When the IFF was founded in 1986, the sport was played in mostly Nordic countries, Japan, and several parts of Europe.

When Keller visited Akita Prefecture in Japan in July 1937, she inquired about Hachikō, the famed Akita dog that had died in 1935.

According to Hideo Tokuoka, " When Americans think of incest, they think of fathers and daughters ; in Japan one thinks of mothers and sons " due to the extensive media coverage of mother-son incest there.

When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.

When Japan surrendered, Lao nationalists declared Laos independent, but by early 1946, French troops had reoccupied the country and conferred limited autonomy on Laos.

When he became a grand minister in 1586, he created a law that the samurai caste became codified as permanent and heritable, and that non-samurai were forbidden to carry weapons, thereby ending the social mobility of Japan from which he himself had benefited.

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

When the Japanese discovered, by accident, that von Siebold had a map of the northern parts of Japan, the government accused him of high treason and of being a spy for Russia.

When World War I broke out in 1914, Japan fought on the Allied side and seized the German possessions in Shandong.

When the situation turns into a war between Japan and America, they establish contacts with the opposition in the Japanese government and are also used to eliminate a pair of Japanese AWACS planes.

When the commercial whaling moratorium was introduced by the IWC in 1982, Japan lodged an official objection.

When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

When I ’ ve been to Japan I ’ ve been to Buddhist temples and meditated and I found that rewarding.

When Prime Minister of Japan General Hideki Tojo refused American demands that Japan withdraw its military forces from China, a confrontation became more likely.

When the Treaty of Shimonoseki was finalized on April 17, 1895, Taiwan was ceded by the Qing Empire to Japan.

When the neighboring cities of Date, Kunimi and Kōri, all of which are also in the Fukushima Basin, are taken into effect, the Fukushima metro area produced 20. 1 % of all peaches grown in Japan in 2010.

When Tsuguharu Foujita arrived from Japan in 1913 not knowing a soul, he met Soutine, Modigliani, Pascin and Leger virtually the same night and within a week became friends with Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

When the Japanese occupation began, the Việt Minh opposed Japan with support from the United States and the Republic of China.

When Japan surrendered in August 1945, the Japanese handed over control of some public buildings and weapons requisitioned from the French army to the Việt Minh, now led by Hồ Chí Minh, after turning in the Vietnamese nationalist leaders of the Việt Minh to the French colonialists.

When finally granted by the emperor as a sign of his sharing his authority and giving rights and liberties to his subjects, the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan ( the Meiji Constitution ) provided for the Imperial Diet ( Teikoku Gikai ), composed of a popularly elected House of Representatives with a very limited franchise of male citizens who were over twenty-five years of age and paid fifteen yen in national taxes, about one percent of the population, and the House of Peers, composed of nobility and imperial appointees ; and a cabinet responsible to the emperor and independent of the legislature.

When Europeans came to Japan, they were called nanban (), literally Barbarians from the South, because the Portuguese ships appeared to sail from the South.

" When imported to Japan, it was written with the ateji, and.

When Anne Klein herself died in 1974, Takihyo Corporation of Japan became the new owner and Karan, together with her former classmate and friend Louis Dell ' Ollio, became head designer of the house.

When fully pollinated, the flesh of these fruit is brown inside – known as goma in Japan – and the fruit can be eaten firm.

" Detroit's Street Railways, Volume III: When Eastern Michigan Rode the Rails " ( CERA Bulletin 123 ) ( No ISBN ).

When the Mount Buffalo Chalet was run by the Victorian Railways the restaurant was known as an official " Railways Refreshment Room ".

When British Railways was created by nationalisation in 1948, Gill Sans was used in much of its printed output, including timetables.

When the Chiltern Railways services are included, Amersham still has four trains an hour to London in total, with extra trains from both operators in the peak.

When Wilkie Collins wrote of his visit to the town in his Rambles beyond Railways he had a low opinion of it: " that abomination of desolation, a large agricultural country town ".

When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by the Intercity Sector until the Privatisation of British Railways.

When the New York Railways Corporation converted streetcars to buses in 1935 and 1936, the new bus services were operated by the New York City Omnibus Corporation which shared management with The Omnibus Corporation.

* When the Steam Railways Electrified: William D. Middleton ( Kalmbach Books, Milwaukee, 1974 ) ISBN 0-89024-028-0

When the use of automatic brakes was made compulsory in the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, the equipment was modified so that it operated the brakes ; however, the term " communication cord " has survived.

When BR was divided into sectors in the 1980s the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by Network SouthEast until the Privatisation of British Railways in 1993.

When nationalised in 1978 it fell under the banner of " Isle of Man Railways " ( along with the Manx Electric Railway ).

When the " Duke " was first allowed to haul a full load on the main line, it became immediately obvious that the boiler was now producing steam at a more efficient rate and that the re-born " Duke " was unrecognisable from the failure that was experienced under British Railways ownership With these modifications, the " Duke " is now one of the most powerful steam locomotive ever to run on Britain's railways, past or present ( the LMS Coronation Class Pacifics held that title under British Railways auspices ).

When the Railways Department changed the town's name from " Robbinsville " ( named after Frederick Robbins who married one of Samuel McCauley's daughters ) to " Thirroul in 1892, William Saddler ( a well known Aboriginal elder from Port Kembla ) contacted the Illawarra Mercury newspaper and complained about the " meaningless " name.

When the WMR was incorporated into the national network in 1908, the Railways Department reclassified No. 17 as the solitary member of the B < sup > C </ sup > class, number B < sup > C </ sup > 463, and the locomotive continued to operate on the Wellington-Paekakariki line until it was withdrawn on 31 March 1927.

When the New Zealand Government purchased the WMR, number 3 was renumbered to NZR Wj class number 466 by the New Zealand Government Railways.

When the railways were nationalised in 1948, five of the six British Railways Regions had followed the companies ' example by using Henry Blacklock & Co to produce their own timetable books, but production was eventually moved to other publishers.

When British Railways was formed in 1948, it decided to adopt the former LNER method of carriage classification.

When Sectorisation was introduced, the station became part of ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Railways.

When Lines Bros collapsed, their subsidiary Rovex-Triang, which handled Scalextric and the Triang railway brand, was sold off, eventually becoming Hornby Railways.

When he was called up for military service, his potential in wrestling was discovered and he began to train seriously soon after he was recruited as an Iran Railways employee in 1948.