Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/March 2015

BLP issue over at the A&M wikiproject
Link: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga There is a big problem regarding BLP articles in our project. It would be helpful if someone who understands Japanese to go through the BLP articles. Right now per WP:BLP to avoid WP:HARM I feel it would be better to delete many of the BLP articles rather than keeping them needing more sources for years. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 15:51, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Vital articles and the Core Contest
This is a list of Japan-related vital articles, based on the linked lists. If you are looking for something to do, these articles are a good place to start. They are marked with the current class of the article (start, B, C, etc.) People are listed alphabetically by family name. This is part of the The Core Contest, so any help is appreciated. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 05:22, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

People

 * Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
 * Tadao Ando
 * Dōgen
 * Hirohito
 * Hiroshige
 * Hokusai
 * Kanō Masanobu
 * Emperor Meiji
 * Shintaro Katsu
 * Yasunari Kawabata
 * Kūkai
 * Akira Kurosawa
 * Matsuo Bashō
 * Yukio Mishima
 * Shigeru Miyamoto
 * Hayao Miyazaki
 * Akio Morita
 * Haruki Murakami
 * Murasaki Shikibu
 * Toshiro Mifune
 * Oda Nobunaga
 * Kenzaburō Ōe
 * Sadaharu Oh
 * Eisaku Satō
 * Natsume Sōseki
 * Hideki Tojo
 * Tokugawa Ieyasu
 * Sesshū Tōyō
 * Toyotomi Hideyoshi
 * Osamu Tezuka
 * Isoroku Yamamoto

History

 * Edo period
 * Tokugawa shogunate
 * Empire of Japan
 * First Sino-Japanese War
 * Heian period
 * History of Japan
 * Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)
 * Meiji Restoration
 * Ninja
 * Russo-Japanese War
 * Samurai
 * Second Sino-Japanese War
 * Unequal treaty
 * World War II
 * Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * Attack on Pearl Harbor
 * Pacific War
 * Yayoi period

Geography

 * Fukuoka
 * Hiroshima
 * Hokkaido
 * Honshu
 * Japan
 * Kitakyushu
 * Kobe
 * Kuril Islands
 * Kyoto
 * Kyushu
 * Mariana Trench
 * Mount Fuji
 * Nagoya
 * Osaka
 * Pacific Ocean
 * East China Sea
 * Philippine Sea
 * Sea of Japan
 * Sea of Okhotsk
 * Seto Inland Sea
 * Ring of Fire
 * Ryukyu Islands
 * Sakhalin
 * Sapporo
 * Shikoku
 * Tokyo
 * Yokohama

Arts

 * Anime
 * Astro Boy
 * Cinema of Japan
 * Rashomon
 * Seven Samurai
 * Tokyo Story
 * Godzilla
 * Haiku
 * Kabuki
 * Kinkaku-ji
 * Manga
 * Mario
 * Noh
 * Oku no Hosomichi
 * Origami
 * Snow Country
 * The Tale of Genji

Philosphy and religion

 * Amaterasu
 * Animism
 * Buddhism
 * Japanese mythology
 * Kojiki
 * Shinto
 * Zen

Everyday life

 * Go
 * Japanese cuisine
 * Judo
 * Karate
 * Pokémon
 * Sake
 * Shogi
 * Sumo
 * Sushi
 * Tofu

Society and social sciences

 * Japanese language
 * Japanese writing system
 * Japanese yen
 * Kyoto University
 * Tokyo Stock Exchange
 * University of Tokyo

Biology and health sciences
None listed.

Physical sciences
None listed.

Technology

 * Akashi Kaikyō Bridge
 * Honda
 * Katana
 * Nissan
 * Toyota

Mathematics
None listed.

Confirming kanji of Kenji Goto's wife
I did internet searching and I think the kanji of Rinko Jogo, Kenji Goto's wife, is 城後倫子. But I want to make sure this is the case. Does anyone know an RS which would confirm this?

I got the Huffington Post as proof of Goto's mother's kanji.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 16:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Since nobody has responded, I will report what I found yesterday. Goto himself seems to have had two surnames, one of them being 城後, perhaps because he was adopted into her family, and the other one being Goto, which he used for work. (Not exactly sure about all of that.) About her name, the blogosphere has found a person named 城後倫子 and thinks it's her. They may have got it from unreliable sources like the 週刊誌. Reliable sources like the Asahi and Mainichi have avoided mentioning her name, referring to her as （妻の名前）or ノリコ. This is probably out of respect for her privacy. She has released only one message to the public, in English, which she signed with her first name only, as "Noriko". I think on Wikipedia we should probably do the same and not go beyond "Noriko". – Margin1522 (talk) 05:32, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That must mean legally he was probably Kenji Jogo or something similar (in Japan either the husband or the wife must change his/her surname legally before marriage). I remember Debito Arudou had the legal name Arudoudebito Sugawara when he was married (once he divorced he changed his legal name to Debito Arudou).
 * I agree that we should only use ノリコ for the wife (with the understanding that the actual kanji are being omitted) since that is all that the reliable sources are referring to.
 * WhisperToMe (talk) 05:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Translation into Japanese: help please.
I'm Wikipedian in Residence at ORCID and a Japanese contact, who is not a Wikipedian, is doing ORCID outreach work there, which will benefit Wikipedia, as explained at WP:ORCID. The Japanese template ja:Template:Normdaten currently relies on a link to the English-language article on ORCID. Could somebody assist by translating that article, and placing it on the Japanese Wikipedia, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:15, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Andy, has anyone contacted you regarding this? I would be able to put together something, but I want to make sure nobody else has started it first. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 05:32, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * oops, I forgot to include a ping. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 07:59, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you; but no-one has. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:03, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Can you help, please? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:03, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
 * It strikes me that you might get better results asking at ja:Wikipedia:Help for Non-Japanese Speakers. People on that board are likely to be better at English-to-Japanese translation; I would guess that most people here (myself included) would be better at translating from Japanese to English. — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 01:01, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for not letting you know, but I did make a (slow) start on a translation at ja:利用者:Athomeinkobe/ORCID. If you take up Mr. Stradivarius' advice and seek help over there, you are welcome to invite people to work on the page I've started.
 * Thank you, both; please see ja:Wikipedia:Help for Non-Japanese Speakers. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 05:57, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Nihongo menu for CharInsert
If anyone else is using the CharInsert tool to insert macron characters, I have created a custom menu that displays a line something like this.
 * ā ī ū ē ō Ā Ī Ū Ē Ō

You can click any of the templates or characters to insert them into an article. To add this to your CharInsert menus, copy the following four lines to your "common.js" file.

// Add custom Nihongo menu to CharInsert tool -- See Help:CharInsert window.charinsertCustom = { 'Nihongo': '{\{Nihongo|+}} {\{Nihongo2|+}} ā ī ū ē ō Ā Ī Ū Ē Ō' };

To briefly explain the above
 * CharInsert is a tool that displays characters that are hard to enter from the keyboard. You can enable it by checking the   check box. It will appear just above the Edit summary box when you are editing a page.
 * "common.js" is your personal Javascript file. If you don't have one yet, I believe you can create it by clicking Special:MyPage/common.js. What this code does is to add the custom menu to the set of menus in CharInsert. You can display the new menu by selecting "Nihongo" from the CharInsert menus.

There are more details and examples for customizing CharInsert at a new help file, at Help:CharInsert. – Margin1522 (talk) 15:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Kozo Kanatani
Dear Japan experts: This old AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. There are some concert reviews which may indicate that the subject is notable, but they are in Japanese and I can't tell how extensive or reliable they are. Should this page be kept and improved?&mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 04:18, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Live at Budokan: Black Night
(Posted here because the band is under this Wikiproject's music taskforce.) Live at Budokan: Black Night, has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. It has gone 15 days (half its discussion period) with no discussion, and while discussion is not required to merge, I thought people may not have realized it was happening, so I thought I'd notify relevant pages (related article talk pages; relevant Wikiprojects/taskforces) in the interest of drumming up discussion. Thank you. Purplewowies (talk) 18:39, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Japanese name of the North Korea-aligned high school in Tokyo
I heard there was the "Korean Junior High and High School" in Tokyo that is North Korea-aligned. What is its Japanese name?

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 10:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)


 * There are a number of Korean schools in Tokyo. I don't know which if any are North Korea-aligned, but there is a list at ja:朝鮮学校. – Margin1522 (talk) 22:28, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for posting this! There are certainly North Korean-aligned ones, and for a time there were more of them than South Korean-aligned ones. That may have changed recently but I'm not sure WhisperToMe (talk) 15:07, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Readings of 「八ヶ夕」 and 「六ヶ跡」?
Can anyone help me with the proper readings of 「八ヶ夕」 and 「六ヶ跡」? They're from the names of series of prints by Utagawa Toyoharu. Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 00:23, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't get a single google hit for either one of those. You're sure they're correct? --Cckerberos (talk) 00:54, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Possible useful references for articles, free from the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 400 art books free online (you can read them online or download PDFs). Here is the link for the Japanese ones. ··· 日本穣 ? · 投稿  · Talk to Nihonjoe ·  Join WP Japan ! 16:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Mukashi mukashi
Is むかしむかし (昔昔) a relevant separate topic apart from once upon a time? There's a merger notice about it at once upon a time, while the Japanese article is solely a dicdef. -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:23, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge sounds like a good idea to me. I would be bold and just do it. But there was an objection in the past to a redirect, so I created a discussion section at Talk:Once upon a time. If there are any comments they could go there. – Margin1522 (talk) 07:20, 29 March 2015 (UTC)