In 1987 Korean firms were just beginning to compete with Americans and Japanese in computers and other high-end electronics.
During the second world war he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Malaya, as Malaysia was then called.
Maj Philip Malins, from Solihull in the West Midlands was held by the Japanese in Burma during World War II.
Mr Gao, it should be noted, was born in 1939 while his parents were hiding from the Japanese in tunnels.
The tracks were prime targets of saboteurs fighting the Japanese in World War II, and, afterwards, the French who built the line.
In 1944, after three weeks of fighting, U.S. forces finally overran Pati Point and recaptured Guam from the Japanese in World War II.
In 1903, Orde Wingate, British general who led his forces against the Japanese in Burma in World War II, was born in Naini Tal, India.
The track record of the Japanese in this regard in the 1970s and 1980s was uneven, an example that Chinese executives have no doubt studied closely.
But there are some voices of concern, including that of Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury secretary, who prodded the Japanese in a return visit to Tokyo in January.
"It must be the Japanese in me, " he says.
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Instead of tackling the Japanese in direct, brutal assaults, MacArthur would pick under-defended Japanese-held islands, take them, and use them to choke off supplies and reinforcements to the Japanese island next door.
This gorgeous, elegant, elaborate outfit that both Japanese men and women wore as a matter of routine till the early 20th C is now more prevalent in Japanese museums than in Japanese closets.
"If GM, Ford and Chrysler were fully competitive with the Japanese in every other respect, the exchange rate would still put them at a crushing disadvantage, " says Laurie Harbour-Felax, author of a study that analyzes Detroit's competitiveness.
One of my closest friends has a son who studied both computer science and Japanese in college and also spent two summers in Tokyo, first taking language classes and then working as an intern at a technology company.
The bodies of Katsuhiko Oku, 45, who worked for the Japanese Embassy in London and who had been in Iraq for several months, and Masamori Inoue, 30, who worked for the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad, arrived in Tokyo on Thursday.
Yet it doesn't go far enough for us to feel much of anything as Algren goes through all sorts of hell on a mission most improbable, first as Katsumoto's captive (he learns to speak Japanese in a matter of months), and later as his acolyte, ad hoc strategist and joyous -- except not joyous enough -- companion in arms, if need be to the death.
The fall of the dollar against the yen after the Plaza Accord of 1985 led to a surge in Japanese investment in South-East Asia, and in exports from the region.
Back in the mid-1960s, one in three Japanese lived in a household of farmers.
The surreal saga of Soga and Jenkins (and children) plight was shown in the Japanese media in a warm, positive light, as Jenkins was seen as a kind, gentle man who protected the younger Japanese woman against the North Korean authorities.
It does not want the Japanese to join in any fighting, nor Japanese warships to patrol in South Korean waters.
Also looking forward, market share retention in the important Japanese market in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami will be important.
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"I almost walked away from the deal, but he convinced me in a small Japanese restaurant in San Francisco with a glass of sake, " he says.
As I told Prime Minister Kan last night, and reaffirmed at the Japanese embassy here in Washington today, the Japanese people are not alone in this time of great trial and sorrow.
In the 1970s, Japanese chefs in Lima began experimenting with ceviche, marinating the fish for just a few minutes.
Keiko, whose name means "Lucky One" in Japanese, starred in three Free Willy films, in which a young boy befriends a killer whale and encourages him to jump over an aquarium wall to ocean freedom.
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Not only have the Detroit companies retreated in the face of Japanese advances in the American domestic market but their European subsidiaries have also long been ceding share, as have such European players as Peugeot-Citroen, Volvo, Jaguar, and, of course, Renault.
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Just as the signing of Jackie Robinson turned many Negro League fans into Brooklyn Dodgers fans in the 1940s, Japanese fans in 1995 so took to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the team signed pitching icon Hideo Nomo that the club started its own Japanese TV network.
Even at the peak of their recent run-up, ten-year Japanese-government bonds only yielded a miserly 1.43%, but in a deflationary environment they were still attractive to Japanese investors in real terms.
In fact, Marutei Tsurunen is the first foreign-born Japanese citizen serving in the Japanese Diet.
Clearly, something extraordinary happened in the months that followed the Japanese surrender in August 1945.
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