Wikipedia:Requested articles/Japan

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Translators

Japanese to English

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Art and culture

Anime and manga

See: /Anime and Manga

Artists

Mark Horiuchi (American of Japanese descent) - Carol Inouye (American of Japanese descent) - Shuza Kato (probably Shuzo Kato) - Saburo Muraoka (ja:村岡三郎) - Yoshikazu Nakata - Nobuyuki Nishihara - Isamu Ohto - Keiji Sugita - Fuko Ueda (Japanese surrealist) ja:上田風子 - Shunyo Yamauchi ja:山内瞬葉 -

Designers

Sori Yanagi (furniture and houseware designer) ja:柳宗理 - Miyuki Koizumi ja:小泉深雪 (fashion - model) -

Mangaka

See: /Mangaka

Festivals

Kagiya (fireworks competition ja:花火) - Countdown Japan (Year end music festival ja:COUNTDOWN JAPAN [[1]]) and Countdown Live (Year end solo concerts, as performed recently by Ayumi Hamasaki, Hitomi Yaida et al)

Films, TV and video

Cinema, Contemporary - Japan - Drama - Japan - Kinema Junpo (ja:キネマ旬報) -

Films

Chushingura (film) Which one? (ja:忠臣蔵)- Director Infection (ja:監督感染) - Iden&Tity (ja:アイデン&ティティ) - Late Chrysanthemums (ja:晩菊) - Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows (ja:伝説のワニジェイク) - Mura no Shashinshuu (ja:村の写真集)

Actors

Noboru Mitani (ja:三谷昇) - Kaoru Oda (IMDb} - Mariko Okada (ja:岡田茉莉子) - Tsutomu Tatumi - Ayano Shiraishi - Yoshiko Shinohara - Akemi Yamaguchi - Yasuko Matsuyuki (ja:松雪泰子) - Riho Makise (ja:牧瀬里穂)

Seiyū

See /Seiyū

Fictional characters

Satuki Kioka (or Satsuki Kioka?) - Mitsuki Kōyama (ja:神山満月 no ja wiki) (heroine of Full Moon (manga) (ja:満月をさがして)) -

TV

TV Yamaguchi (ja:テレビ山口)

Akireta-Deka (ja:あきれた刑事)(actual title: a·ki·re·ta–DEKA (あきれた刑事, "The Exasperated Detective")), a Japanese crime drama from Toei Television. (Mirrored from Wikipedia:Requested articles/Culture and fine arts by B.C.Schmerker 16:35, 18 August 2007 (UTC).)[reply]

Ugo Ugo Lhuga (ja:ウゴウゴルーガ) (children's show)

Games and toys

Rement miniatures (ja:リーメント) - I-SOBOT (the smallest toy robot)

Computer and video games

Arc the Lad 4: Twilight of the Spirits (ja:アークザラッド精霊の黄昏)- Chiritorie - Heiankyo Alien (puzzle game? for Game Boy) (ja:平安京エイリアン) -

Publications

Internet

Shift Japan (http://www.shift.jp.org/) - SM128c (redirect to Super Mario 128 Central) (http://www.sm128c.com) - jlist.com (http://www.jlist.com) -

Magazines

Petit Enfant (ja:プチ・タンファン)

Newspapers

Theatre and stage

Ichikawa Danjūrō II (July 1704 - November 1735) - Eldest son of Danjūrō I; previously known as Ichikawa Ebizō II and Ichikawa Kuzō.
Ichikawa Danjūrō III (November 1735 - February 1742) - Adopted son of Danjūrō II, previously known as Ichikawa Masugorō. Died young.
Ichikawa Danjūrō IV (November 1754 - October 1770) - Adopted son of Danjūrō II, possibly biological son. Previously known as Matsumoto Kōshirō II and Ichikawa Ebizō III.
Ichikawa Danjūrō VI (November 1791 - May 1799) - Son of Danjūrō V, previously known as Ichikawa Ebizō VI. Died young.
Ichikawa Danjūrō X (posthumous 1962) - Son-in-law of Danjūrō IX; previously known as Horikoshi Fukusaburō and Ichikawa Sanshō V. Played only minor roles, but revived many plays of the Kabuki Jūhachiban.
Ichikawa Danjūrō XI (April 1962 - November 1965) - Adopted son of Danjūrō X, his biological father was Matsumoto Kōshirō VII. Previously known as Ichikawa Komazō V and Ichikawa Ebizō IX.

Other

Thousand Cranes Vase (the 68th of the National Treasures of South Korea, totally unrelated to ja:千羽鶴) - Kinoko no Yama (product from Meiji Seika) (ja:明治製菓#食品) - Hobutsushu (classical text ja:宝物集) - Aokigahara Woods (below Mount Fuji) - Love Splash photobook - Showa nostalgia (ja:昭和ノスタルジー)

Buildings, facilities, and places

Ocean Dome - Zero-yen homes (small huts that some homeless people in Japan build) - Watakano-jima (ja:渡鹿野島) - Yūshūkan (ja:遊就館) - SHIBUYA-AX (ja:SHIBUYA-AX, a night-club in Tokyo) - Shiwaku Islands (ja:塩飽諸島), an archipelago in the Inland Sea - Bisan Seto (ja:備讃瀬戸) - Oomahiko Shrine, Shikoku - Nakano Sun Plaza (ja:中野サンプラザ) - Fukushima Racecourse (ja:福島競馬場) -

Note: If you're looking for a city, town, or village, you might find a link to it from the article on the prefecture.

Train related

Train platform (Japan) (ja:プラットホーム)

Business

Sony vs Nintendo (description of lawsuits) - Gakken (ja:学習研究社) - Kenkyūsha (ja:研究社) - Posren　{ja:ぽすれん), Tsutaya discas.

Food and drink

Government

Requests about current or recent politicians: /Government

Government by assassination (Japan 1930s) - Japan-Latin America Relations - Japan-China Joint Communique -

History

Japanese slave labor in the Soviet Union/Forced labor of Japanese in the Soviet Union - Yasushi Aizawa (EB link: [2]). - Ryoko the pirate (mythic?) who chased off the Mongols during the Mongol invasions of Japan and became a heroine - Historical Japanese name (currently redirected to Japanese name)

Language

English Language in Japan - Japanese profanity - Mantarō Hashimoto - Translating English Names to Kanji - Shinmura Izuru (ja:新村出) - YesJapan.com (Popular website for studying Japanese) - batsu & maru (currently they are disambigs. We could extend this to an article describes the Japanese way of marking correct and incorrect, maybe relating to "Maru-Batsu-Game"=Tic-tac-toe.)

Law and politics

Showa Denko Scandal (ja:昭和電工) -

Organizations

Japanese Swordsmith Association (official name: All Japan Swordsmith Association (http://www.tousyoukai.jp/index.shtml) (ja:全日本刀匠会) - Ogasawara etiquette school [3]

People

Tadashi Kume (ja:久米是志) (president of Honda) - Makoto Nakajima (ja:中嶋誠 no ja wiki) (head of Japanese Patent Office) - Toshitaka Nomi (ja:能見俊賢) - Hiroshi Ogawa (ja:小川洋 no ja wiki) (former head of Japanese Patent Office) - Shinjirō Ono (ja:小野新次郎 no ja wiki) (Deputy commissioner of the Japanese Patent Office) - Toshimitsu Takagi (ja:高木敏光 no ja wiki) - Takejirō Tokonami (ja:床次竹二郎) (politician) - Tamao Yoshida (ja:吉田玉男) (theatre/cinema, 1919) - Yoshihisa Komori (journalist ja:古森義久)[4] [5] - Yuuri Morishita (ja:森下悠里) (Gravure idol) - Daishi Kataoka (ja:片岡大志 [6] Record Producer) - Hidesaburo Kurushima - Taizo Ishizaka - Saburo Matsukata - Shintaro Negishi - Yorihiro Matsudaira - August S. Narumi - Ichiro Terao - Yutaka Akino - Noted Japanese scholar of Central Asian history. Murdered in 1998 in Tajikistan working for United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan. See [7] for a great deal of information about Akino. It would help if someone who can read Japanese wrote article about Akino. - Maiko Hashimoto (ja:橋本舞子) (singer) - Kyusaku Hori (ja:堀久作) (former president of Nikkatsu) - Maki Asakawa (ja:浅川マキ) (singer) - Yuiko Tsubokura (ja:坪倉唯子) (singer) - Kutsuki Harutsuna (ja:朽木晴綱) - Keizo Nakanishi (ja:中西圭三, singer) - Hideaki Tokunaga (ja:徳永英明) - - Shoko Hikage (koto player) - - Deputy Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka - APF News' president Toru Yamaji - Kohyu Nishimura - Yoshihisa Komori - Ando Masatsugu - Tatsuro Shigaki - Fujima Takuya - Sho Kazakura - Reitaro Ito - Taku Yamada - Yuji Takeuchi - Yu Hanai - Ikuo Shimano - Tadayuki Inoue - Karia Nomoto (ja:野本かりあ) (singer, DJ, model) - Hideki Kaji (ja:カジヒデキ) (singer, musician) - Nona Reeves (ja:ノーナ・リーヴス) (musician) - Takkyu Ishino (ja:石野卓球) (DJ) - Cubismo Grafico (ja:CUBISMO GRAFICO) (DJ) - Ayumi Tanabe (model) - Ayuse Kozue (ja:AYUSE KOZUE) - Yasutaka Nakata (ja:中田ヤスタカ) - Yukihiro Fukutomi (ja:福富幸宏) - haiku poet Emiko Miyashita - Izumi Yukimura (ja:雪村いづみ) - Takao Tajima (ja:田島貴男) - Keitarō Takanami (ja:高浪敬太郎) (usually known as just K-Taro) - Kishida Toshihiko (ja:岸田俊子Meiji era feminist, 1863-1901) - Yuichi Fukunaga (ja:福永祐一) - Kazuko Kojima (recently deleted)

Religion and philosophy

Confucianism - Japan (ja:儒教#日本における展開と変容) - Religion, Folk - Japan (ja:民俗宗教 no ja wiki) - Eichi Osawa (head of Jiseiin, or cat temple) - Shinto Wedding Etiquette, what's involved? - Yuki Jourou ("Snow Harlot"), a snow spirit that kills for pleasure and sex - Reigning Emperor (ja:今上天皇）

Sciences

Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Class Structure

Japanization - Social Relations - Japan

Ino Kanori (ja:伊能嘉矩) -

Sports

Horseracing in Japan (ja:日本の競馬)

Technology

Recycling in Japan, or Waste management in Japan

Weapons

Masahiro Katana - Arisaka Year 29 (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 6.5 x 50 mm) (ja:二十九年式歩兵銃 no ja wiki) - Arisaka Year 30 (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 6.5 x 50 mm) (ja:三十年式歩兵銃) - Arisaka Year 30 Cavalry Carbine (Japan - Bolt Action Carbine - 6.5 x 50 mm) (ja:三十年式騎銃 no ja wiki) - Arisaka Year 35 Infantry Rifle (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 6.5 x 50 mm) (ja:三十五年式海軍銃) - Arisaka Type 0 Parachutists' Rifle (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 7.7 x 58 mm) - Arisaka Type 1 Parachutists' Rifle (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 6.5 x 50 mm) - Arisaka Type 2 Parachutists' Rifle (Japan - Bolt Action Rifle - 7.7 x 58 mm) - Browning M71 (Japan - Lever Action Rifle) - Howa M1500 - Howa M3000 - Japanese Type 100 - Japanese Type 30 - Japanese Type 38 - Japanese Type 92 - Japanese Type 96 - Japanese Type 98 - Japanese Type 99 - Ya - Yanone (Japanese arrowheads) -