Also, in the August 2009 elections, Denny Tamaki, a former radio deejay with a fondness for rock-and-roll, won a seat in the Lower House, representing a district in Naha, the capital of Okinawa prefecture, located south of the main Japanese islands.
What did not happen as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the massive Allied (largely American) invasion of the Japanese home islands that was being actively planned.
Instead of tackling the Japanese in direct, brutal assaults, MacArthur would pick under-defended Japanese-held islands, take them, and use them to choke off supplies and reinforcements to the Japanese island next door.
The conventional wisdom is that the Japanese have been stymied by something called the Galapagos Syndrome: like the strange animals and plants that Darwin encountered in the Galapagos Islands, Japanese cellphones have evolved separately.
Nigel Roberts, managing director of the Channel Islands' registry said a Japanese man registered more than 1, 000 domains that ended ".gg", the islands' suffix.
Japanese soldiers were found living on Pacific Islands a full decade after World War 2 ended.
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Kumiodori is a Japanese performing art found on the Okinawa islands.
Analysts said it was significant that Tokyo was making this move without a settlement of the disputed Kurile islands, the main roadblock to better Russo-Japanese ties.
The work in the Solomon Islands will be a continuation of an earlier project supported by JFIT (Japanese Funds in Trust) on strengthening the capacity of education ministries, teacher training institutions, teachers and principals completed in the last biennium.
The tsunami that wrecked northern Japanese fishing villages and small cities also travelled across the Pacific and hit the Hawaiian islands, causing tens of millions of dollars worth of damage to boats, docks, beach homes and led to the closing of the famous Kona Village Resort, a picturesque minimalist string of high-end bungalows on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.
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Russia quickly denied Japan's accusation, but the simultaneous spats on both Japan's northern and southern borders underscore the regional security challenges faced by a new Japanese prime minister elected on a promise to toughen his country's defense of its islands.
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