AUSTRALIA TRIMPHS OVER JAPAN IN DAVIS CUP TENNIS GAMES: CONTESTANTS INFINAL OF AMERICAN ZONE PLAY

LEADING JAPANESE TENNIS PLAYERS PERFORM WELL IN AUSTRALIA: ACTION SNAPSHOTS OF TWO OUTSTANDING MEMBERS OF TH...

Japan : ports of greatest shipping activity (entrances and clearances of vessels in gross tons) 1934

Court Exh. No. 2476A: Treaty between Japan and Manchukuo concerning the abolition of extra-territoriality in Manchukuo and the transfer of the administrative rights over South Manchurian Railway zone, signed 5 Nov 1937

Court Exh. No. 2476A: Treaty between Japan and Manchukuo concerning the abolition of extra-territoriality in Manchukuo and the transfer of the administrative rights over South Manchurian Railway zone, signed 5 Nov 1937

THEATRE OF WAR IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: AMERICAN FORCES FIGHT A DELAYING ACTION AGAINST THE JAPANESE INVADERS

He would have wanted it this way... - Japanese prime minister Noboru Takeshita and American president George Bush holding talks on East-West relations over the coffin of Japanese Emperor Hirohito in Japan, 1989 / Pryor

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo in the Final Scene from Part One of the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as Mori no Rammaru in "The Banquet," the Final Act in Part One of the Play Kanagaki Muromachi Bundan (Muromachi Chronicle in Kana Script), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the First Day of the Eighth Month, 1791

The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Spirit of Monk Seigen in the Shosagoto Dance Sequence "Sono Utsushi-e Matsu ni Kaede" (A Shadow-Picture of Pine and Maple), the Last Scene of Part Two of the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake (Courtesan in an Over-Kimono of Maple Leaf Pattern), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1772

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Spirit of the Courtesan Takao, in the Shosagoto Dance Sequence "Sono Utsushi-e Matsu ni Kaede" (A Shadow-Picture of Pine and Maple), the Last Scene of Part Two of the Play Keisei Momiji no Uchikake (Courtesan in an Over-Kimono of Maple Leaf Pattern), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month, 1772

The Actor Nakamura Nakazo I as Monk Shunkan in the Play Hime Komatsu Ne no Hi Asobi (Outing to Pick Pine Seedlings on the Rat-Day of the New Year), Performed as the Last Act of Part Two at the Ichimura Theater in the Seventh Month, 1778

The Actor Iwai Hanshiro IV in the "Sangai-gasa" (Triple-Umbrella) Dance Interlude of the Joruri "Yukashii wa Miyako no Naredoko" (Yearning After One's Own Bedchamber in the Capital), from Part Two of the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji (Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

A new chart of the Pacific Ocean : exhibiting the western coast of America, from Cape Horn to Beerings Strait, the eastern shores of Asia including Japan, China and Australia and all the numerous islands and known dangers situated in Polynesia and Australasia / correctly drawn and regulated according to the most approved and modern surveys and astronomical observations by J.W. Norie

The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III, Possibly as Ono no Komachi, in the Final Part of Act Five of the Play Komachi-mura Shibai no Shogatsu (Komachi Village: New Year at the Theater), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1789

The Actor Ichikawa Yaozo II as Goi no Sho Munesada with a Deer, in the Play Kuni no Hana Ono no Itsumoji (Flower of Japan: Ono no Komachi's Five Characters), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Actor Nakamura Noshio I as the Third Princess (Nyosan no Miya) in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Perfromed at the Morita Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Oriental navigator, or, Directions for sailing to, from, and upon the coasts of, the East-Indies, China, Australia...To the work are prefixed a series of ... tables of the determined positions of all the principle points and places from the British seas to Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope, and thence to the islands of Japan, by John Purdy. (Plan of Chatham Island, &c. Whittle & Laurie, London, 1815.)

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo Disguised as a Pilgrim (left), and Ichikawa Danjuro V as Kazusa no Gorobei Tadamitsu (right), in the "Silent Encounter" Scene (Dammari) from the End of Part One of the Play Kitekaeru Nishiki no Wakayaka (Returning Home in Splendor), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1780

The Actors Sawamura Sojuro II as the Chinese Sage Huangshi Gong (on horseback), and Ichikawa Danzo III as the Chinese Warrior Zhang Liang (mounted on a dragon), in the Finale of the Play Otokoyama Yunzei Kurabe (At Mt. Otoko, a Trial of Strength in Drawing the Bow), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768

The Actors Nakamura Nakazo I as Onmaya Kisanda Dressed as Kakubei the Lion Dancer (Kakubei-jishi) (right) and Segawa Kikunojo III as Shizuka Gozen (left), in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Tobiiri Kitsune (Heavenly Child—The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

The Actor Nakamura Sukegoro II as Aso no Matsuwaka, a Ninja (Shadow Warrior), in the Play Ima o Sakari Suehiro Genji (The Genji Clan Now at Its Zenith), Performed at the Nakamura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1768

The Actors Sawamura Kijuro I as Ikazuchi Shinno, Prince of Thunder (far left), Ichikawa Danjuro V as the Buddhist Deity Fudo (second from left), Nakamura Sukegoro II as Seitaka Doji (second from right), and Bando Mitsugoro I as Kongara Doji (far right), in the Play Fuki Kaete Tsuki mo Yoshiwara (Rethatched Roof: The Moon also Shines Over the Yoshiwara Pleasure District), Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1771

The Actors Ichimura Uzaemon IX as a Male Fox Disguised as the Sake Seller Iseya (left) and Nakamura Tomijuro I as a Female Fox Disguised as the Beancake Peddler Hyugaya, in the Dance Sequence "Myoto-zake Kawaranu Nakanaka" (Everlasting Harmony of the Marital Cup), from the Second Part of the Play Chigo Torii Kitsune (Heavenly Child - The Fox Leaps Through the Shrine Gate), Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1777

The Actors Arashi Sangoro II as Minamoto no Yoritomo Disguised as the Hat Maker (Ebosi Ori) Daitaro, and Segawa Kikunojo II as the Snow Woman (Yuki Onna), in the Dance Sequence "Oyama Beni Yuki no Sugao" (Courtesan's Rouge on a Snow White Face), from the Final Act of the Play Myotogiku Izu no Kisewata (Cotton Wadding of Izu Protecting the Matrimonial Chrysanthemums), Performed at the Ichimura Theater from the First Day of the Eleventh Month, 1770