Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

In early 1950, the U. S. took its first efforts to oppose communist forces in Vietnam ; planned to form a West German army, and prepared proposals for a peace treaty with Japan that would guarantee long-term U. S. military bases there.

She also took job opportunities working briefly at dance halls in Japan and Taiwan, and wrote two missives under the name " Courtney Michelle " in punk-zine Maximumrocknroll on local bands Poison Idea and Rancid Vat.

For example the attack on Pearl Harbor that began at 1941-12-07T18: 18Z took place on 7 December according to Hawaii Time ( UTC-10: 30 ), and on 8 December according to Japan Standard Time ( UTC + 09 ).

Japan took Vietnam from France and the Axis-occupied Vietnam was declared an empire by the Japanese in March 1945.

It is supposed that his succession was not welcomed by everyone, and it took about 20 years for Keitai to enter Yamato province, near Kawachi and the political center of Japan at the time.

A more recent sale in 2008 of 108 tonnes from the three countries and South Africa took place to Japan and China.

In the Cold War, Japan took a part in the Western world's confrontation of the Soviet Union in East Asia.

" As evidence of this new role, Japan took an active part in promoting negotiations to resolve the Cambodian conflict.

India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh took part.

Eight countries took part including India, China, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Japan was therefore left in control of Manchuria until the Soviet Union's Red Army took over the area and returned it to China at the end of the Second World War.

Brando then took a variety of roles in the 1950s: portraying Napoleon in Désirée, Sky Masterson in the musical Guys and Dolls ; Sakini, a Japanese interpreter for the U. S. Army in postwar Japan in The Teahouse of the August Moon ; as a United States Air Force officer in Sayonara, and a German officer in The Young Lions.

Early in World War I, Japan took the opportunity to declare war on Germany and invaded the Northern Marianas, hoping to annex them.

Although some talks towards normalization of relations with Japan took place, they achieved little.

Burnel took time out from The Stranglers to fly out to Japan at short notice and join ARB to cover the tour, including appearing at the ' All Japan Rock Festival ' at Hibaya park, becoming the first non-Japanese to ever appear at the festival.

After the two-week run in Japan, the Residents took the show through the US.

COP 3 took place in December 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.

Japan also took a leading role in peacekeeping activities in Cambodia.

The A300-600 took off immediately after a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400 on the same runway.

* Empress Saimei of Japan builds a new palace at Asuka, because her former residences took fire.

Though Kamakura Bakufu took over the police force and ruled Eastern Japan, the authority of Emperor and retired Emperors remained.

Also war-time propaganda and cooperation had `` obscured the differences between Russian and Western ideas of democracy '', and it seemed better to have them covered by verbal formulae than to imperil the military victories over Germany and Japan.

They knew that I was still grieving over the tragic event, and they felt that if I could see the recovery and the spirit of the people, who hold no grudge, but who also regret Pearl Harbor, I would be happier and would understand better a new Japan.

Then Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, India, Pakistan, Damascus, Beirut, and to Rome, London, and Paris `` to look over wonderful talent ''.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

* Victory over Japan Day ( United States )

This is due to confusion over mixed heritages and to ethnic issues in Japan resulting in those with Ainu backgrounds hiding their identities.

In Japan, because of intermarriage over many years with Japanese, the concept of a pure Ainu ethnic group is no longer feasible.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

* 1859 – A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far away as Japan.

In 1966, the number of babies born in Japan dropped by over 25 % as parents tried to avoid the stigma of having a daughter born in the hinoeuma year.

The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.

Germany, France, Japan, and Canada have maintained higher savings rates than the U. S. over the long run.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

Today, curling is played all over Europe and has spread to Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Korea.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

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

Today Hachijō-daiko is no longer confined to Hachijō-jima but can be heard all over Japan as well as the U. S. and elsewhere due to a growing musical diaspora that stretches around the globe.

* 1946 – An 8. 1 M < sub > w </ sub > earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1, 300 people and destroy over 38, 000 homes.

The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few decades, at first primarily in the Russian Empire and Central Europe, then in other parts of Europe, the Americas, China, and Japan.

Recent disasters in Japan have raised concerns over the safety of nuclear power.

During the closing stages of the war, Japan's fighter arm could not seriously challenge raids over Japan by American B-29s, and was largely relegated to Kamikaze tactics.

Members of the Fujiwara, Taira, and Minamoto families — all of whom had descended from the imperial family — attacked one another, claimed control over vast tracts of conquered land, set up rival regimes, and generally broke the peace of Japan.

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

Pass of the ISS over Mongolia, looking out west towards the Pacific Ocean, China, and Japan.