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.

In 1899, the Japanese government passed an act labeling the Ainu as former aborigines, with the idea they would assimilate — this resulted in the land the Ainu people lived on being taken by the Japanese government, and was from then on under Japanese control.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

On June 6, 2008, a bi-partisan, non-binding resolution was approved by the Japanese Diet calling upon the government to recognize the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group.

Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.

The Vichy government signed an agreement with Japan to allow the Japanese military transit through French Indochina.

Shortly thereafter the Japanese government nominally ratified the independence of Cambodia and established a consulate in Phnom Penh.

Consisting of British, Japanese, Russian, Italian, German, French, US and Austrian troops, the alliance defeated the Boxers and demanded further concessions from the Qing government.

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.

This disrupted Chiang's offensives against the Communists for a time, although it was the northern factions of Hu Hanmin's Guangzhou ( Canton ) government ( notably the 19th Route Army ) that primarily led the offensive against the Japanese during this skirmish.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

After meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato, Whitlam observed that the reason Japan at that time was hesitant to withdraw recognition from the Nationalist government was " the presence of a treaty between the Japanese government and that of Chiang Kai-shek ".

Sato explained that the continued recognition of Japan towards the Nationalist government was due largely to the personal relationship that various members of the Japanese government felt towards Chiang.

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The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

The treaty opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade and guaranteed the safety of shipwrecked U. S. sailors ; however, the treaty did not create a basis for establishing a permanent residence in these locations.

The second season, however, had Japanese soundtrack ( not translated ) even though it was still American version.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Annei is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Itoku is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōan is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōrei is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kōgen is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence, and an Imperial misasagi or tomb for Kaika is currently maintained ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

In the context of events like this, the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The Vitascope and the Lumière Brothers ' Cinematograph were first presented in Japan in March 1897, and Lumière cameramen were the first to shoot films in Japan .< ref > Moving pictures, however, were not an entirely new experience for the Japanese because of their rich tradition of pre-cinematic devices such as gentō ( utsushi-e ) or the magic lantern.

In Western usage, yaoi is distinguished from shōnen-ai ( literally, " boy-love "), in which two males merely express romantic feelings for each other without actually having sexual relations ; however in current Japanese usage this term most commonly refers to pornographic shotacon for men.

One day he took Opal to eat with his parents, however his dad began humiliating her because of her Japanese heritage.

Other linguists, most notably Alexander Vovin, argue, however, that the similarities are not due to any genetic relationship, but rather to a sprachbund effect and heavy borrowing especially from ancient Korean into Western Old Japanese.

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

By that time, however, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had taken place, drawing the United States into World War II and ending Robinson's nascent football career.

It was during the 8th century, however, that Chinese fashions came into style among the Japanese, and the overlapping collar became particularly women's fashion.

These enterprise unions, however, join industry-wide federations which in turn are members of Rengo, the Japanese national trade union confederation.

The December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war against the United States gave the United States the leverage it needed, however, to force Moríñigo to commit himself publicly to the Allied cause.

His main interest, however, focused on the study of Japanese fauna and flora.

Most punctuation marks in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have similar functions to their English counterparts ; however, they often look different and have different customary rules.

Due to the rarity of such 8M Memory Packs, however, the game is one of the most expensive on the Japanese secondary market-listed as 13th most expensive game in Akihabara by Wired Magazine.

The Ministry of Education vets all history textbooks, and those that do not mention Japanese war crimes and atrocities are not vetted ; however, the Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho de-emphasises aggressive Japanese Imperial wartime behaviour and the matter of Chinese and Korean comfort women.

Among modern English speakers, solar deities are popularly thought of as male counterparts of the lunar deity ( usually female ); however, sun goddesses are found on every continent ( e. g. Amaterasu in Japanese belief ) paired with male lunar deities.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

The Japanese army claimed that Chinese soldiers had sabotaged the railway and in apparent retaliation ( acting contrary to the civilian government's orders ) occupied the entire region of Manchuria.

When they arrived, they were confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting to keep peace in the area.

Japanese infantrymen claimed that several hundred Soviet tanks had been destroyed this way, though Soviet loss records do not support this assessment.

In Four Black Dragons various peasants describe the arrival of the American ships with escalating panic, until finally the nightmarish event does seem to be, as claimed, the end of the world .... Someone in a Tree, is a compact Rashomon-and as fine as anything Mr. Sondheim has written ... The single Act II triumph, Bowler Hat, could well be a V. S. Naipaul tale set to music and illustrated with spare Japanese brushstrokes ... Bowler Hat delivers the point of Pacific Overtures so artfully that the rest of Act II seems superfluous.

It has been suggested that the strongly hierarchical and anti-individualistic " Bugs " in Starship Troopers were meant to represent the Chinese or Japanese, but Heinlein claimed to have written the book in response to " calls for the unilateral ending of nuclear testing by the United States.

It has been claimed that the Japanese characters have deterred people from learning shogi.

In old Japanese legends, it is often claimed that the dead go to a place called yomi ( 黄泉 ), a gloomy underground realm with a river separating the living from the dead mentioned in legend of Izanami and Izanagi.

In Asia, Japan termed nations under its occupation as being part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, essentially a Japanese hegemony which it claimed was for purposes of liberating colonised peoples.

In some languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, it has been claimed by some that all nouns are effectively mass nouns, requiring a measure word to be quantified.

The rest of Burma was to be under Japanese control, On 10 May 1942, the Thai Phayap Army entered Burma's eastern Shan State, which had been claimed by Siamese kingdoms.

Indeed, it is claimed that in such decorative English " there is often no attempt to try to get it right, nor do the vast majority of the Japanese population ever attempt to read the English design element in question.

He probably read some early Japanese works on Marx, and it has been claimed that he even attended Kawakami Hajime's lectures at Kyoto University.

The event remains a contentious political issue, as various aspects of it have been disputed by some historical revisionists and Japanese nationalists, who have claimed that the massacre has been either exaggerated or wholly fabricated for propaganda purposes.

It was claimed that every Japanese gun used in the battle was provided by Elswick.

Wired co-founder Louis Rossetto claimed in the magazine's first issue that " the Digital Revolution is whipping through our lives like a Bengali typhoon ," yet despite the fact that Kelly was involved in launching the WELL, an early source of public access to the Internet and even earlier non-Internet online experience, Wireds first issue de-emphasized the Internet, and covered interactive games, cell-phone hacking, digital special effects, military simulations, and Japanese otaku.

The matter was officially settled on December 24 when the Japanese government apologized and paid over US $ 2, 000, 000 although it claimed the attack was an accident resulting from mis-identification.

Thomas E. Devine ( who served in a postal Army unit ) wrote Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident which includes a letter from the daughter of a Japanese police official who claimed her father was responsible for Earhart's execution.

In 1990, the NBC-TV series Unsolved Mysteries broadcast an interview with a Saipanese woman who claimed to have witnessed Earhart and Noonan's execution by Japanese soldiers.

Fujimori then flew to Japan, where he submitted his resignation and claimed Japanese citizenship.

Some Japanese politicians claimed that the Taiwan Strait is an essential sea route for oil shipment from the Middle East via the Malacca Strait to Japan.

" The roles that the two male leads played by Affleck and Hartnett have in the attack sequence are analogous to the real historical deeds of U. S. Army Air Corps Second Lieutenants George Welch and Kenneth M. Taylor, who took to the skies during the Japanese attack and, together, claimed six Japanese aircraft and a few probables.

Along with the Japanese Hinomaru flag, " Kimigayo " has been claimed by those critical of it to be a symbol of Japanese nationalism, imperialism and militarism, with debate over whether " Kimigayo ", as a remnant of the Empire of Japan's imperialist past, is compatible with a contemporary Japanese parliamentary democracy.