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This is a page to function as a notice board for things that are related to Japan. You are welcome to post a notice here for any question, concern, dispute, poll or proposal you have regarding any Japan or Japan-related topic. You can also find and list new Japan-related articles.

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The next Japanese Collaboration of the Week is Current nominations:

Our aim is to make articles related to Japan featured articles as many as possible!

Articles with featured status: Go (board game) · Imperial Japanese Navy · Japanese toilet ·

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Peer review: Kako River (Japan)
A-class review: None

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Pictures: None
Lists: None

Good article nominations: Pure Japanese, Vinland Saga (TV series), Japanese destroyer Ume (1944), Mai Fujisawa, Godzilla Minus One
Add requested images to articles that need them.
Pages for Deletion: Participate in Japan-related deletion discussions.
Improve and expand Japan-related stubs.
Create some requested articles.
Help translate an article from the Japanese Wikipedia into English.
Assess unassessed articles

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New Featured Article Candidates

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Old candidates:

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- Current consensus is object. Exceedingly unlikely article will become FA. Currently being worked on. Exploding Boy 06:54, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Not a candidate yet, but on Wikipedia:Peer review is Sendai, Miyagi. Please help make this a strong candidate even before it gets to FAC. Fg2 11:06, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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You are encouraged to add your name at List of Japanese wikipedians!

Aphaea. born and live in Japan. active mainly on ja.wp.
ASB Postgraduate religious studies student - specialising in Japanese Buddhism.
Sekicho. US law student with experience in Japan; mostly active in en but occasionally translates to/from ja.
Taku. native Japanese, active in the English edition.
Revmachine21. Native American, born in USA, living in Japan for last 10 years.
Mike H Lived in Japan when my father served in the Navy there. Wrote a stub on Machiko Hasegawa and a bigger article on Sazae-san.
Dave Jenkins Traveled and worked in Japan on-and-off for last 16 years, now living in Tokyo. Gladly publishing GFDL photos at www.davejenkins.com
User:Fg2 Photos of Japan on my user page. Started, contributed to or translated articles connected to geography, history, television, tourism, transportation. My baby, 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake, has had valuable contributions from several other Wikipedians.
mdchachi Lived in Tokyo for almost six years, now back home. Most important contribution to the wiki is my loose socks photo. :) Can read/write Japanese somewhat.
Exploding Boy / エックスプローディング　ボィ. Traveled and lived in Japan, currently reading for a Masters in Japanese literature.
LegolasGreenleaf, Canadian University Student. Interested in participating. Able to read many Japanese publications because they are written with Chinese characters =D. Plan to travel to Japan in the near future. Wants to learn the Language.
LordAmeth - Student of East Asian Studies, lived in Japan for Spring semester 2003, looking to return. Working on mostly history articles.
Atsi Otani Born in USA from Japanese parents, later moved to Japan, now in Sendai working as a translator. Have no idea which language is my native language, although my Japanese vocabulary is slightly larger.
MC MasterChef Assistant Language Teacher with the JET Programme in Karatsu,_Saga; speaks some of the language but reads relatively little.
Mkill Asian Studies student from Germany
CES Native English speaker, non-native Japanese speaker.
Dforest lives in Osaka. Native English and basic understanding of Japanese. Often contribute to food articles.

Wikipedia:Japanese Surname Policy/Proposal

I'd like to draw your attention to the above page. Someone is proposing that the Japanese names be used in Japanese style order. --DannyWilde 09:17, 10 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Question about article title

I've started an article on 鈴木雅明 at Masaki Suzuki. He goes by Masaaki Suzuki in the roman alphabet, but I don't know whether that's a long a or two separate vowels. Can someone tell me? Mark ¹ 16:00, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's two separate vowels. 雅 is "masa" and 明 is "aki". Of course, technically, there's no difference in Japanese between the long vowels and the double vowels - each should take two syllables to say. LordAmeth 18:49, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Mark ¹ 21:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There is of course a difference in pronouncing long vowels and double vowels. The ā in sābisu (service) is pronounced as a long, unbroken vowel, while the double a in Masaaki has a break in it. You can even write it Masa'aki to mark the syllable break. There are many more examples such es kawaī vs. gi'in (Parliament) -- Mkill 01:12, 19 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how differently the Japanese pronounce them in practice... and while I agree that an apostrophe is possible in some romanization systems, it's not a part of Wikipedia Hepburn, so it's best to avoid it here. WP's Hepburn would result in writing shūgiingiin'un'eiiinkai (衆議院議員運営委員会, the equivalent of the US House Rules Committee, I think) with just two apostrophes, despite a triple and two double vowels! (I hope I got it right...) Fg2 07:08, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 * [[User:Atsi_Otani|Atsi Otani]]  Born in USA from Japanese parents, later moved to Japan, now in [[Sendai, Miyagi|Sendai]] working as a translator.  Have no idea which language is my native language, although my Japanese vocabulary is slightly larger.
 * [[User:MC MasterChef|MC MasterChef]] [[Assistant Language Teacher]] with the [[JET Programme]] in [[Karatsu,_Saga]]; speaks some of the language but reads relatively little.
-* [[User:DannyWilde|DannyWilde]] lives in [[Tsukuba]].
 * [[User:Mkill|Mkill]] Asian Studies student from Germany
 * [[User:CES|CES]] Native English speaker, non-native Japanese speaker.