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Ainu language

Ainu (アイヌ・イタㇰ), or more precisely Hokkaido Ainu (北海道アイヌ語), is a language spoken by a few elderly members of the Ainu people on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

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Aomori Prefecture

(a̠o̞mo̞ɾʲikẽ̞ɴ) is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region.

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Arabic numerals

The ten Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are the most commonly used symbols for writing numbers.

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Baekje

Baekje or Paekche was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese character radicals

A radical, or indexing component, is a visually prominent component of a Chinese character under which the character is traditionally listed in a Chinese dictionary.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.

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Cursive script (East Asia)

Cursive script (cǎoshū;, sōshotai;, choseo), often referred to as grass script, is a script style used in Chinese and East Asian calligraphy.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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Government of Japan

The Government of Japan is the central government of Japan.

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Haiku

is a type of short form poetry that originated in Japan, and can be traced back from the influence of traditional Chinese poetry.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hiragana

is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana as well as kanji.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Honshu

, historically called, is the largest and most populous island of Japan.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Japanese writing system

The modern Japanese writing system uses a combination of logographic kanji, which are adopted Chinese characters, and syllabic kana.

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Kana

are syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae.

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Katakana

is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).

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Kojiki

The, also sometimes read as or, is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the, and the Japanese imperial line.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Kyushu

is the third-largest island of Japan's four main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands (i.e. excluding Okinawa).

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Man'yōshū

The is the oldest extant collection of Japanese (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Meiji era

The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.

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Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The is one of the eleven ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the government of Japan.

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Nihon Shoki

The, sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history.

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Occupation of Japan

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 the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

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Origami

) is the Japanese art of paper folding.

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Ryukyuan languages

The, also Lewchewan or Luchuan, are the indigenous languages of the Ryukyu Islands, the southernmost part of the Japanese archipelago.

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Shikoku

, is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan.

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Sumo

is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Wa (Japan)

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people.

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Yamato

was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan, which became Yamato Province and by extension a name for the whole of Japan.

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Yayoi period

The started in the late Neolithic period in Japan, continued through the Bronze Age, and towards its end crossed into the Iron Age.

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Zen

Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.

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