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- World War II (1939-1945)
- How the modern world was forged -- World War II was a worldwide conflict fought between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers, from 1939 until 1945. Armed forces from over seventy nations engaged in aerial, naval, and ground-based combat. Spanning much of the globe, World War II resulted in the deat...
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- Toyota
- Toyota Motor Corporation or Toyota for short, is a Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer.
The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father's (Sakichi Toyoda) company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industri...
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- Biography of Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa (23 March 1910 – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sanshiro Sugata) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993. His many awards include the Légion d'Honneur and an...
- History of Tokyo
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Tokyo officially Tokyo Metropolis is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefe...
- History of Nintendo
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Nintendo Company, Limited, a Japanese multinational corporation was originally founded to produce handmade hanafuda cards. It eventually became one of the most prominent figures in today's video game industry.
Nintendo Company Ltd.is a Japanese multinational corporatio...
- History of Godzilla
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Godzilla is a series of giant monster films starring Godzilla, a Japanese creation usually portrayed by a man in a rubber suit. Starting in 1954, the Godzilla series has become the longest running film series in movie history.
The first film, Godzilla, was first released in the...
- Sony
- Sony Corporation is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue of $70.303 billion (as of 2007) based in Minato, Tokyo. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video games and information te...