Japan

Hira (比良) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On 13 December 1937, Hira and other IJN ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan, China and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On 17 August 1944 Hira was damaged by US 14th Air Force aircraft at Kiukiang, China.

In Japan on 16 May 1980, Japan Socialist Party (JSP) brought a no-confidence motion to the Diet, mentioning corruption and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives of Japan (lower house) to withdraw its backing from the government. Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion.

Japan Socialist Party

Liberal Party

Chōkai

Toba

Japanese giant flying squirrel

LR/lc

The Japanese grosbeak (Eophona personata) is a finch native to East Asia. It is also sometimes referred to as the Japanese or masked hawfinch due to superficial similarities to the well-known Eurasian species.

Liberal Democratic Party

Empire of Japan

Subsequent Prime Minister

Japanese general election, 1980

Yong Ji & Haoxue

Japanese general election, 2014

Eophona personata
Japanese grosbeak

The Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Japan.

Banjō

Japan held a nationwide election for the House of Representatives, the more powerful lower house of the National Diet than the upper house, on February 18, 1990.

Japanese general election, 1967

Japanese general election, 1969

Japanese general election, March 1898

Min Jiang

Mitsubishi Zosensho, Kobe, Japan

Japanese general election, 1963

Japanese grosbeak in Honshu, Japan

parliamentary

*30.5 meters
* lpp

captured by PRC in Chinese Civil War

Sumida (隅田) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1940s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Osaka Iron Works

Atami

Ōshima

General elections were held in Japan on 20 November 1960. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 300 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 73.5%.

Japanese giant silkworm

*reciprocating steam engine
*2 shafts, 2 boilers
*

Japanese Communist Party

Japanese general election, 1986

New

General elections were held in Japan on 27 February 1955. The result was a victory for the Japan Democratic Party, which won 185 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 75.8%. On 15 November 1955, the Japan Democratic Party and the Liberal Party combined as the modern Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for more than a half century.

*2 × /40 cal. guns
*3 or 6 × 13 mm machine guns

Japanese gunboat Uji (1940)

Japanese general election, March 1894

*2 × /40 cal. Hotchkiss guns
*4 × machine guns

Andrias

General elections were held in Japan on 10 August 1898.

Parliament seats

Microtus montebelli

Japanese gunboat Suma

Mammalia

Originally May 1868

Japanese general election, 1996

Xiang Jiang

General elections were held in Japan on 27 February 1955. The result was a victory for the Japan Democratic Party, which won 185 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 75.8%. On 15 November 1955, the Japan Democratic Party and the Liberal Party combined as the modern Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for more than a half century. The Rightist Socialist Party of Japan and the Leftist Socialist Party of Japan also merged to form the Social Democratic Party of Japan, which was Japan's largest opposition party in the 1955 system.

Arthropoda

Fushimi

Second Philippine Republic

Japanese general election, September 1898

new party

Japanese general election, 1898

Picus awokera

Chang Hsi

Kakushintō

P. gissu

Democratic Socialist Party

Hira

Toba (鳥羽) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Japanese general election, September 1894

Independent

Taiwan

Japanese general election, 1960

*2× /28 cal. guns
*6× 6.6mm machine guns

Japanese gregory

title

Uji

IUCN3.1

September 1903

All 511 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

Vote share

*50 tons standard
* standing

People's Life Party

The Japanese government-issued rupee in Burma was a Japanese invasion money issued by the Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency during the Japanese occupation of Burma in the Second World War.The Japanese invaded Burma in January 1942. They conquered Mandalay on 21 May 1942, forcing the British to retreat into India. The Japanese held Burma until the second Allied campaign of 1944, although an official surrender did not take place until August 1945. In 1942 the Japanese issued paper scrip currency of 1, 5 and 10 cents and ¼, ½, 1, 5 and 10 Rupees. Like most Japanese colonial currency from this period, a letter code was used on the notes. The first or top letter “B” indicates the note was printed and issued for Burma. The second letter or letters indicate the block (or printing batch) of the note, there are single letter blocks and double letter blocks for Burma, with the later two letter blocks being identified by a hyphen separating the letter "B" from the block letters.In 1943, the Japanese commuted the sentence of Dr Ba Maw, an outspoken advocate for Burmese self-rule, and installed him as the head of the puppet government. From 1943 onward the Japanese issued paper scrip currency of 1, 5 and 10 Rupee with a 100 Rupee note in 1944. The Japanese characters in the oblong box at the bottom of each note read “Government of Great Imperial Japan” and the contents of the seal at the lower right of the comprise the Japanese symbol for the Minister of Finance.When all of these notes became obsolete, punch holes were made to indicate that the note had been "cancelled" and therefore devalued.Prior to the Japanese invasion, Burma circulated the Indian rupee issued by the Reserve Bank of India since nationalized paper currency was introduced by the British Administration in 1897.

Japanese government-issued dollar in Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei

Japanese gunboat Hozu

Japanese green pigeon

A. japonicus

rupees
Japanese-occupied Burma

Japanese general election, 1979

Japanese general election, 1983

China

Animalia

Hyōgo-7th

General elections were held in Japan on 1 September 1894. The Jiyūtō remained the largest party, winning 107 of the 300 seats

*1 × Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun
*1 × Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun
*2 × Nordenfelt guns

JSP

Chiyoda

*reciprocating steam engine
*2 shaft, 2 boilers
*900 shp

Stricken June 1869

Percentage

Kansai-PR Block

Ataka (安宅) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On 20 May 1933 Ataka was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunboat Sentai. She was supplanted by the Yaeyama as flagship in 1937.Based in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ataka was transferred to the Republic of China Navy after the war. She defected to the People's Liberation Army Navy in 1949, and was sunk in Wuhu by Nationalist aircraft on 24 September the same year.

scrapped 1932

normal

General elections were held in Japan on 21 November 1963. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 283 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 71.1%.

Japanese gunboat Uji

scrapped

Dōshi

Saga (嵯峨) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated on the Yangtze River and in coastal waters of China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Parliamentary districts won by

Katata (堅田, also Katada) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1920s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

March 1898

Democratic Party of Japan

Japanese general election, 1990

General elections were held in Japan on 27 December 1969. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 288 of the 486 seats. Voter turnout was 68.51%.

General elections were held in Japan on 1 March 1894. The Jiyūtō remained the largest party, winning 120 of the 300 seats.

Japanese general election, 2013

Peso ( and , Piso )

Megalobatrachus japonicus (Reviewed by Sato 1943)

A general election was held in Japan on 16 December 2012. Voters gave the Liberal Democratic Party a landslide victory, ejecting the Democratic Party of Japan from power after three years. It was the fourth worst defeat suffered by a ruling party in Japanese history.Voting took place in all representatives' constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

*4 × QF guns
*3 × machine guns

Futami

Japanese general election, 1892

Japanese grey thrush

Eophona

Prime Minister-designate

*1 × 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun
*3 × / 40 cal. guns
*3 × 6.5mm machine guns

Pterothrissus gissu

shillings

Yong Ping

Scrapped March 1935

A general election took place in Japan on November 9, 2003. Incumbent Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of the Liberal Democrat Party won the election but with a reduced majority. The main opposition Democratic Party made considerable gains, winning 177 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, its largest share ever.

During World War II in the Philippines, the occupying Japanese government-issued fiat currency in several denominations; this is known as the Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso (see also Japanese invasion money). The Second Philippine Republic under José P. Laurel outlawed possession of guerrilla currency, and declared a monopoly on the issuance of money, so that anyone found to possess guerrilla notes could be arrested.Some Filipinos called the fiat peso "Mickey Mouse money". Many survivors of the war tell stories of going to the market laden with suitcases or "bayóng" (native bags made of woven coconut or buri leaf strips) overflowing with the Japanese-issued bills. According to one witness, 75 "Mickey Mouse" pesos, or about 35 U.S. dollars at that time, could buy one duck egg. In 1944, a box of matches cost more than 100 Mickey Mouse pesos.These bills were often used by American psychological warfare personnel as propaganda leaflets. Japanese occupation banknotes were overprinted with the words "The Co-prosperity Sphere: What is it worth?", in an attempt to discredit the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and dropped from Allied aircraft over the occupied territories.

The Japanese general election, 1983 was an election held in Japan in 1983 for the House of Representatives.

Japanese gunboat Kotaka

Japanese general election, 1953

Japanese green pheasant

District vote

Sumida (隅田) was a river gunboat in the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was named after the Sumida River in Tokyo, Japan.

> geared turbine

Results of the 1979 general election in Japan for the House of Representatives. A total of 511 seats were contested:

The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued for use within the Imperial Japan-occupied territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei between 1942 and 1945. The currency was also referred informally (and with more than a trace of contempt) as banana money (Malay: duit pisang), named as such because of the motifs of banana trees on 10 dollar banknotes. The Japanese dollar was in widespread use within the occupied territories where the previous currency became a scarcity. The currency were referred to as "dollars" and "cents" like its predecessors, the Straits dollar, Malayan dollar, Sarawak dollar and British North Borneo dollar.The Japanese dollar was one of several forms of Japanese invasion money issued throughout the then newly expanded Empire of Japan. Similar currencies were issued in Burma (as the Japanese rupee), the Dutch East Indies (as the Japanese gulden/roepiah), the Philippines (as the Japanese peso) and various Melanesian and Polynesian territories (as the Japanese pound).

Hashidate (橋立) was the lead vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.

The occupation currency became worthless. The value of the pre-occupation currency was restored.
at par

Japanese gunboat Ōshima

Japan Restoration Party

In Japan on 16 May 1980, Japan Socialist Party (JSP) brought a no-confidence motion to the Diet, mentioning corruption and rises in public utility charges as reasons for the House of Representatives of Japan (lower house) to withdraw its backing from the government. Unexpectedly, 69 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members of the Diet from the Fukuda Takeo, Miki Takeo and Hidenao Nakagawa factions abstained from voting on the motion. The government was defeated by 56 votes in total of 243 and resigned. For the first time elections for the both houses of the Diet were called in June 1980. In the elections of both the houses LDP gained a majority. The election results for the lower house are shown in the table below.

Elections to the Shugi-In (House of Representatives) of the Japanese Diet were held on 25 June 2000.The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) maintained a majority in the House of Representatives, but its total percentage of seats shrank from 65% to 56%, and its two coalition partners also lost several seats. Two cabinet members, Takashi Fukaya and Tokuichiro Tamazawa, lost their seats. The Democratic Party of Japan made major gains under the leadership of Yukio Hatoyama.

Chang Teh

The Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound was one of several issues of Japanese invasion money used during World War II. Consisting of only four denominations, the Oceanian Pound was the shortest set (i.e., total number of denominations) issued.Geographically, the region of Oceania comprises numerous islands across the vast South and Central Pacific which includes the islands of New Zealand. Certain descriptions may or may not include Australia. Oceania has also been defined by island groupings: Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. However, from a numismatic perspective (i.e., the issuance of Japanese invasion money), Oceania consisted of the occupied territories of Guam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Caroline Islands, Marianas Islands, Solomon Islands, Palau, and the now defunct Territory of New Guinea. Although officially called "Oceania" the region was considered a financial and currency union under Japanese colonial dominion that included several political jurisdictions rather than a single polity.

Japanese gunboat Sumida (1903)

Maya

Japanese genetics

General elections were held in Japan on 5 December 1976. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 249 of the 511 seats, but the election was overshadowed by the Lockheed bribery scandals and became popularly known as the Lockheed Election (ロッキード選挙, rokkīdo senkyo). As a result of the scandals, the LDP lost 22 seats, mainly to the Komeitō Party, and lost its majority control over the House of Representatives. However, the LDP still remained the largest party in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 73.45%.The 1976 election was the only post-war general election triggered by an expiration of the term of the House of Representatives; all other post-war elections have been instigated by a dissolution of the House by the Cabinet.

Japanese government-issued gulden and roepiah in the Netherlands Indies

Proportional vote in 11 multi-member districts/"blocks"

Japanese gunboat Uji (1903)

Alexandromys

Hozu (保津) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On August 13, 1937 Hozu and other IJN ships bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu and the gunboat Hira ran aground near Anking. They were subsequently bombed by Chinese aircraft, Hira was damaged and Hozu was sunk. The wreck was scrapped 1945

Sumida

* p/p
* w/l

Japanese ginger

Japanese gunboat Un'yo

Saga

cents, sen

Japanese grass vole

Japanese glam rock

Kyushu-PR Block

Japanese government-issued Philippine Peso

Petaurista leucogenys

Japan Democratic Party

Japanese gunboat Toba

Seta

Chiyoda (千代田形, Chiyodagata) was a gunboat of the Tokugawa Navy, and Japan's first domestically-built steam warship (Japan's first steamship was the Unkōmaru (雲行丸) built by the fief of Satsuma in 1855). She was a 3rd class wooden gunboat and laid down May 7, 1861, and launched July 2, 1863 by the shipbuilder, and future industrial giant, Ishikawajima.Completed in May 1866, She participated in the conflict of the Boshin War with the Bakufu loyalists, against the newly formed Imperial Army. She was captured during the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay, and was grounded during the conflict. In May 1868 she was seized by the Japanese government, then captured by the rebels on 4 October 1868. Recaptured again by the Japanese government, she was finally stricken from the naval roster in June 1869. From 28 January 1888 Chiyoda through 1911 she served as a whaling ship, after which time she was broken up (scrapped).

Japanese grass lizard

present day Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei

Prime Minister

Occupied Dutch East Indies

Japanese government-issued dollar in Malaya and Borneo

All 512 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

none

Japanese gunboat Atami

*reciprocating steam engine
*1 shaft, 4 boilers,

Japanese green teas

Vespa mandarinia

Block vote

Zhu Jiang

*1 × guns
*1 × guns
*2 × Nordenfelt guns

Scrapped 1911 or thereafter

Japanese gunboat Katada

not contesting

Japanese ghost story

*reciprocating steam engine
*2 shaft, 2 boilers
*680 shp

present day Sabah, Malaysia

Japanese general election, 1958

captured in 1949 by PRC during Chinese Civil War

PR block vote

■ - Independent factions

*Battle of Weihaiwei
*Boxer Rebellion
*Siege of Port Arthur

All 475 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

Rodentia

Your Party

Japanese general election, 2003

Japanese general election, 1976

Uji (宇治) was an early steam gunboat, serving in the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was named after the city of Uji in Kyoto prefecture. She should not be confused with the later World War II period Hashidate-class Uji with the same name

SDP

* 1, 5, 10 cents ½, 1, 5, 10 gulden
* ½, 1, 5, 10, 100 roepiah

ffcccc

Japanese gunboat Sumida (1939)

Maya (摩耶) was an iron-hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the lead vessel in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Maya in Kobe.

Japanese glass fishing float

In Kyoto Aquarium

pesos

Ataka (安宅) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On 20 May 1933 Ataka was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunboat Sentai. She was supplanted by the Yaeyama as flagship in 1937.Based in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ataka was transferred to the Republic of China Navy after the war.

geared turbine

Temminck, 1827

Chang Zhi

The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is endemic to Japan, where it is known as Ōsanshōuo (オオサンショウウオ/大山椒魚), literally meaning "giant pepper fish". With a length of up to almost 1.5 m (5 ft), it is the second-largest salamander in the world, only being surpassed by the very similar and closely related Chinese giant salamander (A. davidianus). There are only three known members of the Cryptobranchidae family: the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders and the Eastern hellbender.Japanese giant salamanders are widespread across rivers in southwestern Japan. The species frequently hybridizes with Chinese giant salamanders, which were introduced to the area.

Seta (堅田) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1920s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Japanese government-issued currency in the Dutch East Indies

Tokyo-18th

The Netherlands Indies gulden, later the Netherlands Indies roepiah ([ruˈpiah]), was the currency issued by the Japanese occupiers in the Dutch East Indies between 1942 and 1945. It was subdivided into 100 sen and replaced the gulden at par.

Japanese general election, 1972

Picus

Japanese giant salamander

Japanese gunboat Tatara

Ataka

September 1945

The Japanese general election, 1986 was an election held in Japan on July 6, 1986, for the House of Representatives.

All 491 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

Fu Jiang

EFAB93

*2 × /45 cal. guns
*6 × × 7.7 mm machine guns. 1940: rearmed with 2x 3.1"/45 Cal and 5x 13.2mm machine guns. 1943: Machine guns replaced with 6x Type 96 25mm autocannon

Japanese gunboat Tsukushi

*2 × /45 cal. guns
*6 × 7.7 mm machine guns. 1940: rearmed with 2x 3.1"/45 Cal and 5x 13.2mm machine guns. 1943: Machine guns replaced with 6x Type 96 25mm autocannon

P. awokera

Okayama-3rd

cents

P. leucogenys

Hilgendorf, 1877

*geared turbines
*two shafts
*2 boilers
*

Japanese general election, 2009

Japanese gunboat Hashidate (1939)

Japanese general election, 2005

Japanese gods

Microtus

Japanese General election, 1894 ja.svg

Japanese gunboat Maya

Iwate-4th
Okayama-2nd

Fukuoka-1st

Japanese gulch

fall of Malaya, Borneo and Singapore in the hands of Japan in World War II.

All 480 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

Hozu

Dōmei

Hashidate

January 1903

Japanese gunboat Futami

Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound

dollars

Japanese general election, 1955

All 300 seats to the House of Representatives151 seats were needed for a majority

Japanese gothic font

*1 × gun
*2 × small guns

Japanese general election, 2000

General elections were held in Japan on 29 January 1967. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 277 of the 486 seats. Voter turnout was 73.99%.

Japanese government-issued currency in the Netherlands Indies

Atami (熱海) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After World War II, the ship entered service with the Republic of China Navy as Yong Ping (永平), but was captured by the Chinese communists at the end of Chinese Civil War, and entered People's Liberation Army Navy as Wu Jiang (乌江). The ship was finally scrapped in the 1960s.

Japanese gunboat Hira

DSP

Fushimi (伏見) was a river gunboat in the Imperial Japanese Navy, serving in China during the inter-war period.

Atago

Japanese hackberry

The Japanese government-issued Oceanian Pound was one of several issues of Japanese invasion money used during World War II. Consisting of only four denominations, the Oceanian Pound was the shortest set (i.e., total number of denominations) issued.Geographically, the region of Oceania comprises numerous islands across the vast South and Central Pacific which includes the islands of New Zealand. Certain descriptions may or may not include Australia.

Petaurista

CD5C5C

Party for Future Generations

Japanese gunboat Chiyoda

A general election was held in Japan on 16 December 2012. Voters gave the Liberal Democratic Party a landslide victory, ejecting the Democratic Party of Japan from power after three years. It was the fourth worst defeat suffered by a ruling party in Japanese history.Voting took place in all representatives' constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. This was the 46th general election of members of the House of Representatives (第46回衆議院議員総選挙, dai-yonjūrokkai Shūgiin giin sōsenkyo) in Japan since 1869.In July 2012 it was reported that the deputy prime minister Katsuya Okada had approached the Liberal Democratic Party to sound them out about dissolving the house of representatives and holding the election in January 2013. An agreement was reached in August to dissolve the Diet and hold early elections "shortly" following the passage of a bill to raise the national consumption tax. It was reported that as the result of introducing the consumption tax to repay the Japan public debt, the DPJ lost around 75% of its pre-election seats.

½ shilling, 1 shilling, 10 shillings, 1 pound

Japanese gunboat Atago

Vote in 11 multi-member proportional districts/"blocks"

The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued for use within the Imperial Japan-occupied territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei between 1942 and 1945. The currency was also referred informally (and with more than a trace of contempt) as banana money (Malay: duit pisang), named as such because of the motifs of banana trees on 10 dollar banknotes.

Japanese government-issued dollar in Borneo and Malaya

The 47th general election of members of the House of Representatives (第47回衆議院議員総選挙, dai-yonjūnanakai Shūgiin giin sōsenkyo) of Japan was held on 14 December 2014. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan. As the cabinet resigns in the first post-election Diet session after a general House of Representatives election (Constitution, Article 70), the lower house election also led to a new designation election of the prime minister in the Diet (Shinzo Abe was reappointed), and the appointment of a new cabinet (with some ministers re-appointed).

During World War II in the Philippines, the occupying Japanese government-issued fiat currency in several denominations; this is known as the Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso (see also Japanese invasion money). The Second Philippine Republic under José P. Laurel outlawed possession of guerrilla currency, and declared a monopoly on the issuance of money, so that anyone found to possess guerrilla notes could be arrested.Some Filipinos called the fiat peso "Mickey Mouse money".

Bathythrissa dorsalis (Günther, 1877)

Japanese gunboat Chokai

August 1945
British Malaya and Brunei

yes

Wu Jiang

New Komeito Party

Fushimi (伏見) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1940s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

V. mandarinia japonica
The Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica) is a subspecies of the world's largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet (V. mandarinia). It is a large insect, with adults frequently growing to greater than 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) long, with a wingspan greater than 6 centimetres (2.4 in). It has a large yellow head with large eyes, and a dark brown thorax with an abdomen banded in brown and yellow.

at par with the Malayan dollar

Japanese government-issued gulden and rupiah in the Netherlands Indies

Japanese government-issued rupee in Burma

General elections were held in Japan on 10 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 271 of the 491 seats. Voter turnout was 71.76%.

Japanese gunboat Banjō

Japanese gunboat Saga

Japan lost World War II.

districts and PR districts won by respective parties
Representatives elected in the Japanese general election, 2012
Japanese general election, 2012

*4 × QF guns
*5 × Hotchkiss guns
*6 × Nordenfelt guns

Scrapped 1945

scrapped 1912

A general election took place in Japan on October 20, 1996. Incumbent Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party won the election.This is the first election under new elections rules established in 1993 with single non-transferable vote, single-member districts, and some seats being distributed according to proportional representation. Before this election, each district was represented by multiple members, sometimes from the same party, causing intra-party competition. Under the new rules, each district has only one representative now representing a wide range of interests for his or her district. A separate party-list was introduced for voters to choose their favored party (in addition to votes for individual candidates) as a way to more accurately approximate the seats in the House of Representatives of Japan to the actual party votes in an effort to achieve more proportional representation.With only a single member in each district, this change allows for more district-wide benefits. This is opposed to the old multi-member districts where each representative appeals to either policy or geographic-based benefits to narrow interests in their constituencies, who in turn help their member's campaign in their reelection efforts.

Uji (宇治) was the second and final vessel in the Hashidate-class gunboats in the Imperial Japanese Navy, that operated in China during the 1940s.

*reciprocating steam engine
*2 shafts, 4 boilers
*

Yung An

Japanese general election, 1902

Insecta

Megalobatrachus japonicus

The Japanese government-issued rupee in Burma was a Japanese invasion money issued by the Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency during the Japanese occupation of Burma in the Second World War.The Japanese invaded Burma in January 1942. They conquered Mandalay on 21 May 1942, forcing the British to retreat into India. The Japanese held Burma until the second Allied campaign of 1944, although an official surrender did not take place until August 1945.

General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats. Voter turnout was 77.0%.

Japanese gunboat Hashidate

Single-member plurality vote in 295 districts

All 500 seats to the House of Representatives of Japan

initial

General elections were held in Japan in March 1898.

Japan Innovation Party

Kotaka

Kanagawa-11th

Next Japanese general election

Hokkaido-9th

Japanese gunboat Seta

The Japanese giant flying squirrel (ムササビ, musasabi, Petaurista leucogenys) is a species of flying squirrel, one of two species of Old World flying squirrels. It is native to Japan where is inhabits sub-alpine forests and boreal evergreen forests on Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu islands. It grows to a head-and-body length of 50 cm (20 in) with a tail nearly as long again, and has a membrane connecting its wrists and ankles which enables it to glide from tree to tree. It feeds mainly on fruits and seeds. It breeds once a year in the autumn, with one or two young being born in its den. This squirrel faces no particular threats, has a wide range and is relatively common, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists it as being of "least concern".

British Solomon Islands

General elections were held in Japan on 5 December 1976. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 249 of the 511 seats, but the election was overshadowed by the Lockheed bribery scandals and became popularly known as the Lockheed Election (ロッキード選挙, rokkīdo senkyo). As a result of the scandals, the LDP lost 22 seats, mainly to the Komeitō Party, and lost its majority control over the House of Representatives.

Atago (愛宕) was a composite hulled, steam gunboat, serving in the early Imperial Japanese Navy. She was the third vessel to be completed in the four vessel Maya class, and was named after Mount Atago in Kyoto.

Nauru

Japanese gunboat Oshima

The Japanese giant flying squirrel (ムササビ, musasabi, Petaurista leucogenys) is a species of flying squirrel, one of two species of Old World flying squirrels. It is native to Japan where is inhabits sub-alpine forests and boreal evergreen forests on Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu islands. It grows to a head-and-body length of 50 cm (20 in) with a tail nearly as long again, and has a membrane connecting its wrists and ankles which enables it to glide from tree to tree.

Japanese ghost stories

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Komeito

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*5 × Lewis gun
*1 × Hotchkiss M1929 machine gun AA

Social Democratic Party
A general election took place in Japan on November 9, 2003. Incumbent Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi of the Liberal Democrat Party won the election but with a reduced majority. The main opposition Democratic Party made considerable gains, winning 177 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives, its largest share ever. Other traditional parties like the Communist Party and the Social Democrat Party lost a significant numbers of seats, making a two-party system a possibility in future Japanese politics.

present day Sarawak, Malaysia

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*1 × × Type 96 25mm auto cannon

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*6 × machine guns

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Pterothrissus gissu, also known as the Japanese gissu is a species of fish in the family Albulidae. The Japanese gissu is a rare fish that is distributed in deep water off northwest Pacific Ocean. This fish is known to pass through a leptocephalus larval stage, but only metamorphosed (after reaching the fully grown stage) specimens have been available. This species is the only member of its genus.

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New Party Daichi

Katata

Japanese gissu

Chiyoda (千代田形, Chiyodagata) was a gunboat of the Tokugawa Navy, and Japan's first domestically-built steam warship (Japan's first steamship was the Unkōmaru (雲行丸) built by the fief of Satsuma in 1855). She was a 3rd class wooden gunboat and laid down May 7, 1861, and launched July 2, 1863 by the shipbuilder, and future industrial giant, Ishikawajima.Completed in May 1866, She participated in the conflict of the Boshin War with the Bakufu loyalists, against the newly formed Imperial Army.

Japanese green woodpecker or Japanese woodpecker (Picus awokera) is a medium-sized woodpecker similar and closely related to the European green woodpecker, but endemic to Japan.This species reaches about 30 cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the green woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings.The Japanese green woodpecker is divided into at least two subspecies:P. a.

Un'yō

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Japanese gunboat Sumida (1906)

Japanese gunboat Fushimi (1939)

A general election took place in Japan on October 20, 1996. Incumbent Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of the coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party, New Party Sakigake and the Social Democratic Party won the election.This is the first election under new elections rules established in 1993 with single non-transferable vote, single-member districts, and some seats being distributed according to proportional representation.

*2 × Krupp L/22 breech-loading gun
*2 × 1-inch Nordenfelt guns

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Hyogo-2nd

Japanese gentian

*1 × /45 cal. guns
*1 × × 25 mm machine guns

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Leftist Socialist Party of Japan

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Obverse and reverse of the 500 pesos note, 1944-1945

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Chang Feng

*3 × Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun
*2 × Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns

fall of Borneo in the hands of Japan in World War II.

February 1870

Rightist Socialist Party of Japan

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Japanese gravure idols

Japanese gunboat Chōkai

Japanese green tea

Japanese grey bunting

Centavo or Céntimo

Japanese government-issued dollar in Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei

prize of war to China, September 13, 1945

Japanese gunboat Fushimi (1906)

Andrias japonicus

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fiscal year 1929

The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is endemic to Japan, where it is known as Ōsanshōuo (オオサンショウウオ/大山椒魚), literally meaning "giant pepper fish". With a length of up to almost 1.5 m (5 ft), it is the second-largest salamander in the world, only being surpassed by the very similar and closely related Chinese giant salamander (A. davidianus).

Vote in 300 single-member districts

Japanese gunboat Banjo

People's New Party
PNP

Vespa

Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso

Shanghai

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Tomomi Narita

Japanese given name

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*5 × × 7.7 mm machine guns

Japanese green woodpecker

Japanese general election, 1993

Sentimo

Japanese gunboat Katata

Representatives elected in the Japanese general election, 2009

Pterothrissus

Japanese gunboat Sumida

Japan Mint, Osaka Branch

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Japanese gunboat Chiyodagata

The 47th general election of members of the House of Representatives (第47回衆議院議員総選挙, dai-yonjūnanakai Shūgiin giin sōsenkyo) of Japan was held on 14 December 2014. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan including proportional blocks, in order to appoint Members of Diet to seats in the House of Representatives, the lower house of the National Diet of Japan.

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Representatives elected in the Japanese general election, 2005

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Japanese green woodpecker or Japanese woodpecker (Picus awokera) is a medium-sized woodpecker similar and closely related to the European green woodpecker, but endemic to Japan.This species reaches about 30 cm in length, with bright green wings and tail, a red or black mustache and crown (as opposed to the black face of the green woodpecker), gray head, neck, and chest, and white underparts with black markings.The Japanese green woodpecker is divided into at least two subspecies:P. a. awokera, the nominate subspecies, found on HonshūP. a. horii, native to KyūshūThe binomial is a reference to the Japanese name of the species, aogera.

Japanese giant hornet

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Japanese gothic typeface

Futami (二見) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II.

Japanese gunboat Choukai

Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Tama shipyard

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New Frontier Party

The Japanese giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia japonica) is a subspecies of the world's largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet (V. mandarinia). It is a large insect, with adults frequently growing to greater than 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in) long, with a wingspan greater than 6 centimetres (2.4 in). It has a large yellow head with large eyes, and a dark brown thorax with an abdomen banded in brown and yellow. The Japanese giant hornet has three small, simple eyes on the top of the head between the two large compound eyes. As the name implies, it is endemic to the Japanese islands, where it prefers rural areas where it can find trees to nest in. In Japanese it is known as the ōsuzumebachi (オオスズメバチ（大雀蜂、大胡蜂）, literally "giant sparrow bee").

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People's Republic of China

Hozu (保津) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On August 13, 1937 Hozu and other IJN ships bombarded Chinese positions at Shanghai. On December 13 Hozu and other ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On December 5, 1944 Hozu and the gunboat Hira ran aground near Anking.

Yokohama Dock Co.

Japanese gunboat Unyo

the Kingdom of Sarawak

*1 × Krupp breech-loading gun
*1 × Krupp breech-loading gun
*2 × 12-pdr guns
*3 × quadruple Nordenfelt guns

Tomorrow Party of Japan

Kotaka (小鷹) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Participated in the Battle of Wuhan, June-Sept., 1938. Participated in Battle of Madang and Battle of Jiujiang, June, 1938. Nanchang Campaign: February–May, 1939. 1942: In service as passenger ship. Sunk May 31, 1944 on the Yangtze River while serving as a communications ship. The IJN official designation was 60-ton traffic ship (Motored river exclusive-Special type) (六拾瓲交通船 (内火式河用特型),, 60-ton kōtsūsen (Uchibishiki kawayou-Tokugata)).

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Japanese glass fishing floats

Japanese gunboat Un'yō

Japanese gunboat Ataka

Japanese government

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NKP

Hira (比良) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War.On 13 December 1937, Hira and other IJN ships engaged Chinese positions at Xiaguan, China and attacked Chinese boats and rafts on the Yangtze River. On 17 August 1944 Hira was damaged by US 14th Air Force aircraft at Kiukiang, China. On 26 November 1944 Hira and the gunboat Hozu ran aground near Anking, China. Chinese aircraft subsequently bombed and sunk Hozu and severely damaged Hira. Hira was scrapped in July 1945.

Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan

Republic of China

Kotaka (小鷹) was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy, part of the 11th Gunboat Sentai, that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Participated in the Battle of Wuhan, June-Sept., 1938. Participated in Battle of Madang and Battle of Jiujiang, June, 1938. Nanchang Campaign: February–May, 1939. 1942: In service as passenger ship. Sunk May 31, 1944 on the Yangtze River while serving as a communications ship.