Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Japan/Archive/May 2021

FAR for Pierre Rossier
I have nominated Pierre Rossier for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 22:23, 8 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for review at Yasuke
I'd like to request some pairs of eyes on the article Yasuke. There's been a surge of media reporting on the man (particularly with the upcoming Netflix anime about him), and there's been some back-and-forth in the article's history with respect to him being a samurai or not (a particular sticking point).

There's the book African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard about him, if that's any help (Lockley is often interviewed by the media for the aforementioned pieces). I'm only getting bits of the book's info on Google Books, but it says something about him being a hatamoto: "It is not known exactly which rank Yasuke held, but it would probably have been equivalent to hatamoto. The hatamoto saw to the lord’s needs, handling everything from finance to transport, communications to trade. They were also the bodyguards and pages to the warlord, traveling with him and spending their days in his company." This put a red flag for me that some of the nuance is lost in the media, which often uncritically calls him a samurai. Any help or review would be appreciated. — Goszei (talk) 04:46, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned on my talk page, ideally we shouldn't be relying on popular media sources that use the word "samurai" but lack an awareness of what the word actually means because the authors have no training in Japanese history. Such sources are always avoided in articles on historical topics, and while English Wikipedia has historically been a little too tolerant when it comes to using popular English sources on topics covered better in Japanese scholarship (see Talk:Mottainai and Talk:Onna-musha for example), I'm sure the majority of the Wikipedia community would condone our simply ignoring such sources. Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 09:04, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
 * There have been some developments on the talk page, so this is a second notice for any interested editors. — Goszei (talk) 03:01, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * The discussion has spilled over to Talk:Samurai. Input would also be appreciated at that page. — Goszei (talk) 22:43, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Request expansion of 2021 Fukushima earthquake
Hello, I started the 2021 Fukushima earthquake page a few months ago and the Impact and Government response sections are still incomplete. They need to be updated and expanded with local sources however I can't read Japanese and I've been busy lately. Would someone be able to work on those sections? Hopefully the person who is working on them could remove the translation and expansion tage too. Thanks.--Dora the Axe-plorer (talk) 02:20, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Japan related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
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 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 12:26, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Daiichi Sankyo COI edit requests
Hi! I'm a COI editor Daiichi Sankyo (a client of my employer, Porter Novelli). I've posted some edit requests to the talk page for that article. If anyone here has time to take a look, I'd appreciate it! Thank you. Mary Gaulke (talk) 20:31, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

3.11 listed at RFD
Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 24

Participation from interested editors would be appreciated.

Hijiri 88 ( 聖やや ) 11:55, 26 May 2021 (UTC)