nine schools ", three of which he indicated were ancient ninja schools and six samurai schools of martial arts.

NHK broadcasts the six annual Grand Sumo tournaments ( having done so since the 1953 Natsu Basho ), high-school baseball championships from Koshien Stadium, Olympic Games ( under the Japan Consortium ), National Sports Festival of Japan, and a range of other sports.

Eleven original video animations and six theatrical movies followed, and the series has been released on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD in Japan.

The loss of eight battleships and 2000 sailors and airmen at Pearl Harbor forced the US to rely on its remaining aircraft carriers, which won a major victory over Japan at Midway just six months into the war, and on its growing submarine fleet.

Another important immigrant writer Kazuo Ishiguro ( 1954-) was born in Japan, but his parents immigrated to Britain when he was six.