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5 unusual facts about Government of Japan


Institute of Cetacean Research

Since its establishment, the Institute has been granted annual catch quotas by the Government of Japan to carry out its research.

Mitsuo Tsukahara

In November 2009, Tsukahara was awarded with a Medal of Honour with purple ribbon by the Government of Japan.

Shinji Sogō

At the same time, Sogō, who had kept estimated cost figures of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen deliberately low for fear that if they were too high neither the Japanese Government nor the World Bank would have supported the proposal, began to divert money from other JNR projects to the construction of the Shinkansen.

Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan

The Agreed Minutes to the treaty specified that the Japanese government must be consulted prior to major changes in United States force deployment in Japan or to the use of Japanese bases for combat operations other than in defense of Japan itself.

Within Every Woman

These atrocities and war crimes occurred between 1931 and 1945; however, to this day, the Japanese government has not offered an official apology and many survivors still hide their shame.


Katsuko Saruhashi

After the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests in 1954, the Japanese government asked the Geochemical Laboratory to analyze and monitor radioactivity in the seawater and in rainfall.


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Adlai Stevenson III

Stevenson has been honored by the government of Japan with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, and is an Honorary Professor of Renmin University in China.

Consulate-General of Japan, Nashville

Yutaka Horiba, an economics professor at Tulane University, said that while the State of Louisiana had focused on establishing relationships with the oil and gas industry, the states of Kentucky and Tennessee had made attempts to establish relations with Japan for a period of several decades before 2007; Horiba believed that this weakened the relationship between Louisiana and the Government of Japan.

Dakini

As another example of the connection between Dakini-ten and the government of Japan, in the Genpei Jōsuiki it is claimed that Taira no Kiyomori met a kitsune on the road and that his subsequent performance of Dakini-ten rites caused him to rise from an unimportant clan leader to the ruler of the entire nation.

Japan at the 1912 Summer Olympics

Kristian Hellström of the Swedish Olympic Committee wrote to the government of Japan to ask if they were going to send teams to the 1912 Olympics.

National Taiwan Museum

The colonial government of Japan set up the Taiwan Governor Museum on October 24, 1908, to commemorate the inauguration of the North-South Railway.

Tairo

Tairō, high-ranking official position in the bakuhan taisei government of Japan