* 1854 – The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.

Shortly thereafter the Japanese government nominally ratified the independence of Cambodia and established a consulate in Phnom Penh.

By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

Bangladeshi – Japanese relations were established in February 1972.

Examples of these such as Tempura, aburaage, satsumaage are now part of established traditional Japanese cuisine.

In 1924 Keio University established the first university karate club in Japan and by 1932, major Japanese universities had karate clubs.

However in terms of modern competition, it was during the 1950s that a Japanese karateka named Tatsuo Yamada first established an outline of a new sport that combined karate and muay thai.

He was also popular with the Japanese public, having established himself as the man who angrily led Japan out of the League of Nations in 1933.

* 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.

Kim established the Korean People's Army ( KPA ) aligned with the Communists, formed from a cadre of guerrillas and former soldiers who had gained combat experience in battles against the Japanese and later Nationalist Chinese troops.

During this time, Nobunaga's subject and tea master Sen no Rikyu established the Japanese tea ceremony which Nobunaga popularized and used originally as a way to talk politics and business.

The Japanese continued the German mining activities, and also established bonito ( skipjack tuna ) canning and copra processing plants in Palau.

Rabaul, the capital of the Territory was overwhelmed on 22 – 23 January and was established as a major Japanese base from whence they landed on mainland New Guinea and advanced towards Port Moresby and Australia.

is a Japanese computer and video game developer established in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan in 1990, originally known as Sega AM8.

Shrines were also established in Taiwan and Korea during the Japanese occupation of those areas, but following the war, they were either destroyed or converted into some other use.

Menzies supported British policy against Hitler's Germany ( negotiate for peace, but prepare for war ) and – fearing Japanese intentions in the Pacific – established independent embassies in Tokyo and Washington in order to receive independent advice about developments.

* Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization established by the authority of Japanese Ministry of Education for the purpose of promoting music education and music popularization

* January 20 – The Japanese company Fuji Photo Film is established.

* Japanese authorities decree that Buddhist temples should be established throughout the country.

The movement was formally established with the formation of the Japanese Creative Print Society in 1918, however, it was commercially less successful, as Western collectors preferred the more traditionally Japanese look of shin-hanga.

The Japanese Emperor Temmu ( r. 672 – 686 ) even established his conscripted army on that of the Chinese model, his state ceremonies on the Chinese model, and constructed his palace at Fujiwara on the Chinese model of architecture.

Chiba's breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series ( 1974 ), which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema.

This act of Congress established the Manzanar National Historic Site " to provide for the protection and interpretation of the historical, cultural, and natural resources associated with the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II.

The policy had been established primarily for protection against Western imperialism, but before long Joseon was forced to open trade, beginning an era leading into Japanese colonial rule.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

The character is portrayed as demonstrating a number of traditional Japanese virtues, but ultimately falls prey to his own human flaws.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

This has resulted in a number of forms of fusion cuisine, often very popular in the country in question, and some of these, such as ramen ( Japanese Chinese ) have become popular internationally.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was the first to assemble a large number of carriers into a single task force, known as Kido Butai.

During the combat operations from the atoll against Afghanistan ( 2001 – 2006 ) and Iraq ( 2003 – 2006 ), a number of allied militaries were based on the island including Australian, Japanese and the Republic of Korea.

The film sold approximately 4, 200, 000 tickets in Japan, becoming the number one Japanese film on the domestic market in the period that included the year 1993.

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.

Japanese hardcore, particularly GISM, is also mentioned by a number of originators of the style.

It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban ( Japanese abacus ).

Japanese normalization talks halted when North Korea refused to discuss a number of issues with Japan.

In the mid 2000s, a number of karaoke bars sprouted in Sydney with karaoke boxes frequented by Japanese students and tourists and a few locals, especially on Thursday nights and weekends.

(" 八百万 " literally means eight million, but idiomatically it expresses " uncountably many " and " all around "— like many East Asian cultures, the Japanese often use the number 8, representing the cardinal and ordinal directions, to symbolize ubiquity.

During the off-season, the team signed Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka to fill a hole in the middle infield, re-signed Jim Thome, who was in pursuit of career home run number 600, and also re-signed Carl Pavano.

The European eel has a number of metamorphoses, from the larval stage to the leptocephalus stage, then a quick metamorphosis from leptocephalus to glass eel at the edge of the continental shelf ( 8 days for the Japanese eel ), two months at the border of fresh and salt water where the glass eel undergoes a quick metamorphosis into elver, then a long stage of growth followed by a more gradual metamorphosis to the migrating phase.

The word nori started to be used widely in the United States, and the product ( imported in dry form from Japan ) became widely available at natural food stores and Asian-American grocery stores starting in the 1960s, due to the influence of the macrobiotic movement, and in the 1970s with the growing number of sushi bars and Japanese restaurants.

refers to the English word itself, the Japanese word for five ( the Mach 5's car number ), and the name of the show's main character, Go Mifune.

* ESC / Page, Epson Standard Code for Page Printer, a page description language ( distinct from ESC / P ) used in a number of Epson laser printers, especially Japanese models.

It was accepted as a Japanese Industrial Standard ( JIS X 3017 ) in 2011 and an international standard ( ISO / IEC 30170 ) in 2012., there are a number of complete or upcoming alternative implementations of Ruby, including YARV, JRuby, Rubinius, IronRuby, MacRuby ( and its iOS counterpart, RubyMotion ), and HotRuby.

There are also a number of both foreign and Japanese operated bars catering to different crowds.

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

The number of Japanese citizens identifying their religious beliefs as Shinto has declined a great deal, yet the general practice of Shinto rituals has not decreased in proportion, and many practices have persisted as general cultural beliefs ( such as ancestor worship ), and community festivals ( matsuri )— focusing more on religious practices.