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WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded: 18 March 2006
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Welcome to WikiProject Japan, a WikiProject set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to Japan. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians to improve all Japan-related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for Japan-related information for all who visit. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Scope and goals

This project is designed to help those interested in improving all of the Japan-related articles on Wikipedia to find a particular area in which they are interested in working. As "Japan" is a broad subject, there are many sub-projects and collaborations in which you can participate. We want to:

  1. Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
  2. Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese
  3. Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese subjects
  4. Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
  5. Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
  6. Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the <ref> element and the {{cite}} series of templates
  7. Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese subjects; and
  8. Standardize the use of Japanese-language terms, names, and translations into English across all related articles, bringing them in line with the WP:MOS-JA.

To-do items

Please "Be Bold!" and help us out. There are plenty of things to do in the lists below, including the creation of brand new articles. Please list all Japan-related Good and Featured Articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/FAC.

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Proposal:


Was Japan truly part of any 'Axis Alliance'.

I am using the Oxford Companion to WWII(Oxford University Press 1995) for more source and quotes here.

First let me clarify the difference between a 'military alliance' and 'mutual defense pact'.

During the First World War Japan was in a 'military alliance' with Britain; so eventhough it was Britain who declared war on the Central Powers(including Germany), Japan was obligated to as well.

Had Japan signed a 'mutual defense pact' with Britain instead, then she would only declare war on the Central Powers if they attacked or declared war on Britain first.

We throw around the term 'Axis Pact' as if it were an active military alliance. If so, then Japan was not part of the 'Axis'. If she were, she would have declared war on Russia back in 1941 when the Axis did and Stalin would have included Japan in his declaration of war on the Axis in return.

So I can't help but wonder if we're not just propagating our own propaganda here by continuing to claim Japan was part of the Axis Pact. To claim we're the only people on the planet immune to propaganda seems no less arrogant than those who led our enemies to war.

The Japanese still refer to their war as 'The Greater East Asia Conflict' and the Russians obviously considered them 2 separate wars as well.

I have never seen any treaty signed by the Japanese titled 'Axis' Pact, Alliance, Treaty or even Agreement. If you are militarily allied to someone, his enemies are your enemies.

I believe the term 'Axis Pact' was first coined by the Italians in regards to the May22, 1939 "Pact of Steel" mutual defense treaty between Germany and Italy. The term 'axis' in reference to the same longitidinal axis running down through Berlin and Rome, not Tokyo. And the Japanese refused to join this treaty. So if this was the 'Axis' treaty, Japan refused to join it.

Previously, back in Nov 1936 Japan did sign the 'Anti-Comintern Pact' with Germany in even before Italy, but while it offered to share information to counter the spread of communism, it was NOT a military alliance. It apparently wasn't even a mutual defense pact.

p38 "A secret protocol pledged the signatories to neutrality if one of them was at war with the USSR."

To me that isn't a military alliance between Germany and Japan either.

The last candidate to claim was the 'Axis Pact' as claimed, was the Sep27, 1940 "Tripartite Pact" which Japan did sign with Germany, yet which Stalin was also invited to join but refused. Again, this was NOT a 'military alliance', but at best a 'mutual defense pact' to aid a member if the victim, not aggressor, of an attack. This was why Japan did not declare war on the USSR when the 'Axis'/Germany/Italy did. Yet the following seems to negate even that assumption.

p1123 "However, secret clauses added at Japan's request more or less nullified these terms as Japan wanted to obtain concessions from the USA, using its withdrawal from the pact as a bargaining point."

Nowhere have I found any document titled 'Axis Pact/Alliance' signed by the Japanese of WW2.

If Japan were a German military ally, then when the 'Axis' declared war on the Soviet Union and invaded in 1941, so would Japan have too. It did not. Nor, when the USSR declared war on the Axis, did it include Japan.

I can't help but wonder if this is an example of our own propaganda we continue to fail to clear up.

The way wikipedia and our history in general infers meaning to the term 'Axis Pact' is an active military alliance. Clearly the aggressors, neither Germany nor Japan could invoke the 'mutual defense' Tripartite Pact treaty.

Yet if Japan were truly a member of the 'Axis Pact', she would have been at war with the Soviet Union back in 1941.

To me, it's a good thing Japan wasn't part of the Axis Pact military alliance. I agree with those historians who say Moscow and Stalingrad were saved by the timely arrival of the Siberian armies that might have otherwise been tied up with the Japanese instead.

Can anyone show me documentation proving the Japanese signed anything called the Axis Pact identifying themselves part of the Axis as a military alliance? (not unused mutual defense pact)

Just doesn't seem to make sense.

It seems clear Japan never intended Germany's enemies to automatically be Japan's enemies, and that's what a military alliance is for.

If Japan's signing of the Tripartite Pact(Axis Pact?) in Sep, 1940 means it was a military ally of Germany's, then does that mean it was nullified when Japan signed the Non-Aggression Pact with the USSR in April, 1941, just weeks before the Axis invaded Russia?

I'm glad we won both wars? but it just doesn't seem to make sense to claim Japan was part of the Axis and that the Axis was a military alliance.

USSR or Japan, you either are in a military alliance at war with another military alliance or you aren't. You don't go improving relations with the enemies of your allies let alone refusing to fight them. One might say Japan actually facilitated the release of Siberian armies to fight the Axis instead of watch out for them.

FAC and FAR requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing Featured article candidates and Featured article review requests here. Please list the newest at the top.

Listed Article FAC/FAR Result Completed
2007-10-07 Branded to Kill (Talk) FAC    
2007-09-08 Battle for Henderson Field (Talk) FAC Promoted September 17, 2007
2007-09-08 Heian Palace (Talk) FAC Promoted September 24, 2007
2007-08-28 The Rape of Nanking (book) (Talk) FAC Not promoted September 3, 2007
2007-08-22 Mana (series) (Talk) FAC    
2007-08-16 Manzanar (Talk) FAC Promoted September 17, 2007
2007-08-07 Aikido (Talk) FAC August 30, 2007
2007-07-29 Mazie Hirono (Talk) FAC Not promoted August 3, 2007
2007-07-18 Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision (Talk) FAC   July 25, 2007
2007-06-06 Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident (Talk) FAC   July 16, 2007
2007-05-02 Ayumi Hamasaki (Talk) FAC Not promoted   May 7, 2006
2007-03-26 Japan (Talk) FAC 2007-04-12
2007-03-10 Japan (Talk) FAC Restarted  2007-03-26 
2007-02-19 Aikido (Talk) FAC Not promoted  2007-03-20 
2007-01-17 List of RahXephon media (Talk) FLC 2007-02-02
2006-12-27 Serial Experiments Lain (Talk) FAC 2006-12-31
2006-12-23 Battle of Leyte Gulf (Talk) FAR 25 January 2007
2006-12-10 Kitsune (Talk) FAC 2006-12-16
2006-10-21 Boshin War (Talk) FAC 2006-11-02


Peer review requests

Editors of Japan-related articles are encouraged to involve the community by listing peer review requests here. This list is for telling the community that you have (or someone has) already submitted an article for Peer Review. Before you list an article here, submit it for Peer Review. To do that, go to Wikipedia:Peer review and follow the nomination procedure there.

Date listed Article PR link Result Date completed
2007-10-02 Kobe (Talk) PR    
2007-09-26 Kunichika (Talk) PR    
2007-08-04 The Rape of Nanking (book) (Talk) PR FAC  
2007-07-16 Manzanar (Talk) PR FAC August 16, 2007
2007-06-28 Gifu, Gifu (Gifu) PR   July 18, 2007
2007-06-27 Diet_of_Japan (Talk:Diet of Japan) PR    
2007-06-24 Tōru Takemitsu (Talk) PR    
2007-06-14 Kondō Isami (Talk) PR    
2007-06-13 Yuji Ide (Talk) PR    
2007-06-12 Taiwan under Japanese rule (Talk) PR    
2007-05-08 Heian Palace (Talk) PR   June 8, 2007
2007-03-29 Nick Baker (prisoner in Japan) (Talk) PR    
2007-03-21 Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) (Talk) PR    
2007-03-12 Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū (Talk) PR    
2007-02-26 Morning Musume (Talk) PR    
2007-02-12 Japanese castle (Talk) PR    
2007-02-03 Ami Mizuno (Talk) PR    
2007-01-17 List of The Big O media (Talk) PR    
2007-01-16 Charter Oath (Talk) PR    
2007-01-16 Ikata, Ehime (Talk) PR    
2007-01-07 Velfarre (Talk) PR    
2007-01-05 RahXephon (Talk) PR A 2007-01-20
2006-12-28 Kumi Koda (Talk) PR    
2006-12-24 Okinotorishima (Talk) PR    
2006-12-16 Azumanga Daioh (Talk) PR   2006-12-18
2006-12-09 Yoshiaki Omura (Talk) PR   2006-12-10
2006-11-04 Minamata disease (Talk) PR   2006-11-12
2006-07-07 Hideki Noda (Talk) PR   2006-07-07
2006-07-06 Boogiepop series (Talk) PR GA 2006-07-28
2006-06-03 Neon Genesis Evangelion (Talk) PR   2006-08-13
2006-04-30 Nerima Daikon Brothers (Talk) PR   2006-05-01
2006-03-26 Matsuo Bashō (Talk) PR GA 2006-06-24
2005-09-15 Sendai (Talk) PR   2006-10-30

Former FAC

These are mostly well written articles that need a little improvement in order to become FA quality.



Projects

These are big tasks that require a lot of work from a lot of people helping out in order to improve something. Feel free to jump right in and help with any of them. We always welcome more help!

  1. Education in Japan needs some major reworking to make it a better article overall. (in particular recent reforms in laws)
  2. Gaijin was recently cleaned up and is now a big mess again.
  3. Rick Block requests help updating articles due to Gappei. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Gappei.
  4. LordAmeth would like to enlist everyone's help in converting all articles, both in title and in context, to properly macronned form.
  5. Japanese people is horribly substandard for a top-importance article and garnered 22 votes at ARCAID. Please help fix this oft-linked page. Most importantly, it needs to be synched with Demographics of Japan and to contain an explanation of burakumin.
  6. Kansai region compared to the Tohoku region, Kansai related articles are systematically sub-standard and have articles of towns and cities missing.
  7. Dozens of pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan and Special:Allpages/Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.
  8. Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda's Cabinet Members needs more info added in regards to biography and previous positions. One place to start would be Masahiko Kōmura

Cleanup tasks

These are anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on.

  1. The Tale of the Heike is in need of expansion.
  2. Sesshū Tōyō also needs expansion.
  3. Risa_Kudo article is currently a machine translation of the Japanese Wiki page. Human translation is needed.
  4. Yaoya Oshichi - Created from a rough translation, PRODded immediately, but PROD contested

You can also work on files listed on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Japan.

  1. expand Girls with guns to be inclusive of Japanese media as well-currently written from a single perspective, while Japan has a long tradition of such.

Requested moves

The following are from WP:RM:

Disambiguation

The following are from User:RussBot/DPL:
  1. Yokozuna 155 done --05:57, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
  2. Hitachi 99
  3. Fukuoka 96
Others
  1. Many disambiguation pages for Japanese names have incoming links which need to be aimed at the correct articles. Examples include: Tokugawa, Akira, Takeda.
  2. Many Japanese place names also need to be disambiguated for prefectures, cities and towns, and old provinces and domains. Examples include: Chōshū, Satsuma, Kanagawa and Kawasaki.

Pages marked for deletion

Japan-related articles for deletion are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Japan. Please go and express your opinion regarding any articles listed there.

Redirect requests

Stubs

You can find a list of all Japan-related stub categories on the Category talk:Japan stubs page. All of the articles on the main Category:Japan stubs page need to be sorted into these more specific categories while they are stubs (last performed on July 29th, 2006). Of course, you can also expand the stubs in such a way as to make them no longer stubs. If none of the existing stubs apply, please use {{Japan-stub}}.

If you want to make a new stub for a particular category, please note that all stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories.

Requests

The articles on these pages need to be created (or pointed to existing articles under slightly different names). You can also add requests to one of these pages. If you aren't sure which page to add your request to, please ask on the talk page.

Requested photographs in Japan


Proposed new or updated articles

List any Japan-related articles on which you are working that aren't quite ready for prime time, or proposed replacements or updates for currently existing articles. This will allow an informal peer review of sorts by anyone interested in the particular topic, thereby helping Wikipedia to become better.

  • Proposed update of Posting system (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views): the article was a mess and I tried to Wikify it, I think it would be great if someone who's more knowledgeable about baseball could make it more complete, since the posting system is a big story in Japanese baseball.
  • Not totally sure if this is the place for listing any new articles but ive started a stubby on Shigeo Hirose which could do with some attention from anyone with some knowledge/experience of his work/robotics technology and industry in general. siarach 01:16, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For the former, see ja:55年体制 (widely used term in Japanese) Fg2 21:15, 19 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Kumiko Kato:New (Talk:Kumiko Kato). I was going to start this article, but never did due to a lack of sources. However, I noticed that someone made a stub which wasn't very good, so I took it upon myself to improve it, however slightly. Unfortunately my only source was an archive of this artist's now defunct homepage. It would be nice if anyone with sources could share them, and maybe help improve the article. izalithium 06:53, 4 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Amy Yamada:really stubby stub (Talk:Amy Yamada). I started this article about the contemporary Japanese author a while ago, but haven't been as successful in expanding it as I had hoped. Any contributions are welcome and I would love to have a picture to put in the infobox... Thanks! -Sarfa 18:25, 10 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Article assessment

Japan articles
Quality
FA 71
A 7
GA 28
B 620
C 0
Start 3717
Stub 7661
List 183
NA 127
Unassessed 3555
Total tagged: 15,969
Importance
Top 65
High 334
Mid 507
Low 1287
Unassessed 12,925

Any member of WikiProject Japan may assess Japan-related articles by following the guidelines below. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment page.

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Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. High probability that non-Japanophiles would look this up. Must have had a large impact outside of Japan and be known in the majority of the world. For example, Sudoku is very popular worldwide and known in most of the world. No member should give this rating to any article without first getting Project approval from the other members. Sudoku
High Subject contributes a depth of knowledge to the encyclopedia. Must have had a large impact in Japan, and had some impact outside Japan. Fundamental Law of Education
Mid Subject fills in more minor details, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Important in Japan, but not necessarily known as well outside of Japan. Cuteness in Japanese culture
Low Subject is peripheral knowledge, possibly trivial. Don Tacos

Top importance articles → FA

If you're looking for something to do, we would like to have 40 featured articles from this project by the end of 2007. Please consider working on the Top importance articles in the chart below in order to bring them to Featured Article quality. The chart shows the current status of these articles (listed alphabetically by how close they are to reaching FA status), and there's plenty to work on.

This is a reachable goal, but we'll all have to work hard at it. So, please jump right in and help us out by indicating in the chart which ones you want to work on (and then working on them, of course).


Article title Current status Completed Who is working on it?
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Talk) A  
Japanese art (Talk) A   日本穣
Junichiro Koizumi (Talk) A  
Hirohito (Talk) GA  
Shinzo Abe (Talk) B  
Anime (Talk) B  
Demographics of Japan (Talk) B  
Economy of Japan (Talk) B  
Education in Japan (Talk) B  
Empire of Japan (Talk) B  
Fukuoka, Fukuoka (Talk) B  
Geisha (Talk) B   MightyAtom
Geography of Japan (Talk) B  
History of Japan (Talk) B   Black_Lupin
Japan Self-Defense Forces (Talk) B  
Japanese castle (Talk) B  
Japanese cuisine (Talk) B  
Japanese language (Talk) B  
Japanese literature (Talk) B  
Japanese poetry (Talk) B  
Kabuki (Talk) B  
Karaoke (Talk) B  
Kimono (Talk) B  
Kitakyushu (Talk) B  
Kobe (Talk) B   Exitmoose
Akira Kurosawa (Talk) B  
Kyoto (Talk) B  
Manga (Talk) B  
Music of Japan (Talk) B  
Osaka (Talk) B  
Religion in Japan (Talk) B  
Samurai (Talk) B  
Sendai (Talk) B  
Senkaku Islands (Talk) B  
Shogun (Talk) B  
Sushi (Talk) B  
The Tale of Genji (Talk) B  
Tokyo (Talk) B  
Toyota (Talk) B  
Chiba, Chiba (Talk) Start  
Culture of Japan (Talk) Start  
Foreign policy of Japan (Talk) Start  
Government of Japan (Talk) Start  
Hiroshima (Talk) Start   日本穣,
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Talk) Start   日本穣,
Japanese people (Talk) Start   Dekimasu
Kawasaki, Kanagawa (Talk) Start   Thinkbeforeyouclick
Meiji Restoration (Talk) Start   Monocrat
Ministry of Defense (Japan) (Talk) Start  
Nagoya (Talk) Start  
Noh (Talk) Start  
Politics of Japan (Talk) Start  
Saitama, Saitama (Talk) Start  
Sakai, Osaka (Talk) Start   Dekimasu
Sapporo (Talk) Start  
Shizuoka, Shizuoka (Talk) Start  
Yokohama (Talk) Start  


Recognized content

Featured articles Good articles Did You Know? (DYK)
—alphabetically—
  1. Actions along the Matanikau
  2. Adolfo Farsari
  3. Aikido
  4. Axis naval activity in Australian waters
  5. Battle for Henderson Field
  6. Battle of Cape Esperance
  7. Battle of Edson's Ridge
  8. Battle of Rennell Island
  9. Battle of Savo Island
  10. Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu-Tanambogo
  11. Battle of the Eastern Solomons
  12. Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands
  13. Battle of the Tenaru
  14. Boshin War
  15. Comet Hyakutake
  16. Defense of Sihang Warehouse
  17. Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision
  18. Felice Beato
  19. Hasekura Tsunenaga
  20. Heian Palace
  21. History of Buddhism
  22. Imperial Japanese Navy
  23. Invasion of Tulagi (May 1942)
  24. Japan
  25. Kitsune
  26. Krill
  27. Manzanar
  28. Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident
  29. Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
  30. Operation Downfall
  31. Operation Ten-Go
  32. Pierre Rossier
  33. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
  34. Ran (film)
  35. Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941)
  36. Toilets in Japan
  37. USS Missouri (BB-63)

—peripherally related—

  1. Humpback Whale
  2. Orca
  3. Right whale
  4. Sei Whale
  5. Shrimp farm
  6. Taiwanese Aborigines
—alphabetically—
  1. Template:GA-symbol Aikido
  2. Template:GA-symbol Botan Doro
  3. Template:GA-symbol Branded to Kill
  4. Template:GA-symbol Charter Oath
  5. Template:GA-symbol Curse of the Colonel
  6. Template:GA-symbol Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu
  7. Template:GA-symbol Diet of Japan
  8. Template:GA-symbol Flag of Japan
  9. Template:GA-symbol Fugu
  10. Template:GA-symbol Fujiwara no Teika
  11. Template:GA-symbol Hiroh Kikai
  12. Template:GA-symbol Hirohito
  13. Template:GA-symbol Ikata, Ehime
  14. Template:GA-symbol Japanese grammar
  15. Template:GA-symbol Japanese war crimes
  16. Template:GA-symbol Kano Jigoro
  17. Template:GA-symbol Kigo
  18. Template:GA-symbol Manzanar
  19. Template:GA-symbol Matsuo Bashō
  20. Template:GA-symbol Sakurajima
  21. Template:GA-symbol Shigin
  22. Template:GA-symbol Tsunami
  23. Template:GA-symbol Yotsuya Kaidan

See also GA anime articles

—chronologically—


Resources

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