How large was the Japanese Imperial Army? The Empire of Japan: The Empire of Japan was a state which was ruled by the Imperial House of Japan from 1868 until 1945. In reality, the emperors lost much of their power during the 1930s and 1940s, when totalitarian military leaders took contro...
How Big a Military Threat Is Russia, Really?In a recent talk at one of America's premier war colleges, thenation's top military officer...Grobe, Anna Mulrine
Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Cue Up the Big Pimplin' Remix In Tokyo, acne control rocks. The 1.2-ounce mpion MP3 player promises to improve a gal's complexion while pumping out J-pop. At around 21,000 yen ($184), it's a bit pricey for a player that packs only 128 megs of music,...
Japanese popular songs back then. As some even pointed out the similarity with the theme song of the movie Shane, it is obvious that Hachidai Nakamura, who was also a jazz pianist, wrote the song under the deep influence of American popular music. Also, the way Kyu Sakamoto sang the ...
FOR DECADES, there's been a cast-iron reason not to get involved with your "line manager", however sexy: when it all goes wrong, it's not going to be the boss that gets fired. If your boss is a man and you are his female junior, the above is even more likely to hold true. ...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
The first problem from a US or New Right view is due to China being so big. It is on the verge of overtaking the US as the world’s biggest economy, and will be very much bigger when ordinary Chinese move from their current middle-income status to something closer to the individual li...
“I hope this is going to be a big, big step into the future for me, for the industry and for Japanese artists and crew,” he says. “I hope it’s going to introduce our culture to the world.”
The Call of the Simpsons (1990) Homer takes the family camping, but it soon becomes a misadventure when they lose their equipment and Homer is mistaken for Bigfoot. The Telltale Head (1990) Bart gets more than he bargained for when he saws the head off a statue of the town's found...
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