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 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.

When Datis surrendered and was ready for retreat, the Ionians climbed the trees and gave the Athenians the signal that the cavalry had left.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

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.

When the radicals mustered enough support to defeat a bill which would have preserved the status quo in religion, the conservatives, together with many moderates, surrendered their authority back to Cromwell who sent soldiers to clear the rest of the Assembly.

When the battle was lost, Saladin captured the relic, which was then ransomed back to the Crusaders when the Muslims surrendered the city of Acre in 1191.

When the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918, the United Kingdom refused to keep to the letter of its arrangements with Hussein, and the two nations assumed guardianship of Mesapotamia, Lebanon, Palestine and what became modern Syria.

When the besieged garrison of Kaunas surrendered in 1915, 20, 000 Russians became prisoners.

When the commander of the garrison Hermann Kusmanek finally surrendered, his troops were eating their horses and the first attempt of large-scale air supply had failed.

When in the following year Suleiman and Ibrahim made a grand entrance into Baghdad, its commander surrendered the city, thereby confirming Suleiman as the leader of the Islamic world and the legitimate successor to the Abbasid Caliphs.

When most of these defences had been eliminated, Bureh was captured or surrendered ( accounts differ ) in November.

When he learned that his wife was dying, Porter returned to Austin in February 1897 and surrendered to the court, pending an appeal.

When Manuel II returned home in 1403, his nephew duly surrendered control of Constantinople and received as a reward the governorship of newly-recovered Thessalonica.

When his army surrendered, Charles XII of Sweden and a few soldiers escaped to Ottoman territory, founding a colony in front of Bender, Moldova.

When Wismar surrendered in 1716, all of Sweden ’ s Baltic and German possessions were lost.

When Frodo and the other Hobbits stopped in Rivendell on their quest to destroy the Ring, Bilbo was still alive but now visibly aged, the years having caught up with him after he surrendered the Ring.

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, Emperor Bảo Đại abdicated, and Viet Cong leader Hồ Chí Minh proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in Hanoi.

When Balaguer left office that year, it marked the first time in the Dominican Republic's history that an incumbent president peacefully surrendered power to an elected member of the opposition.

When the French king re-entered the city, his enemies in Paris fortified themselves in the Bastille ; after a siege, they eventually ran out of food, surrendered and were allowed to leave the city after the payment of a ransom.

When his father died, he received the castle of Ugine as his inheritance, and he surrendered any entitlement to any other inheritance in 1238.

When Bảo Đại, the last Emperor of Vietnam, abdicated in August 1945 at Huế he is recorded to have surrendered the royal insignia to the new communist authorities.

When Germany surrendered to the Allied armies in May 1945, Streicher said later, he decided to commit suicide.

When Edward I invaded Scotland he brought with him the siege capabilities which had evolved south of the border: Edinburgh Castle fell within three days, and Roxburgh, Jedburgh, Dunbar, Stirling, Lanark and Dumbarton castles surrendered to the king.

When, however, the fall of Bothwell was seen to be impending he rapidly changed sides and surrendered the castle to Murray, stipulating for his pardon for Darnley's murder, the retention of the priory of Pittenweem, and pecuniary rewards.