* Black Lagoon, a Japanese anime ( and manga ) series following a band of mercenaries

In 1621, he led an armed assault of Banda using Japanese mercenaries, taking the island of Lonthor by force after encountering some fierce resistance, mostly by cannons that the natives had acquired from the English.

For six months Liang led a savage resistance, leading both Yan's remaining forces and those of the warlord's thousands of Japanese mercenaries.

He drew his support from the Persian and Japanese mercenaries that had been persecuted during his father's reign.

When questioned under torture the soldier confessed to a conspiracy with other Japanese mercenaries to seize the fortress and assassinate the governor.

In the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05, the Japanese Army employed Zhang and his men as mercenaries.

They distinguished themselves in the capture of the Banda Islands from the English and the defense of Batavia, until the practice of hiring Japanese mercenaries was prohibited by the Shogun in 1621.

In 1623, during the Amboyna massacre, 9 Japanese mercenaries were recorded to have been with the 10 English traders of the British East India Company factory.

For at least 13 years after 1905, small irregular forces, often led by regular army commanders, fought skirmishes and battles throughout Korea against Japanese police, armies, and underworld mercenaries who functioned to support Japanese corporations looting Korea, and as well armed Japanese settlers who seized Korean farms and land.

After the Russian revolution, some weaponry was diverted from the White forces into what is now North Korea, and supporters built there, however this was sparse and while white Russian mercenaries fought against the Japanese, this was a minor element.

The constant infighting within the Yi family, the nobles, the confiscation of royal assets, the disbanding of the royal army by the Japanese, the execution of seniors within Korea by Japan, and comprehensive assassinations of Korean royalty by Japanese mercenaries, led to great difficulties in royal descendants and their family groups in finding anything but a partial leadership within the liberation movement.

Songtham filled his guards with foreign mercenaries most notably the Japanese – Yamada Nagamasa.

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

It sounded as if the man were calling him: `` Hey, Japanese hey there, Japanese ''.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

Here again it was vacation time and there were many things I could not see, but I was able to visit with a professor who is famous in Japanese circles and be guided through the grounds by his assistant.

If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to kill 495 before it was ours -- and then the last five killed themselves ''.

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.

Four little Japanese waitresses were murdering the English language at the counter -- Yuki Kobayashi happened to be one of them.

Two other Japanese girls were sitting at the tables, both quite pretty and well groomed.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

Also at this time, the Ainu were granted automatic Japanese citizenship, effectively denying them the status of an indigenous group.

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.

During this time the Ainu were forced to learn Japanese, required to adopt Japanese names and ordered to cease religious practices such as animal sacrifice and the custom of tattooing.

Intermarriages between Japanese and Ainu were actively promoted by the Ainu to lessen the chances of discrimination against their offspring.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

The fact that haplogroups N9b and M7a were observed in Hokkaido Jomons bore out the hypothesis that these haplogroups are the ( pre -) Jomon contribution to the modern Japanese mtDNA pool.

The Ainu population, as previously Japanese subjects, were " repatriated " to 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.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

During World War II, the ACLU defended Japanese American citizens who were forcibly relocated to internment camps.

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.

He hired Japanese hunters to track rare animals and collect specimens.

Following the internment of the Japanese Canadians during the Second World War, the Japanese were removed from these systems and more First Nations were hired.

All of the team members that worked at Sega Studio USA were Japanese, with the exception of Brad Wagner who was hired at the studio during the development of Shadow the Hedgehog.

According to Reid, McEwen was aware that McMahon was habitually breaching Cabinet confidentiality and regularly leaking information to favoured journalists and lobbyists, including Maxwell Newton, who had been hired as a " consultant " by Japanese trade interests.

There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of more than 3, 000 foreign experts ( called o-yatoi gaikokujin or ' hired foreigners ') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy, among others ; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, based on the fifth and last article of the Charter Oath of 1868: ' Knowledge shall be sought throughout the world so as to strengthen the foundations of Imperial rule.

# 1895 Min of Joseon by three mercenary killers allegedly hired by Japanese minister to Korea Miura Goro

Additionally, Father Whelan recognized the grave injustice of the Japanese internment camps during World War II and hired and housed at Loyola many Japanese Americans returning to Los Angeles after their release from the camps.

Learning their lessons in logistics and transport from the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army hired some 10, 000 local laborers at wages well above the local norms, and paid also for any food and supplies procured locally.

However, due to the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War, the Japanese government also relied on Prussia as a model for their army, and hired two German military advisors ( Major Jakob Meckel, replaced in 1888 by von Wildenbrück and Captain von Blankenbourg ) for the training of the Japanese General Staff from 1886 to April 1890: the Imperial Army General Staff Office, based on the Prussian Generalstab, was established directly under the Emperor in 1878 and was given broad powers for military planning and strategy.

Immigrants to Japan may have included privileged classes, such as experienced officials and excellent technicians who were hired in the Japanese court, and were included in the official rank system which had been introduced by the immigrants themselves.

In 1876, the Japanese government hired Clark as a foreign advisor to establish the Sapporo Agricultural College ( SAC ), now Hokkaido University.

These men were referred to by the Japanese government as oyatoi gaikokujin or " hired foreigners ".

In 2001, the band performed " Crystal Vine ," the theme song for the Japanese version of Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Yoshida was hired to dub over Audrey Rocio Ramirez in the Japanese version.

In 2006, Watkins was hired to compose an orchestral score for Brave Story, a Japanese anime feature film.

After sitting in storage for many years, a Japanese organization obtained the wood and steel mock-up at a cost of US $ 1 million and hired Teledyne Brown Engineering to refurbish it to more closely resemble an actual Space Shuttle.

Other opinions, association football was introduced in Meiji period by O-yatoi gaikokujin, foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government, along with many other foreign sports.

The foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as oyatoi gaikokujin ( Kyūjitai:, Shinjitai:, " hired foreigners "), were those foreign advisors hired by the Japanese government for their specialized knowledge to assist in the modernization of Japan at the end of the Bakufu and during the Meiji period.