Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.

The traditional Japanese nightmare-devouring baku originates in Chinese folklore and was familiar in Japan as early as the Muromachi period ( 14th-15th century ).

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Cultures and countries strongly influenced by Confucianism include mainland China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Vietnam, as well as various territories settled predominantly by Chinese people, such as Singapore.

Independently, the Chinese developed their own advanced water clocks （ 水鐘 ） in 725 A. D., passing their ideas on to Korea and Japan.

In 1939 Muslim leaders Isa Yusuf Alptekin and Ma Fuliang were sent by Chiang to several Middle eastern countries, including Egypt, Turkey, and Syria, to gain support for the Chinese War against Japan, and to express his support for Muslims.

For some, Chiang was a national hero who led the victorious Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Warlords in 1927, achieving Chinese unification, and who subsequently led China to ultimate victory against Japan in 1945.

In 1912, when Jiang Zhiqing was in Japan, he started to use the name Chiang Kai-shek ( Chinese: 蔣介石 ; Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chiang Chieh-shih ) as a pen name for the articles that he published in a Chinese magazine he founded ( Voice of the Army ( Chinese: 軍聲 ).

The Yuehua, a Chinese Muslim publication, quoted the Quran and Hadith to justify submitting to Chiang Kai-shek as the leader of China, and as justification for Jihad in the war against Japan.

Korean nationalists have virulently reacted against China's application to UNESCO of Goguryeo tombs in Chinese territory: the absolute independence of Goguryeo is a central aspect of Korean identity, because according to Korean legend, it was comparatively independent from China and Japan, in contrast to subordinate states like the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire.

" The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō and those of residents of Korean and Chinese descent.

There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and which is ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.

The various drums of taiko are of Chinese origin and were brought to Japan between the Yayoi period ( 500 BCE – 300 CE ).

Encyclopedic works, both in imitation of Chinese encyclopedias and as independent works of their own origin, have been known to exist in Japan since the 9th century.

" heavenly sovereign "), which is used exclusively to refer to an emperor of Japan, and kōtei ( 皇帝, the title used for Chinese emperors ), which is used primarily to describe non-Japanese emperors.

The ruler of Japan was known as either 大和大王 / 大君 ( Yamato-ōkimi, Grand King of Yamato ), 倭王 / 倭国王 ( Wa-ō / Wakoku-ō, King of Wa, used externally ), or 治天下大王 ( ame-no-shita shiroshimesu ōkimi or sumera no mikoto, Grand King who rules all under heaven, used internally ) in Japanese and Chinese sources prior to the 7th century.

Chinese calligraphic influence had been weakened after the Heian period ; this text was an example of the different way it was evolving in Japan.

This would have been a king of Japan ( referred to as Wa by contemporary Chinese scholars ) who is said to have sent messengers to the Song Dynasty at least twice, in 443 and 451.

In Asia, Japan committed large massacres of Chinese civilians.

* 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo ( the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria ) independent from the Republic of China.

After the Mongols conquered China and founded the Yuan Dynasty, they used the Chinese gunpowder-based weapons technology in their invasion of Japan ; they also used gunpowder to fuel rockets.

Its migration routes and wintering grounds are poorly known, the only recent information being from occasional records on both the eastern and western coasts of Japan and along the Chinese coast.

Bhang lassi is featured on the multiple Gemini award winning Docu-Drama " Cosmic Current and released on Dynastic records Japan with an upcoming release on major Japanese label Victor Entertainment.

* Nihon Montoku Tennō Jitsuroku, one of the Six National Histories of Japan ; edited by Fujiwara no Mototsune.

* Shoku Nihon Kōki, one of the Six National Histories of Japan ; edited by Fujiwara no Yoshifusa.

Within the official Chinese dynastic Twenty-Four Histories, Japan is mentioned among the so-called Dongyi 東夷 " Eastern Barbarians ".

Later that decade, stores opened in other parts of the world, including Japan ( 1974 ), Australia and Hong Kong ( 1975 ), Canada ( 1976 ) and Singapore ( 1978 ).

Later, after Germany and Japan both left the League, the number of non-permanent seats was increased from nine to eleven, and the Soviet Union was made a permanent member giving the Council a total of fifteen members.

Later, when he travelled to Japan as Prime Minister, he was promoted to sho-dan ( first-degree black belt ) by the Kodokan, and then promoted to ni-dan ( second-degree black belt ) by Masao Takahashi in Ottawa before leaving office.

Later Japan was forced to re-cede the Liaodong peninsula, after the Triple intervention of Russia, Germany and France, and asked for more money — an additional 30 million kuping ( 1. 12 million kg ) of silver — from China, the total amount thus being over 8, 500 tons of silver.

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

Later, many Americans considered the agreements of the Yalta Conference to be a " sellout ", encouraging Soviet expansion of influence to Japan and Asia, and because Stalin eventually violated the agreements in forming the Soviet bloc.

Later that year, the band recorded a Japanese version of " Kiss Me ", which was released exclusively in Japan on an EP with numerous versions of the song, as well as remixes of other songs on the self-titled album.

Later, with the advent of Modernism, the absence of perspective in oriental art from China, Japan and in Persian miniatures was revalued.

Later, in 1920 Tsuji was introduced to Dada and became a self-proclaimed first Dadaist of Japan, a title also claimed by Tsuji's contemporary, Takahashi Shinkichi ( 高橋 新吉 ).

Later, the ceremonial use of a bow was adopted from China and continued in Japan after it had ended in China.

Later in Japan, complex wooden mechanisms were used to help hold the woodblock perfectly still and to apply proper pressure in the printing process.

Later he traveled all over the world, but mostly in Asia, Africa, the U. S. and Japan.

Later in 1945 he was chief of staff to the British Mission to Japan.

Wa, the Japanese pronunciation of an early Chinese name for Japan, was mentioned in 57 AD ; the Na state of Wa received a golden seal from the Emperor Guangwu of the Later Han Dynasty.

Later that year, Japan declared war on the Empire of Germany, thus entering World War I on the Allied side.

Later that year, Universal Japan pushed for another Racer X release.

Later that year World War II ended, and Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, surrendering unconditionally.

Later given to the family's Vienna branch, where a family servant kept them hidden during the Holocaust when the Nazis confiscated the family's other possessions, the Netsuke were in 1947 taken back to Japan by a surviving family member who came to live in Tokyo.

Later in 2004, ANA, Japan Airlines, and SAS signed on to the service.

Later in 1941 the Japanese government asked Toyota to produce a light truck for the Japan military campaign.

Later it became associated particularly with the Tien Tai school in China ( Tendai in Japan ) and the Nichiren schools in Japan.

Later that day, X Japan released a press statement through their French language website apologizing for the second postponement and announced that the planned Christmas shows would likely suffer a similar fate.

Later in 1942, Japan established a military base on Manus.

Later, Shizo Kanakuri of Japan was reported to have set a world record of 2: 32: 45 in a November 1911 domestic qualification race for the 1912 Summer Olympics, but this performance was also run over a distance of approximately 40 km.