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

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

Corporate choice favoured Datsun, so as to distance the parent factory Nissan ’ s association by Americans with Japanese military manufacture.

" Anything but Quiet: Japanese Americans Reinvent Taiko Drumming.

" Young Japanese Americans Honor Ethnic Roots.

Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

The order led to the internment of Japanese Americans or AJAs ( Americans of Japanese Ancestry ); some 120, 000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war.

Japanese Americans were by far the most widely affected group, as all persons with Japanese ancestry were removed from the West Coast and southern Arizona.

In Hawaii, where there were 140, 000 Americans of Japanese Ancestry ( constituting 37 % of the population ), only selected individuals of heightened perceived risk were interned.

The CWRIC was appointed to conduct an official governmental study of Executive Order 9066, related wartime orders, and their impact on Japanese Americans in the West and Alaska Natives in the Pribilof Islands.

In December 1982, the CWRIC issued its findings in Personal Justice Denied, concluding that the incarceration of Japanese Americans had not been justified by military necessity.

This bill only applied to the Japanese Americans.

* 1976 – Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4417

In October 1941 Ribbentrop ordered General Ott to start applying pressure on the Japanese to attack the Americans as soon as possible.

On 4 December 1941, the Japanese Ambassador General Hiroshi Ōshima told Ribbentrop that Japan was on the verge of war with the United States, which led to Ribbentrop promising him on behalf of Hitler that Germany would join the war against the Americans.

However, he castigated Japanese leaders who seemed enthralled by the British and the Americans and who spoke in favor of Woodrow Wilson ’ s Fourteen Points and the League of Nations, claiming these countries used idealism as " a mask for their own self-interest.

* 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

* 1990 – The first all woman expedition to the South Pole ( 3 Americans, 1 Japanese and 12 Russians ) sets off from Antarctica on the 1st leg of a 70 day, 1287 kilometre ski trek.

Starting in 1942, there was forcible relocation and internment of approximately 110, 000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to housing facilities called " War Relocation Camps ", in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

About 10, 000 Japanese nationals ( mostly diplomats and military officials ) residing in Germany were given " Honorary Aryan " citizenship with more privileges than any other " non-Aryan " ethnonational group.

In exchange, the United States agreed to accept the presence of Japanese immigrants already residing in America, and to permit the immigration of wives, children and parents, and to avoid legal discrimination against Japanese children in California schools.

Around 20 Japanese soldiers came to the campus on February 12 shortly after noontime, and massacred 16 of the 17 Brothers residing in the campus, along with 25 other residents.

This institutional discrimination among Japanese citizens accounts for the deprivation of Japanese citizenship for several thousands of people residing in Japan after the war.

Jagyeongjeon is the only royal residing quarters in Gyeongbokgung that survived the demolition campaigns of the Japanese government during the Japanese occupation of Korea.

The Japanese American Citizens League, the nation's oldest and largest Japanese American civil rights organization, was founded in 1929 to address issues of discrimination targeted specifically at persons of Japanese ancestry residing in the United States.

Jews entering and residing in Japan, China, and Manchukuo were treated the same as other foreigners and, in one instance, Japanese officials in Harbin ignored a formal complaint by the German consulate which was deeply insulted by one of the Russian-Jewish newspapers ' attack on Hitler.

Japanese policy declared that Jews entering and residing in Japan, China, and Manchukuo would be treated the same as other foreigners.

Disagreeing with Chief Justice Vinson, Justice Black says specifically that he “ would now overrule the previous decisions of this Court that sustained state land laws which discriminate against people of Japanese origin residing in this country .”

In addition to its primary military and authorized U. S. civilian audience, AFN-Japan also has a " shadow audience " of an estimated 1. 2 million non-military listeners ; mostly Japanese studying English, and other English-speaking foreign nationals residing in Japan.

Several Japanese nationals residing in China were injured in the violence, though there were no known fatalities.

Although the etymological origins of Wa remain uncertain, Chinese historical texts recorded an ancient people residing in the Japanese archipelago ( perhaps Kyūshū ), named something like * ʼWâ or * ʼWər 倭. Carr ( 1992: 9 – 10 ) surveys prevalent proposals for Wa's etymology ranging from feasible ( transcribing Japanese first-person pronouns waga 我が " my ; our " and ware 我 " I ; we ; oneself ") to shameful ( writing Japanese Wa as 倭 implying " dwarf "), and summarizes interpretations for * ʼWâ " Japanese " into variations on two etymologies: " behaviorally ' submissive ' or physically ' short '.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

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.

Instead of running on wires as in the Chinese and Japanese models, the beads of Roman model run in grooves, presumably making arithmetic calculations much slower.

Ramsey ( 2004: 340 ) stated that " the genetic relationship between Korean and Japanese, if it in fact exists, is probably more complex and distant than we can imagine on the basis of our present state of knowledge ", a concept later restated by Lee ( 2011 ).

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

Throughout this period Ainu became increasingly dependent on goods imported by Japanese, and suffered from epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

The Ainu were becoming increasingly marginalized on their own land — over a period of only 36 years, the Ainu went from being a relatively isolated group of people to having their land, language, religion and customs assimilated into those of the Japanese.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer are sunk off the island's east coast.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.