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775 relations: Absolute monarchy, Adolf Hitler, Agriculture in the Empire of Japan, Ainu people, Akira Ogata, Akitsune Imamura, Akiyama Saneyuki, Akiyama Yoshifuru, Albrecht von Urach, Alexander Kolchak, Allied submarines in the Pacific War, Allies of World War I, Allies of World War II, Amaterasu, American Academy of Political and Social Science, American Expeditionary Force, Siberia, Andronik Nikolsky, Anglo-Japanese Alliance, Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation, Annexation, Anti-Comintern Pact, Anti-Japanese sentiment in China, Aoki Shūzō, Aoyama Tanemichi, Arashiyama, Arisaka Nariakira, Arson, Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, Asia–Pacific, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Axis powers, Ōkubo Toshimichi, Ōshima Ken'ichi, Ōshima Takatō, Ōtsuki Fumihiko, Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, Ōyama Iwao, Bakumatsu, Baron, Bataan Death March, Battle of Ambon, Battle of Bataan, Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, Battle of Corregidor, Battle of France, Battle of Hakodate, Battle of Hong Kong, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Lake Khasan, ... Expand index (725 more) »
- 1868 establishments in Asia
- 1868 establishments in Japan
- 1947 disestablishments in Asia
- 1947 disestablishments in Japan
- 19th century in Japan
- 20th century in Japan
- Former countries in Japanese history
- Former monarchies of East Asia
- Former monarchies of Oceania
- History of Japan by period
- States and territories established in 1868
Absolute monarchy
Absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the sovereign is the sole source of political power, unconstrained by constitutions, legislatures or other checks on their authority.
See Empire of Japan and Absolute monarchy
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
See Empire of Japan and Adolf Hitler
Agriculture in the Empire of Japan
Agriculture in the Empire of Japan was an important component of the pre-war Japanese economy.
See Empire of Japan and Agriculture in the Empire of Japan
Ainu people
The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.
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Akira Ogata
was a Japanese chemist and the first to synthesize methamphetamine in crystalline form in 1919.
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Akitsune Imamura
was a Japanese seismologist.
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Akiyama Saneyuki
was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Akiyama Yoshifuru
was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and was considered the father of modern Japanese cavalry.
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Albrecht von Urach
Prince Albrecht of Urach (Fürst Albrecht von Urach, Graf von Württemberg; 18 October 1903 – 11 December 1969) was a German nobleman, artist and wartime author, journalist, linguist and diplomat.
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Alexander Kolchak
Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; – 7 February 1920) was a Russian admiral, military leader and polar explorer who held the title of Supreme Ruler of Russia from 1918 to 1920 during the Russian Civil War, though his actual control over Russian territory was limited.
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Allied submarines in the Pacific War
Allied submarines were used extensively during the Pacific War and were a key contributor to the defeat of the Empire of Japan.
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Allies of World War I
The Allies, the Entente or the Triple Entente was an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918).
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Allies of World War II
The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.
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Amaterasu
Amaterasu Ōmikami (天照大御神, 天照大神), often called Amaterasu for short, also known as Ōhirume no Muchi no Kami (大日孁貴神), is the goddess of the sun in Japanese mythology.
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American Academy of Political and Social Science
The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) was founded in 1889 to promote progress in the social sciences.
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American Expeditionary Force, Siberia
The American Expeditionary Force, Siberia (AEF in Siberia) was a formation of the United States Army involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920.
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Andronik Nikolsky
Archbishop Andronik (also spelled Andronic; Архиепископ Андроник, secular name Vladimir Alexandrovich Nikolsky, Владимир Александрович Никольский; August 1, 1870 – July 7, 1918), was a bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church and a saint, glorified as Hieromartyr Andronik, Archbishop Of Perm in 2000.
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Anglo-Japanese Alliance
The first was an alliance between Britain and Japan.
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Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
The signed by Britain and Japan, on 16 July 1894, was a breakthrough agreement; it heralded the end of the unequal treaties and the system of extraterritoriality in Japan.
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Annexation
Annexation, in international law, is the forcible acquisition and assertion of legal title over one state's territory by another state, usually following military occupation of the territory.
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Anti-Comintern Pact
The Anti-Comintern Pact, officially the Agreement against the Communist International was an anti-Communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan on 25 November 1936 and was directed against the Communist International (Comintern). Empire of Japan and anti-Comintern Pact are Axis powers.
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Anti-Japanese sentiment in China
Anti-Japanese sentiment in China is an issue with modern roots (post-1868).
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Aoki Shūzō
Viscount was a Japanese politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Minister during the Meiji era.
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Aoyama Tanemichi
was a medical scientist and doctor specializing in internal medicine.
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Arashiyama
is a district on the western outskirts of Kyoto, Japan.
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Arisaka Nariakira
was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Arson
Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.
Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
is a clause in the Constitution of Japan outlawing war as a means to settle international disputes involving the state.
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Asia–Pacific
The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.
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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl HarborAlso known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
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Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
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Ōkubo Toshimichi
(26 September 1830 – 14 May 1878) was a Japanese statesman and one of the Three Great Nobles regarded as the main founders of modern Japan.
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Ōshima Ken'ichi
Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Army Minister during World War I. His son, Hiroshi Ōshima was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and served as Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany.
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Ōshima Takatō
Ōshima Takatō (大島 高任, May 11, 1826–March 29, 1901) was a Japanese engineer who created the first reverberation blast furnace and first Western-style gun in Japan.
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Ōtsuki Fumihiko
was a Japanese lexicographer, linguist, and historian.
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Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei
The was a Japanese military-political coalition established and disestablished over the course of several months in early to mid-1868 during the Boshin War. Empire of Japan and Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei are 1868 establishments in Japan.
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Ōyama Iwao
was a Japanese field marshal, and one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Bakumatsu
was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.
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Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical.
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
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Battle of Ambon
The Battle of Ambon (30 January – 3 February 1942) occurred on Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), as part of the Japanese offensive on the Dutch colony during World War II.
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Battle of Bataan
The Battle of Bataan (Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial Japan during World War II.
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Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, also known as the Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in the proximity of Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin.
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Battle of Corregidor
The Battle of Corregidor, fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
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Battle of France
The Battle of France (bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of France, that notably introduced tactics that are still used.
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Battle of Hakodate
The was fought in Japan from December 4, 1868 to June 27, 1869, between the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate army, consolidated into the armed forces of the rebel Ezo Republic, and the armies of the newly formed Imperial government (composed mainly of forces of the Chōshū and the Satsuma domains).
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Battle of Hong Kong
The Battle of Hong Kong (8–25 December 1941), also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II.
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Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
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Battle of Lake Khasan
The Battle of Lake Khasan (29 July – 11 August 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (Хасанские бои, Chinese and Japanese:; Chinese pinyin:; Japanese romaji) in China and Japan, was an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state, into the territory claimed and controlled by the Soviet Union.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (Filipino: Labanan sa Golpo ng Leyte) was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved.
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Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
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Battle of Milne Bay
The Battle of Milne Bay (25 August – 7 September 1942), also known as Operation RE or the Battle of Rabi (ラビの戦い) by the Japanese, was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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Battle of Nanking
The Battle of Nanking (or Nanjing) was fought in early December 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of Nanjing (Nanking), the capital of the Republic of China.
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Battle of Okinawa
The, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a major battle of the Pacific War fought on the island of Okinawa by United States Army and United States Marine Corps forces against the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Battle of Palembang
The Battle of Palembang was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II.
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Battle of Port Arthur
The of 8–9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War.
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Battle of Taierzhuang
The Battle of Taierzhuang took place during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938.
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Battle of Tarawa
The Battle of Tarawa was fought on 20–23 November 1943 between the United States and Japan at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, and was part of Operation Galvanic, the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia.
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Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, fought during 25–27 October 1942, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Santa Cruz or Third Battle of Solomon Sea, in Japan as the Battle of the South Pacific (Minamitaiheiyō kaisen), was the fourth aircraft carrier battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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Battle of the Taku Forts (1900)
The Battle of the Taku or Battle of Dagu Forts was a short engagement during the Boxer Rebellion between the Chinese Qing dynasty military and forces belonging to the Eight Nation Alliance in June 1900.
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Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
The Battle of the Yalu River (translit) was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang.
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Battle of the Yellow Sea
The Battle of the Yellow Sea (Kōkai kaisen; Бой в Жёлтом море) was a major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 10 August 1904. In the Russian Navy, it was referred to as the Battle of 10 August. The battle foiled an attempt by the Russian fleet at Port Arthur to break out and form up with the Vladivostok squadron, forcing them to return to port.
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Battle of Tientsin
The Battle of Tientsin, or the Relief of Tientsin, occurred on 13–14 July 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in Northern China.
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Battle of Toba–Fushimi
The occurred between pro-Imperial and Tokugawa shogunate forces during the Boshin War in Japan.
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Battle of Tsushima
The Battle of Tsushima (Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known in Japan as the, was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait.
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Battles of Khalkhin Gol
The Battles of Khalkhin Gol (Бои на Халхин-Голе; Халхын голын байлдаан) were the decisive engagements of the undeclared Soviet–Japanese border conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Japan and Manchukuo in 1939.
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Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party (PNF).
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Black Dragon Society
The, or the Amur River Society, was a prominent paramilitary, ultranationalist group in Japan.
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Blood tax riots
The were a series of violent uprisings around Japan in the spring of 1873 in opposition to the institution of mandatory military conscription for all male citizens (described as a "blood tax") in the wake of the Meiji Restoration.
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
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Bombardment of Kagoshima
The Bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the, was a military engagement fought between Britain and the Satsuma Domain in Kagoshima from 15 to 17 August 1863.
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Bombing of Darwin
The Bombing of Darwin, also known as the Battle of Darwin, on 19 February 1942 was the largest single attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.
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Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city.
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Bonin Islands
The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島), is a Japanese archipelago of over 30 subtropical and tropical islands located around SSE of Tokyo and northwest of Guam.
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Borneo
Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.
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Boshin War
The, sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the Imperial Court.
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Boxer Protocol
The Boxer Protocol was a diplomatic protocol signed in China's capital Beijing on September 7, 1901, between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces (including France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Japan, Russia, and the United States) as well as Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands, after China's defeat in the intervention to put down the Boxer Rebellion.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".
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British Indian Army
The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.
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British Malaya
The term "British Malaya" (Tanah Melayu British) loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Bunsaku Arakatsu
was a Japanese physics professor in the World War II Japanese Atomic Energy Research Program of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Bunzō Hayata
was a Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work in Japan and Formosa, present day Taiwan.
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Burakumin
The are the Japanese people commonly believed to be descended from members of the pre-Meiji feudal class which were associated with, such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners.
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Bushido
is a moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior and lifestyle, formalized in the Edo period (1603–1868).
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Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks.
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Canton Operation
The Canton Operation (pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Zhànyì) was part of a campaign by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China to prevent it from communicating with the outside world and importing needed arms and materials.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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Caroline Islands
The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.
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Cebu
Cebu (Sugbo), officially the Province of Cebu (Lalawigan sa Sugbo), is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, and consists of a main island and 167 surrounding islands and islets.
Central Java
Central Java (Jawa Tengah, Jawi Madya) is a province of Indonesia, located in the middle of the island of Java.
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Charles Lennox Richardson
Charles Lennox Richardson (16 April 1833 – 14 September 1862) was a British merchant based in Shanghai, Qing Empire who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident.
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Charter Oath
The was promulgated on 6 April 1868 in Kyoto Imperial Palace.
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Chōshū Domain
The, also known as the, was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871.
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Chōzaburō Tanaka
, often Romanized as Tyôzaburô Tanaka (November 3, 1885 in Osaka – June 28, 1976), was a Japanese botanist and mycologist.
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Chūhachi Ninomiya
was a Japanese aviation pioneer.
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Chūichi Nagumo
was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 18875 April 1975) was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and military commander.
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Chikuhei Nakajima
, was a Japanese businessman, naval engineer, naval officer, and politician who was most notable for having founded Nakajima Aircraft Company in 1917, a major supplier of airplanes in the Empire of Japan.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chonmage
The is a type of traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men.
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Christian mission
A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.
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Chuang Guandong
Chuang Guandong (IPA:; literally "Crashing into Guandong" with Guandong being an older name for Manchuria) is descriptive of the rush of Han people into Manchuria, mainly from the Shandong Peninsula and Zhili, during the hundred-year period beginning in the last half of the 19th century.
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Class field theory
In mathematics, class field theory (CFT) is the fundamental branch of algebraic number theory whose goal is to describe all the abelian Galois extensions of local and global fields using objects associated to the ground field.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Commander-in-chief
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.
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Commonwealth of the Philippines
The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Mancomunidad de Filipinas; Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946.
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Comparative Studies in Society and History
Comparative Studies in Society and History is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Comparative Study of Society and History.
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Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.
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Conservatism in Germany
Conservatism in Germany (Konservatismus) has encompassed a wide range of theories and ideologies in the last three hundred years, but most historical conservative theories supported the monarchical/hierarchical political structure.
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Constitution of Japan
The Constitution of Japan (Shinjitai:, Kyūjitai:, Hepburn) is the constitution of Japan and the supreme law in the state.
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Constitutional Democratic Party (Japan)
was one of the main political parties in pre-war Empire of Japan.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Convention of Kanagawa
The Convention of Kanagawa, also known as the Kanagawa Treaty (Kanagawa Jōyaku) or the Japan–US Treaty of Peace and Amity (Nichibei Washin Jōyaku), was a treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate on March 31, 1854.
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Convention of Peking
The Convention of Peking or First Convention of Peking is an agreement comprising three distinct unequal treaties concluded between the Qing dynasty of China and Great Britain, France, and the Russian Empire in 1860.
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Count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility.
Counter-Japanese resistance volunteers in China
After the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and until 1933, large volunteer armies waged war against Japanese and Manchukuo forces over much of Northeast China.
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Cult of personality
A cult of personality, or a cult of the leader,Mudde, Cas and Kaltwasser, Cristóbal Rovira (2017) Populism: A Very Short Introduction.
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Daijō-kan
The, also known as the Great Council of State, was (i) (Daijō-kan) the highest organ of Japan's premodern Imperial government under the Ritsuryō legal system during and after the Nara period or (ii) (Dajō-kan) the highest organ of Japan's government briefly restored to power after the Meiji Restoration, which was replaced by the Cabinet.
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Dan Takuma
was a Japanese businessman who was Director-General of Mitsui, one of the leading Japanese zaibatsu (family conglomerates).
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Datsu-A Ron
"Datsu-A Ron" (Japanese Kyūjitai: 脫亞論, Shinjitai: 脱亜論) was an editorial published in the Japanese newspaper Jiji Shimpo on March 16, 1885 arguing that Meiji Japan should abandon the "conservative governments" of Qing China and Joseon Korea and align itself with the West.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
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De jure
In law and government, de jure describes practices that are legally recognized, regardless of whether the practice exists in reality.
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Democracy
Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.
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Demographics of the Empire of Japan
The population of Japan at the time of the Meiji Restoration was estimated to be 34,985,000 on January 1, 1873, while the official and de facto populations on the same day were 33,300,644 and 33,416,939, respectively.
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Demoralization (warfare)
Demoralization is, in a context of warfare, national security, and law enforcement, a process in psychological warfare with the objective to erode morale among enemy combatants and/or noncombatants.
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Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations.
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Dictionary
A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc.
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Divie Bethune McCartee
Divie Bethune McCartee (Simplified Chinese: 麦嘉缔) (1820–1900) was an American Protestant Christian medical missionary, educator and U.S. diplomat in China and Japan, first appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission in 1843.
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Donghak Peasant Revolution
The Donghak Peasant Revolution was a peasant revolt that took place between 11 January 1894 and 25 December 1895 in Korea.
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Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II.
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Double Leaf Society
The was a Japanese military secret society of the 1920s.
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Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur (26 January 18805 April 1964) was an American military leader who served as General of the Army for the United States, as well as a field marshal to the Philippine Army.
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Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines
On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor, where his forces were surrounded by the Japanese.
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Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Nederlands(ch)-Indië) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945. Empire of Japan and Dutch East Indies are former countries in Southeast Asia.
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Dutch East Indies campaign
The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early days of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
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Dutch New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea or Netherlands New Guinea (Nederlands-Nieuw-Guinea, Nugini Belanda) was the western half of the island of New Guinea that was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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East Asia Squadron
The German East Asia Squadron (Kreuzergeschwader / Ostasiengeschwader) was an Imperial German Navy cruiser squadron which operated mainly in the Pacific Ocean between the mid-1890s until 1914, when it was destroyed at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Economy of the Empire of Japan
The Economy of the Empire of Japan refers to the period in Japanese economic history in Imperial Japan that began with the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and ended with the Surrender of Japan in 1945 at the end of World War II.
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Edo Castle
is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province.
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Edo period
The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. Empire of Japan and Edo period are 19th century in Japan and history of Japan by period.
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Edo society
Edo society refers to the society of Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
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Education in the Empire of Japan
Education in the Empire of Japan was a high priority for its government, as the leadership of the early Meiji government realized the need for universal public education in its drive to modernize the nation.
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Eizaburo Nishibori
was a Japanese scientist, alpinist and technologist.
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Emperor Kōmei
Osahito (22 July 1831 – 30 January 1867), posthumously honored as Emperor Kōmei, was the 121st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Meiji
Mutsuhito (3 November 185230 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji, was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor Murakami
was the 62nd emperor of Japan,Imperial Household Agency (Kunaichō): according to the traditional order of succession.
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Emperor of Japan
The emperor of Japan is the hereditary monarch and head of state of Japan.
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Emperor system
Emperor system (天皇制, Tennōsei) means the Japanese monarchy or state-system centered on the emperor, known in Japanese as the Tennō.
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Emperor Taishō
Yoshihito (31 August 1879 – 25 December 1926), posthumously honored as Emperor Taishō, was the 123rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1912 until his death in 1926.
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End of World War II in Asia
World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the.
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Endonym and exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.
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Equal-to-apostles
Equal-to-apostles or equal-to-the-apostles is a special title given to some saints in Eastern Orthodoxy and in Byzantine Catholicism.
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European theatre of World War II
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat during World War II.
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Expansionism
Expansionism refers to states obtaining greater territory through military empire-building or colonialism.
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Extraterritoriality
In international law, extraterritoriality or exterritoriality is the state of being exempted from the jurisdiction of local law, usually as the result of diplomatic negotiations.
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Fall of Singapore
The fall of Singapore, also known as the Battle of Singapore, took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific War.
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Far Eastern Republic
The Far Eastern Republic (p; label), sometimes called the Chita Republic (label), was a nominally independent state that existed from April 1920 to November 1922 in the easternmost part of the Russian Far East. Empire of Japan and Far Eastern Republic are former countries in East Asia.
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Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Fascist Italy
Fascist Italy is a term which is used to describe the Kingdom of Italy when it was governed by the National Fascist Party from 1922 to 1943 with Benito Mussolini as prime minister and dictator. Empire of Japan and Fascist Italy are Axis powers.
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February 26 incident
The was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan on 26 February 1936.
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Fields Medal
The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years.
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Firebombing
Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.
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First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 1894 – 17 April 1895) or the First China–Japan War was a conflict between the Qing dynasty and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Korea.
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Fleet Faction
The Fleet Faction (kantai-ha) was an informal political faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy active in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Foreign commerce and shipping of the Empire of Japan
During the Empire of Japan and up to 1945, Japan was dependent on imported foods and raw materials for industry.
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Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan
The foreign employees in Meiji Japan, known in Japanese as O-yatoi Gaikokujin (Kyūjitai: 御雇い外國人, Shinjitai: 御雇い外国人, "hired foreigners"), were hired by the Japanese government and municipalities for their specialized knowledge and skill to assist in the modernization of the Meiji period.
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Freedom and People's Rights Movement
The (abbreviated as), Popular Rights Movement, or Autonomy and People's Rights Movement was a Japanese political and social movement for democracy in the 1880s.
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French Indochina
French Indochina (previously spelled as French Indo-China), officially known as the Indochinese Union and after 1946 as the French Union, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Mainland Southeast Asia until its end in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south. Empire of Japan and French Indochina are former countries in Southeast Asia.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
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Fujiro Katsurada
was a Japanese parasitologist who discovered a parasite called Schistosoma japonicum.
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Fukoku kyōhei
was Japan's national slogan during the Meiji period, replacing the slogan sonnō jōi ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians"). Empire of Japan and Fukoku kyōhei are Japanese nationalism.
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Fukushi Masaichi
was a Japanese physician, pathologist and Emeritus Professor of Nippon Medical School in Tokyo.
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Fukushima Yasumasa
Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Fukuzawa Yukichi
was a Japanese educator, philosopher, writer, entrepreneur and samurai who founded Keio University, the newspaper, and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.
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Fumimaro Konoe
was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1937 to 1939 and from 1940 to 1941.
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Furuichi Kōi
Baron was a Japanese civil engineer, who was president of Kōka Daigaku, the present college of engineering of the University of Tokyo, and founding president of the Tokyo Underground Railway, "the first underground railway in the Orient".
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Fusakichi Omori
was a pioneer Japanese seismologist, second chairman of seismology at Tokyo Imperial University and president of the Japanese Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee.
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Gen-ichi Koidzumi
was a Japanese botanist, author of several papers and monographs on phytogeography including work on roses and Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae), maples (Aceraceae), mulberries (the genus Morus), and many other plants.
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Genkei Masamune
was a Japanese botanist.
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Gennosuke Fuse
was a Japanese anatomist of the Meiji period.
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Gensui (Imperial Japanese Army)
, formal rank designations: was the highest title in the pre-war Imperial Japanese military.
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Gensui (Imperial Japanese Navy)
, formal rank designations: was the highest rank in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Geography of Japan
Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over along the Pacific coast of East Asia.
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Georgy Zhukov
Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (a; 189618 June 1974) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
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German Empire
The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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German New Guinea
German New Guinea (Deutsch-Neuguinea) consisted of the northeastern part of the island of New Guinea and several nearby island groups and was the first part of the German colonial empire.
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German–Japanese industrial co-operation before and during World War II
In the years leading up to the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939, there was some significant collaborative development in heavy industry between German companies and their Japanese counterparts as part of the two nation's evolving relations. Empire of Japan and German–Japanese industrial co-operation before and during World War II are Axis powers.
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Government of Meiji Japan
The was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Great Japan Youth Party
The, later known as the, was a nationalist youth organization in the Empire of Japan modeled after Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.
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Great power
A great power is a sovereign state that is recognized as having the ability and expertise to exert its influence on a global scale.
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Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
The, also known as the GEACPS, was a pan-Asian union that the Empire of Japan tried to establish. Empire of Japan and Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere are Axis powers and Japanese nationalism.
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Guadalcanal
Guadalcanal (indigenous name: Isatabu) is the principal island in Guadalcanal Province of Solomon Islands, located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia. It is the largest island in the Solomons by area and the second-largest by population (after Malaita). The island is mainly covered in dense tropical rainforest and has a mountainous hinterland.
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Guadalcanal campaign
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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Guam
Guam (Guåhan) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean.
Guangzhou
Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China.
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Gunboat diplomacy
Gunboat diplomacy is the pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of naval power, implying or constituting a direct threat of warfare should terms not be agreeable to the superior force.
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Gyeongbokgung
Gyeongbokgung, also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace, was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty.
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Hajime Sugiyama
was a Japanese field marshal and one of Japan's military leaders for most of the Second World War.
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Hakaru Hashimoto
was a Japanese doctor and medical scientist of the Meiji and Taishō periods.
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Hakaru Masumoto
Hakaru Masumoto (1895–1987) was a pioneer in metal and alloy research.
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Hakkō ichiu
or (八紘為宇, 八紘爲宇) was a Japanese political slogan meaning the divine right of the Empire of Japan to "unify the eight corners of the world." The slogan formed the basis of the empire's ideology. Empire of Japan and Hakkō ichiu are Axis powers.
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Hakodate
(formerly written as Hakodadi) is a city and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
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Hamaguchi Osachi
Hamaguchi Osachi (Kyūjitai: 濱口 雄幸; Shinjitai: 浜口 雄幸, also Hamaguchi Yūkō, 1 April 1870 – 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician, cabinet minister and Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
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Hangul
The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern writing system for the Korean language.
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Hanja
Hanja, alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language.
Hantaro Nagaoka
was a Japanese physicist and a pioneer of Japanese physics during the Meiji period.
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Harutaro Murakami
(1872–1947) was a Japanese physicist and astronomer.
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Hawaiian Kingdom
The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi), was a sovereign state located in the Hawaiian Islands which existed from 1795 to 1893. Empire of Japan and Hawaiian Kingdom are former monarchies of Oceania.
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Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist.
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Hayashi Tadasu
was a Japanese career diplomat and cabinet minister of Meiji-era Japan.
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Hōjō Tokiyuki (Scouting)
was an educator, mathematician and politician in Meiji period Japan.
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Hōryū-ji
is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan.
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Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
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Heijiro Nakayama
was a Japanese pathologist and archaeologist living in Fukuoka.
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Herbert P. Bix
Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian.
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Hideki Tojo
was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.
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Hideki Yukawa
was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate for his prediction of the pi meson, or pion.
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Hideo Itokawa
was a pioneer of Japanese rocketry, popularly known as "Dr.
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Hidetsugu Yagi
was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka, Japan.
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Hideyo Noguchi
, also known as, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease.
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Hirai Seijirō
was a Japanese railroad engineer.
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Hiranuma Kiichirō
was a Japanese lawyer and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan in 1939.
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Hirase Sakugorō
was a Japanese botanist and painter.
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Hirohito
Hirohito (29 April 19017 January 1989), posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan is a book by Herbert P. Bix covering the reign of Emperor Shōwa of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989.
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Hirohito surrender broadcast
The Hirohito surrender broadcast, also known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast (Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945.
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Hiroshi Ōshima
Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Germany before and during World War II and (unwittingly) a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies.
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Hiroshi Nakamura (biochemist)
was a Japanese biochemist known for first suggesting that Nickel may be a dietary element.
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Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
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Hisashi Kimura
was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.
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Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.
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History of Germany (1945–1990)
The history of Germany from 1945 to 1990 comprises the period following World War II.
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History of Hong Kong (1800s–1930s)
Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) oversaw the founding of the new crown colony of Hong Kong under the British Empire.
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History of Japan
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. Empire of Japan and History of Japan are Japanese nationalism.
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Hitoshi Kihara
was a Japanese geneticist known for his work on the genetics of wheat.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.
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Honolulu
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.
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Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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House of Peers (Japan)
The was the upper house of the Imperial Diet as mandated under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (in effect from 11 February 1889 to 3 May 1947). Empire of Japan and house of Peers (Japan) are 1947 disestablishments in Japan.
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House of Representatives (Japan)
The is the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.
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Hundred Regiments Offensive
The Hundred Regiments Offensive also known as the Hundred Regiments Campaign (20 August – 5 December 1940) was a major campaign of the Chinese Communist Party's National Revolutionary Army divisions.
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Ichiro Miyake
was a Japanese mycologist.
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Ijuin Gorō
Marshal Admiral Baron was a Meiji-period career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Ikuro Takahashi (botanist)
was a Japanese botanist, specializing in citrus, who was hailed as the "father of citrus" especially in his native Shizuoka Prefecture.
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Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act, was a federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe.
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Imperial Crown Style
The of Japanese architecture developed during the Japanese Empire in the early twentieth century.
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Imperial cult
An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods or deities.
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Imperial General Headquarters
The was part of the Supreme War Council and was established in 1893 to coordinate efforts between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime.
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Imperial House of Japan
The is the dynasty and imperial family of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended family of the reigning emperor of Japan who undertake official and public duties.
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Imperial Japanese Armed Forces
The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF) were the unified forces of the Empire of Japan.
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Imperial Japanese Army
The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Empire of Japan and Imperial Japanese Army are 1868 establishments in Japan.
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Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office
The, also called the Army General Staff, was one of the two principal agencies charged with overseeing the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
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Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy
The is a prestigious honor conferred to two of the recipients of the Japan Academy Prize.
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Imperial Rule Assistance Association
The, or Imperial Aid Association, was the Empire of Japan's ruling political organization during much of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.
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Imperial Universities
The were founded by the Empire of Japan between 1886 and 1939, seven in Mainland Japan (now Japan), one in Korea under Japanese rule (now the Republic of Korea) and one in Taiwan under Japanese rule (now Taiwan).
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Imperial Way Faction
The Kōdōha or was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Inō Kanori
was a Japanese anthropologist and folklorist known for his studies in Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
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Incheon
Incheon (or Inch'ŏn; literally "kind river"), formerly Jemulpo or Chemulp'o (제물포) until the period after 1910, officially the Incheon Metropolitan City (인천광역시, 仁川廣域市), is a city located in northwestern South Korea, bordering Seoul and Gyeonggi to the east.
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Indian Ocean raid
The Indian Ocean raid, also known as Operation C or Battle of Ceylon in Japanese, was a naval sortie carried out by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from 31 March to 10 April 1942.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Industrial production in Shōwa Japan
Industrial production was a defining characteristic of Shōwa Japan.
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Industrialisation
Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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Inoue Enryō
was a Japanese philosopher, Shin Buddhist priest and reformer, educator, and royalist.
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Inoue Yoshika
Marshal Admiral Viscount was a career naval officer and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji-period Japan.
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Inukai Tsuyoshi
Inukai Tsuyoshi (犬養 毅, 4 June 1855 – 15 May 1932) was a Japanese statesman who was prime minister of Japan from 1931 to his assassination in 1932.
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Ionizing radiation
Ionizing radiation (US, ionising radiation in the UK), including nuclear radiation, consists of subatomic particles or electromagnetic waves that have sufficient energy to ionize atoms or molecules by detaching electrons from them.
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Irmologion
Irmologion (τὸ εἱρμολόγιον) is a liturgical book of the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.
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Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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Isao Imai (physicist)
was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics.
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Ishii Kikujirō
Viscount, was a Japanese diplomat and cabinet minister in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan.
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Ishikawa Chiyomatsu
was a Japanese biologist, zoologist, evolutionary theorist, and ichthyologist at the Naples Zoological Station starting 1887.
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Isoroku Yamamoto
was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
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Issac Koga
was an inventor and scientist.
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Itō Hirobumi
was a Japanese politician and statesman who served as the first Prime Minister of Japan.
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Itō Sukeyuki
Marshal-Admiral Count (20 May 1843 – 16 January 1914) was a Japanese career officer and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy in Meiji-period Japan.
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Iwakura Mission
The Iwakura Mission or Iwakura Embassy (岩倉使節団, Iwakura Shisetsudan) was a Japanese diplomatic voyage to the United States and Europe conducted between 1871 and 1873 by leading statesmen and scholars of the Meiji period.
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Iwanami Shoten
is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.
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Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima, officially romanized and pronounced Iōtō (い, literally: "Sulfur Island"), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together with them make up the Ogasawara Archipelago.
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January 28 incident
The January 28 incident or Shanghai incident (January 28 – March 3, 1932) was a conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japan Self-Defense Forces
The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF, 自衛隊; Hepburn: Jieitai), also known as the Japanese Armed Forces, are the unified military forces of Japan.
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Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876 (also known as the Japan–Korea Treaty of Amity in Japan and the Treaty of Ganghwa Island in Korea) was made between representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Kingdom of Joseon in 1876.
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Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905, also known as the Eulsa Treaty, Eulsa Unwilling Treaty or Japan–Korea Protectorate Treaty, was made between the Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire in 1905.
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Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910
The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, was made by representatives of the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire on 22 August 1910.
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Japanese archipelago
The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.
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Japanese castle
are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone.
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Japanese Instrument of Surrender
The Japanese Instrument of Surrender was the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of hostilities in World War II.
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Japanese invasion of French Indochina
The, (Invasion japonaise de l'Indochine) was a short undeclared military confrontation between Japan and Vichy France in northern French Indochina.
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Empire of Japan's Kwantung Army invaded the Manchuria region of the Republic of China on 18 September 1931, immediately following the Mukden incident.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese militarism
was the ideology in the Empire of Japan which advocated the belief that militarism should dominate the political and social life of the nation, and the belief that the strength of the military is equal to the strength of a nation. Empire of Japan and Japanese militarism are Japanese nationalism.
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Japanese nationalism
is a form of nationalism that asserts the belief that the Japanese are a monolithic nation with a single immutable culture, and promotes the cultural unity of the Japanese.
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Japanese nuclear weapons program
During World War II, Japan had several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
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Japanese yen
The is the official currency of Japan.
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Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jiaozhou Bay
Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou Bucht) is a bay located in the prefecture-level city of Qingdao (Tsingtau), Shandong Province, China.
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Jinzō Matsumura
was a Japanese botanist.
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Jiro Horikoshi
was a Japanese aeronautical engineer.
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Jiro Tanaka
was a Japanese aircraft and automotive engineer.
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Jisaburo Ohwi
was Japanese botanist.
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John W. Dower
John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian.
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Joseon
Joseon, officially Great Joseon State, was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. Empire of Japan and Joseon are former monarchies of East Asia.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Jujiro Matsuda
was a Japanese inventor, machinist, industrialist and businessman whose company, Toyo Kogyo, led to the founding of the present-day multinational automaker Mazda Motor Corporation, in 1984.
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Jun Ishiwara
Jun Ishiwara or Atsushi Ishihara (石原 純; January 15, 1881 – January 19, 1947) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for his works on the electronic theory of metals, the theory of relativity and quantum theory.
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Kagoshima
, officially, is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
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Kamakichi Kishinouye
was a Japanese fisheries biologist and cnidariologist and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo (Faculty of Agriculture) between 1908 and 1928.
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Kaneko Kentarō
was a statesman, diplomat, and legal scholar in Meiji period Japan.
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Kanesuke Hara
was a Japanese botanist and mycologist.
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.
Kantarō Suzuki
Baron was a Japanese admiral and politician.
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Kantō Massacre
The was a mass murder in the Kantō region of Japan committed in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
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Karafuto Prefecture
Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a part of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin. Empire of Japan and Karafuto Prefecture are Axis powers.
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Katana
A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.
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Katō Takaaki
Count was a Japanese politician, diplomat, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1924 until his death on 28 January 1926, during the period which historians have called "Taishō Democracy".
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Katō Tomosaburō
Marshal-Admiral Viscount was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 1922 to 1923.
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Katsuma Dan
was a Japanese embryologist and cell biologist.
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Katsura Tarō
Prince was a Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1901 to 1913.
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Katsuzo Kuronuma
(1908–1992) was a Japanese ichthyologist.
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Kawade Shobō Shinsha
, formerly, is a publisher founded in 1886 in Japan and headquartered in Sendagaya, Shibuya, Tokyo.
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Kawamura Sumiyoshi
Count, was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Kazuo Kubokawa
was a Japanese astronomer, who, together with astronomer Okuro Oikawa, co-discovered the Mars-crosser asteroid 1139 Atami in 1929.
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Kazushige Ugaki
was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and cabinet minister before World War II, the 5th principal of Takushoku University, and twice Governor-General of Korea.
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Kôdi Husimi
Kōji Husimi (June 29, 1909 – May 8, 2008, 伏見康治) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.
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Kōki Hirota
was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1936 to 1937.
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Kōnosuke Matsushita
was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company.
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Kōsaku Hamada
, also known as Seiryō Hamada, was a Japanese academic, archaeologist, author and President of Kyoto University.
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Keiichi Aichi
was a Japanese physicist.
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Keisuke Ito (botanist)
was a Japanese physician and biologist.
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Keisuke Okada
was a Japanese admiral and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1934 to 1936.
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Kempeitai
The was the military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
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Kenjiro Takayanagi
was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television.
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Kenmu Restoration
The was a three-year period of Imperial rule in Japanese history between the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period from 1333 to 1336.
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Kenseikai
The was a short-lived political party in the pre-war Empire of Japan.
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Kensuke Mitsuda
was a Japanese leprologist and director of the Tama Zenshoen Sanatorium (1914–1931) and the National Sanatorium Nagashima Aiseien (1931–1957).
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Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914.
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Kijirō Nambu
was a Japanese firearms designer and career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Kikuchi Dairoku
Baron was a Japanese mathematician, educator, and education administrator during the Meiji era.
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Kikunae Ikeda
was a Japanese chemist and Tokyo Imperial University professor of chemistry who, in 1908, uncovered the chemical basis of a taste he named umami.
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Kikutaro Baba
was a Japanese malacologist.
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Kimigayo
is the national anthem of Japan.
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Kingdom of Italy
The Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 17 March 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 10 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished, following civil discontent that led to an institutional referendum on 2 June 1946. Empire of Japan and Kingdom of Italy are Axis powers.
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Kinichiro Sakaguchi
was a Japanese agricultural chemist and microbiologist.
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Kinjiro Okabe
was a Japanese electrical engineering researcher and professor who made major contributions to magnetron and radar development.
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Kinmon incident
The, also known as the, was a rebellion against the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan that took place on the 20th of August, 1864, near the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
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Kintarô Okamura
was a Japanese botanist and educationalist (1867 - 1935).
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Kiro Honjo
(1901–1990) was a Japanese aircraft designer who worked for Mitsubishi and designed aircraft used in World War II such as the Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) and the Mitsubishi G4M (Betty).
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Kitasato Shibasaburō
Baron was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
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Kiyoo Wadati
was an early seismologist at the Central Meteorological Observatory of Japan (now known as the Japan Meteorological Agency), researching deep (subduction zone) earthquakes.
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Kiyoshi Shiga
was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist.
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Kiyosi Itô
was a Japanese mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, in particular, the theory of stochastic processes.
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Kiyotsugu Hirayama
was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his discovery that many asteroid orbits were more similar to one another than chance would allow, leading to the concept of asteroid families, now called "Hirayama families" in his honour.
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Kodama Gentarō
Viscount was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a government minister during the Meiji period.
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Koganei Yoshikiyo
was a Japanese anatomist and anthropologist of the Meiji period.
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Kojiki
The, also sometimes read as or, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the, and the Japanese imperial line.
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Kokichi Mikimoto
was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.
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Kokuhonsha
The was a nationalist political society in late 1920s and early 1930s Japan. Empire of Japan and Kokuhonsha are Japanese nationalism.
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Komura Jutarō
was a Japanese statesman and diplomat.
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Kono Yasui
was a Japanese biologist and cytologist.
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Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Korea under Japanese rule
From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled as a part of the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (Hanja: 朝鮮, Korean: 조선), the Japanese reading of Joseon.
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Korean Empire
The Korean Empire, officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea, was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by King Gojong of the Joseon dynasty. Empire of Japan and Korean Empire are former empires in Asia and former monarchies of East Asia.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
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Korean yen
The yen was the currency of Korea, Empire of Japan between 1910 and 1945.
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Kotaro Honda
, born on February 23, 1870, in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture – February 12, 1954) was a Japanese metallurgist and inventor. He invented KS steel (initials from Kichiei Sumitomo), which is a type of magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel. This material, which had 250 oersteds magnetic resistance, was developed through rigorous basic research on steel and alloys.
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Kotaro Shimomura
was a Japanese chemical engineer known for many famous inventions.
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Kuniaki Koiso
was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan from 1944 to 1945 during World War II.
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Kunihiko Hashida
was a Japanese physician and physiologist.
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Kunio Yanagita
was a Japanese author, scholar, and folklorist.
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Kuril Islands
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands (p; Japanese: or) are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East.
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Kuroki Tamemoto
Count was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Kusumoto Ine
Kusumoto Ine (楠本 イネ, 31 May 182727 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine 失本 稲) was a Japanese physician.
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Kwantung Army
The Kwantung Army (Japanese: 関東軍, Kantō-gun) was a general army of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945.
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Kwantung Leased Territory
The Kwantung Leased Territory was a leased territory of the Empire of Japan in the Liaodong Peninsula from 1905 to 1945.
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Kyōsuke Kindaichi
was a Japanese linguist, chiefly known for his dictations of yukar, or sagas of the Ainu people, as well as his study of the Matagi dialect.
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Kyoto
Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.
Kyoto Imperial Palace
The is the former palace of the Emperor of Japan, located in Kamigyō-ku, Kyoto, Japan.
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Kyusaku Ogino
was a Japanese medical doctor specializing in obstetrics and gynecology.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
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Labor unions in Japan
Labour unions emerged in Japan in the second half of the Meiji period, after 1890, as the country underwent a period of rapid industrialization.
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Lansing–Ishii Agreement
The was a diplomatic note signed in Washington between the United States and Imperial Japan on 2 November 1917 over their disputes with regards to China.
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Lèse-majesté
Lèse-majesté or lese-majesty is an offence or defamation against the dignity of a ruling head of state (traditionally a monarch but now more often a president) or of the state itself.
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Lüshun Port
Lüshun Port in Lüshunkou District, Dalian, Liaoning province, China, refers to the original Lüshun Naval Port for military use or the New Lüshun Port for commercial use.
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Lüshunkou, Dalian
Lüshunkou District (also Lyushunkou District) is a district of Dalian, Liaoning province, China.
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League of Nations
The League of Nations (LN or LoN; Société des Nations, SdN) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
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Leapfrogging (strategy)
Leapfrogging, also known as island hopping, was an amphibious military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II.
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Leyte
Leyte is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines.
Liaodong Peninsula
The Liaodong or Liaotung Peninsula is a peninsula in southern Liaoning province in Northeast China, and makes up the southwestern coastal half of the Liaodong region.
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List of emperors of the Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was a Manchu-led imperial Chinese dynasty and the last imperial dynasty of China.
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List of territories acquired by the Empire of Japan
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan.
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List of the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration
Minatogawa Shrine The Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration (建武中興十五社, Kenmu chūko jūgosha) are a group of Shinto shrines dedicated to individuals and events of the Kenmu Restoration.
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Liturgy
Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.
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Mainland Japan
is a term used to distinguish Japan's core land area from its outlying territories.
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Mako (actor)
was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ).
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Makoto Nishimura
was a Japanese biologist.
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Malang
Malang, historically known as Tumapel, is an inland city in the Indonesian province of East Java.
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Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Malayan campaign
The Malayan campaign, referred to by Japanese sources as the, was a military campaign fought by Allied and Axis forces in Malaya, from 8 December 1941 – 15 February 1942 during the Second World War.
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Malays (ethnic group)
Malays (Orang Melayu, Jawi) are an Austronesian ethnoreligious group native to eastern Sumatra, the Malay Peninsula and coastal Borneo, as well as the smaller islands that lie between these locations.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
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Manchukuo
Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. Empire of Japan and Manchukuo are Axis powers, former countries in East Asia, former countries in Japanese history, former empires in Asia and former monarchies of East Asia.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
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Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who was president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944.
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Marco Polo Bridge incident
The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China's and the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Mariana Islands
The Mariana Islands (Manislan Mariånas), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fifteen longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th meridian east.
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Marius B. Jansen
Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000) was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.
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Marquess
A marquess (marquis) is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies.
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Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands (Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ), is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Masaharu Anesaki
, also known under his pen name, was a leading Japanese intellectual and scholar of the Meiji period.
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Masataka Ogawa
was a Japanese chemist mainly known for the claimed discovery of element 43 (later known as technetium), which he named nipponium.
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Masatoshi Ōkōchi
Viscount was a Japanese physicist and business executive.
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Masauji Hachisuka
, 18th Marquess Hachisuka, was a Japanese nobleman, ornithologist and aviculturist.
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Masuda Takashi
Baron, was a Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector.
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Masuzo Shikata
was a Japanese chemist and one of the pioneers in electrochemistry.
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Matsumae clan
The was a Japanese aristocratic family who were daimyo of Matsumae Domain, in present-day Matsumae, Hokkaidō, from the Azuchi–Momoyama period until the Meiji Restoration.
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Matsusaburo Fujiwara
Matsusaburo Fujiwara (藤原 松三郎, Fujiwara Matsusaburō, 14 February 1881, Tsu, Mie – 12 October 1946, Fukushima) was a Japanese mathematician and historian of mathematics.
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Matthew C. Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War.
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May 15 incident
The was an attempted coup d'état in the Empire of Japan, on May 15, 1932, launched by reactionary elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy, aided by cadets in the Imperial Japanese Army and civilian remnants of the ultranationalist League of Blood (Ketsumei-dan).
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Meiji Constitution
The Constitution of the Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國憲法; Shinjitai: 大日本帝国憲法), known informally as the Meiji Constitution (明治憲法, Meiji Kenpō), was the constitution of the Empire of Japan which was proclaimed on February 11, 1889, and remained in force between November 29, 1890, and May 2, 1947.
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Meiji era
The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. Empire of Japan and Meiji era are 1868 establishments in Japan.
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Meiji oligarchy
The Meiji oligarchy was the new ruling class of Meiji period Japan.
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Empire of Japan and Meiji Restoration are 1868 establishments in Japan.
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Mengjiang
Mengjiang, also known as Mengkiang, officially the Mengjiang United Autonomous Government, was an autonomous zone in Inner Mongolia, formed in 1939 as a puppet state of the Empire of Japan, then from 1940 being under the nominal sovereignty of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China (which was itself also a puppet state). Empire of Japan and Mengjiang are Axis powers, former countries in East Asia and former countries in Japanese history.
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Michio Suzuki (inventor)
was a Japanese businessman and inventor, known primarily for founding the Suzuki Motor Corporation, as well as several innovations in the design of looms.
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Michiyo Tsujimura
was a Japanese agricultural scientist and biochemist whose research focused on the components of green tea.
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Miekichi Suzuki
was a Japanese novelist and author of children's stories from Hiroshima.
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Militarism
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values.
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Military alliance
A military alliance is a formal agreement between nations that specifies mutual obligations regarding national security.
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Mineichi Koga
was a Japanese Marshal Admiral and commander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.
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Ministry of the Army
The Ministry of the Army (Ministerio del Ejército) was a government department of Spain that was tasked with oversight of the Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra) during the Francoist regime.
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Minoru Shirota
was a Japanese microbiologist.
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Mitsubishi
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
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Mitsui
is a Japanese corporate group and keiretsu that traces its roots to the zaibatsu groups that were dissolved after World War II.
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Mitsumasa Yonai
was a Japanese navy officer and politician.
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Mitsutaro Shirai
was a Japanese plant pathologist, mycologist, and herbalist.
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Mokusatsu
is a Japanese word meaning "ignore", "take no notice of" or "treat with silent contempt".
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Mongolian People's Republic
The Mongolian People's Republic (MPR; Бүгд НайрамдахМонгол Ард Улс, БНМАУ) was a socialist state that existed from 1924 to 1992, located in the historical region of Outer Mongolia under the Qing dynasty.
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Morio Matsudaira
Viscount was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Motonori Matuyama
was a Japanese geophysicist who was (in the late 1920s) the first to provide systematic evidence that the Earth's magnetic field had been reversed in the early Pleistocene and to suggest that long periods existed in the past in which the polarity was reversed.
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Mukden incident
The Mukden incident was a false flag event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
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Mutsu Munemitsu
Count was a Japanese diplomat and politician.
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Nagai Nagayoshi
was a Japanese pharmacist, best known for his study of ephedrine.
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Nagaoka Gaishi
Count was a Japanese military officer.
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Nagasaki
, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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Nagayo Sensai
Baron was a medical doctor, educator and statesman in Meiji period Japan.
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Naitō Konan
, commonly known as, was a Japanese historian and Sinologist.
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Namamugi Incident
The, also known as the Kanagawa incident and Richardson affair, was a political crisis that occurred in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Bakumatsu on 14 September 1862.
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Nambu pistol
are a series of semi-automatic pistols produced by the Japanese company Koishikawa Arsenal, later known as the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal.
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Namihei Odaira
was a Japanese entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded Hitachi.
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Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
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Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Nation state
A nation-state is a political unit where the state, a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory, and the nation, a community based on a common identity, are congruent.
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National Archives of Japan
The preserve Japanese government documents and historical records and make them available to the public.
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National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together.
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National Diet
The is the national legislature of Japan.
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National Diet Library
The is the national library of Japan and among the largest libraries in the world.
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Naval Station Pearl Harbor
Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a United States naval base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany are Axis powers.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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Netherlands Armed Forces
The Netherlands Armed Forces (Nederlandse krijgsmacht) are the military forces of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Neutral country
A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO, CSTO or the SCO).
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.
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New Testament
The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.
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Nikolayevsk incident
The Nikolayevsk incident or Nikolaevsk incident (Николаевский инцидент) was a series of mass killings that took place in the region of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur during the Russian Civil War.
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Ningbo
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.
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Nishi Amane
was a Japanese philosopher.
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Nishimura Shigeki
was a Japanese educator and leader of the Meiji Enlightenment during the Meiji period.
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Nitobe Inazō
was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer.
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Nobuchika Sugimura
was a Japanese inventor and patent attorney.
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Nogi Maresuke
Count, also known as Kiten, Count Nogi GCB (December 25, 1849September 13, 1912), was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan.
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Noriaki Fukuyama
was a Japanese botanist and orchidologist.
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Noritsugu Hayakawa
was a Japanese businessman.
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Nozu Michitsura
Field Marshal The Marquis was a Japanese field marshal and leading figure in the early Imperial Japanese Army.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Occupation of Japan
Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952. Empire of Japan and Occupation of Japan are former countries in Japanese history.
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Okinawa Island
, officially, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region.
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Okuro Oikawa
was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets.
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Operation Downfall
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.
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Operation Starvation
Operation Starvation was a naval mining operation conducted in World War II by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) to disrupt Japanese shipping.
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Operation Unthinkable
Operation Unthinkable was the name given to two related possible future war plans developed by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee against the USSR during 1945.
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Order to expel barbarians
The was an edict issued by the Japanese Emperor Kōmei in 1863 against the Westernization of Japan following the opening of the country by Commodore Matthew Perry in 1854.
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Osami Nagano
was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the leaders of Japan's military during most of the Second World War.
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Ozawa Yoshiaki
was a paleontologist and geologist.
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Pacific Fleet (Russia)
The Pacific Fleet (Tikhookeansky flot) is the Russian Navy fleet in the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Pacific War
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.
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Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
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Palawan massacre
The Palawan massacre occurred on 14 December 1944, during World War II, near the city of Puerto Princesa in the Philippine province of Palawan.
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Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands and the Hoàng Sa Archipelago (lit), are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea under de facto administration by the People's Republic of China.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'
The Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (translit), also known as the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, is the title of the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Paul Tsuchihashi
was a Japanese Roman Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, Sinologist, lexicographer, academic and administrator.
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Peace Preservation Law
The was a Japanese law enacted on April 22, 1925, with the aim of allowing the Special Higher Police to more effectively suppress alleged socialists and communists.
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Pentecostarion
The Pentecostarion (Πεντηκοστάριον,; Цвѣтнаѧ Трїωдь,, literally "Flowery Triodon"; Penticostar) is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches during the Paschal Season which extends from Pascha (Easter) to the Sunday following All Saints Sunday (i.e., the Second Sunday After Pentecost).
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Perm, Russia
Perm (Пермь,; Перем; Перым), previously known as Yagoshikha (label; 1723–1781) and Molotov (label; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia.
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Philippines campaign (1941–1942)
The Philippines campaign (Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the American territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense of the islands by United States and the Philippine Armies during World War II.
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Philippines campaign (1944–1945)
The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
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Police services of the Empire of Japan
The of the Empire of Japan comprised numerous police services, in many cases with overlapping jurisdictions.
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Polish people
Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
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Political parties of the Empire of Japan
appeared in Japan after the Meiji Restoration, and gradually increased in importance after the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution and the creation of the Diet of Japan.
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Posthumous name
A posthumous name is an honorary name given mainly to revered dead people in East Asian culture.
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Postwar Japan
Postwar Japan is the period in Japanese history beginning with the surrender of Japan to the Allies of World War II on 2 September 1945, and lasting at least until the end of the Shōwa era in 1989. Empire of Japan and Postwar Japan are 20th century in Japan and history of Japan by period.
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Potsdam Declaration
The Potsdam Declaration, or the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender, was a statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II.
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Presbyterianism
Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (lit), informally known as Primorye (Приморье), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East.
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Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito
was the second (and last) head of the Higashifushimi-no-miya, an ōke cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family.
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Prince Kan'in Kotohito
was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940.
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Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
of Japan, was the second head of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family.
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Prince Komatsu Akihito
was a Japanese career officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who was a member of the Fushimi-no-miya, one of the shinnōke branches of the Imperial Family of Japan, which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne.
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Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa
, was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Protectorate
A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.
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Provisional Priamurye Government
The Provisional Priamurye Government or Provisional Priamur Government (Приамурский земский край) existed in the region of Priamurye of the Russian Far East between May 27, 1921 and June 16, 1923. Empire of Japan and Provisional Priamurye Government are former countries in East Asia.
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Prussia
Prussia (Preußen; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions. Empire of Japan and Prussia are states and territories disestablished in 1947.
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Psalms
The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים|Tehillīm|praises; Psalmós; Liber Psalmorum; Zabūr), also known as the Psalms, or the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ("Writings"), and a book of the Old Testament.
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Puppet state
A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and subject to its orders.
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Puyi
Puyi (7 February 190617 October 1967) was the last emperor of China, reigning as the eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty.
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
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Qingdao
Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.
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Racial Equality Proposal
The was an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that was considered at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Rehe Province
Rehe Province, known at the time as Jehol Province from an earlier romanization, was a former Chinese special administrative region and province centered on the city of Rehe, now known as Chengde.
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Republic of China (1912–1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), or simply China, as a sovereign state was based on mainland China from 1912 to 1949, when the government retreated to Taiwan, where it continues to be based.
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Republic of Ezo
The was a short-lived separatist state established in 1869 on the island of Ezo, now Hokkaido, by a part of the former military of the Tokugawa shogunate at the end of the Bakumatsu period in Japan. Empire of Japan and Republic of Ezo are former countries in East Asia.
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Republicanism
Republicanism is a Western political ideology that encompasses a range of ideas from civic virtue, political participation, harms of corruption, positives of mixed constitution, rule of law, and others.
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Rikitaro Fujisawa
Rikitarō Fujisawa (Japanese: 藤沢 利喜太郎, Fujisawa Rikitarō; 12 October 1861 – 23 December 1933) was a Japanese mathematician.
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Rikken Seiyūkai
The was one of the main political parties in the pre-war Empire of Japan. It was also known simply as the Seiyūkai. Founded on September 15, 1900, by Itō Hirobumi,David S. Spencer, "Some Thoughts on the Political Development of the Japanese People", The Journal of International Relations (January 1920) p325 the Seiyūkai was a pro-government alliance of bureaucrats and former members of the Kenseitō.
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Roger Griffin
Roger David Griffin (born 31 January 1948) is a British professor of modern history and political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
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Rule by decree
Rule by decree is a style of governance allowing quick, unchallenged promulgation of law by a single person or group of people, usually without legislative approval.
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Ruling class
In sociology, the ruling class of a society is the social class who set and decide the political and economic agenda of society.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917. Empire of Japan and Russian Empire are former empires in Asia.
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Russian Orthodox Church
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Russkaya pravoslavnaya tserkov', abbreviated as РПЦ), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskovskiy patriarkhat), is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church.
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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917.
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Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..
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Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire.
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Ryōichi Yazu
was a Japanese inventor.
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Ryūsaku Tsunoda
was a Japanese scholar and is known as the "father of Japanese studies" at Columbia University.
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Ryoichi Nakagawa
was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
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Ryukichi Inada
was a Japanese physician, prominent academic, and bacteriologist researcher.
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Saburō Ienaga
was a Japanese historian.
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Sadao Araki
Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II.
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Sage Publishing
Sage Publishing, formerly SAGE Publications, is an American independent academic publishing company, founded in 1965 in New York City by Sara Miller McCune and now based in the Newbury Park neighborhood of Thousand Oaks, California.
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Saigō Takamori
was a Japanese samurai and nobleman.
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Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Saipan is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Saitō Makoto
Viscount (27 October 1858 – 26 February 1936) was a Japanese naval officer and politician.
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Sakhalin
Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.
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Sakichi Toyoda
was a Japanese inventor and industrialist.
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Sakoku
is the most common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period (from 1603 to 1868), relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country.
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Samurai
were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.
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Sanshi Imai
was a Japanese mycologist of Hokkaido Imperial University.
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Sasō Sachū
was a Japanese engineer and naval architect of the Meiji period and a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Satchō Alliance
The, or was a powerful military alliance between the southwestern feudal domains of Satsuma and Chōshū formed in 1866 to combine their efforts to restore Imperial rule and overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.
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Satosi Watanabe
was a theoretical physicist.
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Satoyasu Iimori
Satoyasu Iimori (19 October 1885 – 13 October 1982) was a Japanese analytical chemist and a pioneer of radiochemistry.
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Satsuma Domain
The, briefly known as the, was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871.
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Satsuma Province
was an old province of Japan that is now the western half of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
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Satsuma Rebellion
The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the, was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era.
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Satyu Yamaguti
was a Japanese parasitologist, entomologist, and helminthologist.
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Sōichi Kakeya
was a Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis and who posed the Kakeya problem and solved a version of the transportation problem.
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Second Australian Imperial Force
The Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF, or Second AIF) was the volunteer expeditionary force of the Australian Army in the Second World War.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
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Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.
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Second United Front
The Second United Front (p) was the alliance between the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to resist the Japanese invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, which suspended the Chinese Civil War from 1937 to 1945.
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Secular state
A secular state is an idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion.
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Seiji Naruse
was a Japanese Rear-Admiral and engineer.
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Seishi Kikuchi
was a Japanese physicist, known for his explanation of the Kikuchi lines that show up in diffraction patterns of diffusely scattered electrons.
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Sekai (magazine)
Sekai (Japanese: 世界 "World") is a Japanese monthly political magazine published by Iwanami Shoten, which was founded in December 1945.
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Sekiya Seikei
, alternatively Sekiya Kiyokage, was a Japanese geologist, one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
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Senjūrō Hayashi
was a Japanese politician and general.
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.
Seymour Expedition
The Seymour Expedition was an attempt by a multinational military force to march to Beijing and relieve the Siege of the Legations and foreign nationals from attacks by Qing China's government troops and the Boxers in 1900.
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Shamanism
Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.
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Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in East China.
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Shōwa
Shōwa most commonly refers to.
Shōwa era
The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (commonly known in English as Emperor Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989. Empire of Japan and Shōwa era are 20th century in Japan.
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Shigeo Shingo
was a Japanese industrial engineer who was considered as the world’s leading expert on manufacturing practices and the Toyota Production System.
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Shigeru Yoshida
was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the American occupation following the Pacific War.
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Shigeyoshi Matsumae
was a Japanese electrical engineer, inventor of the non-loaded cable carrier system, the Minister of the Ministry of Communications (Teishin-in, between August 30, 1945, and April 8, 1946), politician and the founder of Tokai University.
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Shikoku
, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.
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Shimamura Hayao
Marshal-Admiral Baron was a Japanese admiral during the First Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars as well as one of the first prominent staff officers and naval strategists of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Shimoda Kikutaro
was an architect who created the prototype of the Imperial Crown Style for the Japanese Empire.
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Shimonoseki
Shimonoseki city hall is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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Shimonoseki campaign
The was a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control the Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan.
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Shin Hirayama
, also read as Makoto Hirayama, was the first Japanese astronomer to discover an asteroid.
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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
, usually cited as Sin-Itiro Tomonaga in English, was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.
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Shinbutsu bunri
The Japanese term indicates the separation of Shinto from Buddhism, introduced after the Meiji Restoration which separated Shinto kami from buddhas, and also Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines, which were originally amalgamated.
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Shinobu Orikuchi
, also known as, was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.
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Shinroku Momose
was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer.
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Shintarō Hirase
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Shintaro Uda
was a Japanese inventor, and assistant to Professor Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku Imperial University, where together they invented the Yagi–Uda antenna in 1926.
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Shinto
Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.
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Shinzo Shinjo
was a Japanese academic, physicist, astronomer and president of Kyoto University.
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Shogun
Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.
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Shoichi Sakata
was a Japanese physicist and Marxist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the subatomic particles.
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Shokichi Iyanaga
was a Japanese mathematician.
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Shrine Consolidation Policy
The Shrine Consolidation Policy (Jinja seirei, also Jinja gōshi, Jinja gappei) was an effort by the Government of Meiji Japan to abolish numerous smaller Shinto shrines and consolidate their functions with larger regional shrines.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Siege of Tsingtao
The Siege of Tsingtao (Belagerung von Tsingtau; 青島の戦い) was the attack on the German port of Qingdao (Tsingtao) from Jiaozhou Bay during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom.
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Singapore in the Straits Settlements
Singapore in the Straits Settlements refers to a period in the history of Singapore between 1826 and 1942, during which Singapore was part of the Straits Settlements together with Penang and Malacca.
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Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse
The sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse was a naval engagement in World War II, as part of the war in the Pacific, that took place on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off the east coast of the British colonies of Malaya (present-day Malaysia) and the Straits Settlements (present-day Singapore and its coastal towns), east of Kuantan, Pahang.
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Sixth Army (United States)
Sixth Army is a theater army of the United States Army.
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Slaughterhouse
In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food.
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Social mobility
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.
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Soichiro Honda
was a Japanese engineer and industrialist.
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Solar deity
A solar deity or sun deity is a deity who represents the Sun or an aspect thereof.
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Sonnō jōi
was a yojijukugo (four-character compound) phrase used as the rallying cry and slogan of a political movement in Japan in the 1850s and 1860s, during the Bakumatsu period. Empire of Japan and Sonnō jōi are Japanese nationalism.
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South Seas Mandate
The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of Nations mandate in the "South Seas" given to the Empire of Japan by the League of Nations following World War I. The mandate consisted of islands in the north Pacific Ocean that had been part of German New Guinea within the German colonial empire until they were occupied by Japan during World War I. Empire of Japan and South Seas Mandate are 1947 disestablishments in Japan and states and territories disestablished in 1947.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Soviet invasion of Manchuria
The Soviet invasion of Manchuria, formally known as the Manchurian Strategic Offensive Operation or simply the Manchurian Operation, began on 9 August 1945 with the Soviet invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
The, also known as the, was a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan signed on April 13, 1941, two years after the conclusion of the Soviet-Japanese Border War. Empire of Japan and Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact are Axis powers.
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Soviet–Japanese War
The Soviet–Japanese War was a campaign of the Second World War that began with the Soviet invasion of Manchuria following the Soviet declaration of war against Japan on 8 August 1945.
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Sphere of influence
In the field of international relations, a sphere of influence is a spatial region or concept division over which a state or organization has a level of cultural, economic, military, or political exclusivity.
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Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands (Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin p; Kepulauan Spratly; Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.
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Stanley G. Payne
Stanley George Payne (born September 9, 1934) is an American historian of modern Spain and European fascism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
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State Shinto
was Imperial Japan's ideological use of the Japanese folk religion and traditions of Shinto. Empire of Japan and State Shinto are Japanese nationalism.
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Statism in Shōwa Japan
is the nationalist ideology associated with the Empire of Japan, particularly during the Shōwa era. Empire of Japan and Statism in Shōwa Japan are Japanese nationalism.
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Stavka
The Stavka (Russian and Ukrainian: Ставка, Belarusian: Стаўка) is a name of the high command of the armed forces formerly used formerly in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and currently in Ukraine.
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Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.
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Strategic bombing during World War II
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.
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Strategic material
Strategic material is any sort of raw material that is important to an individual's or organization's strategic plan and supply chain management.
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
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Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
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Sumitomo Group
The is a Japanese corporate group and keiretsu that traces its roots to the zaibatsu groups that were dissolved after World War II.
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Sunao Tawara
was a Japanese pathologist known for the discovery of the atrioventricular node.
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Surrender (military)
Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power.
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Surrender of Japan
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
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Susanoo-no-Mikoto
Susanoo (スサノオ; historical orthography: スサノヲ), often referred to by the honorific title Susanoo-no-Mikoto, is a in Japanese mythology.
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Suzerainty
Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
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Taishō Democracy
Taishō Democracy was a liberal and democratic trend across the political, economic, and cultural fields in Japan that began roughly after the Russo-Japanese War and continued until the end of the Taishō era (19121926).
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Taishō era
The was a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Taiwan under Japanese rule
The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Taiwanese Hakka
Taiwanese Hakka is a language group consisting of Hakka dialects spoken in Taiwan, and mainly used by people of Hakka ancestry.
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien (Tâi-lô), or simply Taiwanese, also known as Taiuanoe, Taigi, Taigu (Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: /), Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the population of Taiwan.
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Taiwanese Mandarin
Taiwanese Mandarin, frequently referred to as Guoyu or Huayu, is the variety of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan.
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Taiwanese yen
The was the currency of Japanese Taiwan from 1895 to 1946.
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Takahiko Yamanouchi
was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for group theory in quantum mechanics first proposed by Yamanouchi in Japan.
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Takahito, Prince Mikasa
was a Japanese prince, the youngest of the four sons of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako).
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Takaki Kanehiro
Baron was a Japanese naval physician.
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Takamagahara
In Japanese mythology,, also read as Takaamanohara, Takamanohara, Takaamagahara, or Takaamahara, is the abode of the heavenly gods (amatsukami).
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Takamine Jōkichi
was a Japanese chemist.
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Takaoki Sasaki
was a Japanese biochemist and oncologist known for demonstrating the induction of liver cancer in rats by Ortho-Aminoazotoluene with his pupil Tomizo Yoshida.
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Takenoshin Nakai
was a Japanese botanist.
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Takeo Doi (aircraft designer)
was a Japanese aircraft designer.
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Takeo Hatanaka
was a Japanese radio astronomer.
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Taketani Mitsuo
was a prominent Japanese theoretical physicist and Marxist intellectual.
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Takuji Iwasaki
was a Japanese meteorologist, biologist, ethnologist historian.
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Tamezo Mori
, (1884–1962) was a Japanese naturalist in Chōsen (1910–1945).
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Tanaka Giichi
Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, politician, cabinet minister, and the Prime Minister of Japan from 1927 to 1929.
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Tanaka Hisashige
was a Japanese businessman, inventor, mechanical engineer, and rangaku scholar who was prominent during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan.
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Tanaka Yoshio
was a Japanese civil servant and naturalist.
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Tanakadate Aikitsu
was a Japanese physicist with diverse interests and effect.
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Tatsuo Hasegawa
Tatsuo Hasegawa (長谷川 龍雄, Hasegawa Tatsuo, February 8, 1916 – April 29, 2008) was a Japanese automotive engineer, and known as the development chief of the first Toyota Corolla.
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Tōgō Heihachirō
, served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes.
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Tōseiha
The Tōseiha or was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Teiji Takagi
Teiji Takagi (高木 貞治 Takagi Teiji, April 21, 1875 – February 28, 1960) was a Japanese mathematician, best known for proving the Takagi existence theorem in class field theory.
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Terauchi Masatake
Gensui Count Terauchi Masatake (寺内正毅), GCB (5 February 1852 – 3 November 1919), was a Japanese military officer and politician.
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Tetsuji Morohashi
was an important figure in the field of Japanese language studies and Sinology.
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Theocracy
Theocracy is a form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities, giving divine guidance to human intermediaries who manage the government's daily affairs.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or T.R., was an American politician, soldier, conservationist, historian, naturalist, explorer and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
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Tianjin
Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea.
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Tokubei Kuroda
was a Japanese scientist and academic.
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Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Empire of Japan and Tokugawa shogunate are 19th century in Japan.
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Tokugawa Yoshinobu
Prince was the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.
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Tokuji Hayakawa
was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Hayakawa Kinzoku Kōgyō (the present-day Sharp Corporation).
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Tokushichi Mishima
was a Japanese metallurgist and inventor.
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Tokyo
Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.
Tokyo City
was a municipality in Japan and capital of Tokyo Prefecture (or Tokyo-fu) which existed from 1 May 1889 until its merger with its prefecture on 1 July 1943.
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Tomitaro Makino
was a pioneer Japanese botanist noted for his taxonomic work.
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Tomizo Yoshida
was a prominent Japanese pathologist, famous for discovering the Yoshida sarcoma.
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Tonarigumi
The was the smallest unit of the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government in World War II.
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Torahiko Terada
was a Japanese physicist and author who was born in Tokyo.
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Torii Ryūzō
Ryuzo Torii (鳥居龍藏; May 4, 1870 – January 14, 1953) was a Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist, and folklorist.
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Torii Tadafumi
Viscount was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who served as daimyō of the Mibu Domain in Shimotsuke Province.
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Toshihiko Izutsu
was a Japanese scholar who specialized in Islamic studies and comparative religion.
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Toshiwo Doko
Toshiwo Doko (土光 敏夫 Dokō Toshio; September 15, 1896 – August 4, 1988) was a Japanese engineer born in Mitsu District, Okayama, Manager, President and Chairman of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry (IHI) and Toshiba.
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Tract (literature)
A tract is a literary work and, in current usage, usually religious in nature.
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Treaty Faction
The was an unofficial and informal political faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1920s–1930s of officers supporting the Washington Naval Treaty.
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a separate peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria), by which Russia withdrew from World War I. The treaty, which followed months of negotiations after the armistice on the Eastern Front in December 1917, was signed at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus).
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Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth is a treaty that formally ended the 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War.
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Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875)
The Treaty of Saint Petersburg (Karafuto-Chishima Kōkan Jōyaku; Петербургский договор) between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire was signed on 7 May 1875, and its ratifications exchanged at Tokyo on 22 August 1875.
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Treaty of Shimonoseki
The, also known as the Treaty of Maguan in China and in the period before and during World War II in Japan, was an unequal treaty signed at the hotel, Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Tributary state
A tributary state is a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain).
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Triodion
The Triodion (Τριῴδιον,; Постнаѧ Трїωдь,; Triodul, Triod/Triodi), also called the Lenten Triodion (Τριῴδιον κατανυκτικόν), is a liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches.
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Tripartite Pact
The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano, and Saburō Kurusu (in that order) and in the presence of Adolf Hitler. Empire of Japan and Tripartite Pact are Axis powers.
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Triple Intervention
The Tripartite Intervention or was a diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895 over the harsh terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki imposed by Japan on China that ended the First Sino-Japanese War.
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Tsuruga, Fukui
is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
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Tsuruichi Hayashi
was a Japanese mathematician and historian of Japanese mathematics.
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Tsuruko Haraguchi
was a Japanese psychologist and the first Japanese woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy.
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Twenty-One Demands
The Twenty-One Demands (Taika Nijūikkajō Yōkyū) was a set of demands made during the First World War by the Empire of Japan under Prime Minister Ōkuma Shigenobu to the government of the Republic of China on 18 January 1915.
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Ukichiro Nakaya
was a Japanese physicist and science essayist known for his work in glaciology and low-temperature sciences.
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Umetaro Suzuki
was a Japanese scientist, born in what is now part of Makinohara, Shizuoka, Japan.
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Unequal treaties
The unequal treaties were a series of agreements made between Asian countries (including China and Korea) and foreign powers (including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan) during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Empire of Japan and unequal treaties are 19th century in Japan.
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Unitary state
A unitary state is a sovereign state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).
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University Press of Kansas
The University Press of Kansas is a publisher located in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Untouchability
Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups.
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Ushinosuke Mori
Ushinosuke Mori (森丑之助, January 16, 1877–July 4, 1926), who often published articles under pen names Mori Heiushi (森丙牛) and Mori (森), was a Japanese naturalist born in Gojo Muromachi (五條室町), Kyoto.
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USS Panay incident
The USS Panay incident was a Japanese bombing attack on the U.S. Navy river gunboat and three Standard Oil Company tankers on the Yangtze River near the Chinese capital of Nanjing on December 12, 1937.
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Viscount
A viscount (for male) or viscountess (for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status.
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Volunteer Fighting Corps
were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure to defend the Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall (Ketsugo Sakusen) in the final stages of World War II.
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Wage labour
Wage labour (also wage labor in American English), usually referred to as paid work, paid employment, or paid labour, refers to the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour power under a formal or informal employment contract.
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Wakatsuki Reijirō
Baron was a Japanese politician and Prime Minister of Japan.
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Wang Jingwei
Wang Zhaoming, widely known by his pen name Wang Jingwei (4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944), was a Chinese politician who was president of the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, a puppet state of Japan.
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Wang Jingwei regime
The Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, commonly described as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China. Empire of Japan and Wang Jingwei regime are Axis powers.
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Washington Naval Treaty
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, was a treaty signed during 1922 among the major Allies of World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
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Westernization
Westernization (or Westernisation, see spelling differences), also Europeanisation or occidentalization (from the Occident), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt what is considered to be Western culture, in areas such as industry, technology, science, education, politics, economics, lifestyle, law, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality, perceptions, diet, clothing, language, writing system, religion, and philosophy.
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White Australia policy
The White Australia policy was a set of racist policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic originsespecially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islandersfrom immigrating to Australia in order to create a "white/British" ideal focused on but not exclusively Anglo-Celtic peoples.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
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Yaichirō Okada
was a Japanese zoologist.
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
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Yamagata Aritomo
Gensui Prince also known as Prince Yamagata Kyōsuke, was a Japanese statesman and military commander who was twice-elected Prime Minister of Japan, and a leading member of the genrō, an élite group of senior statesmen who dominated Japanese politics after the Meiji Restoration.
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Yamagiwa Katsusaburō
was a Japanese pathologist who carried out pioneering work into the causes of cancer, and was the first to demonstrate chemical carcinogenesis.
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Yamakawa Kenjirō
was a Japanese samurai, politician, physicist, academic administrator, and author of several histories of the Boshin War.
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Yamao Yōzō
Viscount was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became an influential member of the Meiji era government of Japan.
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Yanosuke Hirai
was a Japanese civil engineer and corporate executive in the electric power industry.
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Yasuda zaibatsu
was a financial conglomerate owned and managed by the Yasuda clan.
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Yasuhiko Asahina
Yasuhiko Asahina (朝比奈泰彦 Asahina Yasuhiko; April 16, 1881 – June 30, 1975) was a Japanese chemist and lichenologist.
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Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu
was the second son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako), a younger brother of Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) and a general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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Yasujiro Niwa
was a Japanese electrical scientist from Matsusaka, Mie.
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Yasukuni Shrine
is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
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Yasunori Miyoshi
Yasunori Miyoshi, (Miyoshi Yasunori) born 17 April 1909 and died 19 April 1995, was a Japanese zoologist, ichthyologist, and myriapodologist.
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Yasuyoshi Shirasawa
, also known as Homi Shirasawa, was a Japanese botanist who worked alongside Tomitaro Makino 'The Father of Japanese Botany', at the University of Tokyo.
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Yo Takenaka
Yo Takenaka (竹中 要 Takenaka Yō, 1903–1966) was a Japanese plant geneticist and a Professor of Department of Cell Genetics, National Institute of Genetics.
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Yoichirō Hirase
was a Japanese malacologist and business man.
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Yoji Ito
was an engineer and scientist who had a major role in the Japanese development of magnetrons and the Radio Range Finder (RRF – the code name for a radar).
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Yokusan Sonendan
The was an elite paramilitary youth branch of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association political party of wartime Empire of Japan established in January 1942, and based on the model of the German Sturmabteilung (stormtroopers).
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Yoshijirō Umezu
(January 4, 1882 – January 8, 1949) was a Japanese general in World War II and Chief of the Army General Staff during the final years of the conflict.
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Yoshio Mikami
was a Japanese mathematician and historian of Japanese mathematics.
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Yoshio Nishina
was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan".
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Yoshiro Okabe
was a Japanese engineer and an assistant of Thomas Edison.
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Yoshishige Abe
was a philosopher, educator, and statesman in Shōwa period Japan.
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Yoshisuke Aikawa
was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, noteworthy as the founder and first president of the Nissan zaibatsu (1931–1945), one of Japan's most powerful business conglomerates around the time of the Second World War.
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Yusuke Hagihara
was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.
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Yusuke Hashiba
was a Japanese archaeologist, historian and anthropologist.
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Yutaka Taniyama
was a Japanese mathematician known for the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture.
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Yuzuru Hiraga
Vice Admiral Baron was a career naval officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, Doctor of Engineering and head of the engineering school of Tokyo Imperial University and a leading Japanese naval architect in the 1910s and 1920s, responsible for designing a number of famous warships, many of which would later see action during World War II.
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Zaibatsu
is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial vertically integrated business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period to World War II.
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Zenchū Nakahara
was a Japanese scholar, known particularly for his work on the Omoro sōshi, a written collection of songs and poems which constitutes an oral history of Okinawa and the Ryūkyū Kingdom.
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1923 Great Kantō earthquake
The also known in Japanese as struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923.
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1932 Japanese general election
General elections were held in Japan on 20 February 1932.
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1964 Summer Olympics
The, officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.
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23rd Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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50th parallel north
The 50th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 50 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
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5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The was an infantry division of the Imperial Japanese Army.
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7th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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