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WikiProject Japan (Talk)
Founded: 18 March 2006 (18 years, 3 months and 4 days ago) Articles: 92,246 (182 featured)
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Yasuke has an RfC

Yasuke, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. RomeshKubajali (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Need photo in Kyoto

If anyone is in Kyoto and happens to visit the Kōdai-ji temple, a freely licensed photo of the android Mindar would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, gobonobo ^{+ c} 21:42, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Damn, I just went to Kyoto last Golden Week... ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 02:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Interesting article. Although I can't go there to take pictures, I translated the article into Japanese and posted notices on several pages requesting images. Good luck 狄の用務員 (talk) 04:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you 狄の用務員. gobonobo ^{+ c} 15:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Japanese mythology family trees are a mess

The family trees on articles relating to Japanese mythology are big mess.

• For starters I do not understand why we have 2 family trees at Jimmu.
• Family tree of Japanese monarchs and Family tree of Japanese deities are way too similar and the Family tree of Japanese monarchs has some people groups and clans that aren't even connected to the imperial family.
• Many of these family trees make it unclear whether or not they come from the Nihon shoki or Kojiki.
• Also some of these family trees just looks bad.

What do you guys thing? CycoMa1 (talk) 21:33, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes I am aware that the first family tree at Jimmu is from the Kojiki. But the Consorts and children section still looks pretty bad. CycoMa1 (talk) 21:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

@CycoMa1, it seems that the Japanese version of Jimmu has 2 trees as well. Might as just well leave it be. ABG (Talk/Report any mistakes here) 23:03, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

I did forget to mention but many of these family trees were created by Immanuelle. Who was blocked for WP:CIR and WP:DIS.CycoMa1 (talk) 23:11, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Requesting someone to check an article for accuracy

I tried my darndest to try to make sure that the sources used in Puff-puff (Dragon Quest) are used accurately, but being that I ain't got Japanese knowledge, I can't guarantee that I didn't flub details. Would anyone be so kind as to check to see that I did? - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 22:04, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

I checked the article's description against 10 Japanese sources.

As far as I could see, all the sentences that were sourced from the Japanese article were identified within the article from which they were sourced. There appears to be no contradictory descriptions in the article and the source.

In addition, all 10 sites are operated by companies with solid identities and appear to meet Wikipedia's criteria. 狄の用務員 (talk) 21:04, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you very much! - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 22:22, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

Use of IPA in Japanese brand names

It is not uncommon to see a pronunciation, usually the perceived "correct" foreign (i.e. "English") pronunciation shown in IPA as part of or alongside a brand name. E.g. ɛ̃fini, or Olympus μ [mju:] (as it should be written †). (There was a small section in the IPA article, sourced to a blog written by John Wells, who is an international authority on all things phonetical, but it was removed for some stupid WP:REASON. So not much help available.) But the Olympus article has ended up being called "Olympus mju", which is simply nonsense. I put a comment on the talk page 10 years ago, as a result of which nothing happened. What would be the best way to go about sorting this out?

† The parenthetic bit is there because I don't know how to include something ending in ']' in a link.

Imaginatorium (talk) 08:16, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Kasane Teto

Could someone from this WP:JAPAN take a look at Kasane Teto? I don't know how the notability of fictional characters are assessed or whether this is related to the scope of this WikiProject (it looks like it might be), but I'm not seeing how this meets (at least at the moment) WP:GNG or even WP:NFICTION. Perhaps there something there worth WP:DRAFTIFYing per WP:NEXIST which is why it's probably better for someone who might be more familiar with this type of article to take a look at it. There is a Japanese Wikipedia article about the subject at ja:重音テト which seems much more developed and which might be a helpful for additonal sourcing and expansion. FWIW, I came across the article via a recent Wikipedia Teahouse question WP:THQ#Wikipedia:Piccadilly. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

I have made a major revision to the introduction of the article. Kasane Teto is both a fictional character and software sold as synthetic singing voice software. It is well established both as a fictional character and as synthetic voice software, and I personally consider it to have sufficient NOTABILITY. Although I did not have time to do it this time, I think the article will be further enriched by translating the other half of the Japanese version. 狄の用務員 (talk) 15:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that 狄の用務員. Just some suggestions for future reference. If you're going to be translating content from a Japanese Wikipedia article into English, please make sure you properly attribute the original source article as explained in WP:TFOLWP; even if you first translate stuff into your user sandbox, you should makes sure to attribute not only for your sandbox but also for the article itself. In addition, if you're going to translating contact from Japanese Wikipedia and taking citations directly from Japanese Wikipedia, please remember things likes MOS:LQ and MOS:ALLCAPS, and make sure to convert the citation into a format accpetable for English Wikipedia (including updating the |access-date= after verifying the source). Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really follow MOS:MOS so you can find lots different styles of being used for non-Japanese words MOS:ALLCAPS, and it often uses zenkaku characters for brackets, punctuation marks, spaces, etc. It would also be helpful if you could use the |script-title=, |title=, |language= and |trans-title= parameters when adding citations to Japanese sources because it makes things that much easier for the reader. If you're not sure how to use these parameters, you can find examples in Template:cite web. Finally, since Japanese Wikipedia doesn't really need to worry about MOS:ENGVAR and MOS:DATEUNIFY when it comes to its articles, please try to remain consistent with the style chosen by the article's creator when adding dates or other text content. Doing so may help reduce the amount of cleanup need later on and helps article remain consistent stylistically. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

I misunderstood that an addition was demanded, but it is not. I tried to do what I could knowing about my writing abilities, but sorry for the hassle. I will keep this in mind for future reference. I apologize for not being able to edit in a beautiful style. 狄の用務員 (talk) 12:02, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Kaichi Watanabe - links for employers

I'm improving (I hope) the article for Japanese engineer Kaichi Watanabe. This brief article lists his employers later in his life. It lists their names under their late-19th century / early 20th century incarnations. I'm trying to resolve each to their current names/owners. Two I have problems with:

• "Kansai Gas Company" - is that Osaka Gas?
• "Hokuestsu Railway Company" - I know there's a modern Hokuetsu line, which runs on the Hokuriku Main Line, and Shinetsu Main Line. Was Hokuetsu Railway Company the company that originally operated those those two lines? Is Hokuetsu a portmanteaux of Hokuriku and Shinetsu?

Thanks for your help. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 10:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Looking at a the Google Translate of his ja.wikipedia article, it seems he had an even more extensive career back in Japan that that. But I'm not confident about adding detail from that (not least because of WP:CIRCULAR), and because I can't read the references it cites. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 10:29, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Hokuetsu Railway Company (the Hokuestsu typo leads me to believe the Glasgow source is not great) was nationalized under the Railway Nationalization Act in 1907. We don't have an article on the original company, which ran a line between Niigata and Naoetsu from 1895 to 1907. It would seem anachronistic to link to a more modern line. I don't know what the gas company is, but I doubt it is Osaka Gas. Dekimasuよ! 03:43, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Extremely Inappropriate!

I recently created an article for the 2024 series Extremely Inappropriate!. It may be of interest to members of this project. Thriley (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)