The Bahá ' í Faith in Japan begins after a few mentions of the country by ` Abdu ' l-Bahá first in 1875.

Generally speaking, biwa is considered one of Japan ` s principal traditional instruments, and, as such, it has both influenced and been influenced by other traditional instruments and compositions throughout its long history in Japan.

The biwa hoshi are considered the first performers of the Tale of the Heike ( 平家物語 ), which is one of Japan ` s most famous epics.

*` Studio International ` 1968 and 1972 ; Art and Australia 1981 ; ` Link ` 1983 ; ` Golwg ` 1990 ; ` Wind ` Japan 1996 ; ` Art and Society `, Japan 1997 ;

It is known that tests were undertaken in Cairo, Egypt, Liberia, in South Korea, and in Japan ’ s satellite province of Okinawa in 1961, or earlier.

Ultimately, Nissan Heavy Industries emerged near the end of the war as an important player in Japan ’ s war machinery.

The discouragement felt by Katayama as regards his prospects at Nissan, led to his going on the verge of resigning, when Datsun ’ s 1958 Australian Mobilgas victories vaunted him, as leader of the winning Datsun teams, to national prominence in a Japan bent on regaining international status.

Around the same time as Daihachi Oguchi ’ s Taiko ensemble's name was spreading around Japan via radio and television broadcasts, another pioneer in the field called, Sukeroku Daiko, emerged.

Den Tagayasu ( b. Tajiri Kozo, 1931 – 2001 ) started Ondekoza on Japan ’ s Sado Island in 1969.

Children of the Drum: The Life of Japan ’ s Kodo Drummers.

* Thornbury, Barbara E. " From Festival Setting to Center Stage: Preserving Japan ’ s Folk Performing Arts.

* " The Cultural Properties Protection Law and Japan ’ s Folk Performing Arts.

Japan ’ s new ocean policy emphasizes the need to develop methane hydrate and hydrothermal deposits within Japan ’ s exclusive economic zone and calls for the commercialization of these resources within the next 10 years.

The number of B channels for PRI varies according to the nation: in North America and Japan it is 23B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 1. 544 Mbit / s ( T1 ); in Europe, India and Australia it is 30B + 1D, with an aggregate bit rate of 2. 048 Mbit / s ( E1 ).

Sunshine, in accordance with Japan ’ s uniformly heavy rainfall, is generally modest in quantity, though no part of Japan receives the consistently gloomy fogs that envelope the Sichuan Basin or Taipei.

* Another Tsunami Warning: Caring for Japan ’ s Elderly, Brief on what the future of Japan looks like for an increasingly aging population, and if this demographic transition is limited to Japan alone.

Japan remains Cambodia ’ s top donor country providing some US $ 1. 2 billion in total overseas development assistance ( ODA ) during the period since 1992.

A common ancestor of Japanese and Ryukyuan languages or dialects is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from either continental Asia or nearby Pacific islands ( or both ) sometime in the early-to mid-2nd century BC ( the Yayoi period ), replacing the language ( s ) of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language.

* 869 – A magnitude 8. 6M < sub > s </ sub > earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.

Saionji felt very strongly that Japan ’ s foreign policy depended upon good relations with Britain, France, and the US.

Prince Konoe went on to serve three times as Japan ’ s Prime Minister.

Max and Moritz is the first published original foreign children ’ s book in Japan which was translated into rōmaji by Shinjirō Shibutani and Kaname Oyaizu in 1887 as (" Naughty stories ").

Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Japan ).

* Immigration Control 2006, the Immigration Bureau, the Ministry of Justice ( Japan ), 2006.

* Roads In Japan, from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism ( MLIT )-English and Japanese website, link refers specifically to 5 PDF chapters-as well as a reference chapter-on road history, statistics, maps, construction and advanced road technologies in Japan ( graphics throughout, 41 total pages ).

Foreign relations of Japan is handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

* Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Mongolia

* Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: list of bilateral treaties with Japan ( in Mongolian )

Web Japan ( sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs ) claims there are 50 million karate practitioners worldwide and the WKF claims there are 100 million practitioners.

After negotiations, the pact was signed in Paris at the French Foreign Ministry by the representatives from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, British India, the Irish Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Web Japan ( sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs ) claims there are 50 million karate practitioners worldwide.

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

In the amount of 45 mg daily MK4 has been approved by the Ministry of Health in Japan since 1995 for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

* October 10 – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the jōyō kanji.

: Aeronautical Information Publication ( AIP ) is provided by Japan Aeronautical Information Service Center, under the authority of Japan Civil Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan.

Koizumi's government also introduced a bill to upgrade the Japan Defense Agency to ministry status ; finally, the Defense Agency became the Japanese Ministry of Defense on 9 January 2007.

Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Japan ).

This was written 南支那海 until 2004, when the Japanese Foreign Ministry and other departments switched the spelling 南シナ海, which has become the standard usage in Japan.

Memorial Postal Stamp of International Geophysical Year by Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications ( Japan ) | Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Japan, 1957.

* Security Council ( Japan ), a Ministry of Japan

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute offers graduate programs in Athens, Greece and Kobe, Japan, in collaboration with Athens Information Technology and the Hyogo Institute of Information Education Foundation, respectively.

* Education in Japan

PASSIA ’ s educational and training seminars are divided into two categories: In ­ ternational Affairs – including seminars on Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Strategic Studies and Security, the EU, Education on Democ ­ racy, The Foreign Policies of Arab States, Japan and the Middle East, and The United States and Canada: Political Systems, Policy-Making and the Middle East – and Civil Society Empowerment, with seminars held to date including those on Policy-Making, Strategic Planning & Media & Com ­ munication Skills.

* Education in Japan

The group of people who purchased the rights registered themselves initially as Transnational Education, as The Centers Network, and ( in Japan ) as Rancord Company, Ltd .. Incorporation as " Landmark Education Corporation " ( LEC ) took place later in 1991.

The 1999 curriculum guideline issued by the Ministry of Education after the passage of the Law Regarding the National Flag and Anthem decrees that " on entrance and graduation ceremonies, schools must raise the flag of Japan and instruct students to sing the " Kimigayo " ( national anthem ), given the significance of the flag and the song.

After his return to Japan in 1868, Takahashi taught English conversation, and later became the first master of the Kyōritsu Gakkō high school in Tokyo, ( currently Kaisei High School ) and at the same time worked as a low-ranking governmental bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, later the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.

Category: Education in Japan

Others include the degree of Doctor of Education, various doctorates in engineering, such as the US Doctor of Engineering ( also awarded in Japan and South Korea ), the UK Engineering Doctorate and the German Engineering Doctorate Doktor-Ingenieur and the German degree of Doctor rerum naturalium ( Dr. rer. nat .).

LET: The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology ( LET ), formerly known as the Language Laboratory Association ( LLA ), and now embraces a wider range of language learning technologies.

In Japan, the JLPT is administered by the Ministry of Education

While the other Imperial Universities located in Japan were run by Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Keijō Imperial University was run by Governor-General of Korea.

With Togawa pressuring the newspapers and Yoshinori Imaizumi urging the Ryukyuan government and Southern Japan Liaison Offices through the Ministry of Education, the Southern Japan Liaison Offices denied the possibility of giving the cats to the emperor, and the Ryukyuan government persuaded the mayor not to follow through with his plans.

or is a Japanese government initiative that brings college ( university ) graduates — mostly native speakers of English — to Japan as Assistant Language Teachers ( ALTs ) and Sports Education Advisors ( SEAs ) in Japanese kindergartens, elementary, junior high and high schools, or as Coordinators for International Relations ( CIRs ) in local governments and boards of education.

The term is used by the Ministry of Education, local Boards of Education ( BOEs ) and schools in Japan primarily to refer to English language speakers who assist with teaching of English in elementary, junior high and high schools.

* Education in Japan

For more information, see Education in Japan and Jet Programme in Mizusawa.

Category: Education ministers of Japan

In Japan, the School Education Law was revised in 1998, and secondary schools were newly recognized.

In 1945, Suzuki began his Talent Education movement in Matsumoto, Japan shortly after the end of World War II.