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1964 Summer Olympics: Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympic Games, marking the first time the Games were held in Asia-Pacific. 1968: Japan surpassed West Germany to become the second largest economic power in the world. The Ogasawara Islands were returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens were allowed to return. 1969 ...
Ii Naosuke (井伊 直弼, November 29, 1815 – March 24, 1860) [1] was a daimyō (feudal lord) of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, when he was assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860.
Japanese Olympics may refer to: Japan at the Olympics; 1940 Summer Olympics, awarded to Tokyo, moved to Helsinki first, then cancelled due to World War II; 1964 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan; 1972 Winter Olympics, held in Sapporo, Japan; 1998 Winter Olympics, held in Nagano, Japan; Tokyo bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics; 2020 Summer ...
Tokyo Olympiad, also known in Japan as Tōkyō Olympic (東京オリンピック, Tōkyō Orinpikku, lit. "Tokyo Olympics") , is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa which documents the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .
Thus the rescued Japanese sailors were first taken to Bodega Bay near Fort Ross, then to Sitka, the capital of Russian America. The Forester left Sitka in June or July 1815, intending to sail to Japan to return the Japanese sailors, but having difficulty in the Kuril Islands turned back to Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, arriving on 12 September 1815.
"Hero" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released as a stand-alone single on July 27, 2016 by Avex Trax and Amuro’s own label Dimension Point; it was distributed physically in Japan and Taiwan, and digitally worldwide.
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders issued a warning to NFL teams Friday − don’t draft Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter if you won’t let him play both ways.. Sanders said this on "The Rich ...
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese: 鳥居 清長; 1752 – June 28, 1815) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Torii school. Originally Sekiguchi Shinsuke , the son of an Edo bookseller, [ 1 ] from Motozaimokuchō Itchōme in Edo, he took on Torii Kiyonaga as an art name .