Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Reconsidering ethnic culture and community: a case study of Japanese Canadian taiko drumming.

* " Reconsidering Ethnic Culture and Community: A Case Study on Japanese Canadian Taiko Drumming.

The Act was also used to justify German, Slavic, and Ukrainian Canadian internment during the First World War, and the internment of German-Canadians, Italian Canadians and of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War.

Some Canadian – Japanese contacts predate the mutual establishment of permanent legations.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

Examples include the German “ Blue Angel ”, European “ Daisy ” Eco label, Global Eco-Label “ GEN mark ”, Nordic, “ White Swan ”, Japanese “ Earth friendly mark ”; USA “ Green Seal ”, Canadian “ Environmental Choice ”, Chinese “ Huan ”, Singapore “ Green Label ” and the French “ NF Environment mark ”.

** These benthic and limnetic species even display their mating preferences when presented with sticklebacks from Japanese lakes ; that is, a Canadian benthic prefers a Japanese benthic over its close limnetic cousin from its own lake.

French and English conscripts were sent to fight in the Aleutian Islands in 1943 – technically North American soil and therefore not " overseas " – but the mix of Canadian volunteers and draftees found that the Japanese troops had fled before their arrival.

King and his Cabinet ignored reports from the RCMP and Canadian military that most of the Japanese were law-abiding and not a threat.

Following wins in the Canadian and United States GPs, Hunt stood only three points behind Lauda before the final race of the season, the Japanese GP.

* Japanese Canadian internment

He volunteered for the Canadian Army Pacific Force ( CAPF ), granted a final " embarkation leave ", and found himself no closer to combat employment by the time the Japanese surrendered in September 1945.

1975 models featured Air Flow Control ( AFC ) Fuel Injection on U. S., Canadian, and Japanese Beetles, a derivative of the more complex Bosch fuel injection system used in the Volkswagen Type III – and equivalent to Bosch L-Jetronic.

Due to improvements with the US and Canadian versions of the products, these problems are more common with the Japanese and South Korean versions.

The International Space Station is a partnership of the United States, Russian, European, Japanese, and Canadian Space Agencies.

Approximately 25 % of the population reports German ancestry, 13 % English, 9 % Irish, 1 % Canadian and 1 % Japanese.

After the war, Suzuki's family, like other Japanese Canadian families, were forced to move east of the Rockies.

* Japanese Beetle, Canadian Food Inspection Agency

The very large PACEX ' 89 in the North Pacific involved the USN, Canadian Navy, Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, and ROK Navy.

Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).

Japanese taiko drums have been developed into a wide range of percussion instruments that are used in both Japanese folk and classical musical traditions.

Other Japanese taiko include the " uchiwa-daiko " ( 団扇太鼓 、 fan taiko ), " hira-daiko " ( 平太鼓, flat taiko ), " minariisa-daiko " ( fun time drum ), " konisawa-daiko " ( tight / hard / tense drum ) and a host of percussion instruments used in Japan's traditional noh, gagaku, and kabuki ensembles.

Types of wood: Japanese name-English equivalent ( if any ), and use in taiko, antiques, etc.

Japanese postwar mentality may be one reason aggression is displayed in taiko drum performances.

Also, most performers in Canada are women as opposed to the masculine dominance of Japanese taiko.

Miyake is a traditional Japanese taiko drumming style that has become known through works of a taiko group Kodo, and is formally called " Miyake-jima Kamitsuki Mikoshi Daiko ".

Students of Japanese martial arts such as aikido, karate, kobudo, kendo, or judo ( or related arts such as taiko drumming ) use kiai to startle an opponent, express confidence, or express victory.

The taiko is a Japanese drum that comes in various sizes and is used to play a variety of musical genres.

During the 1970s, the Japanese government allocated funds to preserve Japanese culture, and many community taiko groups were formed.

The Japanese Festival recently began to include sumo wrestling, adding this sport to taiko drumming and kimono fashion shows.

A traditional hayashi band of taiko drums, cymbals, shamisen, and Japanese flute follow behind.

The Tokorozawa Matsuri is a festival held each year in October and features traditional Japanese parade floats ( mikoshi ), taiko drums, and samba dancers.

Budgie first worked with the Japanese taiko drummer Leonard Eto, the basis of the album being a spontaneous drum duet between the two.

During the Chinese New Year, the Chinatown Plaza hosts Las Vegas's annual Asian food festival with lion and dragon dance performances ( performed by a local Shaolin group ) and Japanese taiko drum performances as well as martial arts demonstrations.

* Bachi, used with Japanese taiko drums.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Active contact between the Wajin ( the ethnically Japanese ) and the Ainu of Ezochi ( now known as Hokkaido ) began in the 13th century.

Later the Matsumae began to lease out trading rights to Japanese merchants, and contact between Japanese and Ainu became more extensive.

Commercial planting began in 1930 in British North Borneo ; with the commencement of World War II, the supply from the Philippines was eliminated by the Japanese.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Den and the original members of Ondekoza grew much of their own food, learned carpentry, studied Japanese classical and folk arts, and began a training regimen similar to professional athletes.

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 1960s were the peak years of the Japanese New Wave movement, which began in the 1950s and continued through the early 1970s.

In America, the fandom also began as an offshoot of science fiction fandom, with fans bringing imported copies of Japanese manga to conventions.

The Japanese began to catch gray whales beginning in the 1570s.

On April 19, 1988, Japanese telecommunications company NTT began offering nationwide ISDN services trademarked INS Net 64, and INS Net 1500, a fruition of NTT's independent research and trial from the 1970s of what it referred to the INS ( Information Network System ).

The Portuguese also began a channel of trade with the Japanese, becoming the first recorded Westerners to have visited Japan.

One day he took Opal to eat with his parents, however his dad began humiliating her because of her Japanese heritage.

Diplomatic relations between both countries officially began in 1950 with the opening of the Japanese consulate in Ottawa.

or strictly speaking denotes traditional-style Japanese food, before Westernization began in the Meiji Era ( 1868-1912 ).

Certain Japanese swordsmiths of this period began to make blades with thicker backs and bigger points as a response to the Mongol threat.

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

Trudeau began practising the Japanese martial art Judo sometime in the mid-1950s when he was in his mid-thirties, and by the end of the decade he was ranked ik-kyū ( brown belt ).

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

After 1930, when the Japanese began industrial development on the Korean Peninsula, particularly in the northern provinces adjacent to Manchuria, the urban portion of the population began to grow, reaching 11. 6 % for all of Korea in 1940.