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WikiProject Japan (Talk)
Founded: 18 March 2006 (19 years and 22 days ago) Articles: 96,329 (190 featured)
Shortcuts WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
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Child projects Anime and manga (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Sumo, Trains/New)
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Recognition {{WPJ-Barnsensu}} (recipients)   {{WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0}} (recipients)   {{The Japan Barnstar of National Merit}} (recipients)   {{The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor}} (recipients)
Templates {{WikiProject Japan}}   {{Japan current era date}}   {{Japanese}}   {{nihongo}}   {{Nihongo2}}   {{Nihongo3}}   {{Nihongo foot}}   {{Needhiragana}}   {{Needkanji}}
Userboxes {{User WikiProject Japan}}   {{User WP Japan}}
Project parentage Asia, Countries, East Asia, Geography
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FAR notice

I have nominated Surrender of Japan for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 22:11, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Authority control - Japan-related items

Hello, a discussion has been started here about the possibility of a new authority control parameter that would facilitate the addition of Japan-specific wikidata properties to be results; this would then return, eg, a link to Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System in authority control. Here are (some/all of) the Japan-related properties at the moment, so that we can formulate a list of those to be added if and when this is approved/implemented; thanks, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 09:32, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Mashin Sentai Kiramager

There's an ongoing discussion regarding the inclusion of the executive producers on the Mashin Sentai Kiramager article. It can be found at Talk:Mashin Sentai Kiramager#Executive producers. Feedback from project members would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:55, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Fires on the Plain (novel)#Requested move 24 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Fires on the Plain (novel)#Requested move 24 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 07:44, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Kōhaku maku

This supposed mid-important stub has been unsourced for 15 years. Please add reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 03:04, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Statue of Unicorn Gundam

Statue of Unicorn Gundam is at AfD, if any project members are interested in weighing in or improving the article. Thanks! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 13:42, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Ibaraki Airport § Splitting proposal

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ibaraki Airport § Splitting proposal, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. Aviationwikiflight (talk) 15:20, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Kenzaburo Hara (legislator)#Requested move 26 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Kenzaburo Hara (legislator)#Requested move 26 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 13:03, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:MLB Tokyo Series 2025#Requested move 18 March 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:MLB Tokyo Series 2025#Requested move 18 March 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 00:12, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

OpenHistory

I have noticed that many articles use OpenHistory.org as a source some only with the phrase "This article incorporates text from OpenHistory." Is this an official wikipedia thing? The website is inactive, with the last update to content being from 2006 and the encyclopedia has a disclaimer. If text is being used there might also be a plagiarism because the specific text isn't marked. DrGlef (talk) 12:55, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

@DrGlef, it looks questionable given its splash page. It seems to be written by a person named Chris Spackman who wanted to create "his own encyclopedia.". The "About" section looks as though it may be authored by one person: I (Chris Spackman) studied Asian History at the University of Hawaii after getting a B.A. in History from Loyola in New Orleans. I came to Japan on the JET Program in July 1995 and was soon looking around for a way to continue my studies while living in inaka. Somewhere along the line I got the idea of starting an online encyclopedia of historical information--partly to learn html and partly as a way of furthering my studies. so I think it is a user-submitted content blog, and that would make it unreliable. You could also start a discussion at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard.

Could you please add some diffs so one can understand how it is being used? Netherzone (talk) 15:44, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Abe Masakatsu is a good example. Sometimes Spackman's encyclopedia is cited normally, such as Adachi Kagemori despite that Spackman describes the latest version as "alpha quality". It is available on Amazon, where the one review says that it copies wikipedia. It is probably the other way around. I don't think the print versions are published by Spackman. He published it with a GNU license. DrGlef (talk) 16:39, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Kurosawa Tokiko

If anyone here has access to a copy of either Laura Nenzi, The chaos and cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One woman's transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan (ISBN 978-0-8248-3957-4) or 湯浅由三著、『時代に創られた偉人黒澤止幾子伝と渾沌』 (ISBN 9784344928213), and some interest in late Edo society, primary education or feminism, they might be able to improve the new article Kurosawa Tokiko (about a person whose very names are unclear). -- Hoary (talk) 05:04, 9 April 2025 (UTC)