* Kusanagi ( a Japanese sword, one of the three imperial Japanese regalia of the ruling family )

The key to knowing the origin of the Japanese imperial line may lie within the ancient imperial tombs known as kofun.

The Japanese imperial dynasty consistently practiced official polygamy, a practice that only ended in the Taishō period ( 1912 – 1926 ).

The Japanese imperial dynasty bases its position in the expression that it has " reigned since time immemorial " ( 万世一系 bansei ikkei ).

Millennia ago, the Japanese imperial family developed its own peculiar system of hereditary succession.

The panel dealing with the succession issue recommended on October 25, 2005 amending the law to allow females of the male line of imperial descent to ascend the Japanese throne.

In Asia, World War I and World War II were played out as struggles among several key imperial powers — conflicts involving the European powers along with Russia and the rising American and Japanese powers.

* 1942 – World War II: Japanese imperial submarines I-21 and I-24 shell the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle.

Old maps of Edo show the Japanese imperial palace as the " top ", but also at the centre, of the map.

The Kojiki establishes the Japanese imperial family as the foundation of Japanese culture, being the descendants of Amaterasu Omikami.

Fridell argues that scholars call the period 1868-1945 the " State Shinto period " because, " during these decades, Shinto elements came under a great deal of overt state influence and control as the Japanese government systematically utilized shrine worship as a major force for mobilizing imperial loyalties on behalf of modern nation-building.

The Japanese imperial family continue to write tanka for the New Year.

In July 1937, Japan captured the former Chinese imperial capital of Beijing after instigating the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China.

He was the first sesshō in Japanese history who was not himself of imperial rank ; and he was the first of a series of regents from the Fujiwara clan.

* A Japanese imperial memorandum decrees: " Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden.

** Prince Tsunenaga, Japanese imperial prince ( d. 1338 )

" It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea.

After the Second Sino-Japanese War, the People's Republic of China has refused recognition of the name Mǎnzhōu ( Manchuria ), only using " the Northeast " for the region to avoid acknowledging the Japanese imperial legacy in the area ; the title of Manchuria is still often associated in China with the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.

William McMahon ( centre ) with Tokugawa Iemasa | Prince Tokugawa of the Imperial House of Japan | Japanese imperial family in the Australian embassy in Japan in 1952

Japanese imperial education was implemented in Taiwan and many Taiwanese also fought for Japan during the war.

* 607 – Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China ( Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607 ).

** Daigo Fuyumoto ( 1648-1697 ), Japanese court noble who founded the family branch

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

In the end, the Fujiwara were destroyed, the old system of government supplanted, and the insei system left powerless as bushi took control of court affairs, marking a turning point in Japanese history.

The modern koto originates from the gakusō used in Japanese court music.

Chung Feng Ming Pen ( 中峰明本 1263 – 1323 ) wrote that kung-an is an abbreviation for kung-fu an-tu ( 公府之案牘, Pinyin gōngfǔ zhī àndú, pronounced in Japanese as kōfu no antoku ), which referred to a " public record " or the " case records of a public law court " in Tang-dynasty China.

But he also obtained from the court astronomer Takahashi Kageyasu several detailed maps of Japan and Korea ( written by Inō Tadataka ), an act strictly forbidden by the Japanese government.

With the introduction of Buddhism and its rapid adoption by the court in the 6th century, it was necessary to explain the apparent differences between native Japanese beliefs and Buddhist teachings.

* Fujiwara no Yorimichi, Japanese court noble and regent

Lady Sei Shōnagon, wrote her Pillow Book about life in the Japanese court

* Sei Shōnagon, writer, a Japanese lady of the royal court

* The Japanese court officially adopts the Chinese writing system ( approximate date ).

* August 1 – Prince Shotoku of Japan appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to Sui and sends him to pay tribute to the Sui court ( Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607 ).

* The Japanese court is moved from Heian to Nara.

The earliest Japanese documents were probably written by bilingual Chinese or Korean officials employed at the Yamato court.

During the reign of Empress Suiko, the Yamato court began sending full-scale diplomatic missions to China, which resulted in a large increase in Chinese literacy at the Japanese court.

* the Rokujō family, a poetically conservative faction in the Japanese Imperial court

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

Since 1911, the Japanese government has declared the southern claimants were actually the rightful emperors because they retained possession of the three sacred treasures, thus converting the emperors of the former Northern court into mere pretenders.

* Kishi Joō, Japanese Waka poet and lady of the court ( b. 929 )

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

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

Fudo, the god of wisdom, was also thought of as the Japanese version of Acala.

Roy Andrew Miller's 1971 book Japanese and the Other Altaic Languages convinced most Altaicists that Japanese also belonged to Altaic.

Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

They also urged him to recognize the Japanese genocide against the Ainu people, but Putin declined.

* 1910 – The Japan – Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan – Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

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.

He was also the third Japanese chairman of the Trilateral Commission.

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.

It is also known as kanten, China grass, Japanese isinglass, Ceylon moss or Jaffna moss.

It is also the main ingredient in Mizuyōkan, another popular Japanese food.

BRP was also licensed to Japanese companies.

Retzius also describes how farmers would plant chives between the rocks making up the borders of their flowerbeds, to keep the plants free from pests ( such as Japanese beetles ).

Apart from the head office building and the R & D building of Capcom Co., Ltd., both located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, the Japanese parent company also has a branch office in the Shinjuku Mitsui Building in Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

They were also criticised due to releasing Monster Hunter Frontier Online only to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players, citing cultural and language issues with western players interacting with the Asian players.

The empire also had to deal with Japanese pirates attacking the southeastern coastline ; General Qi Jiguang was instrumental in defeating these pirates.

" A. D .," and less commonly, " C. E .," are also occasionally seen, but the typical Japanese person would not know about the religious connotations or lack of in these terms.

These came from Buddhist beliefs ; the classical Chinese elements (, go gyô ) are also prominent in Japanese culture, especially to the influential Neo-Confucianists during the Edo period.

The ancient Japanese of the Kofun period also adopted cavalry and equine culture by the 5th century AD.

The Japanese were also concerned that Chiang might defeat the Fengtian Clique.