In World War II, Japanese-held Yap was one of the islands bypassed in the U. S. " island-hopping " strategy, although it was regularly bombed by U. S. ships and aircraft, and Yap-based Japanese bombers did some damage in return.

The only empire known to have originated in Micronesia was based in Yap.

The northernmost Comanche band were the Yamparikas ( Yaparʉhka or Yapai Nʉʉ — ‘( Yap ) Root-Eaters ’), which was the last band to move onto the Plains and retained much of their Shoshone tradition.

An 1892 Tuolumne County history indicates that, in 1856, four of the six Chinese companies ( protective associations ) had agents here and that the first tong war ( between the Sam Yap and Yan Woo tongs ) was fought near here when the population of the area totaled several thousand.

** Yap Kwan Seng 葉觀盛 / 叶观盛 ( 1846-1902 ; Chixi, Guangdong ; born in China ; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Kon Sin ), Last Kapitan China, Kuala Lumpur, 1989-1902 ; A major road, Jalan Yap Kwan Seng, in Kuala Lumpur was named after him

* The UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( originally comprising Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau ), after Allied military occupations, since 18 July 1947, had a dozen high commissioners, also presiding over the splitting off of Palau and Marshall Islands in 1980 and the 10 May 1979 granting of autonomy to the Federated States of Micronesia ( former Ponape, Truk and Yap districts of the Trust Territory ) until on 3 November 1986 the Trust Territory was dissolved by the U. S. ( a single Director of the Office of Transition, Charles Jordan, stepped in from 3 November 1986 – 30 September 1991, a while after the 22 December 1990 proclamation of final independence as the UN Security Council ratified the termination of US trusteeship ).

The United States Government sent, 1 July 1905, a Jesuit from the observatory at Manila to erect a meteorological station on the island of Yap, of which station the Capuchin Father Callistus was appointed director.

* Kuntao Angin or Silat Angin ( meaning " wind kuntao / silat ") was founded in 1977 by Yap Mat from Kedah, Malaysia by combining seni gayong with the knee and elbow strikes of tomoi, the hand techniques of Wing Chun and the energy drills of yiquan.

Vagrants have been recorded on oceanic islands, such as Chuuk and Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marianas and Palau ; the bird recorded on Yap on February 25, 1991, was from a continental Asian rather than from a Melanesian population, while the origin of the bird seen on Palau on May 3, 2005 was not clear.

Another game, Yap, shows close similarities to Yahtzee ; this game was copyrighted by Robert Cissne in 1952.

When the Micronesian constitution was defeated in the TTPI districts of Palau and the Marshall Islands, Kosrae joined the remaining districts ( Yap, Chuuk and Pohnpei ) to form the Federated States of Micronesia ( FSM ).

Urusemal was born on the island of Woleai in the State of Yap.

She was married to Philippine Basketball Association professional player James Yap of the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants.

Her son with Yap was named James " Bimby " Aquino Yap.

This was divided into six subprefectures, on the islands of Saipan, Yap, Palau, Truk, Pohnpei and Jaluit.

In 2008 William Yap joined the team as accounting coordinator and current marketing director Allison Shalla was hired in 2009 as marketing coordinator.

A sailor named David O ' Keefe was shipwrecked on Yap in the Caroline Islands, where he found the natives highly prized Rai stones quarried at great effort and danger on the island of Palau.

Kapitan Yap Ah Loy also built Kuala Lumpur's first school and a major tapioca mill in Petaling Street of which the Selangor's Sultan Abdul Samad had an interest.

This is largely due to more than a century of foreign colonial occupation, bringing in Spanish, German, Japanese, Chamorro, Filipino, American, Australian, other western Europeans, and it being home to the capital of the national government, which employs hundreds of people from the other three FSM States ( Yap, Chuuk, Kosrae ) having distinct ethnic and cultural origins.

The Royal Navy — with assistance from other Allied navies in the far east — had captured the German colonies of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, Yap, Nauru and Samoa early in the war, instead of searching for Vice-Admiral Maximilian von Spee's German East Asia Squadron which had abandoned its base at the German concession at Tsingtao in China once Japan entered the war on Britain's side.

By 1900, Yap and Ponape were stops on a regular mail run between German New Guinea and Hong Kong.

The objectives of the force were the German stations at Yap in the Caroline Islands, Nauru and at Rabaul, New Britain.

The objectives of the force were the wireless stations at Yap in the Caroline Islands, Nauru, and at Rabaul in German New Guinea.

Later, in April 1922, civilian government was established in the form of a civil administration department which still reported to the local naval garrison commander in each of the six administrative districts: Saipan, Palau, Yap, Truk, Ponape and Jaluit Atoll.

Palau had limited relations before the 18th century, mainly with Yap and Java.

It moved westward through the archipelago and intensified into a typhoon before passing near Yap on March 2.

* Woon Wing Yip 葉煥榮 / 叶焕荣 ( 1940 -; Dongguan, China ; born in China ; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Fon Yin ), Founder, The Wing Yip Supermarkets, United Kingdom ; First Chinese tycoon in United Kingdom

This was inaugurated on June 18, 2005 and attended by Former First Lady Imelda Marcos, Governor Bongbong Marcos, Former DOE Secretary Vincent Perez, Undersecretary Peter Abaya and Dr. Robert Yap, Jesuit priest and Project Director of CD4CDM project of klima, who also conducted the invocation and blessing of the wind turbines.

** Ye Qiaobo 葉喬波 / 叶乔波 ( 1964 -; Hexian, Guangxi ; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Kiau Poh ), Winner, World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, 1992, 1993

When Imperial Japanese forces took over Yap during World War II, they used some of the stones for construction or as anchors.

After 1911 Tait also found fame as a sports reporter and columnist for the Mail and Empire, Toronto Telegram, Toronto Daily World and the Toronto Sunday World, co-founding the famous " Yap Yaps Corner " ( a popular celebrity sports column ) with Mr. Laurie.

* Yap, Joseph P. War With The Xiongnu-A Translation From Zizhi tongjian.

When the Selangor Civil War broke out in 1870, Yap Ah Loy was faced with internecine fighting among dissident Chinese groups as well as attacks from Malay factions.

It constitutes an important and popular cultural activity in many Asian and Oceanic countries, including Pakistan, the Maldives, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma ( Myanmar ), China, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Palau, Yap, Guam, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

Chinese aid projects have included among others the Giant Clam Farm Project in Kosrae, the Pilot Farm Project in Madolenihmw, the construction of a gymnasium on Pohnpei ( officially named the FSM-China Friendship Sports Center ), donation of police vehicles for the Yap state police, a facility to house the FSM's Tuna Commission, an expansion of the Chuuk State Airport Terminal, a biogas project on Chuuk, the construction of the Pohnpei Administration Building, and the construction of Kosrae High School Project.

The Security Council formally ended the trusteeship for the Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Mariana Islands, and Marshall Islands districts on December 22, 1990.

The first exhibition will focus on art from South and Southeast Asia and is to be curated by Singaporean June Yap, who has worked for six years in the curatorial departments of modern and contemporary art museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and the Singapore Art Museum.

In an annual report released in early 2010, the Habele charity announced plans to develop and distribute native-language materials for educators and students in the outer islands of Yap State, Micronesia.

Following his return to Micronesia, Urusemal became a teacher and guidance counselor for the Outer Islands High School on his native Yap.

For example, the Yap people of Micronesia have been using adaptive management techniques to sustain high population densities in the face of resource scarcity for thousands of years ( Falanruw 1984 ).

In using these techniques, the Yap people have altered their environment creating, for example, coastal mangrove depressions and seagrass meadows to support fishing and termite resistant wood ( Stankey and Shinder 1997 ).

Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals, Rai stones were mined in Palau and transported for use to the island of Yap, Micronesia.

It is also unique and notable for its neighbourhood watch program started in 1999 by long term resident, Suzie Yap.

In 2006, Mdm Mak left the school for an overseas appointment and was replaced by Ms Yap Wah Choo.

He played for Kaki Bukit Football Club in the amateur National Football League, where he was spotted by Singapore FA coach Sebastian Yap.

Yap Ah Loy left China via Macau for Malaya in 1854.

At the end of that period he left for Kesang where he found work in the shop of a relative named Yap Ng.

Around the 1870s, the third Chinese Kapitan of Kuala Lumpur, Yap Ah Loy, emerged as leader, and became responsible for the survival and subsequent systematic growth of this town.

Hence, Kapitan Yap Ah Loy bought a sprawling piece of real estate for the setting up of a brick industry which would spur the rebuilding of Kuala Lumpur.

The Joint Typhoon Warning Center initiated warning for Tropical Depression 23W at 0900 UTC November 7, north-northwest of the Micronesian island of Yap.

It administers both the Yap Islands and fourteen atolls reaching to the east and south for some, namely Eauripik, Elato, Fais, Faraulep, Gaferut, Ifalik, Lamotrek, Ngulu, Olimarao, Piagailoe ( West Fayu ), Pikelot, Sorol, Ulithi, and Woleai atolls, as well as the island of Satawal ( municipalities in bold ).

*" Relationship between Phylogeny and Pathotype for the Bacterial Blight Pathogen of Rice ," Nelson, Rebecca J. ; Baraoidan, Marietta R. ; Cruz, Casiana M. Vera ; Yap, Immanuel V. ; Leach, Jan E. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

* John Yap is a Canadian politician and is currently the Parliamentary Secretary for Clean Technology to the Minister of Energy and Mines

Candidates running for office he advised included Lucia Rivera, Ed Reyes, Vicki Castro, Jocelyn Yap, Nick Pacheco, the failed mayoral bid by Xavier Becerra and the Texas Senate campaign of Victor Morales.

It administers both Yap proper and some 130 atolls reaching to the east and south for some 800 km ( 500 mi ).