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...
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written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called the people of the Japanese archipelago something like "ˀWâ" (倭), which...
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the continuation of a harmonious community over their personal interests. The kanji character wa (和) is also a name for "Japan; Japanese", replacing the...
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language code wa) Wa (Japan) (和), an old Chinese name for Japan Wa Land, the natural and historical region inhabited mainly by the Wa people in Myanmar...
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Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa.) is a 2016 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix...
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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...
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Wa country may refer to: Wa States, the country of the Wa people Wa (Japan), the oldest recorded name of Japan This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Your Name (Japanese: 君の名は。, Hepburn: Kimi no Na wa) is a Japanese light novel written by Makoto Shinkai. It is a novelization of the animated film of the...
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The Civil War of Wa or Great Rebellion of Wa (倭国大乱, wakoku tairan) was a period of disturbances and warfare in ancient Japan (Wa) during the late Yayoi...
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Wa (hiragana: わ, katakana: ワ) is one of the Japanese kana, which each represent one mora. The combination of a W-column kana letter with わ゙ in hiragana...
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insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte...
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kings of Wa. Some compare him to the 18th Emperor Hanzei. Book of Liang In the Book of Liang, the article on Japan states that after the death of the Japanese...
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known in China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters...
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Hikari no Wa or The Circle of Rainbow Light (光の輪, literally "Circle of Light") is a Japanese new religious movement started in 2007. It was founded by...
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You Are Ms. Servant (redirect from Kimi wa Meido-sama.)
You Are Ms. Servant (Japanese: 君は冥土様。, Hepburn: Kimi wa Meido-sama), stylised as You Are Ms. servant, is Japanese manga series written and illustrated...
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Blue House (redirect from Chong Wa Dae)
were demolished. In July 1939, Japan built an official residence/office for the governor-general on the site of Cheong Wa Dae. Even after liberation following...
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2024 Noto earthquake (redirect from 2024 Sea of Japan earthquake)
Sea of Japan']. Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 2 January 2024. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2024. "Tsunami wa Ishikawa...
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Futari wa Pretty Cure (ふたりはプリキュア, Futari wa Purikyua, lit. "We Are Pretty Cure"), known as Pretty Cure outside Japan, is a Japanese anime television series...
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Yamatai (redirect from Kingdom of Yamatai)
the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period (c. 1,000 BCE – c. 300 CE). The Chinese text Records of the Three...
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t e Bu of Wa (武) was a Japanese king in the late 5th century (middle Kofun era). Son of Sai of Wa and brother of Ko of Wa, he was the last of the "Five...
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five kings of Wa (倭の五王, Wa no go ō) were kings of ancient Japan who sent envoys to China during the 5th century to strengthen the legitimacy of their claims...
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Waka (poetry) (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
written as 和歌, in the past it was also written as 倭歌 (see Wa, an old name for Japan), and a variant name is yamato-uta (大和歌). The word waka has two different...
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Koyuki (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
1976), better known by her stage name Koyuki (小雪), is a Japanese model and actress best known for the drama Kimi wa Petto and the film The Last Samurai...
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Himiko (category Aristocracy of ancient Japan)
period people chose her as ruler following decades of warfare among the kings of Wa. Early Japanese histories do not mention Himiko, but historians associate...
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written mentions of Japan were in Chinese records, where it was referred to as Wa (倭 later 和), which later evolved into the Japanese name of Wakoku (倭國)....
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teachers of Japanese emphasize the "speaking of X" pattern without sufficient warning. ジョン JON は wa 学生 gakusei です。 desu ジョン は 学生 です。 JON wa gakusei desu...
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The Wa people (Wa: Vāx; Burmese: ဝလူမျိုး, [wa̰ lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 佤族; pinyin: Wǎzú; Thai: ว้า) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in...
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War – The First Kiss That Never Ends (category CS1 uses Japanese-language script (ja))
That Never Ends (Japanese: かぐや様は告らせたい-ファーストキッスは終わらない-, Hepburn: Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Fāsuto Kissu wa Owaranai) is a 2022 Japanese animated romantic...
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"Wajinden," he was one of the five kings of Wa (an ancient name for Japan) and became the crown prince after the death of his father, King Sai. He was sent as...
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