The man who bestrides the sumo world like a colossus has been implicated in match-fixing claims that are rocking Japan's national sport. |
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Japan will also shoulder costs for any shipping in Japan, bringing the total of Japan's assistance to about 120 billion yen, the official said. |
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In 1994, the then prime minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized personally to all Asian peoples for Japan's colonial rule and wartime actions. |
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Japan's courts also appear unwilling to erect barriers to coddle the Old Guard. |
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Japan's Iriomote cat was recently demoted from a distinct species to an island subspecies of leopard cat. |
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Japan's Kazue Ito was charges with an error on the play for bobbling the ball. |
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Known as the Multifunction Polis, it was originally the brainchild of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. |
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Japan's obsession with energy efficiency started when the oil shocks of the 1970s ended two decades of double-digit growth. |
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In Kyoto, the traditionalists fought against his design as unfitting for Japan's ancient spiritual center. |
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A missing piece of Japan's recent economic recovery is beginning to fall into place. |
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The quake was most strongly felt in Aomori and Iwate, the two farthest-north prefectures on Japan's main island of Honshu. |
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She married into the imperial family by wedding Crown Prince Naruhito, next in line for Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne. |
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The jeans were then unstitched, stretched over frames, and hand painted by one of Japan's top kimono artists. |
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The purpose of this paper has not been to negate or refute the historical memories of the generation that came of age during Japan's dark valley. |
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The visit aggravated Japan's already strained relations with its Asian neighbors. |
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The 357 LDP representatives in Japan's lower and upper houses of parliament each have one vote. |
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He was elected to Japan's lower house of parliament in 1993, and is a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. |
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In Japan the Tokugawa had restored order in 1600 and ruled Japan's feudal daimyos with a rod of iron for more than two centuries thereafter. |
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Now, with signs of a reviving economy, Japan's soft power may increase even more. |
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Over the next few years, many of Japan's mobile phone makers will add power-hungry digital broadcast tuners to their mobile phone models. |
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Worse yet, Japan's banks face daunting competitive pressures while lugging all this negative baggage. |
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Critics claim putting the clocks forward would force Japan's notoriously workaholic salarymen to spend more time in the office. |
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All in all, Japan's men took home five of six golds and went 1-2 in four events, including a sweep of the 700 backstroke. |
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Japan's huge trading companies, the sogo shosha, are impressive, and therefore well known internationally. |
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Under Japan's political system, towns like Towa wield a disproportionate amount of influence. |
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The Hornet set sail and made way for the launch point Southeast of Japan's coast line. |
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Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important. |
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Rakuten, meanwhile, has a larger stock-trading arm, runs Japan's No. 1 cybermall, and gets roughly twice Livedoor's traffic. |
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To realise the goal, the agency aims to develop Japan's own manned space craft, similar to the US Space Shuttle, the Mainichi said. |
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Japan's leading maker of continuously variable transmissions is gearing up for a big increase in sales over the next five years. |
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Two weeks ago, Japan's foreign minister pleaded with the U.N. to do more to block Pyongyang's illicit-drug exports to Japan. |
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But it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system. |
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Finally, employing this chronological and geographical framework, Mosk surveys Japan's modern industrial and urban history in general. |
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In Japan's top-selling shonen, even the most populist and mainstream serials will happily acknowledge these sources. |
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The masters of Japan's traditional and contemporary taiko drumming combine physical performance and incredible musicianship. |
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Japan's defense of the sea lanes out to a thousand nautical miles sounded modest and did not arouse undue opposition at home. |
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Moe is a lass thoroughly caught up in Japan's Gosloli trend, in which she dresses up in retro frocks in a misguided effort to be cool. |
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Japan's second-largest city, Yokohama is a seaport noted for its cosmopolitan outlook. |
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The statement may seem matter of fact, yet in context it demonstrates Japan's concern with China's burgeoning sea power. |
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Hideaki Kaneda, a retired vice admiral in Japan's Self Defense Forces, is director of the Okazaki Institute. |
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In October an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Japan's Niigata prefecture. |
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This is due mostly to the bitter resentment over Japan's colonization of Korea. |
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In Singapore, analysts said Japan's economic continuity is crucial to sustain economic recovery in the region. |
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Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a stricture on Japan's own insular nationalism. |
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The nuclear issue is Japan's most pressing diplomatic concern at the moment. |
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Japan's newest test model of the Shinkansen bullet train is unveiled to the media at its test center at Rifu, northern Japan, yesterday. |
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Japan's major export industries include automobiles, consumer electronics computers, semiconductors, and iron and steel. |
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Japan's parliament, or Diet, has more septuagenarians and octogenarians than almost any other, and they are ill-prepared for radical changes. |
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His series of 12 advertisements for Japan's Smoca tooth powder is the best part of the exhibition. |
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The slowing global economy has weakened demand for Japan's high-technology exports, causing manufacturers to cut production and workers. |
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On March 8, one of the missiles splashed down in waters about 60 kilometers north of Yonaguni, Japan's westernmost island. |
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It allows for the self-defense of Japan's homeland but prohibits collective defense. |
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Signing the contract with Taiwan High Speed Rail was a major breakthrough for Japan's renowned Shinkansen, which had never been exported. |
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Much more difficult for the North is to satisfy Japan's demand for detailed and reliable information on the fate of 10 other missing Japanese. |
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With the oldest population in the world and the lowest birth rate, Japan's crisis is just beginning. |
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Japan's price level could well have fallen even more absent the monetary ease. |
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This haiku by one of Japan's greatest poets seems at first glance to have little to it. |
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This suggests that Japan's stagnation will continue absent a drastic shock to the system. |
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Baby Bruce would have had little memory of Japan's wartime occupation of Hong Kong. |
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China occupies a central position in Japan's Asian diplomacy, and the Taiwan issue is key to Japanese diplomacy toward China. |
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After all, the US had broken Japan's diplomatic codes and could sometimes decode messages faster than the Japanese themselves. |
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Four-fifths of the liquid-crystal displays produced by Japan's second-biggest maker of flat screens are used in personal computers. |
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Anyway, despite the lack of quality shopping I forged ahead and did my best to help boost Japan's economy. |
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Japan's manufacturing seems to be making a comeback of sorts, judging from orders for production lasers. |
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Toshusai Sharaku was a rogue artist during the famous ukiyo-e period of polychrome wood-block printmaking in Japan's 17th to 19th centuries. |
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Japan's ambassador to Australia, Hideaki Ueda, said last week that he hoped that the IWC would soon allow a return to commercial whaling. |
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Even given Japan's overall economic recovery, investing in real estate remains a gamble. |
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Surging exports to the US have been the main prop of Japan's economic recovery. |
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This argument's validity can be deduced from the experiences of some of Japan's keiretsu, which share many characteristics with Korea's chaebol. |
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It's a system that locks together the interests of venture capitalists, bankers, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, much like Japan's keiretsu. |
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He said Singapore banks should avoid the problem now posed by Japan's keiretsu system, which links a group of companies with a main bank. |
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Once bitter rivals, they were effectively forced together as the unwinding of Japan's keiretsu led to increased rivalry at home. |
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The declinist debate does not shed much light on Japan's role internationally. |
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Watanabe repeated Japan's stance that China should move to a more flexile exchange system for the sake of its economy and the world economy. |
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Until 400 years ago, the Ainu controlled Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands. |
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By the time of the bombing of Hiroshima, many of Japan's large cities had been attacked severely by American air power. |
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The service will be offered in partnership with Japan's largest mobile comms company. |
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And while Japan's financial contribution was never in doubt, there have been major question marks over Tokyo committing troops. |
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Soka Gakkai leaders had been oppressed during World War II, when Shinto was Japan's dominant religion. |
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Before Japan's forced opening, the only printing method for text and images known and used in the country, was the technique of woodblocks. |
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In Japan's hierarchical society, many people think it is improper to assume jobs to which they not been assigned. |
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The Yasukuni is controversial because it commemorates Japan's military dead, including some who were convicted war criminals. |
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Increasingly irrelevant to Japan's need to reinvigorate its economy, the post-war political structures simply disintegrated. |
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One of the big surprises of the global economy is Japan's remarkable turnaround. |
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As many as 80,000 of Japan's 130,000 foreign entertainers are Filipinos who send crucial remittances to their families at their home country. |
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An inner cabinet in Tokyo authorized Japan's only officially sanctioned diplomatic initiative. |
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In 1931 he started Japan's first freestyle wrestling program at Waseda University. |
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The players resemble Japan's coddled workers, accustomed to lifetime employment as comfortable as it is unchallenging. |
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At noon, the recording of the rescript was broadcast, and the nation heard the emperor's voice announcing Japan's final capitulation. |
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So, when Japan's real-estate bubble burst and the economy flatlined for over a decade, the world was caught unawares. |
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Few women are in positions of real responsibility in Japanese commerce and only around five per cent of women are elected representatives in Japan's Parliament. |
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The main election issue is reform of Japan's creaking pension system. |
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Marlow Wood, an American who has been embalming in Japan for the past five years, thinks that compared with the US, Japan's funeral practices make sense. |
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Past profiled engineering marvels include the world's longest suspension bridge, the Akashi Strait Bridge, and the Shinkansen, Japan's famous high-speed train. |
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He said the Japanese proposed using the Nozomi-700-type vehicle used in Japan's Shinkansen bullet train system, but did not disclose any price offered by the Japanese. |
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During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers. |
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A derivative of Japan's long samurai-manga tradition, it has the requisite tangled storyline and some thrilling, plasmic exchanges rendered with a prodigious brush. |
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Also, Japan's national budget for this year covers new research centers for nanotechnology, bioinformatics, genetic research and protein structure data. |
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Besides, many of Japan's problems are structural, not cyclical. |
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Though largely confined to NHK's Sunday night samurai drama and to reruns on late night television, the samurai film still haunts Japan's ultramodern everyday culture. |
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The theory that the CPC will eventually evolve into an umbrella party which covers different factions within the party like Japan's LDP isn't new. |
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index dropped 4.3 percent, while Japan's Nikkei fell 3.7 percent. |
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Japan's hot springs are volcanic in origin, Korean hot springs arise from granite underground and have lower temperature than the Japanese hot springs. |
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It got so bad that Japan's Fair Trade Commission reported last summer only about one-third of the country's hot springs inns use pure, undiluted water from its natural source. |
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Abandoned by their neglectful mother, four children are left to fend for themselves in this quiet, unsensational but minutely observed drama by Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda. |
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Asthmatics may breathe easier, but the rules could choke many in Japan's haulage and construction sectors, which employ over 10 per cent of the workforce. |
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A collaboration between The Burnham Institute and Japan's Shinsu University has discovered the defense mechanism that protects the stomach against H. pylori infection. |
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Industry analysts say the meat is filling shelves left empty by Japan's continuing ban on US beef and offal, after a single case of BSE was detected late last year. |
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He wants to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution, though he insists that it will remain nonnuclear and the principles of Japan as a peaceful country are unchanged. |
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While judo captivated Japanese fans at the Sydney Summer Olympics, where Japan's athletes walked off with most medals in the sport, it has been on the decline at home. |
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The broader market was also buoyed by the release of Japan's jobs data on Friday, which sparked active buy-backs of domestic demand-linked shares, dealers said. |
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I will add a clarification to my errata list that Japan's attack on the oil fields was the first foreign attack on the U.S. mainland by a foreign power on the U.S. mainland. |
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Japan's most established party of government was formed in 1955 as a congeries of centre and conservative groupings with the encouragement of business interests. |
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Japan's venerable old sport of sumo wrestling is a pretty macho endeavor. |
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Murakami uses the term to explain and critique the stubborn two-dimensionality of anime, manga and Japanese art, and Japan's kawaii consumer culture. |
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Itsuko Hasegawa, one of Japan's most widely respected architects, likens making architecture to the act of creating a poem or a musical composition. |
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Finally, this period witnessed an unprecedented growth of Japan's cities. |
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The names of nearly 2.5 million of the fallen are inscribed here, all of whom are considered to be divine spirits worshiped under Japan's pantheistic Shinto religion. |
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There the parties recognised Japan's renunciation of its right, title and claim to Taiwan as stated in the San Francisco Peace Treaty, but the parties did not go any further. |
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Critics say sending the troops violates Japan's pacifist constitution. |
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Cashing in on Japan's Anglophilia and love of manga-like fantasy, Potter has been cunningly marketed to attract a more grown-up audience than in other countries. |
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They are also unified conceptually by the fact that all have to do with water spirits and the symbolism of Japan's indigenous animistic religion, Shinto. |
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In other words, reverse engineering, a central plank in Japan's overall industrialization strategy, may also apply to North American-style house manufacture. |
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With most of Japan's private wealth held in its banks and credit unions, the consequences of a collapse of the financial system are simply imponderable. |
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What started as a schoolgirl rebellion against Japan's rigid conformity is now causing ripples of admiration from the beau monde of international fashion. |
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Tourists looking to give their nasal passages a workout should check out Japan's sulfurous hot springs, lavender blossoms and grilled eel, left, for starters. |
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After its initial rendezvous, the spacecraft will spend five months near the asteroid named after the late rocketeer Hideo Itokawa, father of Japan's space program. |
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But the inability of Japan's imperial family to produce a male heir has led to an internal crisis of sorts about who will be the next person to inherit the throne. |
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It concerns what the country did with Japan's loot once it discovered how much of it there was, the form it took, and how little influence its original owners had. |
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They went on to build up Japan once more from ruination and became the puppeteers of Japan's political structure from their powerbase in the Jiyuto. |
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Through its influence on the ruling party, the association forced Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare to take heed and dictated much of healthcare policy. |
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Their construction of a nationalist philosophical system that eventually served as an apologia for Japan's aggression can be traced to such an experience of Eurocentricity. |
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Japan's forces in northeast Asia, known as the Kwantung Army, had already tangled with the Russians in 1939 when the Japanese tried to invade Mongolia. |
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She's arguably Japan's biggest and most beloved pop star of this millennium, an industry standard that inspires messianic devotion from schoolgirls and salarymen alike. |
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Japan's government has signalled that key policies for dealing with the huge bad debt overshadowing the banking and corporate sectors could be delayed. |
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I couldn't believe how nice second-class was on Japan's private trains. |
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To explain this about-face in Japanese attitudes toward wolves, we need to return one last time to the issue of Japan's vision of modernity in the early Meiji years. |
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The Meiji land tax made possible Japan's transformation into a modern capitalist power, but, as we have seen, only at great cost in human welfare. |
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Japan's dealing with a single convergent boundary, but San Francisco is staring down multiple faults, and the ones that matter are transform faults. |
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Japan's first Shogun was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who, in 1603, used military might to put himself in power. |
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From the hoplological perspective, Japan's koryu bujutsu are among the last extant hand-to-hand battlefield martial fighting arts in the world. |
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Togo. Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians. |
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At the same time, American submarines cut off Japanese imports, drastically reducing Japan's ability to supply its overseas forces. |
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The League of Nations condemned Japan's actions and initiated sanctions on Japan. |
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Japan's top jump race is the Nakayama Grand Jump, run every April at Nakayama Racecourse. |
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China has supported the stronger representation of developing countries and firmly opposed Japan's membership. |
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During Japan's shogunate, the emperor was notionally a supreme spiritual and temporal lord who delegated authority for joint rule to the shogun. |
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However, Japan's economy crashed in 1991, creating a long period of economic slump in the country which has become known as The Lost Years. |
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Tokyo, as the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, is Japan's largest domestic and international hub for rail, ground, and air transportation. |
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Japan's flag carrier Japan Airlines, as well as All Nippon Airways, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines all have a hub at this airport. |
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Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor. |
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Additionally, Japanese pilots had received excellent training and many were combat veterans from Japan's campaigns in China. |
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Japan's Fisheries Agency estimated 2,321 killer whales were in the seas around Japan. |
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The consequences transformed the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in a reassessment of Japan's recent entry onto the world stage. |
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To the Western powers, Japan's victory demonstrated the emergence of a new Asian regional power. |
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Twelve thousand aerial mines were laid, a significant barrier to Japan's access to outside resources. |
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Japan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence and dominance of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai. |
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The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources. |
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Statutory law originates in Japan's legislature and has the rubber stamp of the Emperor. |
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Since Japan's defeat by the Allies in World War II, the two countries have maintained close economic and defense relations. |
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Abe said Japan wanted to play a key role and offered neighboring countries Japan's support. |
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Neighbouring South Korea is Japan's most important source of foreign tourists. |
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Nagoya Port is the country's largest and busiest port, accounting for 10 percent of Japan's trade value. |
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It is intended to coincide with the Bon Festival vacation time, giving Japanese people an opportunity to appreciate Japan's mountains. |
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Over the last decade, television has clearly come to surpass newspapers as Japan's main information and entertainment medium. |
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This nomenclature comes from Imperial correspondence with the Chinese Sui Dynasty and refers to Japan's eastern position relative to China. |
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The same year, Masujiro Omura established Japan's first military academy in Kyoto. |
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For all of Akita, shale oil reserves are projected at 100 million barrels, worth nearly 10 percent of Japan's annual oil consumption. |
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Patrick O'Donoghue has landed a job as a helicopter pilot crusading against Japan's cruel slaughter in the Antarctic Ocean. |
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Tamasaburo is one of Japan's most famous Kabuki actors, known for performing onnagata in the all-male Kabuki tradition. |
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The system consists of the world's largest redox flow battery and Japan's largest concentrated photovoltaic units. |
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Tokyo is the word's most costly, then Angolan capital Luanda and Japan's Osaka. |
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According to Japan's fisheries agency, 90 Sei whales and 25 Bryde whales were captured and killed. |
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Taiwan has been using bullet trains based on a Japanese model, marking Japan's first successful export of its high-speed trains. |
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The state-of-the-art train also features a streamlined nose similar to that of Japan's high-speed bullet trains to reduce wind drag. |
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Out now THIS beautiful side-scrolling platformer was inspired by Japan's traditional bunraku puppet theatre. |
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But, true to Japan's pro-corporation tradition, the company faces just a slap on the wrist. |
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Japan's amended moneylending business law will be fully implemented next year, subjecting lenders to tougher restrictions. |
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At 1,085 metres this was comparatively easy training in preparation for Japan's highest peak, Mount Fuji, conquered a month later. |
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Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy soared like a supersonic swallow around Japan's holy Mount Fuji in his custom-built jet suit. |
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Japan's strength lies in more traditional biotechnology such as fermentation. |
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That same cancerous sickness of short-sighted tribalization spreads throughout modern Japan's cultures of business and governance. |
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He also said Japan's position is to seek a new binding UNSC resolution, not a nonbinding presidential statement. |
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The comfort women issue has been a key linchpin in Japan's relations with neighboring countries, particularly with South Korea. |
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Many of Japan's biggest companies are increasingly uncompetitive and are dependent on exports to turbulent world markets. |
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Japan's sustainable building assessment system, similar to LEED, was developed by the Japan Sustainable Building Consortium. |
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Okinawa Prefecture hopes the new flight service will help double the number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan's southwest island prefecture. |
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But Ola is also well-financed, with backing from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's DST Global fund, and Japan's Softbank. |
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Called 'marble soda' because the bottle is sealed with a marble instead of a lid, it's like cream soda and is Japan's taste of summer. |
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The current account balance is the broadest measure of Japan's trade with other countries, including goods, services, tourism and investment. |
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The additive, cyclamate, is prohibited under Japan's Food Sanitization Law. |
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Among Japan's 47 prefectures, the death toll came to seven in Tokyo, followed by six in Ehime, and five each in Miyagi, Niigata and Osaka. |
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Japan's second-largest pachinko parlor operator, on Monday started trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange. |
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Daio Paper, Japan's third-largest papermaker, is a publicly listed company whose shares trade on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
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The Dutch looked to be on easy street but reckoned without Japan's battling spirit as the visitors rallied. |
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And who now has symbolically become Japan's poster boy for such speculation? |
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Downpours could hit western parts of Japan's main island of Honshu on Tuesday, the agency said. |
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It will be Japan's first biofuel production facility capable of continuous preprocessing. |
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The Ichthys LNG Project is regarded to be of key importance to Japan's energy security and the diversification of Japan's energy sources. |
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Japan's leading eyedrops maker, by threatening to put alien substances in its products. |
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Daikin is Japan's leading manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, and Japan's largest producer of fluorochemical products. |
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Japan's tax-filing season opened Monday with more than 500 local tax offices nationwide accepting income tax returns, the National Tax Agency said. |
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Mr Harvey concentrates on the period of Japan's reconstruction and on the battles between the egocentric MacArthur and the untried war criminal, Hirohito. |
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Japan's missile defense system currently comprises ship-based Standard Missile-3 missile interceptors, and land-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptors. |
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The three firms reportedly account for more than 60 percent of Japan's polyvinyl chloride water pipe market where annual sales total 180 billion yen. |
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According to another rumor, iodized salt could prevent harm from radiation, which caused panic buying a year ago following the leak at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. |
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Panasonic is forecasting Japan's solar market may consume as much as five gigawatts of solar cells in the year through March 31, making it one of the biggest in the world. |
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However American forces managed to sink four of Japan's six large aircraft carriers that had initiated the attack on Pearl Harbor along with other attacks on Allied forces. |
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Kawai shows the importance of the drastic demand decline and the oligopolistic trends of market structure in explaining the low TFP growth in Japan's manufacturing sectors. |
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Having 10 years of history in developing the engine exclusively for Japan's mobile environment, Symmetric has decided to bring the technology to the next level. |
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Japan's Fuji Television Network has offered to purchase more shares of radio broadcaster Nippon Broadcasting System and turn it into a subsidiary. |
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If banks continue holding bad loans that have become nonoperational, Japan's economy will be unable to begin a full recovery, Hubbard was quoted as telling Yanagisawa. |
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According to sources, the Liberal Democratic Party decided to nationalize these uninhabited islets and set them as the new base points of Japan's territorial waters. |
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Japan's freestyle wrestling queen Saori Yoshida cruised through her matches to reach the 55-kilogram finals Friday, staying on course for a three-peat at the Asian Games. |
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Australians Adam Crawford, Geoff Drakeford, Richard Green and Andrew Tampion carded 69s, as did Japan's Achi Sato and Zimbabwe's Brendon de Jonge. |
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Japan's first heart, liver, kidney and cornea transplants from a brain-dead donor took place on March 1 at the Kochi Medical School in Kochi Prefecture. |
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According to the sources, Japan's first such study will involve 80 small whales in five species such as Baird's beaked whales, bottle-nosed dolphins and Dall's porpoises. |
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Tepco, the troubled company that has illuminated the night sky of Tokyo for 50 years, has warned that Japan's capital could face blackouts this summer. |
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Computer models continue to show super typhoon Vongfong's track still seems to target Japan's Ryukyu Islands, and then northeastward toward the Japanese mainland. |
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By denying the country's war crimes and seeking revision to its pacifist constitution, this historical revisionism has fatally impaired Japan's leadership credentials in Asia. |
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Chevron has signed an agreement to supply Japan's Kyushu Electric with liquefied natural gas from its Wheatstone project in Australia, the firm said. |
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With its antiquarian history, buildings, memorials, and natural surroundings, Kyoto is one of Japan's prize destinations for tourists from around the world. |
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Japan's growth slowed for a second straight quarter in July-September, as the initial impulse of Abe's reflationary policies, dubbed Abenomics, started to fade. |
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One of the men who trained Japan's kamikaze pilots during World War II came face to face Monday with the former servicemen who were the targets of such attacks. |
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Hence Japan's 686 universities and junior colleges are in competition with one another, each vying to attract new first-year students from a dwindling pool. |
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All five organisations confirmed that there were no restrictions to normal air transport operations at Japan's major airports, including Narita and Haneda in Tokyo. |
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Similarly, researchers at Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences continue to develop an edible vaccine produced in genetically modified rice. |
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Watanabe is the generic name for Japan's housewife speculators, who have wielded significant influence over foreign exchange and other markets through their trading. |
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During Japan's invasion from 1592 to 1598, the emperor sent more than 100,000 soldiers and he spent tremendous amounts of money for war, in excess of 5 years of tax revenues. |
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Some of the Sea of Okhotsk's islands are quite large, including Japan's second largest island, Hokkaido, as well as Russia's largest island, Sakhalin. |
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In 2010, Japan's total fisheries production was 4,762,469 fish. |
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Agricultural businesses in Japan cultivate 13 percent of Japan's land, and Japan accounts for nearly 15 percent of the global fish catch, second only to China. |
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Japan's relationship with South Korea has been strained due to Japan's treatment of Koreans during Japanese colonial rule, particularly over the issue of comfort women. |
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Japan's legislative body is the National Diet, seated in Chiyoda, Tokyo. |
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The war cost Japan, its colonies, China and the war's other combatants tens of millions of lives and left much of Japan's industry and infrastructure destroyed. |
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Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, particularly from Western Europe, has characterized Japan's history. |
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There are many rivers, including the Shinano River, Japan's longest. |
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Furthermore, Japan's substantiated interests in Korea and Liaodong led to the creation of a Kwantung Army, which became an autonomous and increasingly powerful regional force. |
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Japan's prestige rose greatly as it came to be seen as a modern nation. |
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This was also the first battle in decades to be an Asian victory over a European power and marked Russia's inability to match Japan's military prowess. |
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Since it needed to control the sea in order to fight a war on the Asian mainland, Japan's first military objective was to neutralize the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. |
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However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian government, the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur. |
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The alliance with the British meant, in part, that if any nation allied itself with Russia during any war against Japan, then Britain would enter the war on Japan's side. |
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Until 1854, the Dutch were Japan's sole window to the western world. |
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At least one case report of strandings in Japan's Goto Islands has been associated with parasitic neuropathy of the eighth cranial nerve by a trematode in the genus Nasitrema. |
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Djibouti hosts France's largest military presence abroad, Japan's only foreign base, while China is building its first overseas base ever in the country. |
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The above, and relevant maps at the Sea Around Us Project both indicate Japan's claimed boundaries, and do not take into account neighboring powers' claims. |
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On 7 December 1941 Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into the conflict as allies of the British Empire and other allied forces. |
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Japan's transport ministry has also launched an investigation. |
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange is Japan's largest stock exchange, and third largest in the world by market capitalization and fourth largest by share turnover. |
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The SDR Values and yen conversion for government procurement are used by the Japan External Trade Organization for Japan's official procurement in international trade. |
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Japan's Postwar Military and Civil Society is an in-depth scrutiny of the relationship between civilian Japanese society and the SDF, from the 1950's to the present day. |
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Japan's top stakes races are run in the spring, autumn, and winter. |
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