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• Frank Hawley
  ...attending Liverpool University, Hawley moved to Japan to become an English language teacher at the Tokyo School of Foreign Languages in 1931. After some time a ...tbreak of World War II, he returned to England, where he attended Japanese language training at the University of London, worked for the BBC, and traveled to W
  3 KB (386 words) - 03:34, 2 December 2014
• Nakamura Hironari
  *''Japanese'': [[中村]]博愛 ''(Nakamura Hironari)'' ...time at the [[han school|domain school]] in Kagoshima, and later served as Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark.
  1 KB (147 words) - 03:21, 25 October 2015
• Maehira Bosho
  *''Japanese'': [[真栄平]] 房昭 ''(Maehira Bôshô)''<ref>Not to be confused with [ ...cy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]] known in particular as an English-language interpreter.
  1 KB (141 words) - 01:10, 20 March 2017
• Northern Wei Dynasty
  ...Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language Usage, and Transmission," PhD thesis, University of Sheffield (2018), 124.< *Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 84-85.
  3 KB (522 words) - 03:02, 12 April 2020
• Aragami
  * Language: Japanese
  1 KB (209 words) - 20:44, 1 June 2008
• Vasily Golovnin
  ...a Rinzô]] and other Japanese scholars and explorers, teaching them Russian language, and information about Europe, and learning about Japan in return. ...entitled "Navigation in Japanese coastal waters and negotiations with the Japanese government" as a supplement to Golovnin's account.
  1 KB (172 words) - 07:24, 8 July 2020
• Ashura (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Ashura-jo no Hitomi''' * Language: Japanese
  1 KB (208 words) - 00:49, 4 February 2007
• Naata Ufushu
  ..." in [[Japanese language|Japanese]]. ''Ufushu'' (''Ôshu'' or ''Ônushi'' in Japanese) is not a name, but rather means "great leader."</ref> was born on [[Hateru
  3 KB (462 words) - 07:39, 13 November 2019
• Abe Clan (Movie)
  Japanese Title: '''Abe Ichizoku''' (阿部一族) * Language: Japanese
  1 KB (231 words) - 07:13, 22 January 2007
• Sho In
  *''Titles'': 宜野湾王子 ''(J: Ginowan ôji, [[Okinawan language|O]]: Jinon wuuji, Prince Ginowan)'' *''Japanese'': [[尚]] 寅 ''(Shô In)''
  1 KB (144 words) - 20:33, 1 February 2020
• Richard Cocks
  ...ne occasion.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lo ...ith Company business in a number of ways, chiefly as a tutor of [[Japanese language]] for the English staff. While the two were separated for a time, she conti
  3 KB (466 words) - 03:31, 7 October 2019
• Okinawan language
  ...hompson, Robin]]. ''The Music of Ryukyu''. ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p304.</ref> ...jin dialect, spoken in Northern Okinawa, and sometimes called the Kunigami language or dialect, takes its name from [[Nakijin]], the former capital of the nort
  12 KB (1,835 words) - 14:10, 31 January 2020
• Japanese Christians in Hawaii
  ...d practices, the earliest Buddhist temples to be established by or for the Japanese community in Hawaii came only after the establishment of a number of Christ ...prominent Japanese Christian leaders of missionizing efforts aimed at the Japanese community there.
  3 KB (489 words) - 18:48, 19 October 2014
• Christovao Ferreira
  ...to marry a Japanese wife and, seemingly, lead a happy life as a member of Japanese society. ...r executed as a criminal. The account ends by saying that Ferreira and his Japanese wife do not get along well. It seems rather unlikely, however, that he woul
  1 KB (229 words) - 20:43, 9 April 2017
• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
  *''Japanese'': [[柳沢]]吉保 ''(Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu)'' ...colloquial Chinese which served as the basis for Sorai's own study of the language. When the Chinese monk [[Yuefeng Daozhang]] was interviewed by Tsunayoshi i
  5 KB (694 words) - 06:51, 19 June 2020
• Sessei
  *Japanese/Okinawan: 摂政 ''(sessei/shisshi)'' ...the position is not quite the same, and is not derived originally from the Japanese model or system.
  4 KB (543 words) - 12:06, 7 January 2017
• Kaseda
  *''Japanese'': 加世田 ''(Kaseda)'' ...od, it was one of a handful of places within [[Satsuma han]] where Chinese-language interpreters were stationed, serving both commercial purposes, and to help
  1 KB (172 words) - 03:29, 29 September 2017
• Ryukyu gashi
  *''Japanese'': 琉球画誌 ''(Ryuukyuu gashi)'' ...wise during that time. The last few pages of the volume discuss [[Okinawan language]], [[Ryukyuan court ranks]], banners carried in the processions, etc.
  3 KB (451 words) - 23:21, 27 April 2017
• Matsuura Kasho
  *''Japanese'': [[松浦]] 霞沼 ''(Matsuura Kashou)'' ...heard of him. Incidentally, Matsuura did not speak or understand [[Korean language]], and communicated with the Koreans either through Amenomori, who served a
  1 KB (168 words) - 03:30, 7 October 2019
• Asaka Tanpaku
  *''Japanese'': 安積澹泊 ''(Asaka Tanpaku)'' ...a student of [[Zhu Shunsui]], learning both vernacular (spoken) [[Chinese language|Chinese]] and the reading of the [[Confucian classics]] in Chinese pronunci
  1 KB (167 words) - 07:48, 19 June 2020

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