• Japanization or Japanisation is the process by which Japanese culture dominates, assimilates, or influences other cultures. According to The American...
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    Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west...
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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...
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    World War II (category Wars involving Japan)
    militarism in Japan, and it was preceded by events including the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Spanish Civil War, outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and...
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    Anime (redirect from Animation in Japan)
    Anime (Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers...
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    The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the...
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    The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January...
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  • Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced...
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    The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and...
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  • spoken mainly in Japan Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and...
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    dynasty and imperial family of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended family of the reigning emperor of Japan who undertake official and public...
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    Manga (redirect from Japanese comics)
    originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The...
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    Tokyo (redirect from Tokyo, Japan)
    Tokyo (/ˈtoʊkioʊ/; Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous...
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  • represents Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. Since...
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    Japan Standard Time (日本標準時, Nihon Hyōjunji, JST), or Japan Central Standard Time (中央標準時, Chūō Hyōjunji, JCST), is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours...
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    The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized...
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    Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until...
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    Pacific War (redirect from US-Japan war)
    Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the...
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  • Municipalities of Japan List of villages in Japan List of cities in Japan Japanese addressing system "Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns...
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  • in Japan. Cultural Properties of Japan National Treasures of Japan Cultural Landscapes of Japan National parks of Japan Kashimagari Tunnel "Japan". UNESCO...
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    The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after...
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    The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named after...
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  • This is a list of current and defunct automobile manufacturers of Japan. Ales (see Otomo) Asahi (1937–c.1939) Aspark (2014–present) Atsuta (1930s) Autobacs...
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    Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces...
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  • Sino-Japanese War most often refers to: The First Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895), between China (Qing dynasty) and Japan (Empire of Japan), primarily over...
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    United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority...
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    Japan is divided into eight regions. They are not official administrative units, though they have been used by government officials for statistical and...
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    based in Japan. For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations, see "Business entities in Japan". Note...
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    Japanning is a type of finish that originated as a European imitation of East Asian lacquerwork. It was first used on furniture, but was later much used...
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    Reiwa era (redirect from Present-day Japan)
    Reiwa (Japanese: 令和, pronounced [ɾeːwa] or [ɾeꜜːwa]) is the current and 232nd era of the official calendar of Japan. It began on 1 May 2019, the day on...
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