The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん) and Nippon (にっぽん). They...

Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no Shimei, Nihonjin no Seimei, Nihonjin no Namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed...

Japanese place names include names for geographic features, present and former administrative divisions, transportation facilities such as railroad stations...

Japanese system is independent of the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese era name systems. Unlike its other Sinosphere counterparts, Japanese era names are...

the Standardization of Geographical Names. The Japanese government supports the exclusive use of the name "Sea of Japan" (Japanese: 日本海), while South Korea...

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, and is bordered on the west...

A Japanese Accepted Name (JAN) is the official non-proprietary or generic name given to a pharmaceutical substance by the government of Japan. International...

This article contains lists of named passenger trains in Japan. Rail transport in Japan JR Timetable, December 2008 ＪＲ新幹線＆特急列車ファイル (JR Shinkansen & Limited...

to minor temples. Examples of temple names that have these suffixes are Kiyomizu-dera, Enryaku-ji and Kōtoku-in. The Japanese word for a Buddhist temple...

emperor of Japan is the hereditary monarch and head of state of Japan. The emperor is defined by the Constitution of Japan as the symbol of the Japanese state...

Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle)...

Geography of Japan Japanese archipelago List of islands of Japan by area List of islands Names of Japan Kojo, Hirotaka (February 15, 2023). "Japan has more than...

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character...

Yuri (ゆり, ユリ) is a Japanese given name. Although it sounds similar, it is completely unrelated to the Slavic name Yuri. Yuri can be written using different...

The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon...

A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) is the set of names by which an individual person or...

names requires a legal process. When people marry or divorce, the legal aspects of changing names may be simplified or included, so that the new name...

names on street signs and passports and in dictionaries and textbooks for foreign learners of the language. It is also used to transliterate Japanese...

Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters...

developed Japanese designs, licensed variants of foreign designs, and foreign-produced aircraft that served in the military of Japan. Japanese names are used...

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration...

use more desirable characters (大養徳) (see Names of Japan). The final revision was made in the second year of the Tenpyō-hōji era (c. 758). It is classified...

The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs...

Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations...

of Japan ISO 3166-2 codes for Japan List of prefectural governors in Japan Flags of Japanese prefectures Provinces of Japan List of regions of Japan Government...

Ai is a Japanese and Chinese given name. In Japanese, it is almost always used as a feminine Japanese given name, written as あい in hiragana, アイ in katakana...

X Japan (Japanese: エックス・ジャパン, Hepburn: Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer and pianist Yoshiki and lead vocalist...

War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft were reporting names, often described as codenames, given by Allied personnel to Imperial Japanese aircraft during...

demographics of Japan include birth and death rates, age distribution, population density, ethnicity, education level, healthcare system of the populace...

it. Municipalities of Japan List of villages in Japan List of cities in Japan Japanese addressing system "Large City System of Japan"; graphic shows towns...