The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.

My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.

It, along with Nara, was untouched by the war -- and is now a beautiful example of the loveliness of prewar 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.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia.

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.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

It was not until June 6, 2008 that Japan formally recognised the Ainu as an indigenous group ( see Official Recognition, below ).

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.

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.

The last known deportation of Ainu to Japan occurred in 1982, when Keizo Nakamura, a full blooded Northern Kurils Ainu was deported to Hokkaido after serving 15 years hard labor in the province of Magadan.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

The work of Lavoisier was translated in Japan in the 1840s, through the process of Rangaku.

Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.

In Japan armour continued to be used until the end of the samurai era, with the last major fighting in which armour was used happening in 1868. Samurai armour had one last short lived use in 1877 during the Satsuma Rebellion

Akio Morita was born in the village of Kosugaya, Japan.

Morita was vice chairman of the Keidanren ( Japan Federation of Economic Organizations ), and was a member of the Japan-U. S. Economic Relations Group, also known as the " Wise Men's Group ".

In Maser's view ( 1994: 42 ), " neither Germany nor Japan were in a situation invading the USSR even with the least perspective of success ," and this could not have been unknown to Stalin.

Stalin hoped the Chinese would keep Japan from invading the Soviet Pacific coast, and he hoped to form an anti-Japanese alliance with the senior Chiang.

Each leader had an agenda for the Yalta Conference: Roosevelt asked for Soviet support in the U. S. Pacific War against Japan, specifically invading Japan ; Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe ( specifically Poland ); and Stalin demanded a Soviet sphere of political influence in Eastern and Central Europe, an essential aspect of the USSR's national security strategy.

Japan was hoping to conquer China in its entirety by invading vast areas of Northern China.

* The Indochina Wars, wherein rebel Vietnamese forces fought from 1941 until 1979 against a variety of invading forces ( including Japan, France, the United States, Cambodia, and China ), as well against indigenous Vietnamese factions including ethnic Vietnamese of South Vietnam and various " hill tribes " ( such as the Hmong ) supported by and allied to the U. S., but largely hostile to the ethnic Vietnamese.

It is said Gonji escaped the invading Goguryeo forces with King Muryeong's mother to Japan, and she went into labor as their ship was passing by a small Japanese island.

Beside their own tribal cultures, there is a Cordilleran culture which is largely moulded by the geography of the Cordilleras, and their common heritage of resisting the invading imperial powers ( Spain, USA, Japan, and Manila ), including the continuing adverse encroachments by lowlanders.

However, instead of invading Japan, Eighth Army found itself in charge of occupying it peacefully.

Later, in 1941, Japan, as a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, considered denouncing the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact, especially after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ), but made the crucial decision to keep it and to expand southwards invading the European colonies in Southeast Asia instead.

Mainly originating from central Europe, this species is currently invading Japan and North America, where they are considered a nuisance as it is an invasive species.

These include the possibility of the People's Republic of China invading Taiwan in the event of its declaration of independence, and North Korean aggression towards South Korea, the United States, and Japan.

A reason is never given as to why the war broke out in the first place, but it is heavily implied that a coalition of countries is invading Japan as Japan is one of the last remaining habitable places on the planet, and that humans caused great damage to the world.

Truk was isolated by Allied ( primarily U. S .) forces as they continued their advance towards Japan by invading other Pacific islands such as Guam, Saipan, Palau, and Iwo Jima.

But Imperial Japan withdrew its invading troops back to Korea in 1909 and recognized the border that was present along Tumen River before the invasion, under the diplomatic pressure from China.

Japan agreed to withdraw its invading troops back to Korea in two months.

Japan, having failed to capture the Sandwich Islands and Midway, begins contemplating betraying its British allies and invading their colonies.

Ba Maw fled just ahead of invading British troops via Thailand to Japan, where he was captured later that year by the American occupation authorities and was held in Sugamo Prison until 1946.

Set in contemporary Japan, Revelations: Persona stars a group of high-schoolers who, armed with weapons and imbued with magical beings known as Personas, band together to combat demons that are invading their city.

Truk was isolated by Allied ( primarily U. S .) forces as they continued their advance towards Japan by invading other Pacific islands such as Guam, Saipan, Palau, and Iwo Jima.

: The Stimson Doctrine is proclaimed by United States Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in response to Japan invading Manchuria.

Zhonghua nationalist websites tend to style themselves as " ultra-left socialist ", venerating Mao as an anti-colonial icon over his capitalist successors, and identify Japan and US as their prime enemies, and focus very heavily on the goal of militarily invading Taiwan.

In Kyoto, Song clarified that the Joseon had no intention of invading Japan.