Table of Contents
228 relations: Adzuki bean, Agriculture, Ainu people, Anime, Arai Hakuseki, Archaeology, Argentina, Asia, Australia, Azumi people, Banana Yoshimoto, Black Ships, Borneo, Brazil, Bronze, Buddhism, Buddhism in Japan, Bunraku, Burakumin, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, California, Canada, Catholic Church, China, Christianity, Citizenship, Civilization, Constitution of Japan, Cultural assimilation, Dōtaku, Dekasegi, Demographics of Japan, East Asia, East Asian tea ceremony, East Malaysia, Edo period, Eiji Oguma, Emishi, Empire of Japan, Encarta, Encyclopædia Britannica, End of World War II in Asia, Ethnic groups of Japan, Ethnicity, Federated States of Micronesia, Foreign-born Japanese, France, Fumiko Enchi, Gemination, Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people, ... Expand index (178 more) »
Adzuki bean
Vigna angularis, also known as the adzuki bean, azuki bean, aduki bean, red bean, or red mung bean, is an annual vine widely cultivated throughout East Asia for its small (approximately long) bean.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Ainu people
The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.
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Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Arai Hakuseki
was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the shōgun Tokugawa Ienobu.
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Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Azumi people
The were a warrior clan and tribe who originated during the Jōmon period in Japan, whose cultures and beliefs are considered to be one of Japan's earliest sea religions.
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Banana Yoshimoto
is the pen name of Japanese writer.
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Black Ships
The Black Ships (in translit, Edo period term) were the Western vessels arriving in Japan in the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Borneo
Borneo (also known as Kalimantan in the Indonesian language) is the third-largest island in the world, with an area of.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Buddhism in Japan
Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE.
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Bunraku
(also known as) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day.
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Burakumin
The are the Japanese people commonly believed to be descended from members of the pre-Meiji feudal class which were associated with, such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners.
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Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a book written by Inazō Nitobe exploring the way of the samurai.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Citizenship
Citizenship is a membership and allegiance to a sovereign state.
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Civilization
A civilization (civilisation) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).
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Constitution of Japan
The Constitution of Japan (Shinjitai:, Kyūjitai:, Hepburn) is the constitution of Japan and the supreme law in the state.
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Dōtaku
are Japanese bells smelted from relatively thin bronze and richly decorated.
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Dekasegi
Dekasegi (decassegui, decasségui) is a term that is used in Latin America to refer to people, primarily Japanese Brazilians and Japanese Peruvians, who have migrated to Japan, having taken advantage of Japanese citizenship or nisei visa and immigration laws to work short-term in Japan.
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Demographics of Japan
The demographics of Japan include birth and death rates, age distribution, population density, ethnicity, education level, healthcare system of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects regarding the Japanese population.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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East Asian tea ceremony
Tea ceremony is a ritualized practice of making and serving tea (茶 cha) in East Asia practiced in the Sinosphere.
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East Malaysia
East Malaysia, or the Borneo States, also known as Malaysian Borneo, is the part of Malaysia on and near the island of Borneo, the world's third-largest island.
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Edo period
The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
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Eiji Oguma
(born September 6, 1962) is a Japanese historical sociologist, a professor at Keio University, a documentary filmmaker, and a guitarist.
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Emishi
The (also called Ebisu and Ezo), were a people who lived in parts of Honshū region of Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.
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Empire of Japan
The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.
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Encarta
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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End of World War II in Asia
World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the.
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Ethnic groups of Japan
Among the several native ethnic groups of Japan, the predominant group are the Yamato Japanese, who trace their origins back to the Yayoi period and have held political dominance since the Asuka period.
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Ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups.
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Federated States of Micronesia
The Federated States of Micronesia (abbreviated FSM), or simply Micronesia, is an island country in Micronesia, a subregion of Oceania.
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Foreign-born Japanese
A is a Japanese person of foreign descent or heritage, who was born outside Japan and later acquired Japanese citizenship.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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Fumiko Enchi
was the pen-name of Fumiko Ueda, one of the most prominent Japanese women writers in the Shōwa period of Japan.
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Gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (from Latin 'doubling', itself from gemini 'twins'), or consonant lengthening, is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant.
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Genetic and anthropometric studies on Japanese people
In population genetics, research has been done on the genetic origins of modern Japanese people.
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Genpei War
The was a national civil war between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late Heian period of Japan.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Government of Japan
The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan.
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Haiku
is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry.
Haniwa
The are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan.
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Haruki Murakami
is a Japanese writer.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
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Hāfu
is a Japanese language term used to refer to a person of half Japanese and half non-Japanese ancestry.
Hōryū-ji
is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan.
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Heian period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.
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Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.
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Hokkaido
is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.
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Honshu
, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.
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Hunter-gatherer
A hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local naturally occurring sources, especially wild edible plants but also insects, fungi, honey, bird eggs, or anything safe to eat, and/or by hunting game (pursuing and/or trapping and killing wild animals, including catching fish).
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I-novel
The I-novel (私小説) is a literary genre in Japanese literature used to describe a type of confessional literature where the events in the story correspond to events in the author's life.
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Iha Fuyū
is considered the father of Okinawaology and was a Japanese scholar who studied various aspects of Japanese and Okinawan culture, customs, linguistics, and folklore.
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Imari ware
is a Western term for a brightly-coloured style of Japanese export porcelain made in the area of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū.
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In Praise of Shadows
is a 1933 essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
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Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Ink wash painting
Ink wash painting (p); is a type of Chinese ink brush painting which uses washes of black ink, such as that used in East Asian calligraphy, in different concentrations.
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Institution
An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior.
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Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
J-pop
(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Japanese Americans
are Americans of Japanese ancestry.
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Japanese archipelago
The Japanese archipelago (Japanese:, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.
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Japanese Brazilians
are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.
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Japanese calligraphy
, also called, is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language.
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Japanese dialects
The of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital Kyoto), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all.
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Japanese diaspora
The Japanese diaspora and its individual members, known as Nikkei (日系) or as Nikkeijin (日系人), comprise the Japanese emigrants from Japan (and their descendants) residing in a country outside Japan.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese Mexicans
Japanese Mexicans are Mexicans of Japanese ancestry.
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Japanese missions to Tang China
The were Japanese efforts to learn Chinese culture and civilization from Tang China, in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries.
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Japanese nationality law
Japanese Nationality Law details the conditions by which a person holds nationality of Japan.
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Japanese phonology
Japanese phonology is the system of sounds used in the pronunciation of the Japanese language.
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Japanese pitch accent
is a feature of the Japanese language that distinguishes words by accenting particular morae in most Japanese dialects.
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Japanese rock
, sometimes abbreviated to, is rock music from Japan.
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Japanese sculpture
Sculpture in Japan began with the clay figure.
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Japanese tea ceremony
The Japanese tea ceremony (known as or) is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of, powdered green tea, the procedure of which is called.
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Japanese writing system
The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.
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Japantown
is a common name for Japanese communities in cities and towns outside Japan.
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Japonic languages
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.
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Jōdo Shinshū
, also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the former Tendai Japanese monk Shinran.
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Jōmon people
is the generic name of the indigenous hunter-gatherer population that lived in the Japanese archipelago during the Jōmon period.
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Jōmon period
In Japanese history, the is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BC, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity.
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Jōmon pottery
The is a type of ancient earthenware pottery which was made during the Jōmon period in Japan.
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John Lie (professor)
John Lie is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature.
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Kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.
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Kaikei
was a Japanese Busshi (sculptor of Buddha statue) of Kamakura period, known alongside Unkei.
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Kanō school
The is one of the most famous schools of Japanese painting.
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Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.
Karafuto Prefecture
Karafuto Agency, from 1943 Karafuto Prefecture, commonly known as South Sakhalin, was a part of the Empire of Japan on Sakhalin.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
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Kenzaburō Ōe
was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature.
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Kofun
are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia.
Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period.
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Koreans
Koreans are an East Asian ethnic group native to Korea.
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Kyōgen
is a form of traditional Japanese comic theater.
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Kyodo News
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo.
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Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).
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Language isolate
A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages.
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List of contemporary ethnic groups
The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.
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List of Japanese people
This is a list of notable Japanese people.
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Mahayana
Mahāyāna is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India (onwards).
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Mainland Japan
is a term used to distinguish Japan's core land area from its outlying territories.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.
Mark J. Hudson
Mark James Hudson (born 10 July 1963, in Roade) is a British archaeologist interested in multicultural Japan.
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Matsuo Bashō
; born Matsuo Kinsaku (松尾 金作), later known as Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa (松尾 忠右衛門 宗房) was the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period.
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Meiji era
The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.
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Miscegenation
Miscegenation is marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races.
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Mishihase
The, also read as Ashihase and Shukushin, were a people of ancient Japan, believed to have lived along the northern portion of the coast of the Sea of Japan.
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Miyamoto Musashi
, born,, also known as Miyamoto Bennosuke and by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai).
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Multiple citizenship
Multiple citizenship (or multiple nationality) is a person's legal status in which a person is at the same time recognized by more than one country under its nationality and citizenship law as a national or citizen of that country.
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Murasaki Shikibu
was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period.
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Muromachi period
The, also known as the, is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.
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Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from 710 to 794.
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Nara Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu.
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Natsume Sōseki
, pen name Sōseki, born, was a Japanese novelist.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Nihonjinron
Nihonjinron (日本人論: treatises on Japaneseness) is a genre of historical and literary work that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity.
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Nitobe Inazō
was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer.
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Nivkh people
The Nivkh, or Gilyak (also Nivkhs or Nivkhi, or Gilyaks; ethnonym: Нивхгу, Nʼivxgu (Amur) or Ниғвңгун, Nʼiɣvŋgun (E. Sakhalin) "the people"), are an Indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the lower Amur River and coast on the adjacent Russian mainland.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Noh
is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.
Nomad
Nomads are communities without fixed habitation who regularly move to and from areas.
Occupation of Japan
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 the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.
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Okakura Kakuzō
, also known as Okakura Tenshin, was a Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and beliefs.
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Okinawa Prefecture
is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan.
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Oku no Hosomichi
Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, originally おくのほそ道), translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Narrow Road to the Interior, is a major work of haibun by the Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō, considered one of the major texts of Japanese literature of the Edo period.
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Old Japanese
is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century).
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Oroks
Oroks (Ороки in Russian; self-designation: Ulta, Ulcha), sometimes called Uilta, are a people in the Sakhalin Oblast (mainly the eastern part of the island) in Russia.
Osamu Dazai
, known by his pen name, was a Japanese novelist and author.
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Paddy field
A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro.
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Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost the entire period of human prehistoric technology.
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Paraná (state)
Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveller.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Polytheism
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god.
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Pottery
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Racism in Japan
comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Japan, and have been reflected in discriminatory laws, practices and action (including violence) at various times in the history of Japan against racial or ethnic groups.
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Repatriation
Repatriation is the return of a thing or person to its or their country of origin, respectively.
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Ruth Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
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Ryōtarō Shiba
, also known as, was a Japanese author.
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Ryū Murakami
is a Japanese novelist, short story writer, essayist and filmmaker.
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Ryūkyū Shimpō
The was the first Okinawan newspaper.
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Ryukyuan languages
The, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.
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Ryukyuan people
The Ryukyuan people (Ruuchuu minzuku or label, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Okinawans, Uchinaanchu, Lewchewan or Loochooan) are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.
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Sakhalin
Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.
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Sakhalin Koreans
Sakhalin Koreans are Russian citizens and residents of Korean descent living on Sakhalin Island, who can trace their roots to the immigrants from the Gyeongsang and Jeolla provinces of Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese ruling era.
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Samurai
were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.
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São Paulo (state)
São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.
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Sengoku period
The, is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Sesshū Tōyō
, also known simply as, was a Japanese Zen monk and painter who is considered a great master of Japanese ink painting.
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Shikoku
, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.
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Shinbutsu-shūgō
Shinbutsu-shūgō (神仏習合, "syncretism of kami and buddhas"), also called Shinbutsu shū (神仏宗, "kami and buddha school") Shinbutsu-konkō (神仏混淆, "jumbling up" or "contamination of kami and buddhas"), is the syncretism of Shinto and Buddhism that was Japan's main organized religion up until the Meiji period.
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Shinran
Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion & Culture by Esben Andreasen, pp.
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Shinto
Shinto is a religion originating in Japan.
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Siberia
Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as, is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese.
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Social Science Japan Journal
Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering Japan in social scientific perspective, semiannually published by Oxford University Press.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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State Shinto
was Imperial Japan's ideological use of the Japanese folk religion and traditions of Shinto.
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Statelessness
In international law, a stateless person is someone who is "not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law".
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Statistics Bureau (Japan)
The is the statistical agency of Japan, subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).
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Stone Age
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make stone tools with an edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
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Stone tool
Stone tools have been used throughout human history but are most closely associated with prehistoric cultures and in particular those of the Stone Age.
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
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Taishō era
The was a period in the history of Japan dating from 30 July 1912 to 25 December 1926, coinciding with the reign of Emperor Taishō.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Taiwanese people
The term "Taiwanese people" has various interpretations.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Tarō Asō
is a Japanese politician serving as the Vice President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2021.
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Tōdai-ji
is a Buddhist temple complex that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in the city of Nara, Japan.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The Book of Five Rings
is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645.
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The Book of Tea
A Japanese Harmony of Art, Culture, and the Simple Life (1906) by Okakura Kakuzō (1906) is a long essay linking the role of chadō (teaism) to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life and protesting Western caricatures of "the East".
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict compiled from her analyses of Japanese culture during World War II for the U.S. Office of War Information.
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The Korea Times
The Korea Times is a daily English-language newspaper in South Korea.
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The Tale of Genji
, also known as Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman, poet, and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu around the peak of the Heian period, in the early 11th century.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
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Tokugawa clan
The Tokugawa clan (Shinjitai: 徳川氏, Kyūjitai: 德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period.
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Torii Ryūzō
Ryuzo Torii (鳥居龍藏; May 4, 1870 – January 14, 1953) was a Japanese anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist, and folklorist.
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Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Tradition
A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
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Travel literature
The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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Unkei
Unkei (運慶; – 1223) was a Japanese sculptor of the Kei school, which flourished in the Kamakura period.
Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
Waka (poetry)
is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yakushi-ji
is one of the most famous imperial and ancient Buddhist temples in Japan, and was once one of the Seven Great Temples of Nanto, located in Nara.
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Yamato people
The or the David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu:, p. 272: "Wajin," which is written with Chinese characters that can also be read "Yamato no hito" (Yamato person).
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Yasunari Kawabata
was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.
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Yayoi people
The were an ancient people that immigrated to the Japanese archipelago during the Yayoi period (300 BC–300 AD) and are characterized through Yayoi material culture.
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Yayoi period
The started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.
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Yosano Akiko
Yosano Akiko (Shinjitai: 与謝野 晶子, seiji: 與謝野 晶子; 7 December 1878 – 29 May 1942) was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, active in the late Meiji era as well as the Taishō and early Shōwa eras of Japan.
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Yukio Mishima
, born, was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the.
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Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
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