Portal talk:Japan

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The Japan Portal is a featured portal, which means it has been identified as one of the best portals on Wikipedia. If you see a way this portal can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute.

Portal milestones
Date	Process	Result
July 15, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
September 28, 2008	Featured portal candidate	Promoted

Current status: Featured portal

Japan

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Japan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Japan-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project, participate in relevant discussions, and see lists of open tasks. Current time in Japan: 12:35, November 5, 2024 (JST, Reiwa 6) (Refresh)JapanWikipedia:WikiProject JapanTemplate:WikiProject JapanJapan-related articles

WikiProject Japan to do list:

Peer review: None
A-class review: None

Featured content candidates –

Articles: None
Pictures: None
Lists: None

Good article nominations: Vinland Saga (TV series), 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

Countries

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WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

Asia

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East Asia (defunct)

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Portals

(Rated FPo-class)

	This page is a portal. Portals are within the scope of WikiProject Portals, a collaborative effort to improve portals on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PortalsWikipedia:WikiProject PortalsTemplate:WikiProject PortalsPortals articles
FPo	This portal has been rated as FPo-Class on the project's quality scale.
???	This portal has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	See also: List of Portals
	This portal is not manually maintained. However, please contact Nihonjoe when you plan to make significant changes. This portal's subpages have been checked by an editor, and are needed. Please take care when editing, especially if using automated editing software, and seek consensus before making major changes. Learn how to update the maintenance information here. (June 2018)

Memorial effort

Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The creator of this portal, User:Fg2, has recently died. I and some other editors have decided that we would try to improve an article, with luck to FA, in his memorial. As per the most recent issue of the Wikipedia Signpost, the article chosen is Mount Fuji. I believe we would all welcome any input from anyone else who wants to create a fitting memorial for this editor. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 14:01, 13 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

Frequency words list

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello, may you help to expand the articles Word lists by frequency, if I remember well, Japan also have its own frequency list.

Yug (talk) 19:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Cross-links between Japan and Portal:Japan

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

I feel that Wikipedia benefits if people are encouraged to explore. Thus Wikipedia would surely benefit from mutual (cross) links between Portal:Japan, Japan, and maybe also Outline of Japan, but surely it's best to get a consensus before going ahead and adding hatnote links. LittleBen (talk) 04:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Portal:Japan already links to Japan right on the main page. If you want to add links to the portal from Japan-related articles, you can add {{portal|Japan}} to the page in the "See also" section of the article. ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 04:33, 27 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Hatlink added to Japan on Aug. 24 has increased page views, but still quite low. LittleBen (talk) 17:03, 11 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Transformation belt

Latest comment: 11 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Could you someone knowledgeable about Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, etc. look at this: Template:Did you know nominations/Z Densetsu: Owarinaki Kakumei. The reviewer asks to add a definition of a transformation belt. The articles 変身ベルト and 変身 (ヒーロー) in the Japanese Wikipedia don't have a definition. --Moscow Connection (talk) 16:48, 16 January 2013 (UTC)Reply

Hotaru no Hikari

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I see some comments in the talk pages expressing disagreement with the decision to merge Hotaru no Hikari into Auld Lang Syne. I will be happy to see the article separated, but if anyone with time wants to take a stab at reversing this decision, that would be great since it would make more sense to me. --Makkachin (talk) 06:10, 23 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Sakuradani Light Railway

Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I am very interested in jp:桜谷軽便鉄道 and hope that someone could translate at least parts of this article into Sakuradani Light Railway. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 17:43, 13 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

Iwao Yamawaki

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Would someone who speaks Japanese be kind enough to improve the page on photographer Iwao Yamawaki. The page was created in 2007 but has very little information. There is a Japanese wikipedia page for him which seems to have a bit more detail and it would be useful if someone could translate its contents and refs.Felixkrater (talk) 12:03, 8 January 2017 (UTC)Reply

Notice from the Portals WikiProject

Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion

WikiProject Portals is back!

The project was rebooted and completely overhauled on April 17th, 2018. Its goals are to revitalize the entire portal system, make building and maintaining portals easier, support the ongoing improvement of portals and the editors dedicated to this, and design the portals of the future.

As of May 2nd, 2018, membership is at 60 editors, and growing. You are welcome to join us.

There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

Tools are provided for building and maintaining portals, including automated portals that update themselves in various ways.

And, if you are bored and would like something to occupy your mind, we have a wonderful task list.

From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 07:34, 2 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

@The Transhumanist 70.57.34.118 (talk) 20:53, 20 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Proposal to delete all portals

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Proposal to delete Portal space. Voceditenore (talk) 15:58, 22 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Article selection criteria

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Posting the following criteria here in a conspicuous area, to increase the likelihood of editors seeing it. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:10, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Copied from Portal:Japan/Selected article: "Feel free to add Japan related Featured, A-Class, or Good articles"

Recognized content

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Section has been moved to Portal:Japan/Recognized content. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:58, 20 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

2020 portal updates

Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The following updates have been performed to the Japan portal in 2020. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 20:07, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Updated the Selected biography section of the portal using Template:Transclude random excerpt, which provides readers with current, up-to-date information that is verbatim to that in articles. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion. Used selections moved to the main portal page from Portal:Japan/Selected biography.
Expanded the portal, added more GA-class articles to the Selected biography section: Ariwara no Narihira, Kusumoto Ine, Eir Aoi, Hiroh Kikai, Satoshi Kon, Rieko Kodama, Utagawa Toyoharu, Maon Kurosaki, Yamashita Yoshitsugu, Yoko Ono, Masashi Hamauzu, Hirai Kawato, Kabukidō Enkyō, Kawaji Toshiyoshi
Added FA-class articles to the Selected biography section: Lady Saigō, Morihei Ueshiba, Adolfo Farsari, Satoru Iwata

Recognized content

Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The recognized content section at Portal:Japan/Recognized content was extremely lengthy, so I pruned portions of it, which I have listed on this talk page below, so they're still viewable for editing. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:48, 27 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Japan}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Main page featured articles

Main page featured lists

Portal banner

Latest comment: 9 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This discussion has been disrupted by block evasion, ban evasion, or sockpuppetry from the following user:

47.218.254.131 (talk · contribs · block log · spi)

Comments from this user should be excluded from assessments of consensus.

The portal banner seems to use a wonton font. It's inconsistent whether or not something like this bothers people (my guess is that most Japanese people probably wouldn't mind; these types of fonts are even sometimes used throughout Asia), but it may bother some. I'm not necessarily proposing that it be changed, but just pointing it out to let people know it can be perceived this way. toobigtokale (talk) 00:19, 19 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

I think it should be changed. Not only does it have nothing to do with Japan, it seems in poor taste and unnecessarily stylized. I think the page would be improved if it was replaced with a more standard font. 47.218.254.131 (talk) 22:09, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Looking for a book

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Good evening,

I am looking for following title as I need information about the song "Chiisana Koi no Uta" written and performed by Mongol800:

Shiba Tomonori (2021), "平成のヒット曲", Shinchō shinsho (in Japanese), no. 929, Shinjuku: Shinchōsha, p. 303, ISBN 978-4-10-610929-4

I need the exact pages which are about this song. Can someone scan these pages and send it to me? Kindest regards. --Goroth (talk) 20:00, 23 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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v t e Word lists by frequency and number of words
English	Basic English (850) Simplified Technical English (~875) Globish (1500) Special English (~1500) General Service List (2000) New General Service List (~2800)
Add-ons	Academic Word List (570)
Chinese	list for Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi / HSK (8848) list for Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language (~8600)
Korean	list for Test of Proficiency in Korean (10,635)
Japanese	list for Japanese-Language Proficiency Test / JLPT (8009)