Talk:Japan

Etymology

The Mandarin word for Japan as pronounced in South China is 'Ze-pen'; and in Min (Fujian) language is 'Jih-pun'. The Portuguese could have first heard these names during their trades with South China and not from the Malays (je-pun/ je-pang). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.82.92.139 (talk) 14:44, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Japanese Involvement in WWII

Why not explore Japanese involvement in the World War II in a little bit more detail? Japan started the war and that should be clearly noted in the article. WalukHailey (talk) 20:24, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

I thought Germany started the WWII —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.34.220.64 (talk) 23:20, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Germany started it. -Sioraf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.92.20 (talk) 19:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Unless you count the Japanese invasion of Manchuria as the start of WW2. --74.192.62.62 (talk) 16:10, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Which many scholars do. Canterbury Tail talk 16:12, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Why not the Treaty of Versailles. Seriously, this isn't the place for detailed discussions of WWII or any other conflict. Leave it as is. John Smith's (talk) 00:39, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

With the "incident at the Marco-Polo-Brigde" on 7.7.1937, Japan invaded China and thereby started WWII. After that date there was permanent fighting till the capitulation of Japan in August 1945. TO count the September 1939 as the beginning of WWII is eurocentric, it would be useful to add this fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.43.173.138 (talk) 21:11, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

If anything that event started the Second Sino-Japanese War more than anything else and that in a long series of Sino-Japanese conflicts that existed long before hand. At the end of the day like the many people above have stated there is more than one cause of WWII and focusing on a single one is highly debatable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_World_War_II

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

"From 1937 to 1941, China fought alone with limited foreign help. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front in the Pacific Theatre." OneiroPhobia (talk) 12:49, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup Needed

This article suffers from a plethora of unverifiable paragraphs and claims with no references. --Ublaszak (talk) 16:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Such as.....? John Smith's (talk) 00:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

most japanese people have black hair —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.77.121.159 (talk) 05:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

In the common era, there are claims from China of the rape and violent inhuman assaults Japapanese soldiers had commited in world war 2. Modern Japanese unknown to this fact and claim that these events had not happen. China has crystal evidence to these events and photographs, but this is still unclaimed to Japan for all history of attacks in the WW2 has been not recorded all except ,pearl harbor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.7.213.7 (talk) 15:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Natural Disasters?

Could someone talk about natural disasters and put it into the article? I looked all over the web for info and could not find anything.

Sniper120 (talk) 22:38, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Tokyo 1890

Hello to evetybody. I'm writing an article about Tokyo in my native Wikipedia and now analyzing Tokyo's population (from the official site of the city). In 1890 there was a big decrease in population (-141 880 people). What happened then? This number is even bigger than after the earthquake in 1923. But I can't find this in the Internet. Maybe it concerns the war between China and Japan in 1894? SZ(谢尔盖) (talk) 19:18, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Probably because of the change of the administrative units and establishment of Tokyo City. See also History of Tokyo. Could you provide the official page you saw? Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 19:57, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

The official page of the Metropolis Tokyo is [1]]SZ(谢尔盖) (talk) 07:59, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I know the official site. What I want to see is the exact page of population you were referring above. I tried, but the site was too large to find the past population page. Oda Mari (talk) 08:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

IMHO, with the establishment of Tokyo City in 1889, they started to count only people in Tokyo City, excluding people living in other areas in Tokyo Fu/prefecture in 1890. Oda Mari (talk) 09:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much. This is an xls-document. After having entered the site click Statistical Data and then Tokyo Statistical Yearbook and after that Population 2007. Then download the first Excel-book (Growth of Population)SZ(谢尔盖) (talk) 12:06, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. I saw the Excel file. Hmm...sorry, but I have no idea. I try to find what happened that year. Maybe I'd call them and ask after the holidays next week. Oda Mari (talk) 15:15, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

I see. I have a congecture. Since 1889 there was Tokyo-prefecture (東京府, Tokyo-Fu) and Tokyo-City (東京市, Tokyo-She). But in 1943, during World war II, Tokyo-prefecture and Tokyo-City were united and created Metropolis Tokyo (東京都). Am I right? (PS. Are you Japanese)? SZ(谢尔盖) (talk) 20:16, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Was there a change in boundaries? If some land was transferred to a neighboring prefecture such as Saitama or Kanagawa, the population would change. Fg2 (talk) 22:38, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I am Japanese. According to this page, the population of 15 wards of Tokyo City was 1626103 in 1908, but the page you provided says the population was 2677500 in 1908. Therefore it's likely that the excel page shows the Tokyo Fu population. So probably the 1890 population on that page is the total population of Tokyo Fu too. It makes me puzzled more. As far as I know, nothing particular happened in the year. Oda Mari (talk) 07:13, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I called them and they said there was some calculating mistake the year before and they balanced the number in 1890. That is why the reason of the large decreased number. But they said the details are unknown. Remember, as mentioned on the top of the list in Japanese, they counted the number by koseki before 1920. So the population during that time is excluded those who were living in Tokyo but had no koseki and included those who were not living in Tokyo but had koseki in Tokyo . Therefore the number is not precise. Oda Mari (talk) 13:14, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much. SZ(谢尔盖) (talk) 19:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Psychoanalysis in Japan

• International Psychoanalytical Association, Japan Psychoanalytic Society, [2], [3]. I think it should be briefly mentioned. Where and how best?

Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.180 (talk) 10:52, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Difficult question. Japan has too many professional and academic societies to name in the article Japan, so we should look for a more specific article. Another approach would be to start an article on Psychoanalysis in Japan. If you ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan you'll reach a lot of editors who may be able to suggest something appropriate. Best regards, Fg2 (talk) 11:27, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

A more specific article could be Psychoanalysis and Culture; there is a place for other countries, too, for example India.

Greetings, Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.180 (talk) 08:24, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Some famous people??

Some famous people from Japan?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohannaiw (talk • contribs) 17:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, there are quite a few. Anyone listed in Category:Japanese people (and its subcategories) are notable enough to have articles here. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

6852 islands?

The Japanese Wiki version says there are 6852 islands [[4]]. Is this correct? Wakablogger (talk) 00:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I think it's correct. At least Japan Coast Guard says so. See 海の相談室 豆知識(4) on this page. Oda Mari (talk) 01:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

That article also says that there are 971 islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, 605 in Kagoshima Prefecture, and 508 in Hokkaidō. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:16, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Spam filter

Hello. I just tried to undo an accidental revert, but was unable to because it said it triggered the spam filter (rollback worked though). The link was to moneyweek, and as best I can tell, the reference that triggered it is reference #70. I'm not sure what exactly should be done about it, but I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention. Cheers! Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 22:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

Official language

While browsing, I found Japan to make English as Official language, published in English edition of Yomiuri Shimbun, Date unknown. [5]--UserChiba (talk) 16:21, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh my god, I think that was a April fool post. --UserChiba (talk) 16:24, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Mixed Martial Arts On Sports

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is very popular in Japan. Many promotions such as Pride Fight Championships, Dream, and Sengoku have attracted crowds of 40,000+ and a paragraph about MMA should be included in the Japan article as Mixed Martial Arts are heavily tied into the Japanese culture and MMA has a substantial market over there. Besides baseball MMA to my knowledge is one of the largest sports over there and the article on Japan's sports is severely lacking without addressing this topic.

Hendo92 (talk) 04:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)