Musashi's father, Munisai, also fought against a master of the Yoshioka school and won 2 out of 3 bouts in front of the shogun at the time, Ashikaga Yoshiaki who granted him the title of " Unrivaled Under The Sun ".

* 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

Although the original meaning of " shogun " is simply " a general ", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishōgun ( 征夷大将軍 ), the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867.

After the downfall of the Kamakura Shogunate, certain conditions had to be met in order for a warlord to be bestowed the title of shogun.

In 1192, Yoritomo was awarded the title of Sei-i Taishōgun by the emperor and the political system he developed with a succession of shogun at the head became known as a shogunate.

Like Nobunaga before him, Hideyoshi never achieved the title of shogun.

* March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

* August 21 – Minamoto no Yoritomo is granted the title of shogun, thereby officially establishing the first shogunate in the history of Japan.

However, after defeating the Taira clan in the Genpei War, Minamoto no Yoritomo seized certain powers from the aristocracy in 1185 and was given the title of shogun in 1192.

After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed this process and received the traditional title of shogun or noble military ruler as he was a descendant of the ancient Minamoto clan.

He was the second man to given the title of shogun.

Ieyasu still failed to achieve complete control of the western daimyo, but his assumption of the title of shogun helped consolidate the alliance system.

In 1603, he received the title of shogun, making him the nominal ruler of the entire country.

He extended military control over the city, pillaging it and imprisoning the Emperor Go-Shirakawa, and forced the Emperor to bestow upon him the title of shogun.

Although the majority of the imperial consultative assembly was happy with the formal declaration of direct rule by the court and tended to support a continued collaboration with the Tokugawa, Saigō Takamori threatened the assembly into abolishing the title " shogun " and ordered the confiscation of Yoshinobu's lands.

In 1192 he received the title shogun and set up the first bakufu at Kamakura.

After the death of his father Yoritomo in 1199, Sanetomo's grandfather Hōjō Tokimasa usurped all political and military power of the shogunate, relegating the position and title of Seii Taishogun, or shogun, to a mere figurehead.

He was stripped of the title in 1508 by the 10th shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane, who became shogun for a second period of time.

In 1603 Emperor Go-Yozei granted Ieyasu the title of shogun.

Immediately after becoming shogun, Tsunayoshi gave Hotta Masatoshi the title of Tairō, in a way thanking him for ensuring his succession.

He was succeeded by his nephew, Tokugawa Ienobu, who was the son of his other brother, Tokugawa Tsunashige, the former Lord of Kofu, which was a title Ienobu held before becoming shogun.

After refusing to appoint Ashikaga Takauji to the post of seii taishōgun, he made the double mistake of giving the title to his sons Prince Moriyoshi and Norinaga, two civilians, thus alienating Takauji and the warrior class, who felt he, as a military man and a descendant of the Minamoto, should have been shogun instead.

Exceptions also included noble lands that were given full title by the previous shogun, and estates managed by the samurai stewards ( jito ).

Puzzle Bobble was originally released in Japan only in June 1994 by Taito Corporation, running on Taito's B System hardware ( with the preliminary title " Bubble Buster ").

BRP games in Japanese are Houkago Kaiki Club ( 1997, school life and horror, Hobby Japan ), Genom Seed ( 2004, mutant action, Shinkigensha ) and Taitei no Ken RPG ( 2007, SciFi-jidaigeki, based on movie of the same title, Shinkigensha ).

Currently the Emperor of Japan is the only remaining monarch in the world reigning under the title of Emperor.

" heavenly sovereign "), which is used exclusively to refer to an emperor of Japan, and kōtei ( 皇帝, the title used for Chinese emperors ), which is used primarily to describe non-Japanese emperors.

* The Emperor of Japan, explanation of the title of emperor in the context of western terminology

Currently, the Emperor of Japan is the only reigning monarch with the title.

The reading ' Tennō ' has become the standard title for the sovereign of Japan up to and including the present age.

Emperor Temmu is the first monarch of Japan, to whom the title tenno was assigned contemporaneously — not only by later generations.

Most of their titles are associated with The Vanilla Series, a series of hentai titles produced in Japan by Digital Works which are tied-in with eroge games of the same title.

Edler defended the All Japan title several times and abandoned it.

His title gave him a seat in the Upper Chamber of the Diet of Japan, and in 1933, he was elected President of the House of Peers.

The film was released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States by Tokuma Japan Communications ' US subsidiary in 1993 with the title My Friend Totoro.

Until the mid-1930s, the Prime Minister of Japan was normally granted a title in the peerage ( kazoku ) usually just prior to entering office if he had not already been ennobled.

He became the practical ruler of Japan, and received the title sei-i taishōgun.

If a daimyo unified Japan, and was not of Minamoto descent, then he would be given the title of " regent ".

Association football's important events included two World Cups, one organized in South Korea, Japan, which saw Brazil win a record fifth title, and the other in Germany, which saw Italy's fourth title.

* Ashikaga Takauji is granted the title of Shogun by the emperor of Japan, starting the Ashikaga shogunate.

The NES version was ported twice to the Game Boy Advance: first in 2004 as one of thirty games in the Classic NES Series ( known as the Famicom Mini Series in Japan ), then bundled with a version of the Puzzle League series in 2005 under the title Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

This version of Dr. Mario was re-released in Japan on March 30, 1997, as a downloadable title for the Satellaview, an add-on for the Super Famicom, under the name.