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.

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.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

* Ōita, Japan – since 1990

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950, with the sudden drop in hinoeuma year ( 1966 )

*-Ōita, Japan, since 1978

Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.

The CWC has been held every two years since 2001, and to date the competition has been held in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.

In fact, the cars produced by Nissan already used the Datsun brand name, a successful brand in Japan since 1932, long before World War II.

Taiko has grown in the United States since coming over from Japan in the late 1960s.

Japan, which had been an ally of Britain since 1900, was angered that she had not been treated as an equal by the two major powers, and Anglo-Japanese relations soured thereafter.

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.

The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9. 0 or larger was a 9. 0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 ( as of March 2011 ), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Movies have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived.

Because of economic recessions, the number of movie theaters in Japan had been steadily decreasing since the 1960s.

He had taken with him presents for the " King of Japan " since he was intending to introduce himself as the Apostolic Nuncio.

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.

The March 11 quake was the largest ever recorded in Japan and is the world's fourth largest earthquake to strike since 1900, according to the U. S. Geological Service.

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950,

The broadcast industry has been dominated by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation ( Nippon Hoso Kyokai — NHK ) since its founding in 1925.

The Casio Computer Company, in Japan, released the Model 14-A calculator in 1957, which was the world's first all-electric ( relatively ) " compact " calculator.

Japan has an embassy in Kuala Lumpur, which was established in 1957.

* 1957 – Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kill 992.

A Japanese film adaptation, Throne of Blood ( Kumonosu jô, 1957 ), features Toshirô Mifune in the lead role and is set in feudal Japan.

In 1957, he travelled first to China ( where he was particularly interested in the Chinese desire for harmony ), Japan ( where he learnt much about the interaction between interiors and exteriors ) and India, before arriving in Australia in 1957 where he stayed until 1966.

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

The first Antarctic observation corps commanded by Takeshi Nagata left Japan in 1956, arriving at Antarctica on January 29 1957.

After World War II, the Air Force in Hawai ‘ i consisted primarily of the Air Transport Command and its successor, the Military Air Transport Service ( MATS ), until 1 July 1957 when Headquarters Far East Air Forces completed its move from Japan to Hawai ‘ i and was redesignated the Pacific Air Forces ( PACAF ).

The American World War II and Korean War general Haywood Hansell, who helped plan the Allied bombing offensive against both Germany and Japan, lived in Wassenaar in retirement from 1957 to 1966.

He was granted honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1933 ; in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1955 ; the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, in 1955 ; the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, in 1962 ; was elected Corresponding Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1955 ; member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists, Leopoldina ( Halle-Saale ) in 1956 ; Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, Copenhagen, in 1962 ; Vice-President of the International Union of Physics from 1951 to 1957 ; President and first honorary member of the Polarographic Society, London ; honorary member of the Polarographic Society of Japan ; honorary member of the Chemical Societies of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, England and India.

was a Japanese politician and the 56th and 57th Prime Minister of Japan from 25 February 1957 to 12 June 1958 and from then to 19 July 1960.

After the Liberal Party merged with the Japan Democratic Party to form the Liberal Democratic Party, Satō served as chairman of the party executive council from December 1957 to June 1958.

The publication of a full translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover by Sei Ito in 1950 led to a famous obscenity trial in Japan, extending from 8 May 1951 to 18 January 1952, with appeals lasting to 13 March 1957.

* Kamakura, Japan: Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Louis le Brocquy, Images Single and Multiple, 1957 – 1990, January 5-February 3, 1991.

In 1950 his ministry reached Manila, Japan in 1957, the United States in 1958, and extending to other countries in the Americas and Africa, including Ghana by 1972.

: Stationed at: Tachikawa ( later, Tachikawa AB ), Japan, 5 March 1949-1 July 1957

He was sent via Italy to India ( taking in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well ), and the next year ( 1957 ) again to China and Japan.

Other Japanese companies soon followed their entry into the American market and the grand total of electronic products exported from Japan in 1958 increased 2. 5 times in comparison to 1957.

" Materials for the Study of Local History in Japan: Pre-Meiji Daimyō Records ," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies ( Volume 20, Number 1 / 2, 1957 ): 187 – 212.

1957 established " All Japan Shorinji Kempo Federation "

The Japan Newspapers Association, made up of 180 news organizations, has granted the Mainichi its Grand Prix award on 21 occasions, making the Mainichi the most frequent winner of the distinguished prize since its inception in 1957.

* The United States and Japan ( 1957 )