Since then, the standard set of languages included in Altaic has comprised Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese.

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.

An early 17th century Japanese manuscript, the Sankai Ibutsu (), describes the baku as a shy, Chinese mythical chimera with an elephant ’ s trunk, rhinoceros eyes, an ox tail, and tiger paws, which protected against pestilence and evil, although eating nightmares was not included among its abilities.

All of the added content from the Japanese and European versions of those games were included in the expanded editions titled Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance and Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.

Historically the titles of Tennō in Japanese have never included territorial designations as is the case with many European monarchs.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

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.

The fight cards regularly included bouts between Japanese ( kickboxers ) and Thai ( muay thai ) boxers.

The proposal included American recognition of Manchukuo, the merging of Chiang's government with the Japan-backed Reorganized National Government of China, withdrawal of Japanese troops from China and mutual respect for its independence, and even an agreement that Japanese immigration to the United States shall proceed " on the basis of equality with other nationals and free from discrimination ".

There was no Japanese audio track included, apparently because Yoshiyuki Tomino felt that the original mono mix was in too poor of a condition to use.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

Indeed, the original haiku included the theme " oni " ( the " it " in Japanese is a demon, though in some parts a very young child forced to play " it " was called a " sea slug " ( namako )).

They included five European Franciscan missionaries, one Mexican Franciscan missionary, three Japanese Jesuits and seventeen Japanese laymen including three young boys.

In Asia at the same time, China had roughly six times the population of Japan, but only an 89 percent higher GDP ; this is reduced to three times the population and only a 38 percent higher GDP if Japanese colonies are included.

This has often included the national SF awards of the host country, including the Japanese Seiun Awards as part of Nippon 2007, and the Prix Aurora Awards as part of Anticipation 2009.

Her album included raw and quite harsh vocals that were possibly influenced by Japanese opera, but bear much in common with sounds in nature ( especially those made by animals ) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players.

These governments included Great Britain ( Royal Navy ), Japan ( Imperial Japanese Navy ), Russia ( Imperial Russian Navy ), the Netherlands ( Royal Netherlands Navy ), among other countries.

Examples of Japanese courtesans included the Oiran class, who were more focused on the aspect of entertainment in comparison with European courtesans.

* 働 どう dō, はたら ( く ) hatara ( ku ) " work ", the most commonly used kokuji, used in the fundamental verb 働く hatara ( ku ) " work ", included in elementary texts and on the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5, for example.

During World War II, the region was invaded by the Japanese Imperial Army and included in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Important artists included Itō Shinsui and Kawase Hasui, who were named Living National Treasures by the Japanese government.

The paired swastika symbols are included, at least since the Liao Dynasty, as part of the Chinese writing system ( 卍 and 卐 ) and are variant characters for 萬 or 万 ( wàn in Mandarin, man in Korean, Cantonese and Japanese, vạn in Vietnamese ) meaning " all " or " eternity " ( lit.

After the meeting, the Japanese American National Museum and the AJC issued a joint statement ( which was included in the exhibit ) that read in part:

Beginning in 2009, led by agency chief Takaharu Ando, Japanese police began to crack down on the gangs.

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.

But under Chennault they developed into a crack fighting unit, always going against superior Japanese forces.

Gunfights are staples of every episode of the series, and the series ' two child leads -- Johnny Sokko and Mari Hanson ; the latter, called Mari Hanamura in the Japanese version, is a 9-year-old girl, introduced in the seventh episode, who speaks 39 languages and is a crack shot with a firearm -- were frequently seen shooting along with the rest of the Unicorn agents.

Prior to a discussion of his raids against the Japanese positions in the Marshall Islands, Halsey told the young midshipmen before him, " Missing the Battle of Midway has been the greatest disappointment of my career, but I am going back to the Pacific where I intend personally to have a crack at those yellow bellied sons of bitches and their carriers ," to the rousing applause of the assembled midshipmen.

* July: North Korea claims to have trained 500 hackers who successfully crack South Korean, Japanese, and their allies ' computer systems.

The Japanese modified the tactics they used in their previous three attempts by sending the crack 3rd and 13th Divisions to attack Wanyang mountain toward Liuyang, effectively out-flanking the Chinese troops defending Changsha and cutting off their retreat routes.

At the camp the Japanese Americans find cramped living conditions, badly-prepared food, unfinished barracks and dust blowing in through every crack and knothole.

The Heartnut is a cultivar of Japanese Walnut distinguished by its fruit, which is heart-shaped in cross section, easier to crack, and able to yield an unbroken nut meat when cracked.

In September 1931, a section of the railway was lightly damaged by the Japanese Kwantung Army as a pretext for an invasion of Manchuria.

In other international issues, Beria ( along with Mikoyan ) correctly foresaw the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War and greatly helped the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's Liberation Army, mainly from the recently-captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

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.

After initial successes the Japanese assault on Mongolia was checked by the Red Army that inflicted the first major defeat on the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Later, the Japanese Kwantung Army found him too independent, so he was assassinated in 1928.

During this battle, a combined Soviet-Mongolian force defeated the Japanese Kwantung Army ( Kantōgun ) supported by limited Manchukuoan forces.

The commanding officer of the Kwantung Army in Manchukuo was additionally the Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo.

After the defeat of Japan in World War II, Khabarovsk was the site of the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, in which twelve former members of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Unit 731 were put on trial for the manufacture and use of biological weapons during World War II.

was a Manchu princess brought up in Japan, who served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.

In 1933, she offered the unit to the Japanese Kwantung Army for Operation Nekka, but it was refused.

However, her very popularity created issues with the Kwantung Army, as her utility as an intelligence asset was long gone, and her value as a propaganda symbol was compromised by her increasingly critical tone against the Japanese military's exploitative policies in Manchukuo as a base of operations against China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, and she gradually faded from public sight.

On June 4, Zhang, who was heading north from Beijing by train, was assassinated by Japanese conspirators, operating from Japan's Kwantung Army.

Prior to the escalation of World War II to the Pacific and East Asia, the Japanese planners regarded it as self-evident that the conquests secured in Japan's earlier wars with Russia ( South Sakhalin and the Kwantung Leased Territory ), Germany ( the South Pacific Mandate ) and China ( Manchuria ) would be retained, as well as Korea ( Chōsen ), Taiwan ( Formosa ), the recently seized additional portions of China and occupied French Indochina.

After a small explosion on the tracks of a Japanese railway, north of Mukden, the Japanese army mobilized the Kwantung Army and attacked Chinese troops.

On July 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge, the Japanese Kwantung army stationed there used explosions heard on the Chinese side of Manchuria as a pretext for invasion.

The Japanese government, however, claimed that this control included all the rights and privileges that China granted to Russia in the 1896 Li-Lobanov Treaty, as enlarged by the Kwantung Lease Agreement of 1898.

However, when the Japanese Minister of War Jirō Minami dispatched Major General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa to Manchuria for the specific purpose of curbing the insubordination and militarist behavior of the Kwantung Army, Itagaki and Ishiwara knew that they no longer had the luxury of waiting for the Chinese to respond to provocations, but had to stage their own.

One was that the Kwantung Army had a strong reserve force that could be transported by railway from Korea, which was a Japanese colony, directly adjacent to Manchuria.

Strong evidence points to young officers of the Japanese Kwantung Army having conspired to cause the blast, with or without direct orders from Tokyo.

The resulting explosion enabled the Japanese Kwantung Army to accomplish their goal of invading Manchuria and the subsequent establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

He then ordered Kwantung Army units to seize control of all other Manchurian cities without informing the new commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Shigeru Honjo, or the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff in Tokyo.

The following year he was transferred to Shenyang as head of the Houten Special Agency, the military intelligence service of the Japanese Kwantung Army.