Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

When asked to accede to the throne to fill the power vacuum that subsequently developed, Suiko became the first of what would be several examples in Japanese history where a woman was chosen to accede to the throne to avert a power struggle.

* 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.

As a result of her father's efforts, Oine eventually became the first Japanese woman known to have received a physician's training, and became a highly-regarded practicing physician.

On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

** A Japanese balloon bomb kills five children and a woman, Elsie Mitchell, near Bly, Oregon, when it explodes as they drag it from the woods.

* May 10 – Kama Chinen, Japanese woman supercentenarian and oldest person in the world ( d. 2010 )

* October 15 – Mizuho Sakaguchi, Japanese woman footballer

* The 1958 Japanese movie Muhomatsu no issho ( Rickshaw Man ) by Hiroshi Inagaki tells the story of a Matsugoro, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

Having survived the fall, the hero then saves a mysterious young woman ( named Fuji in the original Japanese version ) from monsters, and attempts to find the magical objects needed to defeat the evil massing against the Mana Tree, the world's source of Mana.

Koxinga was born to Zheng Zhilong, a Chinese merchant and pirate, and Tagawa Matsu, a Japanese woman, in 1624 in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.

, also translated as Tenriism in the West, is a monotheistic religion originating in revelations to a 19th-century Japanese woman named Nakayama Miki, known as Oyasama by followers.

A woman and her two teenage daughters were raped, and Japanese soldiers rammed a bottle and a cane into her vagina.

One pregnant woman who was gang-raped by Japanese soldiers gave birth only a few hours later ; although the baby appeared to be physically unharmed ( Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun ).

(...) One old woman 62 years old went home near Hansimen and Japanese soldiers came at night and wanted to rape her.

In 1990, the NBC-TV series Unsolved Mysteries broadcast an interview with a Saipanese woman who claimed to have witnessed Earhart and Noonan's execution by Japanese soldiers.

American women assumed a central role in the reforms that affected the lives of Japanese women: they educated Japanese about Western ideals of democracy, and it was an American woman who wrote the Japanese Equal Rights Amendment for the new constitution.

:* " Green Willow " is a Japanese ghost story in which a young samurai falls in love with a woman called Green Willow who has a close spiritual connection with a willow tree.

Kelly is about to wed a Japanese woman, Katsumi, in spite of the disapproval of the United States military, which will not recognize the marriage.

In May 1945, about east of Klamath Falls, ( near Bly, Oregon ) a Japanese balloon bomb killed a woman and five children on a church outing.

Yang is married to Akiko Yamazaki, a Japanese woman who was raised in Costa Rica.

As with most Heian literature, the Genji was probably written mostly ( or perhaps entirely ) in kana ( Japanese phonetic script ) and not in Chinese characters because it was written by a woman for a female audience.

On the contrary, the soul of a noble warrior suffering in hell or as a lingering spirit is a common motif in Japanese art and literature.

Since Wang's government held authority only over territories under Japanese military occupation, there was a limited amount that officials loyal to Wang could do to ease the suffering of Chinese under Japanese occupation.

It is widely perceived that the Japanese government has failed to acknowledge the suffering caused by its forces and in particular the teaching of history in its schools has caused international protest.

Yi won all of at least twenty-three naval battles fought while suffering very minimal losses, destroying over a thousand Japanese ships and killing tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers.

Peng's operation was successful in disrupting Japanese communication lines and logistics networks, which were not fully restored until 1942, but the communists suffered heavy losses, suffering 22, 000 casualties to 4, 000 – 6, 000 Japanese casualties.

According to cinematographer Ron Garcia, the film was popular in Japan, in particular with women, as Martha Nochimson wrote in her book on Lynch's movies, " he surmises that the enthusiasm of the Japanese women comes from a gratification of seeing in Laura some acknowledgment of their suffering in a repressive society.

The Chinese severely damaged four Japanese warships — the Japanese flagship Matsushima suffered the worst single-ship loss with more than 100 dead or wounded after being hit by a heavy Chinese round ; Hiei being severely damaged and retired from the conflict ; Akagi suffering from heavy fire and with great loss of life ; Saikyo, the converted liner, urged on by Admiral Kabayama Sukenori despite its lack of offensive armament, had been hit by four 12 inch ( 305 mm ) shells and was sailing virtually out of control as a result — did cosmetic damage to two more, and killed about 180 Japanese sailors and wounded 200 more.

Instead the Pure Land School of Buddhism encouraged its practitioners to rely on the vow of the Buddha Amitabha ( Sanskrit, Amida in Japanese ) to save all beings from suffering.

colonial rule from 1910 to 1945 brought great suffering on the Korean people as a whole, and to the Korean sangha in particular, as it had to comply with an extensive set of Japanese regulations.

Mission 265 was successfully completed without suffering any crew member casualties or aircraft damage, a testament to the superiority of American aircraft and the overall ineffectiveness of the Japanese anti-craft measures in place at the time.

In 1995, Austin was fired by WCW Vice President Eric Bischoff, after suffering a triceps injury, while wrestling on a Japanese tour ; Bischoff and WCW did not see Austin as a ' marketable ' wrestler.

At a time when Korea was suffering under the yoke of Japanese Imperialism, a fuller assessment of Eulji commenced with the Korean historian Shin Chaeho ( 신채호, 申采浩, 1880 – 1936 ), who published a biography of Eulji in 1908 and held him out as an example of Korea's traditional nationalist spirit.

At Nhpum Ga, the Marauders killed 400 Japanese soldiers, while suffering 57 killed in action, 302 wounded, and 379 incapacitated due to illness and exhaustion.

The Japanese tried to break out from the Allied armies closing in on them, and although suffering heavy casualties, did succeed in rescuing many of their formations.

The Japanese believe they should ameliorate the suffering of the " Urabanna ".

He won Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards in 1985 with his film Gray Sunset, a story of a man suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

* July 18 – Six Eleventh Air Force B-24s make the first confirmed Allied strike against the Kurile Islands, damaging the Japanese base at Paramushiro and claiming a ship sunk without suffering any losses.

** After suffering heavy damage during the airstrikes of July 24, 28, and 29, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaiyo is abandoned in Beppu Bay when she lists far enough for the port side of her flight deck to be underwater.