In Nagisa Oshima's film the same year, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, based on Laurens van der Post's novel The Seed and the Sower, Bowie played Major Jack Celliers, a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment camp.

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Although supposedly equal to all other members, Kusanagi fills the leadership role in the team, and is usually referred to as " the Major " due to her past rank in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.

Major subgenres include romance, superheroines, and " Ladies Comics " ( in Japanese, redisu, redikomi, and josei ).

Major Japanese piezoelectric developments include new designs of piezoceramic filters for radios and televisions, piezo buzzers and audio transducers that can connect directly to electronic circuits, and the piezoelectric igniter, which generates sparks for small engine ignition systems ( and gas-grill lighters ) by compressing a ceramic disc.

Major sub-genres include romance, science fiction, fantasy, magical girls, yaoi, and " Ladies Comics " ( in Japanese, redisu レディース, redikomi レディコミ, and josei 女性 ).

* March 16 – Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball player and Japanese baseball manager ( d. 2005 )

The concept was the brainchild of the Imperial Japanese Army's Ninth Army's Number Nine Research Laboratory, under Major General Sueyoshi Kusaba, with work performed by Technical Major Teiji Takada and his colleagues.

, usually known simply as ( born October 22, 1973 ), is a Japanese professional baseball outfielder for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

As Prussian advisor Major Klemens Meckel put it to the Japanese army, Korea was " a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan ".

This strengthens Major Gruver's resolve to marry his own Japanese lover.

When asked by a Stars and Stripes reporter what will he say to both the " big brass " as well as to the Japanese, neither of which will be particularly happy, Major Gruver says, " Tell ' em we said ' Sayonara.

Major Smothers served in the 45th Infantry Regiment ( United States ) and died during World War II, while being transported from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Fukuoka, Japan, to a POW camp in Mukden, Manchukuo.

* Major William Atha Gay-( 1912 – 1944 ) POW on Oryoku Maru Japanese Hell Ship ; served on the staff of Brigadier General Hugh Casey in Luzon ; decorations included Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart.

Some notable Japanese players who have gone on to play in North America's Major League Baseball include Norichika Aoki, Yu Darvish, Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Ichiro Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Tadahito Iguchi, Kenji Johjima, Hideki Matsui, So Taguchi, Hideki Irabu, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki Okajima, Kazuo Matsui, Kazuhito Tadano, Hiroki Kuroda, Akinori Iwamura, Akinori Otsuka, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kosuke Fukudome, Koji Uehara, Kenshin Kawakami, Takashi Saito, and Tsuyoshi Nishioka.

In the right of Eastern Zamboanga was they entered and local sending military combat operations by the local Filipino troops, military officers and tank commanders under the 6th, 10th, 101st, 102nd and 105th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and 10th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary was liberated and recaptured on January to March 1945 and aided the local Zamboangueño Christian and Muslim guerrilla resistance was attacked and defeating Japanese Imperial ground forces from the couple of three months and one year before the arrival of American liberation military forces under by Major General Jens A. Doe of the U. S. Army ’ s 41st Infantry Division on March 1945 in Zamboanga City.

Modern enka's mainstream scale is called or " Minor Scale without Four and Seven ( re and sol )," and is a modified version of or " Major Scale without Four and Seven ( Fa and Ti )," which came from an older Japanese scale, the.

" Long Island Wildin '" was a collaboration with Japanese hip hop artists Kan Takagi ( Major Force ) and trio Scha Dara Parr ( SDP ).

As Army Minister, Hayashi was a supporter of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata who was Chief of Military Bureau and the leader of the Tōseiha faction within the Imperial Japanese Army.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

Major established companies that fly to Croatia include the domestic Croatia Airlines ( member of the Star Alliance ), Air France, Lufthansa and British Airways.

One of the companies was named the ' Major Attlee Company ' in his honour.

Major U. S. companies operating in the country include ACS, CMS Energy, Coca Cola, S. C. Johnson, Ralston Purina, Star-Kist, A. H. Robins, Sterling, Pfizer, IBM, 3M, Motorola, Stewart & Stevenson, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and National Cash Register ( NCR ).

Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Major companies are now found in Germany ( Seydel, Bushman, Hohner-the dominant manufacturer in the world ), Japan ( Suzuki, Tombo-the manufacturer of the popular Lee Oskar harmonica, and Yamaha also made harmonicas until the 1970s ), China ( Huang, Johnson, Leo Shi, Suzuki, Hohner, Swan, AXL ), and Brazil ( Hering, Bends ).

* Major companies are considered to have an adjusted annual mining-related revenue of more than US $ 500 million, with the financial capability to develop a major mine on its own.

Major international oil companies use sophisticated technology to produce GTL.

Major opera companies have been better able to weather the funding cutbacks, because they can afford to hire star singers which draw substantial audiences.

Major opera companies have begun presenting their performances in local cinemas throughout the United States and many other countries.

In the UK this culminated in the 1993 privatization of British Rail under Thatcher's successor, John Major ; British Rail having been formed by prior nationalization of private rail companies.

Major changes in trust law, combined with modern investment strategies, new tax factors and complex family and financial advisor dynamics, have created demands that traditional trusts and trust companies are not well equipped to handle.

Major banks and companies pressured the president, Rutherford B. Hayes, against the Act, and he vetoed it, but Congress overrode the veto.

Three companies were placed under the command of Major Marcus Reno ( A, G, and M ); and three were placed under the command of Capt.

Major companies such as Viewsonic and Toshiba stopped producing new Pocket PCs.

Major industrial companies in Mysore include Bharat Earth Movers, J. K. Tyres, Wipro, Falcon Tyres, Larsen & Toubro, Theorem India and Infosys.

Major companies in the county have included JVC, Mercedes-Benz USA International, Uniroyal-Goodrich, and Phifer Inc.

The following year, Brevet Major George Birch and two companies of the 7th Infantry Division followed the " Dawson Road " to the aforementioned site.

Major Barton-area coal companies in the 19th century:

Major companies in Penfield include Paychex, Nalge Nunc International, Birds Eye Foods, and Wegman's.

On 8 September 1849, the garrison party of several companies of the 3rd U. S. Infantry, commanded by Major Jefferson Van Horne, found only four small and scattered settlements on the north side of the Rio Grande.

These companies, led by Major Allen Peck, " made a brave stand " in Dalirig on 9 May 1942 to cover the withdrawal of the Philippine Army 62d Infantry Regiment during their retreat from defenses near the Del Monte airfield.

Major companies are Suchard ( chocolate ) and Fohrenburger ( beer, 5, 2 % alcohol ).

* Major private, government or dedicated telecommunications networks, such as those used for internal communication and monitoring by major infrastructure companies, by governments, by the military or by emergency services, as well as national research and education networks