The squadron was engaged in transporting personnel and supplies in the Southwest Pacific, and moving necessary occupation support elements from Manila to Tokyo.
Headquartered in Tokyo with offices in Los Angeles, Adness Entertainment is involved in the production, worldwide distribution and merchandise licensing of original kids-based television entertainment.
Tough girl biker Ako (pop singer Akiko Wada) comes across Mei (Meiko Kaji) and her girl gang (the Alleycats/Stray Cats) as they are about to have a knife fight in Shinjuku, Tokyo with another gang of girls.
Amuza Motors Pty Ltd of Perth is an Australian automotive company which exhibited its Ford Falcon-based stretch limo at the 2003 Tokyo Auto Salon.
Japan, especially Tokyo, was the most popular destination because of its geographic proximity to China, its relatively affordable cost, and certain natural affinities between the two cultures (for example, the Japanese language uses Chinese characters extensively, facilitating communication and livability).
In her final event prior to the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo, Dementyeva competed in the 7th Dinamo International in Penza.
Australian rules football has been played as an organised sport in Asia since the late 1980s, with the foundation of teams in Japan based around universities in Tokyo.
Other film roles include parts in the French film Sansa (2003) and in Michel Gondry's "Interior Design" segment of Tokyo! (2008).
Barrio 19 is a television program shown on MTV showcasing a diversity of street talents and urban underground pursuits in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Osaka, Hamburg, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo.
It started on May 11, at Katsushika Symphony Hills Mozart Hall, and ended with three consecutive shows on July 7 at the Yokohama Arena, with twenty-two concerts in total, and attendance of eighty thousand people.
In March, it set off to host the first of many international stops for Beverly Hills Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan.
Blade Guitars made their debut in October 1987, at the music show of Tokyo.
Tokyo is some 300 km from the Boso triple junction, and is subject to quakes and tsunamis generated from slips along this junction.
As a basketball player he had represented Australia at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where they finished ninth out of the 16 competing nations.
Following stints with several newspapers in the United States, Crane went to Tokyo in 1925, to become financial editor of the Japan Advertiser.
From the beginning of 1886 to near the close of 1889, he was in the employ of the Japanese government, as Professor of Agriculture at the Tokyo Imperial University, in Tokyo, Japan, in the College of Agriculture and Dendrology.
According to the data of the G-Men Onsen, was born in Tanashi, Tokyo city of origin.
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In May 2006, Sproxton (along with Peter Lord) visited the "Aardman Exhibit" at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, where he met Hayao Miyazaki.
The album established Jones as an artist in her own right, selling unusual amounts for an indy release and making her the darling of Tokyo radio.
In cities such as Tokyo, benches have been designed to prevent users from using these facilities over extended periods of time.
While frog Pyonkichi is hopping in an empty lot in Nerima, Tokyo's Shakujii Park, middle schooler Hiroshi trips over a rock and squashes him.
Buchanan Campbell admitted that he had been influenced by the architecture of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the designs by Kenzo Tange for the gymnasium there.
Dover Street Market Tokyo opened in 2006 and is a smaller version of the London store.
It is also the largest economy of a sub-national entity in terms of GDP CNY5.26 trillion (US$836.19 billion) in all of Asia, save for Tokyo and sixth or seventh largest sub-national entity in the world.
When the Chicago Daily News learned about the threats, Frank Knox, the owner of the newspaper, offered Mowrer a position in the paper’s bureau in Tokyo.
Europe Écologie–The Greens has chosen Janick Magne, a long-term resident of Tokyo.
He had several exhibitions all over the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City), Auschwitz Museum (Poland), the Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest), and also exhibited in Madrid, Copenhagen, Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Oslo, Johannesburg, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Budapest, Amman (Jordan) and Tokyo.
Etsuro Nakamichi (died November 10, 1982) was a Japanese engineer and founder of Nakamichi Corporation, a high-end audio electronics company based in Tokyo in Japan.
He later travelled to Japan and earned a living as a cartoonist in Tokyo where he made the acquaintance of Rakuten Kitazawa, who later became father of the Japanese comic art now known as manga.
The album premiered in six cities around the world: London, New York, Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.
The last one, at Daikanyama UNIT in Tokyo, featured "Here", a new song in collaboration with hip-hop group Cliff Edge.
They carried a commercial cesium clock back and forth from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Mitaka, at 58 m above sea level, to Norikura corona station, at 2876 m above sea level, corresponding to an altitude difference of 2818 m.
The album was recorded in two parts: the drums were recorded by Budgie and Kodo drummer Leonard Eto in Tokyo in August 2002 and the rest of the recording was done in Europe.
He made his debut for Nigeria on 20 August 2003, in a friendly match which Nigeria lost 0–3 to Japan in Tokyo.
Henry Carr (no given middle name), born November 27, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, is a former American track and field athlete who won two gold medals at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Fukuda Rikutaro confided in him that he learnt karate in Tokyo with Gichin Funakoshi.
In 2007 a replica of Hill Top was built in a children's zoo near the grounds of Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan.
The new version was performed live at the Tokyo BigSite during an Avex rave concert in 2001, with two new members, Cliff Slapher and Mickey Dee, and without Jason Alburey.
Exiting through a parking deck, he eventually makes his way through Shibuya, Tokyo, and does one final dance in the middle of the famous intersection in front of the Hachiko exit at Shibuya Station, before going to the top of a building, where he "powers down" as the music ends.
The Troop joined with Japanese and American Scouts on September 24–25, 1949 in Tokyo for the first postwar All-Japan camp held by the Boy Scouts of Japan to celebrate the reorganization of the Japanese Scout association.
Odate was previously in a relationship with fellow professional wrestler Kazushige Nosawa; the two lived together in Koto, Tokyo.
On February 1, 1945, he shot down another three Zeroes while serving on a mission at northeast of Tokyo, to give him five confirmed victories.
He started his diplomatic career as a colonial civil servant in Belgian Congo and subsequently worked in Tokyo, Mexico, Paris (France), New Delhi (India) and Peking (China).
Japan Bible Seminary (Japanese:聖書宣教会、JBS) is an evangelical Christian seminary located in Hamura, Tokyo.
John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 is a live performance of John Zorn's improvisational game piece, Cobra recorded in Tokyo in 1994 featuring Japanese musicians and instruments.
Joseph R. De Roo (born 12 July 1932, Aarsele - 18 October 2001, Tokyo) was a friar at the Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo.
Kei Cozzolino (Ichigaya, Shinjuku, Tokyo, November 9, 1987) is Japanese-Italian racing driver who races under an Italian licence.
Tokyo: Takara Buddha Dhammavihara and New Life Arakan Asso.
His journey takes him to such places as Budapest, Warsaw, Prague and even as far as Tokyo.
In Tokyo in March of 1941, he asked his father, Isaac Melamdovich, a mathematics teacher, to explain how the community of Jewish residents in that city had enough money to support the sudden influx of some 3,000 refugees such as themselves.
The film compares the degraded condition of the Park Inn Hotel with many of Wright's important works, and travels to Japan to offer contrast Wright's Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, now partially restored at Meiji-Mura, Japan.
Full Respect for the Rights of Suspect, Accused and Convict: from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ICC, in Henzelin and Roth (eds), Le droit pénal à l’épreuve de l’internationalisation, (Bruylant) (2002) 217–239.
The engine development was led by Professor Takashi Yabe with the help of Professor Ikuta and others of Tokyo Institute of Technology with the cooperation of Ono Denki Seisakusho, K.K., a precision manufacturer located in Shinagawa, Tokyo.
In August, She participated the Final of 2002 World Mahjong Championship Women Players Japanese National Team Qualifying tournament in Kanda, Tokyo, but she lost.
Trained by future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Horatio Luro, in 1981, Mairzy Doates competed successfully at racetracks in Florida, California and New York before going to Tokyo, Japan in November where she beat an international field to win the inaugural Japan Cup in course-record time.
Dr. Roche was an advisor to the WHO, UNESCO, a Governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency (1958-1960), and was a Member and President of the Council of the University of the United Nations in Tokyo, and Secretary of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
"Coconut Man" made the finals of the World Popular Song Festival in Tokyo.
It contains recordings from the October 4, 1981 concert in Tokyo, some of which had appeared on We Want Miles, including the original version of the track "Jean-Pierre", elsewhere edited by producer Teo Macero to remove the first twenty-five seconds of introduction, consisting primarily of a guitar riff and tumbling percussion sounds.
Founded in Seoul in 1994, Nexon's headquarters is currently located in Tokyo, Japan.
Born in Perth, Western Australia, his family moved to Tokyo and lived there from 1907 to 1915, where his father worked as an accountant at the Salvation Army mission in Japan, and Norman attended the American School in Japan.
Nippon Seikō K.K. (Japanese 日本精工株式会社 Nippon Seikō Kabushiki-kaisha; meaning: Japanese Precision Company English NSK Ltd.), listed in the Nikkei 225, ISIN JP3720800006, is a Japanese company headquartered in Tokyo.
Okamoto's is a psychedelic garage rock band made up of four 19-year-olds from Shinjuku, Tokyo, who first got together while still in middle school.
In January 1925, Park returned to Japan, where she finally enrolled in an aviation school in Kamata (present-day Ōta, Tokyo.
In early 2010, they toured in these countries for the first time, playing in Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and Kyoto.
As of 2009, Phaidon's headquarters are in London, UK, though they were in Oxford for many years, with offices in New York City, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo.
In 1992's Direction Arcadia, under a road sign pointing to アルカヂア (Arcadia) MWC was stranded with their luggage at a crowded intersection in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Pitavastatin (previously known as itavastatin, itabavastin, nisvastatin, NK-104 or NKS-104) was discovered in Japan by Nissan Chemical Industries and developed further by Kowa Pharmaceuticals, Tokyo.
The Arisugawa Memorial Park in Minami-Azabu, Minato, Tokyo occupies the site of the Arisugawa palace and its extensive gardens are open to the public.
In his welcoming speech to students, which included greetings to two students from Tokyo, Student Body President Rafael Arvizu likely explained the reason for the aggravating “bumps” in the parking lot.
The engagement ceremony took place at the Embassy of Manchukuo in Tokyo on 2 February 1937 with the official wedding held in the Imperial Army Hall at Kudanzaka, Tokyo, on 3 April.
Bose convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League.
Born and raised in Tokyo, she became a famous actress who appeared in dramas after graduating from high school.
After 1951, he was a law professor in Paris and was named director of the Franco-Japanese House in Tokyo from 1957 to 1960.
Reuben (Ben) Jones (born 19 October 1932 in Newport, Shropshire, England; died 3 January 1990 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire) was an Olympic equestrian rider who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.
The Saintsations are no secret to the international stage as their first border-crossing performance was in 1990 at London when the Saints played the Oakland Raiders in a pre-season contest where they did countless appearances during the week leading into the game and on game day, they would repeat this in 1993 when the Saints played in Tokyo for a pre-season game vs the Philadelphia Eagles.
A samurai bond is a yen-denominated bond issued in Tokyo by non-Japanese companies, and is subject to Japanese regulations.
The tour began on September 4, 2013, at Fukuoka Sun Palace, Japan and ended on September 27 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
The institution evolved on the principle of "Buddhist-based human education," moving in 1929 to its present location in Nishitōkyō, Tokyo and becoming Musashino Women's University.
Nishimura attended Kokushikan University in Setagaya, Tokyo from 1997 to 2000, winning the All-Japan Prime Minister Cup.
With the plan of expanding into the Far East, it set up British Oxygen (Far East) Ltd, based in Tokyo.
The song "Tokyo Town Pages" was used as opening and closing theme in the film Tokyo! (2008).
They exchange stories, as Borelli is in Tokyo attending the same conference and has himself served as surgical doctor in both world wars.
A First Press version of the album was sold exclusively at Tower Records, in Shibuya.
In its Latinized form, Calamus Gladio Fortior, it is the motto of Keio University in Tokyo, Japan.
The album later caught the attention of InYa Face Records in Tokyo, Japan, who released it as Better Luck Next Time in 2006.
However, some believe it is named after the city of Tokyo in Japan.
Run as the San Bernardino Handicap prior to 2005, the races name honors the partnership between Santa Anita Park and Ohi Racecourse in Tokyo, Japan.
It is run over a distance of 2000 meters (about 10 furlongs) at Oi Racecourse in the Shinagawa, Tokyo in June.
I Was Born, But... (1932), Passing Fancy (1933) and An Inn in Tokyo (1935) were three other Ozu films in which Aoki had notable roles.
Many of the commercial iterations of the Publica were built by Hino Motors at their Hamura plant, beginning in 1970.
Any tropical cyclone that develops within the Northern Hemisphere between 180° and 100°E is monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency's Regional Specialized Meteorological Center in Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the WMO/ESCAP's Typhoon Committee.
He was killed on January 9, 1945, in a plane crash during the first B-29 raid over Tokyo as he attempted to assist a comrade whose plane had one engine on fire.
The Ichimura Miami - Japanese Garden grew out of the efforts of Kiyoshi Ichimura, who sent objects, materials and artisans from Tokyo to Miami in the 1950s to construct the San-Ai-An Japanese Garden on Watson Island.
In 1947, along with Yotsuya ward and another town, became part of present day Shinjuku ward.
After she signed with Ford, she modeled all over the world, modelling internationally in Paris, Milan, Sydney, Cape Town, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and Hamburg.
A native of Setagaya, Tokyo and graduate of Tamagawa University, he was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1999.
Yumiko Fujita (藤田 弓子; born 12 September 1945 in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress.
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The 2002 AIG Japan Open Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo in Japan that was part of the International Series Gold of the 2002 ATP Tour and of Tier III of the 2002 WTA Tour.
The opening suite "Words with the Shaman" was simultaneously issued as a 12" single, while "Steel Cathedrals" was used in a short film by Sylvian and Yasayuki Yamaguchi, shot in Tokyo, Japan, and released on VHS.
He has also been a visiting professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto (2001–2002, 2008), a visiting professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2008–2009), and a visiting professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) in Tokyo, Japan in May-August 2012.
She wrote the book Nightwork on hostess clubs and Japanese corporate culture after having worked at a hostess club in Tokyo.
Performers of her work have included New York City Opera VOX, the American Composers Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the New Music Players, Psappha, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Chroma, the Schubert Ensemble, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and the Tokyo Philharmonic.
Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.
Buck Jam Tonic is a double album of improvised music by John Zorn, Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura released on the Japanese Wild Disc label in 2003 and consists of one disc mixed in Tokyo and another mixed in New York City.
It reportedly later served as inspiration for American bridge engineers and was specifically cited as a design influence on the Three Sisters bridges in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as well as for the Kiyosu Bridge on the Sumida River in Tokyo.
While travelling in an open coach through Edō in September 1867 the brothers were attacked by anti-foreign samurai from Numata, who, by drawing his sword, in a private vendetta was trying to enforce the Sonnō jōi policy.
The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full time journalists in New York and bureaus in Boston, Washington DC, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis and Tokyo.
In May 2001 Kim Jong-nam (the eldest son of the former leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il) was arrested on arrival at New Tokyo International Airport (now Narita International Airport), accompanied by two women and a four-year old boy identified as his son.
Festival Productions' feature event is now called "the JVC Jazz Festival at Newport", and the company runs JVC Jazz Festivals in cities around including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, Warsaw, and Tokyo.
The "Boissonade Tower", the Ichigaya campus of Hosei University halfway between Ichigaya and Iidabashi stations in central Tokyo, a 26-story building completed in 2000, was named after him.
American and French missionaries belonging to the Order of Saint Mary founded Gyosei High School in Tsukiji, Tokyo in 1881.
Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.
On December 5, 2006, at the Tokyo District Court, more than 500 Kokuro members, the union itself, and relatives of workers who died since the privatization planned to launch a 30 million yen damages lawsuit over the refusal to rehire the workers, making a total of 540 plaintiffs suing the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency.
In May 1926, an organization called "The Company of Friends of John Hays Hammond" sponsored eleven dinners around the world (Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokyo, Manila, etc.) in honor of Hammond.
Kick the Can Crew is a mainstream hip hop group from Tokyo, Japan, consisting of members Kreva, MCU, and Little.
Stations of Line 2 provides female only waiting area during hours of operation, following the example of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Tehran and Mexico City, to protect female riders from sexual harassment.
Live In Tokyo 25th November 2005 is a 2005 (see 2005 in music) album by Underworld.
She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.
Machold had branch establishments in Vienna, Zurich (Geigenbau Machold GmbH and Cadenza AG), Alpnach (Bomalu AG), Bremen, Berlin, New York City, Aspen, Chicago, Seoul and Tokyo, buying and selling, among others, Stradivari and del Gesù violins.
Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.
Upon graduation, Mika wrote, directed and two short films in Tokyo with sponsorship from Nikkatsu Studios.
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach, California), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Thailand (Bangkok) and the National Museum of Art in Mexico are among the public collections holding work by Minoru Ohira.
Initially served by Toa Airways with McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80 aircraft to Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), and Osaka Itami, operations were upgraded to Airbus A300 aircraft after Toa Airways became Japan Air System in 1988.
In 1998, he started his own brand name Pierre Hermé Paris with a pastry boutique in Tokyo's New Otani Hotel, followed in July 2000 by a Salon de Thé in the Tokyo Disney shopping area Ikspiari.
Tokyo Press Conference - On April 19, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ) organized a press conference inviting international press for the first time after the women's rights civil lawsuit was filed against Prada at Tokyo District Court.
The PRI Initiative has a Secretariat of around 50 staff based mostly in London, with staff based in New York, as well regional offices in Seoul, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Cape Town.
After graduating with a Design Degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Takashima worked as a stage set artist and a freelance illustrator before she founded and launched the avant-garde street art show troupe and studio Aozora Art on Tokyo’s Harajuku Pedestrian Street.
She left for Japan to further her studies in 2005 in the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo on a MediaCorp scholarship.
Toei Shinjuku Line, owned by Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation
At Tokyo, he received many singing jobs and the 3baka became a fixture in the Tokyo Jr TV programs; They went on to star in their own TV series, IkeIkeIkemen, and were regulars on Koichi Domoto's show Pikaichi.
It is named after the adjacent Telecom Center building, which was previously the headquarters for Tokyo Metropolitan Television (Tokyo MX).
To their confusion for the suddenness of this, Tenchi makes a shocking revelation: after careful thought, he has made up his mind to move to Tokyo for two years on behalf of his grandfather, Katsuhito, to train as a kannushi, so that he may better care for the family Shinto shrine.
Directed by Simon McBurney and starring a Japanese cast, the play opened in May, 2003, in Tokyo before touring internationally in limited festival runs.
It is run over a distance of 2,000 meters (about 10 furlongs) at Ōi Racecourse in the Shinagawa, Tokyo in the end of the year.
Takeshi Nogami announced the publication of an anti-Ordinance dōjinshi at Comiket 79, entitled An Idiot's Guide to Tokyo's Harmful Books Regulation.
She has lived in Japan for a total of more than six years, has held a position at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and METI, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Limited Edition A contains the Standard Edition CD and the DVD contains the Zepp Tokyo performance of the girls’ first Japan tour, Secret 1st Japan Tour (16 tracks).
Itō was so impressed with the young Xie that he recommended him for a scholarship to Meiji University in Tokyo, from which he graduated from the law school.
Yokohama Chinatown (Japanese: 横浜中華街, yokohama chūkagai; Simplified Chinese: 横滨中华街; Traditional Chinese: 横濱中華街; Pinyin: Hèngbīn Zhōnghuá Jiē; Cantonese Jyutping: Waang4 ban1 zung1 waa4 gaai1) is located in Yokohama, Japan, which is located just south of Tokyo.