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• Ryukyuan religion
  ...d fortune), as represented in a museum display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]. Also seen here are a ''[[shisa]]'' (lion) and ''[[hari]]'' (drag ...tices which many suggest likely grew out of similar or shared origins with Japanese Shinto, though others argue strongly that such ideas have colonialist and O
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• Anglo-Japanese Convention of 1854
  The Anglo-Japanese Convention of [[1854]] was an agreement signed by British Rear Admiral Sir ...y the process of interpretation across multiple languages, resulted in the Japanese initiating negotiations towards a fuller treaty with the British, which wou
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• Tsushima
  *''Japanese'': 対馬 ''(Tsushima)'' ...ushima province]], and was one of the "eight islands" referred to when the Japanese archipelago was referred to as ''[[Alternate historical names for Japan|Yas
  6 KB (939 words) - 10:11, 21 July 2022
• Xu Baoguang
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': [[徐]] 葆光 ''(Xú Bǎoguāng / Jo Hokou)'' ...om Changzhou in [[Jiangsu province]]. His ''[[Chinese names|zi]]'' (J: ''[[Japanese names|azana]]'') was Liàng zhí. He was ''tanhua'' (third-highest scoring)
  5 KB (756 words) - 13:21, 31 March 2018
• Zheng Chenggong
  ...ly, "Lord bearing the National [i.e. Imperial] Surname") historically, the Japanese play ''The Battles of Coxinga'' changes this to 国性爺 (roughly, "Lord b *''Chinese/Japanese'': [[鄭]]成功 ''(Zhèng Chéng gōng / Tei Seikou)''
  5 KB (785 words) - 07:49, 22 June 2020
• Qin Shihuangdi
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': [[秦]]始皇帝 ''(Qín shǐ huáng dì / shin shi koutei)'' ...is brief reign, he established standardized systems of weights & measures, language, and currency, as well as the geographical/political divisions of provinces
  5 KB (785 words) - 21:46, 3 March 2018
• Okinawans in Hawaii
  ...in the islands, and cultivate a distinctive and separate identity from the Japanese-American community. ...rganic Acts passed by the US Congress had outlawed contract labor, freeing Japanese and Okinawan plantation workers alike (along with those of Chinese, Korean,
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• Philipp Franz von Siebold
  ...rough various publications introduced Europeans to a variety of aspects of Japanese culture and knowledge, in many cases for the first time. ...uilt a greenhouse on Dejima, where he raised hydrangeas, hostas, and other Japanese plants, adapting them to European soil and conditions; Siebold also smuggle
  7 KB (980 words) - 08:25, 18 July 2020
• Burma
  *''Japanese'': ビルマ ''(biruma)'' ...representing Burma as a tributary, however, they also reveal that Burmese language and practice often did not accord to the idealized deferential behavior: Bu
  6 KB (898 words) - 12:48, 31 March 2018
• Utaki
  ''Utaki'' are known as ''on'' in the [[Yaeyama language]]. ...|Thompson, Robin]]. "The Music of Ryukyu." ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. pp305-306.
  5 KB (830 words) - 01:01, 4 April 2020
• Torihara Soan
  *''Japanese'': 鳥原宗安 ''(Torihara Souan)'' ...ile Sôan’s translator, a native of Nanjing, is given in the records by his Japanese name, Jirôsan <!--次良三-->. Much of this crew had served with Sôan be
  6 KB (988 words) - 08:35, 16 February 2020
• Micronesia
  *''Japanese'': 南洋 ''(nan'you)'', 南洋群島 ''(nan'you guntou)'' ...eas archipelago") was ruled as a Japanese colony from 1914 until 1944. The Japanese first gained control of Micronesia as part of treaty conditions following W
  13 KB (2,097 words) - 22:59, 28 October 2014
• Treaty of Amity (Ryukyu-US)
  *''Japanese'': 琉米修好条約 ''(Ryuu-Bei shuukou jouyaku)'' ...E7%90%89%E7%B1%B3%E4%BF%AE%E5%A5%BD%E6%9D%A1%E7%B4%84 琉米修好条約], Wikisource (Japanese).</ref>
  6 KB (960 words) - 01:57, 2 February 2016
• Okakura Kakuzo
  *''Japanese'': 岡倉覚三 ''(Okakura Kakuzou)'' ...a canon of Japanese art. He was also a prominent advocate for traditional Japanese art and culture, and a proponent of caution against Westernizing too quickl
  6 KB (1,018 words) - 03:06, 6 March 2018
• Fuzhou
  *''Chinese/Japanese'': 福州 ''(Fúzhōu; Fukushuu)'' ...[Tang Dynasty]]. As the chief city in the region of [[Minnan]] culture and language, the city is sometimes known as Mǐn. It is also sometimes known as Róngch
  7 KB (1,092 words) - 13:05, 31 March 2018
• Nurhachi
  ...to aid the Ming Dynasty in defending Korea against the [[Korean Invasions|Japanese invasions]], and the Ming bestowed upon him a number of titles in return fo ...visions of society. Nurhachi also developed a written form for the Jurchen language.
  6 KB (889 words) - 23:10, 7 May 2015
• Yaeyama Islands
  *''Japanese'': 八重山諸島 ''(Yaeyama shotô)'' .... For example, while the [[Yayoi culture]] dominant throughout much of the Japanese archipelago around the 11th century BCE to the 3rd century CE extended as f
  13 KB (1,993 words) - 09:15, 30 August 2021
• Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu
  ...cy is also frequently mistakenly referred to as ''samuree'', an [[Okinawan language|Okinawanization]] of the word "samurai." In truth, though the kingdom certa
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• Basil Hall
  ...ourned in Ryûkyû from September 15 to October 27, 1816 (8/24 to 9/7 on the Japanese/Ryukyuan calendar). ''Fusei dayû'' [[Nakijin Choei|Nakijin Chôei]] (Shô ...nd published a number of noteworthy books about Japan.<ref>Kikuchi Yuko, ''Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory'', Routledge (2004), 142.</ref>
  6 KB (932 words) - 20:47, 9 April 2017
• Petition box
  *''Japanese'': 訴状箱 ''(sojoubako)'', 目安箱 ''(meyasubako)'' The ''[[Nihon shoki]]'' indicates that a Japanese emperor may have implemented a petition box system as early as [[646]]. [[E
  7 KB (1,169 words) - 23:41, 22 July 2014

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