A variety of social, political and economic reforms were introduced by the Japanese government, in hope of modernising the country in the Western style, and included the annexation of Hokkaido.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

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.

The Vichy government signed an agreement with Japan to allow the Japanese military transit through French Indochina.

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

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

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 disrupted Chiang's offensives against the Communists for a time, although it was the northern factions of Hu Hanmin's Guangzhou ( Canton ) government ( notably the 19th Route Army ) that primarily led the offensive against the Japanese during this skirmish.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".

Sato explained that the continued recognition of Japan towards the Nationalist government was due largely to the personal relationship that various members of the Japanese government felt towards Chiang.

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When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??

Jim Souhan of the Minneapolis Star Tribune said he did not see Matsui as a rookie in 2003 because " it would be an insult to the Japanese league to pretend that experience didn't count.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

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.

However, Chiang's allied commander Zhang Xueliang, whose forces were used in his attack and whose homeland of Manchuria had been recently invaded by the Japanese, did not support the attack on the Communists.

The clipper bow on carriers was an American peculiarity, Japanese ships did not feature it and British ships had the similar but differently-shaped " hurricane bow ," whose purpose was, like the clipper bow, to improve hydrodynamic efficiency and, unlike the clipper bow, protect the hangar deck from spray.

Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

His idea was reported in Japanese scientific journals, but did not reach Europe or the Americas.

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.

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 next couple of years saw Lola improve slightly — their car was arguably marginally superior to the Reynard in 1990 — and March slip, but both were crushed by the Reynard teams and by the mid-90s, F3000 was a virtual Reynard monopoly, although Lola did eventually return with a promising car and the Japanese Footwork and Dome chassis were seen in Europe.

The Japanese did not acquire firearms until the 16th century, and then from the Portuguese rather than the Chinese.

One " Giger Bar " sprang up in Tokyo, but the realization of his designs were a great disappointment to the artist, since the Japanese organization behind the venture did not wait for his final designs, but decided to barrel ahead with nothing more than Giger's rough preliminary sketches.

Left-wing organizations, such as the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, quickly reestablished themselves, as did various conservative parties.

Resource development projects in Australia attracted Japanese capital, as did trade protectionism by necessitating local production for the Australian market.

" hair of the eye "); modern mieru (" to be visible ") and kikoeru (" to be audible ") retain what may have been a frequentative suffix-ru ( kikoyu > kikoyuru ( the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period ) > kikoeru ( as all shimo-nidan verbs in modern Japanese did )); and the genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech.

Hitler did not wish for any information that might lead the Japanese into attacking the Soviet Union to reach their ears.

Kimono-clad Japanese women did not wear panties and several women refused to jump into safety nets because they were ashamed of being seen from below.

During its years of colonial rule, Japan moved more than 1, 000 Japanese to the Marshall Islands although they never outnumbered the indigenous peoples as they did in the Mariana Islands and Palau.

This DVD release is the first version of the film in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.

In North America releases of the Mega Man Zero games, enemies and bosses killed with a saber attack would not gush blood as they did in the Japanese versions.

In 1998, the group appeared on the album Happy Hour by Japanese female rockers Shonen Knife ( also a three piece ); they did backing vocals on the song " Sushi Bar ".

Katsufumi Sato, a Japanese scientist, did calculations using modern birds and decided that it is impossible for a pterosaur to stay aloft.

Many of Japan's wrestlers including top stars such as Shinya Hashimoto, Riki Choshu and Keiji Mutoh came from a legitimate martial arts background and many Japanese Pro Wrestlers in the 90's began to pursue careers in Mixed Martial Arts Organizations such as Pancrase and Shooto which at the time retained the original look of Puroresu but did not have predetermined outcomes to the matches.

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

The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.

In March 2006, Michael Anthony spoke to Japanese rock magazine Burrn !, claiming the brothers did not want him on the 2004 reunion tour, although Hagar did ( and would not play without Anthony ), but he had to agree to reduced royalties and end absolutely all association with the band after the tour in terms of rights to using the name to promote himself.

Nintendo of America disliked the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, which they found to be frustratingly difficult and otherwise little more than a modification of Super Mario Bros. As they did not want to risk the franchise's popularity, they canceled its stateside release and eventually decided on helping the original Japanese developers to revise a Japanese Family Computer Disk System game titled into Super Mario Bros. 2.

Polydor did not want a record to stir up emotion in the Japanese ; in response, Imawano re-released the album through an independent label with the track in question.

They are a major tourist attraction drawing Japanese couples, families or company groups who want to get away from the hectic life of the city to relax.

There was also a strong desire on the part of the Japanese government " to preserve the image of the Japanese people in the eyes of the world ": Japan did not want America to pass any legislation confronting the Japanese immigrants, in response to what happened to Chinese under the Chinese Exclusion Act.

While he is somewhat curious ( and rather condescending ) of Japanese imperial customs, he is even more afraid of their officers, who seem all too happy to want to extract as many Race secrets as they can from him, by cruel physical torture if need be.

Forbes describes the cost of keeping up with new manga as " astronmical ", stating that " fans expecting to read any manga they want for free isn ’ t reasonable, but neither is it reasonable to expect your audience to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to stay up to date with content that their Japanese kindred spirits can get for a quarter the cost.

" The term was coined by Yoshihiro Tatsumi and adopted by other more serious Japanese cartoonists who did not want their trade to be known as manga or " irresponsible pictures.

Eroge only gets released to PC because large Japanese game companies do not want to release games with sexual content on their game consoles.

It attracts many Japanese who want tranquility with beautiful natural surroundings and yet easy access from the busy cities in the Kansai metropolitan area including Osaka.

is a song Japanese children sing when it's snowing and they want to play outside.

His name is a pun on the Japanese phrase " Horitai zo " ( 掘りたいぞ ) or " I want to dig!

I only want to do harm to the Japanese and chase them away from this country as quickly as possible.

Dionnet had to insist during several months to finally discover that the Shochiku didn't want to release Sonatine abroad, claiming the movie was " too Japanese " and would not be accepted, nor understood, by western audiences.

Since the toy's announcement, it was strongly hinted that there would be a change made between the American and Japanese figures that " would make fans want to buy both versions ".

I want to thank the Japanese for having led the way .... Now I will continue with the objective of doubling the ( IMF ) resources ," he told reporters.

They want to " Buy American ," but the Japanese manufacturers seem to offer more of the type of cars Americans need and at a better price, and from more cooperative dealers.

Rez has claimed to want to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru ( Japanese Idol ) of the title, which is apparently impossible and therefore questioned by his loyal staff, particularly by his head of security, Keith Blackwell.