Wikipedia:Japan-related topics notice board/New Japan-related articles/2005-October


 * Japanese-Korean relations: everybody please watch this one, this one could be subject to edit wars and NPOV. -- Mkill 13:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * spotted: Japan International Cooperation Agency, JETRO, created: Foreign aid institutions of Japan, Economic relations of Japan, Foreign trade policies of Japan, Foreign policy of Japan -- Mkill 21:03, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Shosoin: just a translation of the opening paragraph, not much more, of the Japanese article. Fg2 05:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * WWWJDIC, online dictionary. --DannyWilde 03:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spotted:
 * Buddha's hand (citrus fruit)
 * Munakata Shrine (needs cleanup)
 * I saw this post and did some cleanup; more work would be welcome (including checking my translations!). Fg2 05:56, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Shin Meikai kokugo jiten (dictionary article)
 * Writers: Hayashi Fubo, Kobayashi Hideo --DannyWilde 03:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Government of Meiji Japan; actually the text is already part of Meiji period, but it should be trimmed there. Meiji period should be expanded on art, literature, society etc. instead. -- Mkill 17:57, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
 * New category: Category:Japan history of foreign relations -- Mkill 23:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spotted: Ukiyo, oyabun; created: Chōnindō -- Mkill 19:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Meiji oligarchy and Foreign relations of Meiji Japan -- Mkill 00:07, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japan-United States relations (this one is huge, and will take some time to wikify), and Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan -- Mkill 01:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese unit - spotted on newest pages. Deals with shakkanhou, the traditional units of length, volume, mass. --DannyWilde 14:02, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Home Ministry (Japan) (stub), Police system of Japan, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, Penal system of Japan -- Mkill 15:09, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Forbidden Colors (or "Kinjiki" (stub), Yukio Mishima's novel --DannyWilde 04:03, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nanako Matsushima (stub), spotted on new pages. --DannyWilde 04:03, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nekama, also I changed okama from a redirect into a stub, although I haven't added anything to it except links. --DannyWilde 02:44, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The kanji you gave for Okama are rather weird. I don't think many Japanese would use お釜, I've only seen the word in Katakana. Also check ja:おかま for reference. -- Mkill 15:09, 23 October 2005 (UTC)


 * National security of Japan, Modernization of Japanese Military 1868-1931, Japan Defense Agency (was a stub), Japanese political values -- Mkill 23:09, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Criminal justice system of Japan -- Mkill 04:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese foreign policy on Southeast Asia -- Mkill 22:10, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese-Russian relations and Soviet-Japanese joint declaration of 1956 (stub) -- Mkill 21:04, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese-Russian relations is now on the Portal. Fg2 02:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Za Gaman, Japanese 80s TV show famous for appearing as "Endurance" on Tarrant on TV etc. --DannyWilde 06:16, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese input methods, the beginnings of an article on this topic. --DannyWilde 05:07, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese input methods is now on the Portal. Fg2 02:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Just stubs, but it's a start: Japan-Oceania relations, Japanese-Australian relations -- Mkill 21:30, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Controversies regarding the role of the Emperor of Japan (yes, I tried to find a shorter lemma but couldn't) and Judicial system of Japan (has a cleanup tag from User:BorgQueen, though I don't know why, maybe he mistook for an expand tag). -- Mkill 20:33, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yumemi Kobo. A device claimed to let the user control his or her dreams. Created today and posted on WP:AFD already. (I found it there.) Fg2 10:51, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yumemi Kobo is now on the Portal. Fg2 02:29, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hiragana cities, Geographical Survey Institute of Japan --DannyWilde 12:37, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Public health centres in Japan - a stub explanation. Basically I needed an explanation for the Japanese map symbols page, so I made this stub to put some basic information in. I'm not sure where else it could be linked from. --DannyWilde 11:28, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spotted: Yamato Colony, Japanese bombings Oregon, Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu, Enchi Fumiko, Hiroshi Oguchi, Koara no māchi (another one for David's speedy deletions) --DannyWilde 14:56, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Monsieur is now on the Portal. Fg2 02:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ee ja nai ka didn't seem to feature in Wikipedia at all. Perhaps some historians would like to beef this stub article up a little? --DannyWilde 14:13, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ee ja nai ka is now on the Portal. Fg2 02:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I created the following categories: Category:Empire of Japan (for the period 1868-1945), Category:Japanese militarism and Category:Japanese war crimes. -- Mkill 13:20, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * List of Japanese instant noodles, a worthy partner to the pre existing List of Japanese snack food I feel. --DannyWilde 10:10, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The last one for today is Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives -- Mkill 00:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * two more stubs, Cabinet Legislative Bureau (Japan) and Chief Cabinet Secretary (Japan) -- Mkill 23:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Next article of the loc integration project is Civil service of Japan. -- Mkill 22:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I created Political funding in Japan from loc material, and the stubs Board of Audit (Japan) and Security Council (Japan). -- Mkill 11:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Can you help me identify the Japanese article for Security Council to link to? The contents suggest ja:人事院 (National Personnel Authority) but the title could be ja:国家公安委員会 (National Public Safety Commission) or ja:公安審査委員会 (Public Security Examination Commission) (or something else). Fg2 12:11, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I created the stub from a sentence in the Library of Congress material, in the article "The Cabinet and Ministries" . In fact, all the information it gives is in fact this sentence. It could be that whoever wrote the text mixed up the translations. If there is no agency that meets the description in the Japanese Wikipedia it would be a good idea to delete the stub and translate the Japanese Wikipedia instead. -- Mkill 21:25, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese abbreviated and contracted words - please add your favourite examples. --DannyWilde 04:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I thinks it is agreed that we need a Government of Japan article, so I started it. Most of the important information is still hinding behind links, though, and the article needs a lot of love and attention. While I'm at it, I also created Ministries of Japan -- Mkill 16:35, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Masaki Sumitani -- aka Haado Gei ... my students love this guy, let me you; perhaps my initial stub on him will help make up for the fact that I steadfastly refuse to do the signature pelvic thrust for their amusement. If anyone knows whether there's any more connection between his stage name and Scott Hall, the American pro wrestler who I discovered while googling around for "Razor Ramon", feel free to clarify that part. — MC MasterChef  ::  Leave a tip — 12:33, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese map symbols - only just begun, I have many more symbols to add to it. --DannyWilde 00:38, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * For the Loc Project, I created Trade and services in Japan and Living standard in Japan. The chapter on Economy is nearly completed. -- Mkill 21:01, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I created the categories Category:Rail transport in Japan, Category:Metros in Japan and Category:Monorails in Japan to get a better structure in all railway-related articles. -- Mkill 21:01, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spotted (not mine): two historical articles, Nagasaki Naval Training Center, and Kankō Maru. Also Karel van Wolferen. --DannyWilde 11:30, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Kojien - technically not a new article, but basically rewritten from scratch. Was evidently the product of a hoaxer. This article was speedy-deleted ten times before surviving as a hoax (published in Antartica, etc.) I'm not too sure what to say about the dictionary, so this is partly a request for help too. --DannyWilde 10:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * National Route 2 (Japan) and National highways of Japan. We now have four of the nine single-digit Japanese highways. Fg2 09:37, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese words from Portuguese - this is another one from the sci.lang.japan FAQ - I get lots of Portuguese people writing to me telling me the list is wrong about such and such a word, so I've put it here so they can come and edit it for themselves. Incidentally, the page was used by the Portuguese Wikipedians to make a list on the Portuguese Wikipedia. --DannyWilde 08:03, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I linked to it from the Portal, mentioning botan, juban and tempura, which Iwanami's 「国語辞典　第三版」 confirms as being of Portuguese origin. (Iwanami says tempura comes from tempora.) Fg2 09:35, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yukimi Daifuku - thanks to User:Dforest for correcting the name. --DannyWilde 06:51, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * National Route 1 (Japan) and National Route 4 (Japan). I hope other highways will follow, so that we get at least all the single-digit routes, and the major two-digit roads as well. They go in Category:Road transport in Japan. Fg2 03:22, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I made National Route 6 (Japan) (it runs quite near my house, actually) but that is the extent of my knowledge. --DannyWilde 06:51, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Shōten (zabuton TV show) partial translation. --DannyWilde 00:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Agriculture, forestry, and fishing in Japan: I know all the otaku out there have been waiting for it. Err, no, that was the Saaya Irie article. Oh whatever :) On a sidenote, I also created Makimono. Maybe I should also mentioned the articles on Arts that were built with Library of Congress material: Japanese handicrafts, Japanese architecture, Japanese painting, Japanese pottery (was a list before), and Japanese sculpture -- Mkill 17:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * washitsu (I don't think this exists elsewhere, but a little concerned I may have duplicated something?) --DannyWilde 00:32, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Chukyo-Tokai industrial region, Keihin region -- Mkill 21:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * New articles from Loc Japan merging project, chapter 4: Economy (some articles are older, but belong to this chapter of the project): Japanese asset price bubble (still stub), Business interests in Japan, Japanese construction industry, Japanese consumer electronics industry (definitely needs update!), Defense industry of Japan, Economic history of Japan (de-stubbed), Energy production in Japan (older), Japanese financial system, Government-business relations in Japan, Industrial policy of Japan, Labor market of Japan, Labor unions in Japan (older), Lifetime employment (stub), Lost decade (stub), Japanese management culture, Manufacturing industries of Japan, Japanese mining industry (older), Private enterprise in Japan, Japanese public corporations, Research and Development in Japan (older), Japanese work environment (updated), Working women in Japan (older); all articles could need a clean-up:
 * write articles or redirect red links
 * update the material: most is from the early 90ies, doesn't matter in some, critical in others
 * link articles to each other and in Economy of Japan
 * verify and improve
 * link articles about companies to articles about sectors and vice versa
 * add pictures -- Mkill 21:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * since they were not on this list yet, I would also like to mention the articles created put integrating the Library of Congress: Japan articles on society: Elderly people in Japan, Health care in Japan, Japanese family, Japanese neighborhood, Japanese values, Social welfare in Japan, Women in Japan -- Mkill 23:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Spotted (not mine): Aburatsubo, Hayato Sakurai, Kodaha, Japanese aircraft carrier Amagi, Tomoko Kawase, Halber Mensch --DannyWilde 11:46, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Did you mean Halber Mensch (film)? It has a connection to Japan, but I didn't see a connection for Halber Mensch. Fg2 12:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed, thanks for the correction. --DannyWilde 12:56, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * New articles (some in need of help) spotted on "newest articles" (see "recent changes" for a link): Shintaro, Japanese electronic dictionaries, Onibaba, Soku-no-Kumi, Kids Station (I only made the "Kids Station" article, but I did a little cleanup on them all). --DannyWilde 15:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese particles, Japanese adjectives - language related articles. --DannyWilde 15:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ko shogi, board game, article by Jttyler and Kwamikagami (also linked to from Portal) Created September 10 Fg2 12:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * List of Japanese snack food, Jagariko, Kyabetsu Tarō, Bakauke, Don Tacos, Green tea ice cream. Also, when editing previous article, found there was nothing on nikujaga, so created a stub on that. --DannyWilde 14:52, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If you want, I can head down to my local 7-11 and get some easy pictures for some of these. They're mostly just stubs right now though.. do you think they need them? MC MasterChef 13:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Any additions you'd care to make would be welcome. I've also added kyabetsu taro. --DannyWilde 13:40, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * They're on WP:AFD, and one person commented that an illustration would be valuable, so MC MasterChef, I'd say yes, they need them. Fg2 00:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Added Green tea ice cream to the portal. Fg2 11:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Japanese symbols, from sci.lang.japan FAQ. Needs two things, conversion to macron form, and addition of all unicode numbers. --DannyWilde 09:06, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * How about renaming it "Japanese typographic symbols" or something similar to prevent confusion with literary, national and other symbols. Fg2 10:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the idea, I didn't think of that problem. Have moved to Japanese typographic symbols. --DannyWilde 12:12, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Not my articles, but User:Reader72 has made several new articles about "Manchukuo". --DannyWilde 05:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * sokuon, gojūon, language related articles. --DannyWilde 05:28, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * kabosu, a type of citrus fruit from Ōita Prefecture. --DannyWilde 01:45, 2 October 2005 (UTC)