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...

Kultur der Japaner (State and Culture of the Japanese). Bielefeld, Leipzig: Velhagen & Klasing 1907. Die Japaner in der Weltwirtschaft (The Japanese in the...

Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million...

Anime (Japanese: アニメ, IPA: [aꜜɲime] ) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside Japan and in English, anime refers...

spoken mainly in Japan Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and...

militarism in Japan, and it was preceded by events including the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, Spanish Civil War, outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, and...

Tokyo (/ˈtoʊkioʊ/; Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous...

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the...

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 in...

Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced...

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and...

"Japanese, Japanese, Japanese, Japanese all over" (Japaner, japaner, japaner, överallt japaner) during the final minutes as the Japanese defenders held...

originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The...

represents Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. Until...

writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language. Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names—family name...

Japan Standard Time (日本標準時, Nihon Hyōjunji, JST), or Japan Central Standard Time (中央標準時, Chūō Hyōjunji, JCST), is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours...

Yoshiwara (German:Yoshiwara, die Liebesstadt der Japaner) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Arthur Bergen and starring Lya Mara and Heinrich Schroth...

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized...

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

in Japan. Cultural Properties of Japan National Treasures of Japan Cultural Landscapes of Japan National parks of Japan Kashimagari Tunnel "Japan". UNESCO...

Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan. Forming one of the military branches of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces...

Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war. The Second Sino-Japanese War between the Empire of Japan and the...

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until...

This is a list of current and defunct automobile manufacturers of Japan. Ales (see Otomo) Asahi (1937–c.1939) Aspark (2014–present) Atsuta (1930s) Autobacs...

The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. The Jōmon period, named after...

The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after...

Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.4%...

United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority...

'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime...

Postal codes in Japan are 7-digit numeric codes using the format NNN-NNNN, where N is a digit. The first two digits refer to one of the 47 prefectures...