Some observers still feel that Japan's willingness to deploy troops in support of current US operations in Iraq, as spearheaded by Koizumi and the conservative LDP, reflects a vow not to be excluded from the group of countries the US considers friends.

Some politicians in the LDP are concerned about the influence of the New Clean Government Party on LDP policy because of the dependency.

Some lawmakers in the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) seek to revise the constitution with the focus on Article 9.

Some plants are long day plants ( LDP ) while others are short day plants ( SDP ) and some are day neutral.

Some of these joined the major parties after the election — notably, the New Conservative Party was subsumed into the LDP.

Some historians have found his point of view not to their taste, others have complained that he makes the Tory tradition appear `` contemptible rather than intelligible '', while a sympathetic critic has remarked that the `` intricate interplay of social dynamics and political activity of which, at times, politicians are the ignorant marionettes is not a field for the exercise of his talents ''.

Some record achievements ( e. g., past politicians note the years of their terms of office ).

Some politicians have practised race-baiting in an attempt to win votes.

Some British politicians attempted several times to bring Sophia to England in order to enable her to immediately assume the government in the event of Anne's death.

Some Jewish politicians adopted Hebrew family names upon making aliyah to Israel, dropping Westernized surnames that may have been in the family for generations.

Some economists and politicians, including Martin, believe natural capital measures play a key role in money supply and inflation measurements in a modern economy.

Some law enforcement officers, such as sheriffs, are considered to be politicians.

Some historians and social scientists seek to reduce political beliefs to class, with left, right, and center politicians representing the working, upper or middle classes.

Some Chukchi have attained university degrees, becoming poets, writers, politicians, teachers, and doctors.

Some politicians and think tanks have proposed removing barriers to the existence of a parallel private healthcare system.

Some politicians and medical professionals have proposed allowing public funding for these hospitals.

Some notable German descendants in Chile are: Air Force General Commander Fernando Matthei Aubel, architect Mathias Klotz, tennis player Hans Gildemeister, female athlete Marlene Ahrens, Police General Commander Rodolfo Stange Ölckers, Musician Patricio Manns, Army Commanders in Chief Lieutenant General René Schneider and Division Generals Emil Körner, Economist Rolf Lüders, politicians Carlos Kuschel, Rolf Lüders Schwarzenberg, Miguel Kast and Evelyn Matthei, businessmen Horst Paulmann, Jürgen Paulmann, Werner Grob, Carlos Heller ; TV presenters Karen Doggenweiler, Margot Kahl, Pamela Hodar, Michael Müller, writer César Müller ( aka Oreste Plath ), actresses Gloria Münchmeyer, Aline Küppenheim, actor Bastián Bodenhöfer, painter Rossy Ölckers, and publisher and orders collector Norberto Traub.

Some of his ancestors were politicians during the Empire of Brazil.

* Some Israeli Jews, including politicians, rabbis, journalists and historians, have referred to the Arab citizens of Israel ( who compose approximately 20 % of Israel's population ) as a potential fifth column on the ostensible grounds that Arab-Israelis frequently identify more with the Palestinian cause than with the State of Israel or Zionism.

Some Japanese politicians claimed that the Taiwan Strait is an essential sea route for oil shipment from the Middle East via the Malacca Strait to Japan.

Some politicians in both the State of Utah and the State of Nevada have endorsed the idea.

Some Protestant groups — especially evangelical groups — have been criticized by church officials and nationalist politicians as subversive.

Some experts believe hundreds of thousands of university students, intellectuals and politicians ( including Emperor Haile Selassie ) were killed during Mengistu's rule.

Some US politicians were disappointed by this move, believing Bush should have pressed on to Baghdad and removed Hussein from power ; there is little doubt that coalition forces could have accomplished this if they had desired.

Some British politicians and the King made no secret of their horror at the behaviour of Crown forces.

Some politicians today do not agree.

Some politicians of the Alliance of Free Democrats and Hungarian Socialist Party parties have argued for the introduction of marriage for same-sex couples.

Some people, however, are connected to a large number of communities ( e. g., celebrities, politicians ).

Some New Zealand politicians and commentators, such as Paul Holmes, have felt that Waitangi Day is too controversial to be a national day and have sought to replace it with Anzac Day.

Some Mahayana Buddhists in China, Japan and Vietnam specifically avoid eating strong-smelling plants, traditionally garlic, Allium chinense, asafoetida, shallot, and mountain leek, and refer to these as wǔ hūn ( 五荤, or ' Five Acrid and Strong-smelling Vegetables ') or wǔ xīn ( 五辛 or ' Five Spices ') as they tend to excite senses.

Some magazines have used the analogy that America is the Takeshi of the world and Japan is his sidekick Suneo.

Some authors believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, located somewhere between Peru and Japan.

Some key elements of the German Empire's authoritarian political structure were also the basis for conservative modernization in Imperial Japan under Meiji and the preservation of an authoritarian political structure under the Tsars in the Russian Empire.

Some believe this may be due to deliberate price fixing by those who bought the stockpile echoing the warnings from the Japan Wildlife Conservation Society on price-fixing after sales to Japan in 1997, and monopoly given to traders who bought stockpiles from Burundi and Singapore in the 1980s.

Some countries, such as Japan, have been reported to expect students be debriefed on returning home.

Some economists believe that because the Bank of Japan failed to cut rates quickly enough, Japan entered a liquidity trap.

Some companies and independent smiths outside of Japan produce katana as well, with varying levels of quality.

Some Nichiren schools see the incident of the attempted beheading as marking a turning point in Nichiren's teaching, since Nichiren began inscribing the Gohonzon and wrote a number of major doctrinal treatises during his subsequent three-year exile on Sado Island in the Japan Sea.

Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed a thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop, has for several years has produced a greater quantity of music of everywhere except the USA.

Some remains from Japan have also been tentatively attributed to Pteranodon, but their distance from its known Western Interior Seaway habitat makes this identification unlikely.

Some countries ( such as the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Scandinavian countries, and Japan ) turned powerful monarchs into constitutional ones with limited, or eventually merely symbolic, powers.

Some important modern stellarator experiments are Wendelstein 7-X, in Germany, and the Large Helical Device, in Japan.

Some countries, such as South Korea and Japan, require all camera phones sold in their country to make a clearly audible sound whenever a picture is being taken.

Some of the earliest pottery shards recovered are from central Honshu, Japan.

Some of the kingdoms paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty included Kashmir, Nepal, Khotan, Kucha, Kashgar, Japan, Korea, Champa, and kingdoms located in Amu Darya and Syr Darya valley.

Some Eastern European athletes have been successful enough to be scouted into professional sumo in Japan, much like their Japanese amateur counterparts.

Some species undertake regular trans-equatorial migrations, such as the Sooty Shearwater which annually migrates from its breeding grounds in New Zealand and Chile to the North Pacific off Japan, Alaska and California, an annual round trip of, the longest measured annual migration of any bird.

Anything at or below that level does not constitute war potential .” Apparently when the SDF was created, “ since the capability of the SDF was inadequate to sustain a modern war, it was not war potential .” Seemingly, the Japanese government has looked for loopholes in the wording of the peace clause and the “ constitutionality of the Japanese military has been challenged numerous times .” Some Japanese people believe that Japan should be truly pacifist and claim that the SDF is unconstitutional.

Some of them set up Vietnamese independence societies in Japan, which many viewed as a model society ( i. e. an Asian nation that had modernized, but retained its own culture and institutions ).

Some Japanese sources have alleged that the activities of Liu's organization sparked the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in July 1937, which gave Japan the excuse to formally launch the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Some national variants with rather striking characteristics are the China ( PRC ) and Japan ( TTC ) national variants.