| *David Noble translates 中華 as "central flowering." - Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', 38. | | *David Noble translates 中華 as "central flowering." - Mitani Hiroshi, David Noble (trans.), ''Escape from Impasse'', 38. |
− | *The population of Okinawa prefecture is around 1.3 million, the same as the State of Hawaii. (Pearson, 8.; ''Hawaii'', Lonely Planet (2009), 52.)
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| *In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67. | | *In Meiji, as part of trying to make Japan look as civilized as Europe, European titles are adopted - [[Lord of the Privy Seal]] is basically just the position of [[naidaijin]], reinvented. - Ben Ami Shillony, "Restoration, Emperor, Diet, Prefecture, or: How Japanese Concepts were Mistranslated into Western Languages," Collected Writings of Ben-Ami Shillony, 67. |