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Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku
Shōkaku (翔鶴) was a fleet aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, lead ship of her class, completed in 1941 and sunk by USS Cavalla in 1944.
Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū
Sōryū (蒼龍, Blue Dragon) was an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet aircraft carrier of the Kido Butai, completed in 1937 and sunk at Midway in 1942.
Japanese aircraft carrier Taihō
Taihō (大鳳) was an armored-deck fleet carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, sunk by a submarine at the Battle of the Philippine Sea in 1944.
Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku
Zuikaku (瑞鶴) was a Shokaku-class fleet carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy, completed in 1941, that attacked Pearl Harbor and fought at Coral Sea and Leyte Gulf.
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans (日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry, including Issei immigrants and their Nisei, Kibei, and Sansei descendants. About 120,000 were incarcerated under Executive Order 9066 in WWII; the 1988 Civil Liberties Act brought apology and $20,000 redress.
Japanese architecture
Japanese architecture is the building tradition of the Japanese archipelago, characterized by timber construction and joinery without nails, spanning shrines, temples, castles, and tea houses, with modern architects like Kenzō Tange gaining international recognition.
Japanese armour (甲冑)
Japanese armor (甲冑, katchū), also called samurai armor, is the protective equipment of Japan's samurai class, evolving over roughly fifteen centuries from Chinese and Korean models.
Japanese art
Japanese art (日本美術) spans Jomon pottery to contemporary work, including nihonga painting on silk or washi with mineral pigments and animal glue, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and Buddhist sculpture, conserved through periodic remounting and national museum networks.
Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気)
The Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気) was the late-1980s boom and collapse in Japanese stock and urban land prices, with the Nikkei 225 peaking at 38,915 in 1989.
Japanese bamboo weaving
Japanese bamboo weaving (竹編み): the craft of interlacing split or whole bamboo culms into baskets and sculpture, practiced since the Jomon period and centered in Kyoto, Beppu, Osaka, and Kantō, with six Living National Treasure masters.
Japanese battleship Kirishima
The Japanese battleship Kirishima (霧島) was a Kongō-class warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It was lost in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942.
Japanese battleship Kongō
Japanese battleship Kongō (金剛), also known as IJN Kongo, was a fast battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in Britain in 1913 and sunk in 1944.
Japanese battleship Mikasa
The Japanese battleship Mikasa (三笠) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in England and Admiral Tōgō's flagship at the 1905 Battle of Tsushima.
Japanese battleship Musashi
Musashi (武蔵) was a Yamato-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built at Nagasaki and commissioned in 1942, sunk by American aircraft during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944.
Japanese battleship Mutsu
Mutsu (陸奥) was a Nagato-class battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy completed in 1921, one of the first battleships to mount 16-inch guns, and destroyed by a magazine explosion in 1943.
Japanese battleship Nagato
Nagato (長門) was an Imperial Japanese Navy battleship, the first warship in the world to carry 16-inch guns, and Admiral Yamamoto's flagship at Pearl Harbor.
Japanese battleship Yamato
The Japanese battleship Yamato (大和) was the largest battleship ever built, an Imperial Japanese Navy ship completed in December 1941 and sunk by U.S. aircraft on 7 April 1945.
Japanese beetle
Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica), scarab pest native to Japan; introduced to New Jersey in 1916, now established in 28 US states and Europe; adults skeletonize over 300 host plants, grubs damage turf roots; pheromone traps attract more beetles than they catch.
Japanese big bands
Japanese big bands are large jazz ensembles, typically sixteen or more players, that have performed and recorded in Japan since the dance bands of the late 1920s.
Japanese Bobtail
The Japanese Bobtail is a natural breed of domestic cat from Japan, distinguished by a short, pom-pom-like tail produced by a genetic mutation rather than by cropping.
Japanese bondage
Japanese bondage, also known as kinbaku (緊縛, "tight binding") or shibari, is a form of rope bondage that took shape in 20th-century Japan and is now practiced worldwide.
Japanese Brazilians
Japanese Brazilians (nipo-brasileiros, 日系ブラジル人) are Brazilians of Japanese ancestry from migration beginning with the 1908 Kasato Maru; Brazil hosts the world's largest Japanese diaspora, about 2.7 million, and since the 1980s many have migrated back to Japan as dekasegi workers.
Japanese Breakfast
Japanese Breakfast is an American indie pop band formed 2013 in Philadelphia, led by Korean-American musician Michelle Zauner, formerly of Little Big League. Albums: Psychopomp, Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Jubilee, For Melancholy Brunettes; two Grammy nominations; memoir Crying in H Mart.
Japanese calendar
The Japanese calendar is Japan's system of timekeeping: the Gregorian calendar, adopted in 1873, paired with imperial era years such as Reiwa, while the old lunisolar calendar survives in festivals.
Japanese calligraphy (書道)
Japanese calligraphy, or shodō (書道), is the traditional Japanese art of writing kanji and kana characters with brush and ink, treating writing itself as a spiritual discipline.
Japanese capture of Hanyang and Seonjo's flight to Uiju
The Japanese capture of Hanyang (한양 함락과 선조의 의주 파천) was the fall of Joseon Korea's capital in June 1592, during the Imjin War, after King Seonjo fled.
Japanese castle
Japanese castles are fortified structures built in Japan, typically wooden keeps set on massive stone walls and moats, developed during the Sengoku period from 1467 to 1600.
Japanese Chin
Japanese Chin (狆), formerly Japanese Spaniel, a Japanese toy companion dog breed, FCI No. 206, Group 9; 8–11 inches, 7–11 pounds, white coat with black or red markings, AKC-recognized 1888.
Japanese clans
Japanese clans (uji 氏, shizoku 氏族) were kin-based political associations of ancient Japan, ranked by the shisei system of clan names and hereditary kabane titles, reformed in 684 into eight kabane, and persisting through the Nara era before the household ie displaced the uji by the twelfth century.
Japanese clock (和時計)
Wadokei, also called Japanese clocks, are Edo-period mechanical clocks (1603 to 1868) adapted from European designs to show seasonal time, in which hour lengths changed with the seasons.