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Japanese festivals
Japanese festivals (matsuri, 祭り) are annual shrine and community celebrations featuring mikoshi processions, floats, and rice-cycle rites; Gion Matsuri, Nebuta, Awa Odori, UNESCO-listed traditions, COVID-era cancellations.
Japanese flying squid (スルメイカ)
Japanese flying squid (スルメイカ, Todarodes pacificus), an ommastrephid squid of the Northwest Pacific fished by Japan, Korea, and China; one-year life cycle, three seasonal spawning cohorts, catches peaked near 668,000 t in Japan in 1968, now overfished or collapsed amid warming seas.
Japanese folklore
Japanese folklore: traditional oral tales, legends, yokai, and customs of Japan, rooted in Kojiki mythology and systematized as minzokugaku by Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962), author of Tono Monogatari.
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States)
Japanese Friendship Garden (United States): sister-city Japanese-style gardens, chiefly San-Kei-En in San Diego's Balboa Park (opened 1991, Yokohama, 12 acres) and Rohoen in Phoenix (Himeji, 3.5 acres), plus the 1965 San Jose garden.
Japanese funeral
Japanese funeral: the Buddhist-style wake (tsuya), funeral service, near-universal cremation (99.97%), kotsuage bone-picking, and 49-day mourning rites, plus Shinto, Catholic, and secular variants and a 1.83-trillion-yen funeral industry.
Japanese garden (日本庭園)
Japanese garden (日本庭園, nihon teien): the general term for Japan's garden styles, from Asuka-era pond gardens through Heian shinden gardens, Muromachi karesansui, and Edo strolling and tea gardens, contrasting with geometric Western design.
Japanese giant salamander (オオサンショウウオ)
Japanese giant salamander (オオサンショウウオ, Andrias japonicus), Japan's endemic giant stream salamander, second-largest in the world at up to 1.5 m; Vulnerable, a Special Natural Monument since 1952, threatened by dams and hybridization with Chinese giant salamanders.
Japanese grammar
Japanese grammar (日本語文法): the rule system of Japanese and the academic field studying it, spanning missionary grammars of 1603–1604, Yamada–Hashimoto–Tokieda school grammar, honorifics, historical grammar research, and the Society of Japanese Grammar's journal since 2001.
Japanese Grand Prix (日本グランプリ)
Japanese Grand Prix (日本グランプリ), F1 race first held 1976 at Fuji, at Suzuka Circuit since 1987 except 2007-08; 5.807 km figure-eight, 53 laps, 13 title deciders, 2026 winner Kimi Antonelli.
Japanese Highway Bridge Specification
The Specifications for Highway Bridges (Dōrokyō Shihōsho) is Japan's national road bridge design standard, issued by the Japan Road Association and revised most recently in 2017.
Japanese holdout
Japanese holdout (残留日本兵, zanryū Nipponhei): Imperial Japanese Army soldiers who kept fighting or hiding after Japan's August 15, 1945 surrender. Best-known cases: Shoichi Yokoi (Guam, 1972), Hiroo Onoda (Lubang, 1974), Teruo Nakamura (Morotai, December 1974, last known).
Japanese honorifics
Japanese honorifics (敬称, keishō; more broadly 敬語, keigo) are Japanese linguistic forms expressing respect, covering name suffixes such as san and sama plus honorific verb forms.
Japanese horror
Japanese horror, often called J-horror (Jホラー), is the tradition of horror fiction and film produced in Japan, known for the influential 1990s wave of films like Ringu and Ju-On: The Grudge.
Japanese idol (アイドル)
Japanese idol (アイドル) refers to young entertainers in Japan promoted as approachable adolescent figures, a pop-culture category since the late 1960s. Distinct through fan-contact events, utawari song structures, underground and local idol tiers, and growth-centered fandom.
Japanese immigration to Brazil
Japanese immigration to Brazil began on 18 June 1908, when the Kasato Maru docked at Santos with 781 immigrants bound for São Paulo's coffee plantations.
Japanese in Hawaii
Japanese in Hawaii: the Japanese diaspora community of Hawaii, from the 1868 Gannenmono and 1885–1894 government-sponsored migration through plantation labor, the 1909 and 1920 strikes, selective wartime internment, and lasting cultural influence.
Japanese Industrial Standards
Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS, 日本産業規格) are Japan's voluntary national standards for industrial products, technologies, data, and services, established under the 1949 Industrial Standardization Act and binding when cited in regulation.
Japanese Instrument of Surrender
Japanese Instrument of Surrender: the September 2, 1945 document signed by Shigemitsu, Umezu, and MacArthur aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay accepting the Potsdam Declaration and ending World War II.
Japanese intervention in the Baekje restoration war
The Japanese intervention in the Baekje restoration war was Japan's 663 dispatch of fleets and armies to restore Baekje, decisively defeated by Tang and Silla forces at Baekgang.
Japanese Invasion Army
The Japanese Invasion Army (왜군) was the force assembled by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to conquer Choson Korea and Ming China, landing at Busan in 1592 and withdrawing in 1598.
Japanese invasion of Burma
The Japanese invasion of Burma (ဂျပန် မြန်မာဝင်ရောက်စစ်ဆင်ရေး) was the December 1941 to May 1942 campaign in which General Shojiro Iida's Fifteenth Army drove British forces out of Burma.
Japanese invasion of French Indochina
Japanese invasion of French Indochina: September 1940 entry into Tonkin, July 1941 southern occupation under Vichy collaboration, and the 9 March 1945 coup ending French rule, leading to famine and Vietnam's 1945 independence.
Japanese invasion of Malaya and the fall of Singapore
The Japanese invasion of Malaya and the fall of Singapore (Pencerobohan Jepun ke atas Tanah Melayu dan kejatuhan Singapura) was the 1941–42 campaign in which Japan captured Malaya and Singapore.
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Mukden Incident, Manchurian Incident): Kwantung Army seizure of China's three northeastern provinces from 18 September 1931, staged railway explosion, puppet state Manchukuo, Stimson Doctrine, Lytton Report, Japan's 1933 League withdrawal.
Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
The Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895), or Yiwei War (乙未戰爭), was Japan's May–November 1895 campaign to occupy Taiwan and Penghu ceded by the Treaty of Shimonoseki, opposed by the short-lived Republic of Formosa, Hakka militias, and Liu Yongfu's Black Flag forces.
Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
The Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), known in Japan as the Bunroku and Keichō campaigns, were two invasions of Joseon Korea launched by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, ending after his death in 1598.
Japanese jazz (日本のジャズ)
Japanese jazz (日本のジャズ, jazz in Japan): jazz practiced in Japan from Taishō-era arrival via North American shipping routes, through wartime ban, postwar jazz kissa boom, to internationally recognized artists like Akiyoshi Toshiko.
Japanese labour law
Japanese labour law governs employment contracts, working conditions, and collective labour relations in Japan. Built on the 1947 Labor Standards Act, Trade Union Law, and Labor Contract Act, it features invalidation of abusive dismissals and 2020 equal-treatment rules for agency workers.
Japanese language
Japanese (日本語) is the main Japonic language, written since the eighth century. Periodized as Old, Early and Late Middle, and Modern Japanese, it forms a family with Ryukyuan; links to Korean, Altaic, and Austronesian remain unproven.
Japanese literary criticism
Japanese literary criticism (bungaku hihyō) is the modern Japanese practice of judging and interpreting literary works, which took shape in the Meiji era (1868–1912) through Western influence.