Ten years is a long time to wait.

One hundred and fifty thousand couples are expected to get married in Shanghai in 2006.

It must be five years before the technology catches up.

He was born on July 28th, 1888.

I spent three years looking for a good director, but couldn't find one.

That was when I was in the first year at high school, so 17 years have passed since then.

"Gang Wives" is a Yakuza movie released in 1986 by Toei Distribution Network.

It was April 1905 when a school was built on the site of the theatre.

My fifth-year junior school son has transferred into a school in Nagoya from Shizuoka.

We recommend that mains water have a water-quality test carried out once a year, well water twice a year.

The reformed Labour Standards Act will be in force from Jan 1st 2004.

In 2000 Japan's health care system was the best in the world, but since clinical internship was introduced in 2003 it has clearly deteriorated.

Kamui no Ken was a sort of samurai/ninja story set during the transition of the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the re-establishment of Japan under the Emperor Meiji in 1868.

Blue1 was founded as Air Botnia in 1988.

2002: President Bush signs the Homeland Security Act and it becomes an official Cabinet agency.

The Sistine Chapel is a vast chapel built inside the Vatican Palace in 1473.

Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

Born on February 23, 2006, at 2730 g, she is our family's treasure.

There can be no people who have gone through as many hardships this century as the Jews.

A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is.