When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

Many specimens were collected with the help of his Japanese collaborators Keisuke Ito ( 1803 – 1901 ), Mizutani Sugeroku ( 1779 – 1833 ), Ohkochi Zonshin ( 1796 – 1882 ) and Katsuragawa Hoken ( 1797 – 1844 ), a physician to the Shogun.

With the Shogun dead, Kayama devises a plan by which the Americans, thanks to a covering of tatami mats and a raised Treaty House, can be received without having, technically, to set foot on Japanese soil.

* Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun

* Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese Shogun

* Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese Shogun

* Tokugawa Ietsugu, Japanese Shogun

* Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese Shogun

* Tokugawa Yoshimune, Japanese Shogun

* The Japanese Shogun expels the Spanish from the land and severs trade with the Philippines.

* July 4 – Battle of Ueno: Imperial Japanese troops defeat the Shōgitai ( forces remaining loyal to the Shogun ).

* The Shogun forbids Japanese to travel abroad and those abroad from returning home.

* Iesada succeeds Ieyoshi as Japanese Shogun.

* probable – Prince Narinaga, Japanese Shogun ( b. 1325 )

* October 7 – Japanese Chief Minister Hotta Masatoshi is assassinated, leaving Shogun Tsunayoshi without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical edicts and create hardships for the Japanese people.

The Japanese Shogun Tokugawa initiated the Edo Period, an isolationist period where Japan cut itself off from the world as a whole.

These actions led MacArthur to be viewed as the new Imperial force in Japan by many Japanese political and civilian figures, even being considered to be the rebirth of the Shogun style government which Japan was ruled under until the start of the Meiji Restoration Period.

Jeong Mong-ju secured assistance from the Japanese Shogun to eliminate these pirates, but the Japanese were of little help.

At the beginning of the 1590s, Japanese Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after stabilising Japan during this era of warring nations, made preparations for a large scale invasion of Joseon.

Shogun Ienobu immediately began to reform certain elements of Japanese society.

It was produced by Jim Terry and his company American Way, and consisted of five imported Japanese giant robot serials ( originally produced in the mid-1970s by Toei Animation ) in response to the popularity of the Shogun Warriors toy collection ( in fact, Mattel was one of the sponsors ).

According to what Aleut people told Japanese castaways, otters were decreasing year by year and their share in return of furs they made also were decreasing as Russian ships stopped coming to the island.

One use of agar in Japanese cuisine is anmitsu, a dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly and served in a bowl with various fruits or other ingredients.

Its characteristically " cute " Japanese animation and music, along with its play mechanics and level designs, made it successful as an arcade title and spawned several sequels and ports to home gaming systems.

Butted and or split ( twisted ) links made up the majority of kusari links used by the Japanese.

Variations of the Compactron design were made by Sylvania and by some Japanese firms.

Ayukawa, a well connected and aggressive risk taker, also made himself a principal partner of the Japanese Colonial Government of Manchukuo.

An attempt was therefore made to send more troops from Tientsin, where British ships had been joined by French, German, Russian, Austrian, Italian and Japanese.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

In the same year, Yoshishige Yoshida made the film Coup d ' État, a portrait of Ikki Kita, the leader of the Japanese coup of February 1936.

While light, highly maneuverable aircraft did have some advantages in fighter-versus-fighter combat, those could usually be overcome by sound tactical doctrine, and the design approach of the Italians and Japanese made their planes ill-suited as interceptors or attack aircraft.

With very strong national support, he made war on Japan and Germany after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, calling it a " date which will live in infamy ".

According to one estimate made in 2005, 99. 82 % of all deceased Japanese are cremated.

It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character ( or rather, its Toho Studios counterpart ) and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen.

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.

The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado ( 1885 ), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting.

A few months later, in 1921, Bogart made his stage debut in Drifting as a Japanese butler in another Alice Brady play, nervously speaking one line of dialog.

Previously, on April 1985, Japanese digital telephone exchange hardware made by Fujitsu was used to experimentally deploy the world's first I interface ISDN.

Japanese investment by 1988 made Australia the single largest source of Japanese regional imports.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called, and two syllabic ( or moraic ) scripts made of modified Chinese characters, and.

But when the Chinese made it clear that they had no interest in such an alliance ( especially given that the Japanese regarded Chinese adhesion to the proposed pact as way of subordinating China to Japan ), both Neurath and War Minister Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg persuaded Hitler to shelve the proposed treaty lest it damage Germany's good relations with China.

The resulting scandal was another blow to the Foreign Office, made all the worse in that it was the Japanese who had discovered and broken up the Sorge spy ring without any German assistance.

Chiang also enforced an anti Japanese boycott, sending his agents to sack the shops of those who sold Japanese made items, fining them.