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World War II

(Encyclopedia)World War II, 1939–45, worldwide conflict involving every major power in the world. The two sides were generally known as the Allies and the Axis. Although hostilities came to an end in Sept...

Ama-no-hashidate

(Encyclopedia)Ama-no-hashidate: see Miyazu, Japan. ...

Miya-jima

(Encyclopedia)Miya-jima: see Itsuku-shima, Japan. ...

Kuroshio

(Encyclopedia)Kuroshio, ocean current: see Japan Current. ...

genro

(Encyclopedia)genro gĕnˈrōˈ [key] [ Jap.,=elder statesmen], a group that exercised collective leadership in Japan from the end of the Meiji period until c.1932. After the Meiji restoration (1868), Westernizer...

Higgins, William

(Encyclopedia)Higgins, William, b. 1762 or 1763, d. 1825, Irish chemist. After study at Oxford he became supervisor of the Royal Dublin Society's mineralogical collection and in 1800 the Society's professor of chem...

Ito

(Encyclopedia)Ito, city, Shizuoka prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Izu Peninsula and the Sagami Sea. It is an important fishing port and hot spring resort. ...

Hakone, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Hakone, Mount: see under Hakone, region, Japan. ...

Seto-naikai

(Encyclopedia)Seto-naikai, sea: see Inland Sea, Japan. ...

Yeddo

(Encyclopedia)Yeddo or Yedo: see Tokyo, Japan. ...