This would involve international inspectors or advisors on Japanese soil.

Here, it was as if the Westerners had never set foot on Japanese soil.

Standing on a wooden gangplank, a yard from Japanese soil, the leader of one boat's crew was not happy to see visitors.

"I don't think any third country is contemplating an attack on Japanese soil," he said.

It argued that American companies could not hope to compete there unless they made significant investments on Japanese soil.

"However, the oil reservoir is not only on Japanese soil, though they think it is."

The match reinforced the existence of a home field advantage and the bias a foreign fighter must face when fighting on Japanese soil.

This is the only memorial dedicated to a foreign soldier on Japanese soil.

It is derived from a microbe found in Japanese soil.

On 30 August 1945, the 188th were the first to land on Japanese soil with 1096 men.