Portal:Japan

36.5°N 139°E / 36.5; 139

Main   Geography   Projects

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.

Japan has over 125 million inhabitants and is the 11th most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its highly urbanized population on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Japan has the world's highest life expectancy, although it is experiencing a population decline due to its very low birth rate.

Japan has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC). Between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperor and the imperial court based in Heian-kyō. Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators (shōgun) and feudal lords (daimyō), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility (samurai). After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate, which enacted an isolationist foreign policy. In 1854, a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-modeled constitution, and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization. Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization, Japan invaded China in 1937 and entered World War II as an Axis power in 1941. After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution.

Under the 1947 constitution, Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet. Japan is a developed country and a great power, with one of the largest economies by nominal GDP. Japan has renounced its right to declare war, though it maintains a Self-Defense Force that ranks as one of the world's strongest militaries. A global leader in the automotive, robotics, and electronics industries, the country has made significant contributions to science and technology, and is one of the world's largest exporters and importers. It is part of multiple major international and intergovernmental institutions. (Full article...)

Selected article –

Comet Hyakutake, the Great Comet of 1996
Comet Hyakutake is a comet discovered on January 30, 1996, which passed very close to Earth in March of that year. It was dubbed The Great Comet of 1996; its passage near the Earth was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years. Hyakutake appeared very bright in the night sky and was widely seen around the world. The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time. Scientific observations of the comet led to several discoveries. Most surprising to cometary scientists was the first discovery of X-ray emission from a comet, believed to have been caused by ionised solar wind particles interacting with neutral atoms in the coma of the comet. The Ulysses spacecraft unexpectedly crossed the comet's tail at a distance of more than 500 million km from the nucleus, showing that Hyakutake had the longest tail known for a comet. Hyakutake is a long-period comet. Before its most recent passage through the Solar System, its orbital period was about 17,000 years, but the gravitational influence of the giant planets has increased this period to 100,000 years. The comet was discovered on January 30, 1996, by Yuji Hyakutake an amateur astronomer from southern Japan. He had been searching for comets for years and had moved to Kagoshima Prefecture partly for the dark skies in nearby rural areas. He was using a powerful set of binoculars with six-inch (152 mm) objective lenses to scan the skies on the night of the discovery. (Full article...)

Selected pictures

  • Banknote design credit: Empire of Japan; photographed by Andrew Shiva
    The Japanese government-issued rupee in Burma was Japanese invasion money issued as a replacement for the local currency during the Japanese occupation of Burma in the Second World War. Like most Japanese colonial currency from this period, a letter code was used on the notes; the first or top letter "B" indicates that the note was printed in and issued for the State of Burma; the second letter or letters indicate the block (or printing batch) of the note. The higher-value notes depict Ananda Temple in Bagan on the obverse. This half-rupee banknote is part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.


    Other denominations:
    '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000E-QINU`"'

    * 1 cent
    * 5 cents
    * 10 cents
    *
    '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000F-QINU`"'
    1⁄4 rupee
    * 1 rupee
    * 5 rupees
    * 10 rupees
    * 100 rupees
  • Siberian Intervention
    Image: Shobido & Co.; Restoration: Adam Cuerden
    A Japanese lithograph depicting the capture of Blagoveshchensk, Siberia, by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Siberian Intervention, part of a larger effort by the western powers and Japan to support White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army during the Russian Civil War. The Allied invasion took place in August 1918, and Japanese troops remained in Russia until October 1922.
  • Credit: 663highland
    A view of the colorful dougong supporting Sagami Temple, a Shingon Buddhist temple located in Kasai, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.
  • USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
    Credit: U.S. Navy
    On the morning of May 11, 1945, while supporting the Okinawa invasion, the USS Bunker Hill was hit and severely damaged by two kamikazes.
  • Image: Alexpl
    A line drawing of the Japanese battleship Yamato, the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, she was launched on 8 August 1940 and served as the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet in 1942.
  • Banknote design credit: Empire of Japan; photographed by Andrew Shiva
    The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued between 1942 and 1945 for use within the territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, under occupation by Imperial Japan during World War II. The currency, informally referred to as "banana money", was released solely in the form of banknotes, as metals were considered essential to the war effort. The languages used on the notes were reduced to English and Japanese. Each note bears a different obverse and reverse design, but all have a similar layout, and were marked with stamped block letters that begin with "M" for "Malaya". This 1944 one-hundred-dollar Japanese-issued banknote, depicting a Malay house with palm trees on the obverse, and a man with water buffaloes in a stream on the reverse, is part of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution.


    Other denominations:
    '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000010-QINU`"'

    * 1 cent
    * 5 cents
    * 10 cents
    * 50 cents
    * 1 dollar
    * 5 dollars
    * 10 dollars
    * 100 dollars (I)
    * 100 dollars (II)
    * 1000 dollars
  • Banknotes: Empire of Japan. Reproduction: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
    The Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden was the currency issued by the Japanese Empire when it occupied the Dutch East Indies during World War II. Following the Dutch capitulation in March 1942, the Japanese closed all banks, seized assets and currency, and assumed control of the economy in the territory. They began issuing military banknotes, as had previously been done in other occupied territories. These were printed in Japan, but retained the name of the pre-war currency and replaced the Dutch gulden at par. From 1943 the military banknotes were replaced by identical bank-issued notes printed within the territory, and the currency was renamed the roepiah from 1944. The currency was replaced by the Indonesian rupiah in 1946, one year after the Japanese surrender and the country's independence.

    This note, denominated one cent, is part of the 1942 series.

    See other denominations: One cent · Five cents · Ten cents · Half gulden · One gulden, Five gulden, Ten gulden
  • Plum Park in Kameido
    Print: Hiroshige
    Plum Park in Kameido is a woodblock print in the ukiyo-e genre by the Japanese artist Hiroshige. It was published in 1857 as the thirtieth print in the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo series and depicts Prunus mume trees in bloom. Popular prints such as Plum Park in Kameido were produced in the tens of thousands at a low individual cost. After the opening up of Japan in 1853, they found a following in Europe, where they had a significant influence on the Impressionist artists such as Vincent van Gogh.

    See Van Gogh's derivative version
  • Document: Japanese occupation government; scan by the National Archives of the Netherlands
    A registration card for Louis Wijnhamer (1904–1975), an ethnic Dutch humanitarian who was captured soon after the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in March 1942. Prior to the occupation, many ethnic Europeans had refused to leave, expecting the Japanese occupation government to keep a Dutch administration in place. When Japanese troops took control of government infrastructure and services such as ports and postal services, 100,000 European (and some Chinese) civilians were interned in prisoner-of-war camps where the death rates were between 13 and 30 per cent. Wijnhamer was interned in a series of camps throughout Southeast Asia and, after the surrender of Japan, returned to what was now Indonesia, where he lived until his death.
  • Photograph credit: Basile Morin
    Asahi Breweries is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group. This photograph, taken during the blue hour with a full moon, shows the headquarters of Asahi Breweries in Sumida, Tokyo, as viewed from the wharf on the Sumida River near Azuma Bridge. The Asahi Beer Hall, topped by the Asahi Flame, designed by Philippe Starck, is visible on the right, with the Tokyo Skytree in the background on the left.
  • Credit: Niabot
    Drawing of an anime character named "Mahuri". It combines design elements of Mahoro from Mahoromatic and Haruhi from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yūutsu.
  • Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
    Two Japanese Imperial soldiers who have committed suicide by shooting themselves instead of surrendering to U.S. Marines in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands during World War II.
  • Tsingtao occupation money
    Banknote design credit: Bank of Japan; photographed by Andrew Shiva
    This picture shows a ten-sen banknote, in use during the 1914–1922 Japanese occupation of Tsingtao (Qingdao), China, as part of the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I. Issued by the Bank of Japan, the currency was based on the silver standard. This banknote, dated 1914, is in the National Numismatic Collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

    Before the outbreak of World War I, German naval ships were located in the Pacific; Tsingtao developed into a major seaport while the surrounding Kiautschou Bay area was leased to Germany since 1898. During the war, Japanese and British Allied troops besieged the port in 1914 before capturing it from the German and Austro-Hungarian Central Powers, occupying the city and the surrounding region. It served as a base for the exploitation of the natural resources of Shandong province and northern China, and a "New City District" was established to furnish the Japanese colonists with commercial sections and living quarters. Tsingtao eventually reverted to Chinese rule by 1922.
  • Siege of Osaka
    Painting credit: unknown
    The siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in the clan's dissolution. Divided into two stages (the winter campaign and the summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment. This eight-metre-long (26 ft) painting, titled The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle and executed on a Japanese folding screen, illustrates Osaka Castle under siege, and was commissioned by the daimyo Kuroda Nagamasa, who took a team of painters with him to the battlefield to record the event. The painting depicts 5071 people and 21 generals, and is held in the collection of Osaka Castle.
  • The Great Wave off Kanagawa
    Credit: Hokusai
    Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from his seminal work 36 Views of Mount Fuji, is one of the most iconic representations of the Japanese style of art known as ukiyo-e. The scene is of a great wave (often mistaken for a tsunami) about to devour the men and boats, with the distant Mount Fuji minimized by the size of the wave.
  • Manzanar
    Credit: Ansel Adams
    Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, California. In 1943, photographer Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp. Adams's intent was to "show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, (…) had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment."
  • Photo credit: Michael Reeve
    Women dressed as geisha in Kyoto, Japan. They are wearing traditional kimonos and geta

    Geisha (芸者) are traditional Japanese artist-entertainers. Geisha were very common in the 18th and 19th centuries, and are still in existence today, although their numbers are dwindling.

    The geisha tradition evolved from the taikomochi or hōkan, similar to court jesters. Geisha were traditionally trained from young childhood although modern geisha begin their training, which remains extremely long and difficult, at much older age.

On this day...

April 20:

Events

  • 1284 - Hōjō Tokimune dies. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fourth Day of the Fourth Month, 1284)
  • 1868 - The capital is moved from Kyoto to Edo, which is renamed Tokyo. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-eighth Day of the Third Month, 1868)
  • 1871 - Postal service begins in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. (Traditional Japanese Date: First Day of the Third Month, 1871)
  • 1901 - Japan's Women's University opens.
  • 1914 - Serial publication of Natsume Sōseki's novel Kokoro begins.
  • 1925 - Airmail service begins between Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.
  • 1927 - The Tanaka Giichi Cabinet is formed.
  • 1947 - Japan's first House of Councillors election is held.
  • 1954 - The Haiyūza Theater opens in Roppongi.
  • 1954 - The first annual Tokyo Motor Show is held.
  • 1959 - Groundbreaking ceremony is held for construction of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen
  • 1966 - Automatic train stop equipment installation on all national railways is completed.

Births

Film and television

  • 2008 - Ryokiteki na Kanojo begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and Rena Tanaka

In the news

18 April 2024 – Palestine and the United Nations, Enlargement of the United Nations
The United States vetoes a UN Security Council resolution supporting the State of Palestine joining the United Nations. The vote was 12 in favor, the United States opposed and two abstentions, from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. France, Japan, Ecuador and South Korea supported the resolution. (AP)
15 April 2024 – Iran–Israel proxy conflict
2024 Iranian strikes in Israel, Iran–Japan relations
Japan increases its four-stage danger ranking level for most of Iran, including Tehran, to Level 3, which urges Japanese citizens to avoid all travel to Iran. (The Japan News)
3 April 2024 – 2024 Hualien earthquake
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan, prompting tsunami warnings for Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. A large section of the uninhabited Guishan Island collapses into the ocean. Nine people are killed in Taiwan, including four by rockfalls, with more than 930 others injured. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
1 April 2024 –
North Korea fires a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan near South Korean territory. (AP)
30 March 2024 –
Japanese officials search a Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in Osaka after five deaths possibly linked to its dietary supplements. (Reuters)

Selected quote –


Selected biography –

Pierre Joseph Rossier (16 July 1829 – 22 October 1886) was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose albumen photographs, which include stereographs and cartes-de-visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes. He was commissioned by the London firm of Negretti and Zambra to travel to Asia and document the progress of the Anglo-French troops in the Second Opium War and, although he failed to join that military expedition, he remained in Asia for several years, producing the first commercial photographs of China, the Philippines, Japan and Siam (now Thailand). He was the first professional photographer in Japan, where he trained Ueno Hikoma, Maeda Genzō, Horie Kuwajirō, as well as lesser known members of the first generation of Japanese photographers. In Switzerland he established photographic studios in Fribourg and Einsiedeln, and he also produced images elsewhere in the country. Rossier is an important figure in the early history of photography not only because of his own images, but also because of the critical impact of his teaching in the early days of Japanese photography. (Full article...)
List of selected biographies

Selected prefecture –

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Honshū, Japan. It is considered part of the Greater Tokyo Area and its capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is a relatively small prefecture wedged between Tokyo on the north, the foothills of Mount Fuji on the northwest, and the Pacific Ocean and Tokyo Bay on the south and east. The eastern side of the prefecture is relatively flat and heavily urbanized, including the large port cities of Yokohama and Kawasaki, but becomes more relaxed to the southeast, near the Miura Peninsula, where the ancient city of Kamakura draws tourists to its temples and shrines. The western part is more mountainous and includes resort areas like Odawara and Hakone. Nineteen cities are located in Kanagawa Prefecture. During the Kamakura period (1185-1333), the city of Kamakura in central Sagami was the capital of Japan. In 1853 and 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry landed in Kanagawa and signed the Convention of Kanagawa to force open Japanese ports to the United States. Yokohama, the largest deep-water port in Tokyo Bay, was opened to foreign traders in 1859 after several more years of foreign pressure, and eventually developed into the largest trading port in Japan. Nearby Yokosuka, closer to the mouth of Tokyo Bay, developed as a naval port and now serves as headquarters for the U.S. 7th Fleet and the fleet operations of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. After the Meiji Period, many foreigners lived in Yokohama City and visited Hakone.

Did you know... –

  • ... that U2's experience in Shinjuku, Tokyo (pictured) at the conclusion of the Zoo TV Tour was the inspiration for the Passengers' song "Slug"?
  • ... that the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Kamikaze was one of the few larger Japanese warships to survive the Pacific War without significant damage?
  • ... that the Japanese visual novel Yotsunoha allows the player to navigate in a top-down perspective similar to a console role-playing game?
  • ... that Japanese Governor Murayama Tōan led a failed invasion of Taiwan in 1616?
  • ... that the Toi gold mine in Japan houses the world's largest pure gold bar, weighing 250 kilograms (550 lb)?

General images

The following are images from various Japan-related articles on Wikipedia.

East Asia

Other Countries/Territories

Japan topics

Eras Paleolithic | Jōmon | Yayoi | Kofun | Asuka | Nara | Heian | Kamakura | Muromachi | Azuchi-Momoyama | Edo | Meiji | Taishō | Shōwa | Heisei | Reiwa
History Economic history | Educational history | Military history | Naval history | Sengoku period | Meiji Restoration | Empire of Japan | Occupied Japan | Post-occupation Japan
Politics Constitution | Government | Emperors | Imperial Household Agency | Prime Ministers | Cabinet | Ministries | National Diet (House of Councillors · House of Representatives) | Judicial system | Law of Japan | LGBT rights | Elections | Political parties | Japanese political values | Japan Self-Defense Forces | Foreign relations
Culture Clothing | Customs and etiquette | Education | Festivals | Food | Holidays | Language | Religion | Imperial House of Japan | National symbols of Japan | National Treasure (Japan) | Monuments of Japan | Media of Japan | Honne and tatemae | Kawaii | Yamato-damashii | Wa | Miai | Ishin-denshin | Isagiyosa | Hansei | Amae | Kotodama | Onsen | Geisha | Kimono | Bushido | Shogun | Samurai | Ninja | Yakuza | Mythology | Karaoke
Art Architecture | Cinema | Literature | Music | Pornography | Theatre (Noh · Kabuki · Bunraku) | Anime | Manga | Ukiyo-e | Japanese tea ceremony | Japanese aesthetics | Ikebana | Poetry | Bonsai | Origami
Sports Sumo wrestling | Nippon Professional Baseball | Football J1 League | Super GT | All Japan Road Race Championship | Judo | Karate | Kendo | Kyūdō | Jujutsu | Ninjutsu | Aikido
Economy Japanese Companies | Primary sector | Industry | Tourism | Currency | Tokyo Stock Exchange | Japanese economic miracle | Communications | Transportation (Shinkansen · Tokyo Metro · Railway companies) | Japan Business Federation | Housing in Japan
Science and Technology Consumer electronics in Japan | Japanese automotive industry | Japanese inventions | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) | Nuclear power in Japan | Japanese robotics
Geography Geography of Japan | Japanese archipelago | Islands of Japan | Cities | Lakes | Rivers | Waterfalls | Mountains | National Parks | Japanese Alps | Mount Fuji | Lake Biwa | Seto Inland Sea | Sea of Japan | EEZ of Japan
Demographics Demographics | Yamato people | Hāfu (half Japanese people) | Ainu people | Japanese people | Japanese names | Aging of Japan
Animals Animals in Japan | Japanese macaque | Japanese raccoon dog (Tanuki) | Japanese Green pheasant | Koi | Japanese Bobtail | Hokkaido dog | Shiba Inu | Akita (dog) | Asian giant hornet | Japanese badger
Other Tokyo | Kyoto | Nara | Osaka | Sapporo | Okinawa | Kinkaku-ji | Kiyomizu-dera | Yakushi-ji temple | Tōdai-ji temple | Sensō-ji temple | Meiji Shrine | Akihabara | Shinjuku | Tokyo Tower | Tokyo Imperial Palace | Himeji Castle | Matsumoto Castle | Osaka Castle | Nagoya Castle | Tokyo Disney Resort

Subcategories

Select [►] to view subcategories
Japan
Japan-related lists
Buildings and structures in Japan
Culture of Japan
Economy of Japan
Education in Japan
Environment of Japan
Geography of Japan
Government of Japan
Health in Japan
History of Japan
Organizations based in Japan
Japanese people
Politics of Japan
Society of Japan
Images of Japan
Japan stubs

Recognized content

Extended content
  • 2020 Summer Olympics medal table
  • Abingdon Boys School discography
  • List of Asian Pacific American Medal of Honor recipients
  • List of battleships of Japan
  • Eiji Tsuburaya filmography
  • List of career achievements by Yuzuru Hanyu
  • IWGP Heavyweight Championship
  • IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
  • Koda Kumi discography
  • List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: others)
  • List of tallest structures in Tokyo
  • List of 1998 Winter Olympics medal winners
  • List of International Space Station spacewalks
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (ancient documents)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  • List of Oricon number-one albums of 2008
  • List of accolades received by Drive My Car (film)
  • List of battlecruisers of Japan
  • List of songs recorded by Alyssa Milano
  • Alyssa Milano discography
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: others)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (residences)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (shrines)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Classical Chinese books)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (writings: Japanese books)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (castles)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings)
  • List of National Treasures of Japan (temples)
  • List of accolades received by The Wind Rises

Good articles

  • 07. Japanese Garden Pano, Cowra, NSW, 22.09.2006
  • 2003 Mazda 6 (GG) Classic hatchback 01
  • Asahi Breweries headquarters building with the Asahi Flame and Skytree at blue hour with full moon, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Ase o fuku onna2
  • BUR-10b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-Five Cents ND (1942)
  • BUR-11a-Burma-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents ND (1942)
  • BUR-12a-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Quarter Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-13b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Half Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-14-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-15b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-Five Rupees ND (1942-44)
  • BUR-16-Japanese occupation Burma-10 rupees (1942-44)
  • BUR-17b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-100 Rupees ND (1944)
  • BUR-9b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Cent ND (1942)
  • Beijing Castle Boxer Rebellion 1900 FINAL
  • Bicycle crankset Shimano 105 R7000 (chainring 50-34, length 172.5mm, 11 speed)
  • Blind monks examining an elephant
  • Bloody Saturday, Shanghai
  • Comme des Garcons at the Met (62473)
  • Crested myna, Osaka, Japan
  • Daurian redstart at Daisen Park in Osaka, January 2016
  • Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender
  • Extermination of Evil Tenkeisei
  • Forces returning 2
  • Gasshukoku suishi teitoku kōjōgaki (Oral statement by the American Navy admiral)
  • Golden gate of Ueno Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Great Wave off Kanagawa2
  • Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen
  • Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - right hand screen
  • Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
  • Hiroshige II - Kishu kumano iwatake tori - Shokoku meisho hyakkei
  • HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2
  • HoryujiYumedono0363edit4
  • Hyochangwon as Korea's first golf course
  • ISS Aug2005
  • ISS March 2009
  • Instrument of surrender Japan2
  • JAPAN-10-Constitutional Monarchy-One Yen (1873)
  • JAPAN-M7-Tsingtao-10 Sen (1914)
  • Japan 1870 20 Yen (alt)
  • Japanese Squirrel edit2
  • Japanese archer 1878b
  • Japanese pygmy woodpecker in Sakai, Osaka, February 2016
  • Japanese white-eye at Tennōji Park in Osaka, January 2016 III
  • Japaneseweavera
  • Japanmakaken im Jigokudani Monkey Park bei der Fellpflege
  • Kabukicho red gate and colorful neon street signs at night, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Khalili Collections A Composite Imaginary View of Japan
  • Kiyonaga bathhouse women-2
  • Koku Saitcho shounin
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 01
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 02
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 03
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 04
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 05
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 06
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 07
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 08
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 09
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 10
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 11
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 12
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 13
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 14
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 15
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 16
  • MAL-M10b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-1000 Dollars ND (1945)
  • MAL-M1b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-One Cent ND (1942)
  • MAL-M2a-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-Five Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M3b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M4b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-50 Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M5c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-One Dollar ND (1942)
  • MAL-M6c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-Five Dollars ND (1942)
  • MAL-M7c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-10 Dollars ND (1944)
  • MAL-M8b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-100 Dollars ND (1944)
  • MAL-M9-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-100 Dollars ND (1945)
  • Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War
  • Manzanar calisthenics 0016u
  • Manzanar portrait Toyo Miyatake 00100u
  • Maresuke Nogi, 近世名士写真 其1 - Photo only
  • Mazda RX-8 on freeway
  • NI-119b-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-1 Cent (1942)
  • NI-120c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-5 Cents (1942)
  • NI-121a-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents (1942)
  • NI-122b-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-half Gulden (1942)
  • NI-123-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-1 Gulden (1942)
  • NI-124c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-5 Gulden (1942)
  • NI-125c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-10 Gulden (1942)
  • Nagasakibomb
  • Nagoya Castle(Edit2)
  • Noru 2017-07-31 0415Z
  • OCE-1a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-Half Shilling ND (1942)
  • OCE-2a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-One Shilling ND (1942)
  • OCE-3a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-10 Shillings ND (1942)
  • OCE-4a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-One Pound ND (1942)
  • Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten edit
  • Olympus E-M1 Mark III Zuiko 12-100mm
  • PHI-102b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Centavo (1942)
  • PHI-103b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-104b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-105b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-50 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-106-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Peso (1942)
  • PHI-107A-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Pesos (1942)
  • PHI-108-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Pesos (1942)
  • PHI-109-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Peso (1943)
  • PHI-110-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Pesos (1943)
  • PHI-111-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Pesos (1943)
  • PHI-112-Japanese Government (Philippines)-100 Pesos (1944)
  • PHI-114-Japanese Government (Philippines)-500 Pesos (1944)
  • PHI-115-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1000 Pesos (1945)
  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, larger - edit1
  • Red Fuji southern wind clear morning
  • Rhinogobius flumineus(Hamamatsu,Shizuoka,Japan)
  • STS-134 International Space Station after undocking
  • Samurai with sword
  • Sesshu - Haboku-Sansui - complete
  • Shimano Hyperglide cassette 8-speed CS-HG51 11-32
  • Shoki2
  • Somagahana Fuchiemon restored
  • Suikoden
  • The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk
  • The brown-eared bulbul after playing with water
  • Torii path with lantern at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow
  • USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes
  • Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses

Picture of the day pictures

  • 07. Japanese Garden Pano, Cowra, NSW, 22.09.2006
  • 2003 Mazda 6 (GG) Classic hatchback 01
  • Asahi Breweries headquarters building with the Asahi Flame and Skytree at blue hour with full moon, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Ase o fuku onna2
  • BUR-10b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-Five Cents ND (1942)
  • BUR-11a-Burma-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents ND (1942)
  • BUR-12a-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Quarter Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-13b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Half Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-14-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Rupee ND (1942)
  • BUR-15b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-Five Rupees ND (1942-44)
  • BUR-16-Japanese occupation Burma-10 rupees (1942-44)
  • BUR-17b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-100 Rupees ND (1944)
  • BUR-9b-Burma-Japanese Occupation-One Cent ND (1942)
  • Beijing Castle Boxer Rebellion 1900 FINAL
  • Bicycle crankset Shimano 105 R7000 (chainring 50-34, length 172.5mm, 11 speed)
  • Blind monks examining an elephant
  • Bloody Saturday, Shanghai
  • Comme des Garcons at the Met (62473)
  • Crested myna, Osaka, Japan
  • Daurian redstart at Daisen Park in Osaka, January 2016
  • Douglas MacArthur signs formal surrender
  • Extermination of Evil Tenkeisei
  • Forces returning 2
  • Gasshukoku suishi teitoku kōjōgaki (Oral statement by the American Navy admiral)
  • Geisha Kyoto Gion
  • Geisha-kyoto-2004-11-21
  • Golden gate of Ueno Tōshō-gū Shinto shrine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Great Wave off Kanagawa2
  • Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen
  • Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - right hand screen
  • Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. In his barracks home at Block 7 - 21 - NARA - 539206 - Restoration
  • Hiroshige II - Kishu kumano iwatake tori - Shokoku meisho hyakkei
  • HiroshimaPeaceMemorialPanorama-2
  • HoryujiYumedono0363edit4
  • Hyochangwon as Korea's first golf course
  • ISS Aug2005
  • ISS March 2009
  • Instrument of surrender Japan2
  • JAPAN-10-Constitutional Monarchy-One Yen (1873)
  • JAPAN-M7-Tsingtao-10 Sen (1914)
  • Japan 1870 20 Yen (alt)
  • Japanese Squirrel edit2
  • Japanese archer 1878b
  • Japanese pygmy woodpecker in Sakai, Osaka, February 2016
  • Japanese white-eye at Tennōji Park in Osaka, January 2016 III
  • Japaneseweavera
  • Japanmakaken im Jigokudani Monkey Park bei der Fellpflege
  • Kabukicho red gate and colorful neon street signs at night, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Khalili Collections A Composite Imaginary View of Japan
  • Kiyonaga bathhouse women-2
  • Koku Saitcho shounin
  • KyotoFushimiInariLarge
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 01
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 02
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 03
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 04
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 05
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 06
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 07
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 08
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 09
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 10
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 11
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 12
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 13
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 14
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 15
  • Line scan photo of Shinkansen N700A Series Set G13 in 2017, car 16
  • MAL-M10b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-1000 Dollars ND (1945)
  • MAL-M1b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-One Cent ND (1942)
  • MAL-M2a-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-Five Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M3b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M4b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-50 Cents ND (1942)
  • MAL-M5c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-One Dollar ND (1942)
  • MAL-M6c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-Five Dollars ND (1942)
  • MAL-M7c-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-10 Dollars ND (1944)
  • MAL-M8b-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-100 Dollars ND (1944)
  • MAL-M9-Malaya-Japanese Occupation-100 Dollars ND (1945)
  • Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, officially ending the Second World War
  • Manzanar calisthenics 0016u
  • Manzanar portrait Toyo Miyatake 00100u
  • Maresuke Nogi, 近世名士写真 其1 - Photo only
  • Mazda RX-8 on freeway
  • NI-119b-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-1 Cent (1942)
  • NI-120c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-5 Cents (1942)
  • NI-121a-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-10 Cents (1942)
  • NI-122b-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-half Gulden (1942)
  • NI-123-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-1 Gulden (1942)
  • NI-124c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-5 Gulden (1942)
  • NI-125c-Netherlands Indies-Japanese Occupation-10 Gulden (1942)
  • Nagasakibomb
  • Nagoya Castle(Edit2)
  • Noru 2017-07-31 0415Z
  • OCE-1a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-Half Shilling ND (1942)
  • OCE-2a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-One Shilling ND (1942)
  • OCE-3a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-10 Shillings ND (1942)
  • OCE-4a-Oceania-Japanese Occupation-One Pound ND (1942)
  • Ogata Gekko - Ryu sho ten edit
  • Olympus E-M1 Mark III Zuiko 12-100mm
  • PHI-102b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Centavo (1942)
  • PHI-103b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-104b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-105b-Japanese Government (Philippines)-50 Centavos (1942)
  • PHI-106-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Peso (1942)
  • PHI-107A-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Pesos (1942)
  • PHI-108-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Pesos (1942)
  • PHI-109-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1 Peso (1943)
  • PHI-110-Japanese Government (Philippines)-5 Pesos (1943)
  • PHI-111-Japanese Government (Philippines)-10 Pesos (1943)
  • PHI-112-Japanese Government (Philippines)-100 Pesos (1944)
  • PHI-114-Japanese Government (Philippines)-500 Pesos (1944)
  • PHI-115-Japanese Government (Philippines)-1000 Pesos (1945)
  • Panorama of Edo bw
  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, larger - edit1
  • Red Fuji southern wind clear morning
  • Rhinogobius flumineus(Hamamatsu,Shizuoka,Japan)
  • STS-134 International Space Station after undocking
  • Sake barrels at Itsukushima Shrine
  • Samurai with sword
  • Sesshu - Haboku-Sansui - complete
  • Shimano Hyperglide cassette 8-speed CS-HG51 11-32
  • Shoki2
  • Somagahana Fuchiemon restored
  • Suikoden
  • The Illustration of The Siberian War, No. 16. The Japanese Army Occupied Vragaeschensk
  • The brown-eared bulbul after playing with water
  • Torii path with lantern at Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
  • Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow
  • USS Bunker Hill hit by two Kamikazes
  • Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses
  • Battleships of Japan

Associated Wikimedia

The following Wikimedia Foundation sister projects provide more on this subject:

Discover Wikipedia using portals
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.