Historically the titles of Tennō in Japanese have never included territorial designations as is the case with many European monarchs.

Japanese monarchs have been, as much as others elsewhere, dependent on making alliances with powerful chiefs and other monarchs.

Category: Japanese monarchs

Category: Japanese monarchs

Category: Japanese monarchs

Category: Japanese monarchs

Several legendary sources tend to assign unrealistically long lifespans to pre-historical heroes and monarchs ( e. g., Egyptian, Chinese, Hebrews, Japanese ), if the number of years there reported are understood as years of more than 340 days.

Some early Japan monarchs also had Japanese style posthumous names ( 和風諡号 ).

Category: Japanese monarchs

Category: Japanese monarchs

For ruling empresses see: Category: Japanese monarchs.

* List of Japanese monarchs

Category: Japanese monarchs

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

Scenes of a crowd fleeing Godzilla that appeared later in the Japanese print were moved to an earlier point in the movie ( and corresponding footage of them gathering around Godzilla after he is knocked out by the Super X was removed ), the Super X fight was re-arranged ( in the Japanese version, Godzilla fires his atomic ray at the Super X after being hit with cadmium missiles, not before ), and various other scenes of destruction were either placed in a different order or deleted completely.

It is the opinion of some food scholars that the Japanese diet always relied mainly on " grains with vegetables or seaweeds as main, with fowl meat secondary, and mammal meat in slight amounts ," even before the advent of Buddhism which placed an even stronger taboo.

In 1946, the North implemented land reforms by confiscating private property, Japanese and pro-Japanese owned facilities and factories, and placed them under state ownership.

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria in late 1931 placed U. S. Secretary of State Henry M. Stimson in a difficult position.

are small, annotative glosses that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing languages with logographic characters such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation.

* Ruby character, small, annotative characters that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation

Sony's release of its Betamax unit to the Japanese market in 1975 placed further pressure on the MITI to side with the company.

The Kwangtung Army leadership placed Japanese vice ministers in his cabinet, while all Chinese advisors gradually resigned or were dismissed.

Two Eastern Palearctic species are usually placed in the genus Erithacus, the Japanese Robin ( E. akahige ) and the Ryūkyū Robin ( E. komadori ), the latter being a restricted-range island species.

LeMay was later placed in charge of all strategic air operations against the Japanese home islands.

His status was such that People magazine placed him on their " 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year " list for 1980, dubbing him " the Japanese Henry Ford.

This longitude passes through the eastern end of the main north Japanese island of Hokkaidō and through the eastern end of New Guinea, which is where Frédéric Durand placed the demarcation line.

French remote sensing satellite SPOT-6 ( built by EADS Astrium ) and Japanese microsat PROITERES ( built by Osaka Institute of Technology ) placed in orbit.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, which led into World War II, much of Zhejiang was occupied by Japan and placed under the control of the Japanese puppet state known as the Reorganized National Government of China.

The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue for William Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado ( 1885 ).

During World War II, the city fought successfully to prevent 800 Japanese American residents from being placed in wartime internment.

The dolls are usually placed in front of a gold folding screen and placed beside green Japanese garden trees.

During his stay, the Imperial Japanese Navy placed orders in Great Britain for three warships.

Estimates of the Muslim population have been placed at around 115, 000 – 125, 000, of which about 90 % are foreign residents and the remainder are ethnic Japanese.

Gasshō (" 合掌 " in Japanese, meaning " two hands coming together ") is a meditative state where both palms of the hands are placed together, and was practised each time at the beginning of Usui's Reiki workshops and meetings.

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 ''.

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.

In Japanese syllabaries, a number of the characters are made up of more than one separate mark, but in general these separate marks are not glyphs because they have no meaning by themselves.

Most Japanese people generally do not exclusively identify themselves as adherents of only one religion, but rather incorporate various elements in a syncretic fashion.

Left-wing organizations, such as the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, quickly reestablished themselves, as did various conservative parties.

In November 1943, Allied forces threw themselves against Japanese positions at Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts, resulting in some of the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific campaign.

Its founders Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka derived the name from sonus, the Latin word for sound, and also from the English slang word " sonny ", since they considered themselves to be " sonny boys ", a loan word into Japanese which in the early 1950s connoted smart and presentable young men.

Fact books and statistics typically list some 80 to 90 % of Japanese people as Shintoist however polls suggest that most Japanese consider themselves non-religious and believe that there are currently only 4 million " actual " observers of Shinto in Japan ,.

The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them, while the yakuza call themselves.

These preparations did not escape the attention of Vivekananda, who wrote that " The Japanese seem now to have fully awakened themselves to the necessity of the present times.

Taiwan's elite hoped that by declaring themselves a republic the world would not stand by and allow a sovereign state to be invaded by the Japanese, thereby allying with the Qing.

When the Japanese isolationist regime softened, they opened themselves to globalization resulting in notable Japanese influence around the world.

In 2000, a historian concurred with certain Japanese scholars who had argued that the contest was a concocted story, with the collusion of the soldiers themselves for the purpose of raising the national fighting spirit.

The city, while nominated to be abandoned to the Japanese in the spring by Australian factions was, by September, home to an important Allied complex of bases and thousands of troops were eventually stationed in the area or more often, staged through it, as it was the last allied bastion on the island and the last line of defense against the Japanese before Australia and conversely, a key staging and jumping off point as the Allies got their feet underneath themselves under MacArthur, and began conducting offensive warfare themselves, pushing back the Japanese advances.

However, among Japanese themselves, any change to the document and to the post-war settlement it embodies is highly controversial.

Other celebrities have used glasses to differentiate themselves from the characters they play, such as Anne Kirkbride, who wears oversized, 1980s-style round horn-rimmed glasses as Deirdre Barlow on the soap opera Coronation Street, and Masaharu Morimoto, who wears glasses to separate his professional persona as a chef from his stage persona as Iron Chef Japanese.

In many other ways, the Japanese upper classes patterned themselves after the Chinese, including adopting Chinese written characters ( Japanese: kanji ), fashion, and the religion of Buddhism.