Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan



Welcome to WikiProject Japan, a WikiProject set up to better organize and present information in all articles related to Japan. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of interested Wikipedians to improve all Japan-related articles in order to make Wikipedia an excellent resource for Japan-related information for all who visit. If you would like to help, please sign up on the participants page and see the to-do list below for ideas of where to start. There's plenty of work to go around!

For more information on WikiProjects, please see WikiProjects and WikiProject best practices.

Scope and goals
This project is designed to help those interested in improving all of the Japan-related articles on Wikipedia to find a particular area in which they are interested in working. As "Japan" is a broad subject, there are many taskforces and collaborations (see the navbox to the right for a full list) in which you can participate.

As of, there are articles within the scope of WikiProject Japan, of which  are featured. This makes up of the articles on Wikipedia and  of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are pages in the project.

We want to:
 * 1) Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
 * 2) Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese people
 * 3) Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese topics
 * 4) Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
 * 5) Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
 * 6) Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the  &lt;ref&gt; element and the cite series of templates
 * 7) Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese topics; and
 * 8) Standardize the use of Japanese-language terms, names, and translations into English across all related articles, bringing them in line with the WP:MOS-JA.
 * 9) Patrol recent changes to existing Japan-related articles for vandalism and poor-quality edits, and correct them to maintain the articles.

Progress on improving articles
Below is how we are progressing on improving the articles within our scope.

To-do items
Please "Be Bold!" and help us out. There are plenty of things to do in the lists below, including the creation of brand new articles. Please list all Japan-related Good and Featured articles at WikiProject Japan/Recognized content.

Unreferenced BLPs
Please help as much as you can with our big list of unreferenced biographies of living people. The oldest tagged articles need help first as they are likely to be deleted before any more recently tagged articles. Whether you can do one article or 100, your help is needed and appreciated. Thanks!

Articles needing attention
Some articles have been tagged as needing immediate attention, as well as those needing infoboxes.

New articles
You can manually list articles you have created or found at /Newest articles.



Peer review requests
See WikiProject Japan/Peer review

Former FAC
These are mostly well-written articles that need a little improvement in order to become FA quality.
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] National Treasures of Japan, see discussion, needs copy-edit to make the language "brillant."
 * Koan was a Featured Article Candidate.
 * Sumo is a former featured-article candidate.
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Chashitsu, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Cowboy Bebop, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Forty-seven Ronin, see discussion here and here
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] InuYasha, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Japanese grammar, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Japanese name, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Japanese tea ceremony, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Mega Man, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Pac-Man, see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Spira (Final Fantasy), see discussion
 * [[Image:Cscr-former.png|16px]] Stroke order, see discussion.

Top importance articles → FA
Please consider working on the Top importance articles in the chart below in order to bring them to Featured Article quality. The chart shows the current status of these articles (listed alphabetically by how close they are to reaching FA status), and there's plenty to work on.



Featured class
These top-importance articles and lists have been improved to featured status. Feel free to keep an eye on them so they stay that way.
 * Flag of Japan (Talk)
 * Japan (Talk)
 * Murasaki Shikibu (Talk)
 * Ukiyo-e (Talk)

Below are the articles which need work to become featured class. You are welcome to work on any of them. Any help is appreciated.

A class

 * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Talk)

GA class

 * Akira Kurosawa (Talk)
 * Government of Japan (Talk)
 * Himeji Castle (Talk)
 * Kimigayo (Talk)
 * Matsuo Bashō (Talk)
 * National Diet (Talk)
 * Noh (Talk)

B class

 * Ainu people (Talk)
 * Amaterasu (Talk)
 * Anime (Talk)
 * Bakumatsu (Talk)
 * Bushido (Talk)
 * Cultural Property (Japan) (Talk)
 * Economy of Japan (Talk)
 * Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (Talk)
 * Hokusai (Talk)
 * Izumo no Okuni (Talk)
 * Kabuki (Talk)
 * Kanji (Talk)
 * Katana (Talk)
 * Kitakyushu (Talk)
 * Kobe (Talk)
 * Manga (Talk)
 * Ninja (Talk)
 * Nuclear power in Japan (Talk)
 * Samurai (Talk)
 * Sendai (Talk)
 * Shinkansen (Talk)
 * Soka Gakkai (Talk)
 * Sony (Talk)
 * The Tale of Genji (Talk)
 * Tokugawa Ieyasu (Talk)
 * Tokyo (Talk)
 * Video games in Japan (Talk)
 * Zen (Talk)

C class

 * Ainu language (Talk)
 * Azuchi Castle (Talk)
 * Azuchi–Momoyama period (Talk)
 * Chiba Prefecture (Talk)
 * Constitution of Japan (Talk)
 * Culture of Japan (Talk)
 * Demographics of Japan (Talk)
 * Economic history of Japan (Talk)
 * Edo Castle (Talk)
 * Education in Japan (Talk)
 * Emishi (Talk)
 * Emperor Meiji (Talk)
 * Emperor of Japan (Talk)
 * Emperor Jimmu (Talk)
 * Empire of Japan (Talk)
 * Ethnic groups of Japan (Talk)
 * Etiquette in Japan (Talk)
 * First Sino-Japanese War (Talk)
 * Fukuoka (Talk)
 * Geisha (Talk)
 * Genpei War (Talk)
 * Geography of Japan (Talk)
 * Ginza (Talk)
 * Gion (Talk)
 * Haiku (Talk)
 * Heian period (Talk)
 * Heian-kyō (Talk)
 * Hirohito (Talk)
 * Hiroshima (Talk)
 * Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Talk)
 * History of Japan (Talk)
 * Hokkaido (Talk)
 * Homosexuality in Japan (Talk)
 * Honorific speech in Japanese (Talk)
 * Honshu (Talk)
 * Imperial Regalia of Japan (Talk)
 * Ise Grand Shrine (Talk)
 * Japan Self-Defense Forces (Talk)
 * Japanese aesthetics (Talk)
 * Japanese architecture (Talk)
 * Japanese art (Talk)
 * Japanese calendar (Talk)
 * Japanese castle (Talk)
 * Japanese cuisine (Talk)
 * Japanese festivals (Talk)
 * Japanese invasion of Manchuria (Talk)
 * Japanese language (Talk)
 * Japanese literature (Talk)
 * Japanese martial arts (Talk)
 * Japanese name (Talk)
 * Japanese people (Talk)
 * Japanese poetry (Talk)
 * Japanese pottery and porcelain (Talk)
 * Japanese tea ceremony (Talk)
 * Japanese traditional dolls (Talk)
 * Japanese writing system (Talk)
 * Japanese yen (Talk)
 * Jōmon period (Talk)
 * Kamakura period (Talk)
 * Kamikaze (Talk)
 * Karaoke (Talk)
 * Karate (Talk)
 * Keihanshin (Talk)
 * Kimono (Talk)
 * Kojiki (Talk)
 * Kōtoku-in (Talk)
 * Kyoto (Talk)
 * Kyushu (Talk)
 * Law of Japan (Talk)
 * Man'yōshū (Talk)
 * Meiji Constitution (Talk)
 * Meiji Restoration (Talk)
 * Yukio Mishima (Talk)
 * Miyamoto Musashi (Talk)
 * Mount Aso (Talk)
 * Mount Fuji (Talk)
 * Mukden Incident (Talk)
 * Music of Japan (Talk)
 * Nagasaki (Talk)
 * Names of Japan (Talk)
 * Nara period (Talk)
 * Nara, Nara (Talk)
 * Narita International Airport (Talk)
 * Oda Nobunaga (Talk)
 * Okinawa Prefecture (Talk)
 * Onsen (Talk)
 * Origami (Talk)
 * Osaka (Talk)
 * Post-occupation Japan (Talk)
 * Prince Shōtoku (Talk)
 * Public holidays in Japan (Talk)
 * Rail transport in Japan (Talk)
 * Rakugo (Talk)
 * Religion in Japan (Talk)
 * Russo-Japanese War (Talk)
 * Ryukyu Kingdom (Talk)
 * Saitama, Saitama (Talk)
 * Sake (Talk)
 * Salaryman (Talk)
 * Sapporo (Talk)
 * Sea of Japan (Talk)
 * Second Sino-Japanese War (Talk)
 * Seppuku (Talk)
 * Sharaku (Talk)
 * Shinto (Talk)
 * Shizuoka, Shizuoka (Talk)
 * Shogun (Talk)
 * Sport in Japan (Talk)
 * Sumo (Talk)
 * Sushi (Talk)
 * Tōdai-ji (Talk)
 * Tokyo subway sarin attack (Talk)
 * Toyota (Talk)
 * Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Talk)
 * University of Tokyo (Talk)
 * Wildlife of Japan (Talk)
 * Women in Japan (Talk)
 * Yakuza (Talk)
 * Yamato period (Talk)
 * Yayoi period (Talk)
 * Yokohama (Talk)

Start class

 * Agriculture, forestry, and fishing in Japan (Talk)
 * Automotive industry in Japan (Talk)
 * Chrysanthemum Throne (Talk)
 * Daimyo (Talk)
 * Foreign policy of Japan (Talk)
 * Geology of Japan (Talk)
 * Imperial House of Japan (Talk)
 * Imperial Seal of Japan (Talk)
 * Itsukushima Shrine (Talk)
 * Japanese books (Talk)
 * Japanese folktales (Talk)
 * Japanese honorifics (Talk)
 * Japanese mythology (Talk)
 * Kii Peninsula (Talk)
 * Miai (Talk)
 * Ministry of Defense (Japan) (Talk)
 * Nagoya (Talk)
 * National Diet Building (Talk)
 * Politics of Japan (Talk)
 * Shikoku (Talk)
 * Taika Reform (Talk)
 * Taira no Kiyomori (Talk)
 * Yamato-damashii (Talk)

List class

 * Daibutsu (Talk)
 * Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) (Talk)
 * List of legendary creatures from Japan (Talk)
 * List of rulers of Japan (Talk)
 * Lists of National Treasures of Japan (Talk)

Major projects
These are big tasks that require a lot of work from a lot of people helping out in order to improve something. Feel free to jump right in and help with any of them. We always welcome more help!
 * 1) Bamse is improving the coverage of the National Treasures of Japan. See User:Bamse/National Treasures of Japan.
 * 2) Many pages shown at Special:Allpages/Japan, Special:Allpages/Japanese, Special:Allpages/Nihon, Special:Allpages/Nippon, andSpecial:Allpages/Imperial Japanese lack WikiProject Japan tags and assessments.

Cleanup tasks
These are anything smaller or more specific than projects and anything that individuals can work on.

Additionally, please review the following for work which may need doing:
 * 1) Various articles on historic people, especially the new articles
 * 2) Kyoto Imperial Palace is in sad shape. Needs expansion, more cited references.
 * 3) Shingetsu Institute was deleted as looking a little spammy; it's got lots of external links to articles, but not a single actual footnote, and the notability has been questioned (there's a bit of a COI concern as well).
 * 4) Prostitution in Japan has lots of references, but many of the references are questionable

You can also work on files listed on the Cleanup listing page as well as articles in Category:Japan articles needing attention. Your help with these is appreciated as the list of things to do is very long.

Requested moves and merges
The following are from WP:RM:

Disambiguation
The following may be from toolserver reports at WP:DPL, but any page needing disambiguation work and link correcting can be listed here.


 * (None over 25 links at this time)

Article alerts
Generated by bot as per Article alerts.

To watch the page for Article alerts, please add this page to your watchlist: WikiProject Japan/Article alerts

Stubs
You can find a list of all Japan-related stub categories on the Category talk:Japan stubs page. All of the articles on the main Category:Japan stubs page need to be sorted into these more specific categories while they are stubs (last performed on 9 June 2009). Of course, you can also expand the stubs in such a way as to make them no longer stubs. If none of the existing stubs apply, please use Japan-stub.

If you want to make a new stub for a particular category, please note that all stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories.

Requests
The articles on these pages need to be created (or pointed to existing articles under slightly different names). You can also add requests to one of these pages. If you aren't sure which page to add your request to, please ask on the talk page.

Requested articles

 * Requested articles/Japan (including anime and manga, as well as anything else related to Japan)
 * Buddhism
 * Role-playing games
 * Video games

Requested photographs in Japan

 * Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Japan

In addition to requesting on here, elsewhere on the English Wikipedia, and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/Asia), please also request one on the Japanese Wikipedia. If you know Japanese, state your request at ja:Wikipedia:画像提供依頼. If you do not know Japanese, state your request at ja:Wikipedia:Chatsubo and ask the participants for help on adding it to the Japanese Wikipedia's image request page. Members will help you with your requests. Usually Japanese Wikipedians who photograph and upload images on Commons will post descriptions in Japanese and English.

Translation requests

 * See under Requested articles/Japan above, or,
 * Also see Pages needing translation into English
 * And check Category:Articles needing translation from Japanese Wikipedia
 * Policies and gateway: Translation
 * Old link: Japan-related translation requests

Romanization requests
Hepburn romanization needed:
 * Romanize film titles at: Template:WPFILMS Announcements/Japanese cinema

Proposed new or updated articles
List any Japan-related articles on which you are working that aren't quite ready for prime time, or proposed replacements or updates for currently existing articles. This will allow an informal peer review of sorts by anyone interested in the particular topic, thereby helping Wikipedia to become better.
 * Japanese bamboo weaving needs help with the macrons on the names, please help. Gryffindor (talk) 16:52, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Human Shadow Etched in Stone - an article related to the atomic bombing, which was translated from jawiki. I would appreciate if you could help me check or correct my English writing. --DFT B3LYP (talk) 23:55, 16 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Yuru-chara --Zilog Jones (talk) 22:59, 28 October 2014 (UTC)


 * kind of beginner wikipedian here, please check Draft:Hige_dance (article now deleted for lack of notability, could have been merged with The Drifters).


 * Banana Yoshimoto bibliography updated, in need of an enthusiast for a double check


 * I would like to propose a rewrite of Jōmon Sugi. According to my research some information in the article is incorrect. Please advise as this is my first entry. Julianathomas (talk) 06:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Review requested for Nanking Massacre, Battle of Nanking, Nanking Massacre denial, Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre. - The articles on Nanking Massacre and Battle of Nanking have been expanded and tone has been made somewhat more NPOV.  The other two articles are new. --Richard (talk) 17:05, 25 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The article on Souzou Gakuen University has the wrong (or outdated) title University of Creation; Art, Music & Social Work:Souzou Gakuen University is the English version of institution's name now as clear as stated on all official sites that I added the links to on article's page. Also the other info is terribly outdated, this university was allover the news yesterday so there's plenty of reliable information out there right now. I would contribute to it but not sure how to change the article name, or is it better to create a completely new article and delete old one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsurugaoka (talk • contribs) 12:26, November 11, 2009


 * I was browsing Wikipedia and found this page looking a bit lonely and lost (Memorial day for the end of the war). Unfortunately as my Japanese language knowledge is nil and the original creator of the pages English isn't great most of the page didn't make sense so I had to get rid of it. It needed categorising which I have done. If anyone knows anything about this day please can they consider adding to the stub? Cls14 (talk) 17:27, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * @User:Cls14Hi, I am new to Wikiproject Japan and was just reading through this page to see what it was all about when I came upon your post. Somebody has categorized this as one of the public holidays in Japan, but I don't think that is correct. It is more of a remembrance day with a few speeches given and a few events held than a national holiday type of thing. My personal experience is that it is pretty business as usual for most of Japan, with a few events being held in Tokyo. Also, the part about Obon has nothing to do with this day other than that August 15 tends to fall with in that time period. For what it's worth, Obon is also not a National holiday. It's sort of like Christmas here, celebrated by some but not a Japanese holiday; It is more like a summer break for some companies and people. --Marchjuly (talk) 03:02, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Katsuhiro Kawamitsu (川満勝弘):New. This Articles for Creation submission from last October recently re-entered the AFC queue.  It needs some cleanup.  The original submitter hasn't edited in months.  Help would be appreciated. davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)  01:57, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Proposed update of Nagauta: I am new to Wikiproject Japan and to Wikipedia editing in general. I wanted to update the Nagauta article because there are quite a few reputable scholarly sources available on the topic and the article previously lacked citations. Is it long enough to remove the "stub" designation? I would appreciate any feedback on how I did or how I could improve my editing in future. --CBFraoch (talk) 17:42, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Tohoku High School:New. Its a school known for its sportsman ship clubs however I am having trouble justifying its relevance with english sources. Any help is appreciatedChefs-kiss (talk) 21:10, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Adding missing information/article expansion
List Japan-related articles that have missing information (and what they are missing) or that need expanding.


 * Next Japanese general election needs opinion polls added to this page. Helper201 (talk) 18:12, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Article assessment
Any member of WikiProject Japan may assess Japan-related articles by following the guidelines here. If you aren't sure about an article, ask about it on the assessment talk page.

Recognized content
In order to make this page a bit shorter, the list of recognized content has been moved to its own page.

Resources

 * 郵便番号検索 - 日本郵便 - This Japan Post resource has pronunciations in katakana for place names throughout Japan.
 * Place names with unusual readings (for if you just can't figure out the reading)
 * Film credits glossary
 * Manual of Style (Japan-related articles)
 * Jim Breen's WWWJDIC - one of the best online J-E/E-J dictionaries
 * Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary - includes French translations as well
 * Online Tool for URL Encoding/Decoding

Templates

 * To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: . In general, do not add this project's talk page banner to articles belonging to a child project. This is to prevent the talk pages getting too many talk page banners.
 * If an article is in need of kanji or hiragana, add   or    to the top of the article.
 * When adding Japanese characters to an article, use
 * nihongo if an explanation or the pronunciation of the characters is needed. Format:
 * nihongo2 if only the Japanese characters are needed. Format:
 * nihongo3 if the rōmaji are needed first. Format:
 * nihongo krt if the kanji/kana is needed first. Format:
 * eigo if the Japanese characters are needed first. Format:
 * Userboxes:

You must use the second userbox if you wish your user name to automatically appear under Category:WikiProject Japan participants and Category:Wikipedians interested in Japan.

Barnsensu
If you think someone has done an outstanding job in improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia, you can award them the WikiProject Japan Barnsensu. Please make note of the following:
 * 1) To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page:  Your message to the recipient. ~ 
 * 2) In general, you shouldn't award this to someone who has awarded it to you (in order to avoid any appearance of quid pro quo).
 * 3) After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnsensu recipients page.

Recipients may also add the Barnsensu userbox to their pages.

Barnstar 2.0
If you think someone has done an outstanding job in improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles here on Wikipedia, you can award them the WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0 (same type of award as the above, but looks different). Please make note of the following:
 * 1) To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page:  Your message to the recipient. ~ 
 * 2) In general, you shouldn't award this to someone who has awarded it to you (in order to avoid any appearance of quid pro quo).
 * 3) After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnstar 2.0 recipients page.

Recipients may also add the Barnstar 2.0 userbox to their pages.

Barnstar of National Merit
This award is given by consensus of WikiProject Japan participants and is reserved for those who already have the Barnsensu and/or Barnstar 2.0 and have done an outstanding job improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles for at least two years. A discussion regarding the presentation of the award to someone should take place on the project talk page (please use a clear title for the discussion, such as Barnstar of National Merit discussion for Username, and please include a few reasons why the person deserves to be recognized). You can not nominate yourself. The only things considered in the discussion should be:
 * If they have been a part of the project for at least two years or significantly contributed to a large number of Japan-related articles even if they aren't a member of the project, and
 * Whether their contributions have significantly improved the content of Japan-related material here on Wikipedia during the time they have been participating.

Please make note of the following:
 * 1) Once consensus to award this to an editor has been reached, the person who started the discussion should place the following on the recipient's talk page:  message ~  (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)
 * 2) After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnstar of National Merit recipients page.

Recipients may also add the Barnstar of National Merit userbox to their pages.

Barnstar of National Honor
This award is given by consensus of WikiProject Japan participants and is reserved for those who already have the Barnsensu and/or Barnstar 2.0 and have done an outstanding job greatly improving and/or expanding Japan-related articles for at least three years. A discussion regarding the presentation of the award to someone should take place on the project talk page (please use a clear title for the discussion, such as Barnstar of National Honor discussion for Username, and please include a few reasons why the person deserves to be recognized). You can not nominate yourself. The only things considered in the discussion should be:
 * If they have been a part of the project for at least three years or contributed significantly to a large number of Japan-related articles even if they aren't a member of the project, and
 * Whether their contributions have greatly improved the content of Japan-related material here on Wikipedia during the time they have been participating.

Please make note of the following:
 * 1) Once consensus to award this to an editor has been reached, the person who started the discussion should first place the following on the recipient's talk page:  message ~  (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)
 * 2) After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on Barnstar of National Honor recipients page.

Recipients may also add the Barnstar of National Honor userbox to their pages.