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Japan, officially Nippon-koku (日本国?) is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea and Russia. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan comprises over 3,000 islands, the largest of which are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku. Most of the islands are mountainous, many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth largest population, with about 128 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.
Influence from the outside world followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. Since adopting its constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament, the Diet.
A major economic power, Japan has the world's third largest economy by nominal GDP. It is a member of the United Nations, G8, G4, OECD and APEC, with the world's fifth largest defense budget. It is also the world's fourth largest exporter and sixth largest importer and a world leader in technology and machinery.
Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the conception of the award. The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was not created until 1956; however, between 1947 and 1955, the Academy presented Honorary Awards to the best foreign language films released in the United States. These awards were not competitive, as there were no nominees but simply a winner every year that was voted on by the Board of Governors of the Academy. Three Japanese films were recipients of Honorary Awards during this period. For the 1956 Academy Awards, a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. As of 2009, twelve Japanese films have been nominees for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one film, Departures, has won the award. The only Japanese directors to have multiple films be nominated for the award are Akira Kurosawa and Noboru Nakamura. Kurosawa received an Honorary Award prior to the conception of the formal award for his work on Rashomon and the actual Academy Award for Dersu Uzala (submitted for the former Soviet Union), and had four other films submitted, with two of them accepted as nominees. Notably, Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran was deliberately not nominated by the Japanese film industry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film due to the poor perception he had among Japanese filmmakers at the time.
May 19:
- 1946 - 食糧メーデー行われる。
- 1947 - 経営者団体連合会（経団連）結成。
- 1952 - 白井義男、世界フライ級を制覇
- 1956 - 公団住宅、初の入居者募集
- 1956 - 科学技術庁が開庁する。
- 1960 - 政府・自民党、安保条約をめぐり強行採決。
- 1983 - 今村昌平監督の「楢山節考」がカンヌ映画祭でグランプリ獲得。
- 1989 - 貴花田（現在の貴乃花）が16歳で幕下優勝。柏戸の最年少記録を33年ぶりに更新。
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To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.
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—Yoshida Shoin, scholar, military and political philosopher and teacher
Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Nebu Tatsuguchi, was a surgeon in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. He was killed during the Battle of Attu on Attu Island, Alaska on May 30, 1943. A devout Seventh-day Adventist, Tatsuguchi studied medicine and was licensed as a physician in the United States (US). He returned to his native Japan to practice medicine at the Tokyo Adventist Sanitarium, where he received further medical training. In 1941, he was ordered to cease his medical practice and conscripted into the IJA as an acting medical officer. In late 1942 or early 1943, Tatsuguchi was sent to Attu, which had been occupied by Japanese forces in October 1942. The United States Army landed on the island on May 11, 1943, intending to retake the island from the Japanese. Throughout the resulting battle, Tatsuguchi kept a diary in which he recorded the events of the battle and his struggle to care for the wounded in his field hospital. He was killed on the battle's final day after the remaining Japanese conducted one last, suicidal charge against the American forces.
Coordinates: 36°30′N 139°00′E / 36.5°N 139°E / 36.5; 139
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Forbes
Sun, 19 May 2013 11:15:41 -0700
Japan continues to be the world's biggest financial story. The consensus seems to be that the country's extraordinary economic measures are good for both itself and the world. I've detailed previously how Japan's efforts are likely to have terrible ...
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Daily Beast
Sun, 19 May 2013 01:46:58 -0700
Dozens of American children are abducted to Japan every year—not by strangers, but by parents after messy divorces. As Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky and Jake Adelstein report, divorce laws protective of Japanese nationals encourage such illegal abductions.
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Bloomberg
Sun, 19 May 2013 08:16:36 -0700
Nissan Motor Co. (7201) will start selling the first minicar it jointly developed with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) in Japan next month amid increasing demand from the nation's consumers for smaller and cheaper vehicles. The automaker, based in ...
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The Japan Times
Sun, 19 May 2013 08:34:44 -0700
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only .
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New York Times
Sat, 18 May 2013 12:48:35 -0700
“What is happening in Japan is revolutionary,” said Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive of Pimco, one of the world's largest bond managers. “Nothing they've done since the Second World War comes close in terms of economic experimentation,” he said.
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Wall Street Journal
Sun, 19 May 2013 08:01:36 -0700
Japan needs to secure long-term reliable sources of natural materials. It is also eager to provide its technologies to build roads, railways and utilities, providing a competitive alternative to the Chinese state-owned companies that have helped the ...
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ICRC (press release)
Sun, 19 May 2013 06:55:38 -0700
Geneva/Tokyo (ICRC) – Peter Maurer, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), today concludes a two-day official visit to Japan, during which he met Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Minister of Defence Itsunori Onodera and ...
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The Japan Times
Sun, 19 May 2013 08:05:12 -0700
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only .
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