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  Empire of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although it was in the 1889 Constitution of the Empire of Japan that the title Empire of Japan was officially used for the first time, it was not until 1936 that the proper official title of the country was legalized.
Japan is censured by the League of Nations (December 7).
Japan occupies Indochina in the wake of the fall of Paris, and signs the Tripartite Pact (September 27).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Empire_of_Japan   (1072 words)

  
 Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Japan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun" or less literally "Land of the Rising Sun") is an island country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Japan is a temperate region with, more or less, four seasons (some believe the rainy season should be a fifth season), but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to over depletion in fish stocks such as tuna.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/Japan.htm   (4493 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Japan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本 (the characters mean sun, and root/origin), literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated between the Pacific Ocean and east of the Korean peninsula.
Japan comprises a chain of islands, the largest of which are, from south to north, Kyushu (九州), Shikoku (四国), Honshu (本州, the largest island), and Hokkaido (北海道).
Japan is a temperate region with four distinct seasons, but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
www.ipedia.com /japan_1.html   (3319 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Economy of Japan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Japan 's industrialized, free-market economy is the second-largest in the world after the United States in terms of international purchasing power.
Japan's industrialized, free-market economy is the second-largest in the world after the United States in terms of international purchasing power.
Japan normally produces a slight surplus of rice but imports large quantities of wheat, sorghum, and soybeans, primarily from the United States.
www.ipedia.com /economy_of_japan.html   (892 words)

  
 Timeline Japan to 1940   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1169-1181 The heyday of the Kiyomori Clan in Japan.
Japan urged the nations of the region to unite in one economic sphere, ousting the colonial powers and enjoying economic prosperity together.
The concept was used to justify Japan's seizure of raw materials from throughout Southeast Asia to further its drive for economic, political and military domination of East Asia.
www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/countries/JAPAN_1940.HTML   (8713 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Country profiles | Country profile: Japan
The economic miracle achieved by Japan in the second half of the 20th century was the envy of the rest of the world.
Japan has the world's second-biggest economy, but it remains a traditional society with strong social and employment hierarchies - Japanese men have always tended to work for the same employer for the whole of their life.
Japan's broadcasting scene is advanced and vibrant, with established public and commercial outlets competing for audiences.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1258586.stm   (862 words)

  
 JS-2050: New Directions for U.S. Economic Policy towards Japan and China
John B. Taylor
Under Secretary for ...
My specific topic is economic relations between the United States--the largest economy in the world, and China and Japan, the second and third largest economies in the world, at least when you rank economies by purchasing power.
A Japan in economic stagnation was clearly not in the interests of the United States.
Japan's fiscal deficit, at 8 percent of GDP, and debt stock, at 166 percent, are the largest relative to output of any G-7 country.
www.treas.gov /press/releases/js2050.htm   (2819 words)

  
 Economic History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hirsch is well qualified to write about the recent economic history of the country.
Economic history is the application of economic theories to historical study.
Cliometrics is the use of econometric techniques to study economic history.
www.wikiverse.org /economic-history   (193 words)

  
 Japan, 500-1000 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Most important is the introduction of the Chinese writing system, revolutionizing Japan, which heretofore had no writing system of its own, and ushering in the country's historical period.
While this is the traditional account of the introduction of Buddhism into Japan, in actuality the Japanese court probably learned of the religion earlier from Korean and Chinese traders and immigrants.
Japan's first history and oldest surviving literary work, the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Times), is completed.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/eaj/ht06eaj.htm   (1278 words)

  
 JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Japan's quarantine requirements for fireblight include three mandatory tree-by-tree inspections throughout the growing season and a requirement that all apples shipped to Japan be grown within a 500-meter "buffer" zone from other apples in the orchard.
Although Japan rejected the U.S. formal request that the consultative mechanism be extended, the U.S. Government continues to believe it is essential for the two governments to meet regularly to discuss implementation of the 1994 Agreement and continuing problems in Japan's public works sector.
Under the agreement, Japan committed to implement transparent, open, and non-discriminatory competitive procurement procedures for supercomputers in the public sector and to ensure that procuring entities are fully able to procure the supercomputer that best enables them to perform their missions.
www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/nte2001/japan.htm   (18145 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com: Japan - As the World Sees It: 2001
Many in the West were under the impression that Japan had won the future as a sort of door prize, something that automatically came along with economic preeminence, but that is clearly not the case.
Japan entered the postwar world as though it were two creatures constrained within the same skin.
The Japan that emerged in the latter half of the century to out-manufacture, out-market and out-sell the Americans was in large part the inadvertent creation of America.
www.time.com /time/asia/features/japan_view/scifi.html   (1132 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Country profiles | Timeline: Japan
Japan is now one of the world's great powers.
With the fall of France to Nazi Germany in 1940, Japan moves to occupy French Indo-China.
Japan renounces war and pledges not to maintain land, sea or air forces for that purpose.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1261000/1261918.stm   (1202 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Colonies and Countryside in Wartime Japan: Emigration to Manchuria - Explores the relationship between rural villages and Japan's colonies during the wartime period, with reference to the emigration of Japanese farmers to Manchuria to identify some of the key characteristics of Japanese emigration during this period and distinctive features.
Politics and the Economy in Pre-War Japan - Discusses the influences that led to the economic policies pursued in the interwar period.
Timeline of Japanese History - Brief outline of historical periods from the Jomon Period to the present.
dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/Japan/Society_and_Culture/History   (944 words)

  
 Timeline of Japanese History
Legends surrounding the founding of Japan are compiled as history in the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) and the Nihon shoki (Chronicle of Japan).
Japan accepts the U.S. demands and opens its door for the first time in two centuries.
Draw on your knowledge of Japan's geography, history, and cultural values to predict how its influence will be modified by other peoples and nations.
www.askasia.org /frclasrm/readings/t000013.htm   (1067 words)

  
 CNN.com - N. Korea admits Japanese kidnappings - September 17, 2002
It was not made immediately clear how the abductees died and Japan had demanded more answers as to the fate of its citizens.
Japan had made progress on the abduction issue a condition for resuming talks on normalizing ties, stalled by a range of disputes including Pyongyang's demand for compensation for atrocities committed during Japan's harsh colonial rule of the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945.
Japan and North Korea have never had diplomatic ties with normalization talks falling through two years ago because of the abduction issue.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/09/17/nkorea.japan   (688 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Japan
Japan invades China's northern provinces and eventually occupies much of China's coastal regions.
Post-war Japan is occupied by the Allied powers, which demilitarize the country and supervise return of all territories seized by Japan.
Japan may be the world's second-biggest economy, but it's looking over its shoulder at China's "economic miracle" and knows that it faces an increasingly formidable competitor – and one with a long memory.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/japan   (697 words)

  
 Japan's History - Complete Timleline
Heian Period: Peak of Japan's Imperial Court and it's art, poetry and literature.
Occupied Japan: After it's defeat in WWII Japan was occupied by allied troops mostly consisting of US forces.
Post-occupied Japan: Japan entered a period of peace and great economic growth after enacting the Treaty of San Francisco.
www.japan-101.com /history/history_timeline.htm   (473 words)

  
 Japan, 2005 Timeline
Japan has begun allocating rights for exploration in an area of the East China Sea also claimed by China
Japan has denied its decision to issue drilling rights in a disputed area is related to a feud with China
Japan is warning of economic consequences as Beijing refuses to apologize for violent anti-Japan protests
www.mapreport.com /years/2005/countries/japan.html   (500 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports
In 1937 Japan began a long and ultimately unsuccessful campaign to conquer the rest of China.
Because Japan was poor in natural resources, its government viewed these steps, especially the embargo on oil as a threat to the nation's survival.
Japan's leaders responded by resolving to seize the resource-rich territories of Southeast Asia, even though that move would certainly result in war with the United States.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq66-1.htm   (1332 words)

  
 A Short Chronology of Japanese American History
Made up of "loyal" Nisei, the FPC members refused to report for draft physicals unless they and their families were granted their civil rights.
In the month prior to the closing, some five thousand inmates had to be moved, many of whom were elderly, impoverished, or mentally ill and who had no place to go.
Although some $38 million was to be paid out through provisions of the act, it would be largely ineffective even on the limited scope in which it operated.
www.janet.org /janet_history/niiya_chron.html   (2183 words)

  
 NOAA News Online (Story 2358)
Below is the timeline of agency's actions once the undersea earthquake was detected by the NOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii.
Furthermore, the development of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) led by the United States, Japan, South Africa and the European Commission—with 53 nations currently participating at the ministerial level-should help fill the sensor gap for other regions of the world.
NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation’s coastal and marine resources.
www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2004/s2358.htm   (1371 words)

  
 A timeline of Japan
100 BC : rice and iron are imported into Japan by the migration of the Yayoi (related to the Mongols), who also brought a new language and a new religion
: the Sun (Soga) dynasty ascends to the throne and the capital of Japan is moved to their homeland, the Asuka valley in the central Yamato plain
: Japan invades China and captures Nanking (350,000 Chinese are killed and 100,000 women are raped during the "rape of Nanking")
www.scaruffi.com /politics/japanese.html   (2002 words)

  
 TIME LINE OF JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Beginning of military rule, as samurai (warriors) replaced nobles as actual rulers of Japan.
Country unified under military government which maintained 250 years of secluded peace, leading to development of vibrant urban "middle-class" culture with innovations in economic organization, literature, and the arts.
Japan as a world power in the twentieth century.
www.askasia.org /image/maps/timejape.htm   (308 words)

  
 Netherlands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mid 1600s-Mid 1800s The Dutch traders were the only westerners allowed to trade with Japan.
March 1942 The Netherlands Indies was captured by Japan.
Tens of thousands of Dutch who were living in the Indies became prisoners in Japanese camps.
www.worldhistory.com /netherlands.htm   (1077 words)

  
 Morgan Stanley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
  The children of the baby boomers are now in their late 20s and early 30s, and still have a window to produce a larger cohort of children, if the economic burden of child-raising can be eased.
  The opposition party is divided over social and economic policy, in light of the broad spectrum of support from public sector unions to ex-Liberal Democratic Party members who retained their seats only by switching parties.
Just as economics trumped politics in pushing the Japan-China relationship back on track despite recent bumps, so economics will trump politics in pushing economic policy in the direction of the Takenaka report, despite likely bumps.
www.morganstanley.com /GEFdata/digests/20050427-wed.html   (1807 words)

  
 Time-Line of Historical Highlights (WIST)
The focus of this timeline is on women's experiences as they overcame obstacles to pursue their scientific interests.
The entries in this timeline identify links to specific web pages containing photos of the women as well as bibliographic resources by number located on the WIST News and Resources page that contain more information about their lives.
Nor do I believe that social and economic factors are the actual obstacles that prevent women’s participation in the scientific and technical field.
www.apa.org /science/wist/time-line.html   (2470 words)

  
 Children of the Camps | WWII INTERNMENT TIMELINE
In a letter to President Roosevelt, Representative John Dingell of Michigan suggests incarcerating 10,000 Hawaiian Japanese Americans as hostages to ensure "good behavior" on the part of Japan.
U.S. District Judge Louis E. Goodman orders that the petitioners in Wayne Collins' suit of December 13, 1945 be released; native-born American citizens could not be converted to enemy aliens and could not be imprisoned or sent to Japan on the basis of renunciation.
Although some $28 million was to be paid out through provision of the act, it would be largely ineffective even on the limited scope in which it operated.
www.children-of-the-camps.org /history/timeline.html   (2147 words)

  
 Chronology of early astronomy,mechanics and spaceflight
Dates in fl are from the history of society and technology, and are meant to provide a broader context for the dates of the basic list.
--> For a timeline of the exploration of the
Germany was allied with Italy and after December 1941 with Japan, which launched its own war of expansion (it had invaded China years before that).
www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov /stargaze/Stimelin.htm   (4068 words)

  
 The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
The next day the U.S. and Britain declare war on Japan.
Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration.
Timeline of World War II in Europe
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html   (4366 words)

  
 Vietnam War Timeline
Ho Chi Minh Creates Provisional Government: Following the surrender of Japan to Allied forces, Ho Chi Minh and his People's Congress create the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam to form a provisional government.
Johnson promises to continue to help South Vietnam fend off aggression from the North, but adds that the US will be monitoring South Vietnam's efforts to expand democracy and improve economic conditions for its citizens.
Douglas "Pete" Peterson, a prisoner of war for 6 years during the Vietnam War, is named US envoy to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, while H.E. Le Van Bang assumes the position of Vietnamese ambassador to the United States.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/vietnam/timeline.htm   (3736 words)

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