At this Women's University we find a monument to a courageous family who believed that Japanese women also should be educated.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover opposed the internment, not on constitutional grounds, but because he believed that the most likely spies had already been arrested by the FBI shortly after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Yūryaku is believed to be referred to as Bu in contemporary Chinese records ( 武 ; read as Take or Takeru in Japanese ).

On 29 March 1941, during a conversation with Matsuoka, Ribbentrop as instructed by Hitler told the Japanese nothing about the upcoming Operation Barbarossa, as Hitler believed that he could defeat the Soviet Union on his own and preferred that the Japanese attack Britain instead.

Each side believed that it represented the starting position of the other side, but in reality, it had been drawn up by two American Maryknoll priests and two mid-level Japanese officials.

Britain and France believed that war could still be avoided, and that the Soviet Union, weakened by the Great Purge, could not be a main military participant, a point that many military sources were at variance with, especially after the sound thrashing administered to the Japanese Kwantung army on the Manchurian frontier.

One of the ship's officers, a historian, is lost and presumed dead while transporting a rescued senator and his secretary to a small island for safety in advance of the coming battle ; according to history, the pair and his chief of staff were believed to have been killed by the Japanese.

In fact until the Meiji government declared their separation in the mid 19th Century, many Japanese people believed that Buddhism and Shinto were one religion.

It is believed to have been suggested to the Japanese by the introduction of Christianity to the region.

The Japanese expected 10 % ( around 900 ) of them to reach America, which is also what is currently believed by researchers.

The Japanese believed it to be unbreakable throughout the war, and even for some time after the war, even though they had been informed otherwise by the Germans.

The syllabic nature and dictionary order of the modern kana system of Japanese writing is believed to be descended from the Indic scripts, most likely through the spread of Buddhism.

On the evening of August 12, a 25-man U. S. Marine patrol, led by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Goettge and primarily consisting of intelligence personnel, landed by boat west of the Lunga perimeter, between Point Cruz and the Matanikau River, on a reconnaissance mission with a secondary objective of contacting a group of Japanese troops that U. S. forces believed might be willing to surrender.

Its current name is believed to originate from Matsuura Takeshiro, an early Japanese explorer of the island.

The Japanese government continued to seek a full accounting of the fate of the 12 Japanese nationals believed to have been abducted by DPRK state entities ; five such abductees have been repatriated to Japan since 2002.

On the nuclear attacks on Japan in WWII, he adhered to the view that " there was even less sign of a crack in Japan's determination to fight to the end with that of Nazi Germany, which is why nuclear arms were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ensure a rapid Japanese surrender ", though believed there was an ancillary political, non-military reason for the bombings: " perhaps the thought that it would prevent America's ally the USSR from establishing a claim to a major part in Japan's defeat was not absent from the minds of the US government either.

Chennault believed that the Fourteenth Air Force, operating out of bases in China, could attack Japanese forces in concert with Nationalist Chinese troops.

" related day ") is a day believed to have a special relation ( en ) with a particular Japanese deity.

A 1952 survey by Yomiuri Shimbun found that 64. 7 % of Japanese believed in a specific religion.

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

* 1981 – The U. S. Navy nuclear submarine accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.

* 1988 – Japanese American internment: U. S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, providing $ 20, 000 payments to Japanese Americans who were either interned in or relocated by the United States during World War II.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

There was disagreement among the U. S. Joint Chiefs over two proposed strategies to defeat the Japanese Empire.

The treaty opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade and guaranteed the safety of shipwrecked U. S. sailors ; however, the treaty did not create a basis for establishing a permanent residence in these locations.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

This led to alliances between Japanese calculator manufacturers and U. S. semiconductor companies: Canon Inc. with Texas Instruments, Hayakawa Electric ( later known as Sharp Corporation ) with North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Busicom with Mostek and Intel, and General Instrument with Sanyo.

* 1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U. S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

It was planned by Wiz and released by Bandai on June 26, 1997 Digimon: The Movie, released in the U. S. and Canada territory by Fox Kids through 20th Century Fox on October 6, 2000, consists of the union of the first three Japanese movies.

Though they used the original Japanese show as the medium for the dub, some of the voices seem to sound like the U. S. version ( e. g., Taichi having an adolescent's voice instead of a kid's ) or completely original to the dubbing crew ( e. g., Gabumon's deep, grumbly voice ).

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.

It was eventually applied to one-third of the land area of the U. S. ( mostly in the West ) and was used against those with " Foreign Enemy Ancestry " — Japanese, and Korean, who were considered to have Japanese nationality ( since Korea had been under Japanese rule since 1910 ).

* 1942 – World War II: U. S. Navy conducts Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the first offensive action by the United States against Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.

* 1983 – A special commission of the U. S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

In World War II, Japanese-held Yap was one of the islands bypassed in the U. S. " island-hopping " strategy, although it was regularly bombed by U. S. ships and aircraft, and Yap-based Japanese bombers did some damage in return.

The U. S. connection also contributes to Guam's status as a Japanese tourist destination.

Finally, as time began to run out, he headed into Ormoc and glide-bombed a group of houses that Intelligence had thought might contain Japanese supplies.

Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.

It sounded as if the man were calling him: `` Hey, Japanese hey there, Japanese ''.

Previous presentations have been on French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, German and Japanese.

Assuming the lower figure for the big blast and one shot estimated by the Japanese at 10 megatons, a conservative computation is that the 24 announced tests produced a total yield of at least 60 megatons.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

and after that the Japanese cherries.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

In 1896 a Japanese tsunami killed 27,000 people and swept away 10,000 homes.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

American chemists, seeking to increase exports of soybeans, have adapted modern techniques and fermentation methods to improve their use in such traditional Japanese foods as tofu and miso and in tempeh of Indonesia.

The Japanese sake is wine fermented from rice grain.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

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.

On arriving in Tokyo later we were met by Masu who took us immediately to her university, the Japanese Women's University.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

Many of the features of the homes are the latest modern devices in American homes, but an interesting blend of cultures finds us using Japanese artfulness in our own Western architecture at the same time that the Japanese are adopting Western utility patterns.

Even today there are some doubts about the value of education for Japanese women, but this University continues to grow and to send its students out into the community.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.