• more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s?

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History of Japan

• Lawrence Olson, who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history, deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy?
• Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation of the history of China and Japan?
• the 1896 Meiji-Sanriku earthquake caused the most devastating tsunami in Japanese history, destroying about 9,000 homes and killing more than 22,000 people?