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!
Current time in Japan: 06:32, April 29, 2024 (
JST,
Reiwa 6) (Refresh)
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 28 April 2024, there are 91,537 articles within the scope of WikiProject Japan, of which 180 are
featured. This makes up 1.34% of the articles on Wikipedia and 1.67% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 234,562 pages in the project.
We want to:
Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese people
Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese topics
Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the
<ref> element and the {{
cite}} series of templates
Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese topics; and
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.
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.
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
Wikipedia: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!
This list was generated from
these rules. Questions and feedback
are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
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.
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!
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).
Prostitution in Japan has lots of references, but many of the references are questionable
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
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See
Wikipedia: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.
In addition to requesting on here, elsewhere on the English Wikipedia, and on the Wikimedia Commons (
Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/Asia#Japan), 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.
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.
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)reply
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)reply
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)reply
@
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)reply
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)reply
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)reply
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 appreciated
Chefs-kiss (
talk) 21:10, 26 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Adding missing information/article expansion
List Japan-related articles that have missing information (and what they are missing) or that need expanding.
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.
To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{
WikiProject Japan|class=|importance=}}. 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 {{Needkanji}} or {{Needhiragana}} 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: English (Kanji, Rōmaji, extra) extra2
{{
nihongo2}} if only the Japanese characters are needed. Format: Kanji
{{
nihongo3}} if the rōmaji are needed first. Format: Rōmaji (Kanji, English, extra) extra2
{{
nihongo krt}} if the kanji/kana is needed first. Format: Kanji (Rōmaji, English, extra) extra2
{{
eigo}} if the Japanese characters are needed first. Format: Kanji (Furigana, Rōmaji, English) extra
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:
To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{subst:WPJ-Barnsensu|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
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).
After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on
Barnsensu recipients page.
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:
To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{subst:WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
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).
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:
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: {{subst:The Japan Barnstar of National Merit|1=message ~~~~}} (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)
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:
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: {{subst:The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor|1=message ~~~~}} (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)
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!
Current time in Japan: 06:32, April 29, 2024 (
JST,
Reiwa 6) (Refresh)
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 28 April 2024, there are 91,537 articles within the scope of WikiProject Japan, of which 180 are
featured. This makes up 1.34% of the articles on Wikipedia and 1.67% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 234,562 pages in the project.
We want to:
Allow people to more easily locate groups working on Japan-related WikiProjects
Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Japan and the Japanese people
Expand the number of articles regarding Japan and Japanese topics
Further #3 by expanding all Japan-related article stubs
Highlight Japan's relationship and contributions to the rest of the world
Properly source all Japan-related articles, preferably using the
<ref> element and the {{
cite}} series of templates
Standardize the style and format of articles on Japan or Japanese topics; and
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.
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.
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
Wikipedia: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!
This list was generated from
these rules. Questions and feedback
are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.
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.
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!
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).
Prostitution in Japan has lots of references, but many of the references are questionable
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
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will probably be deleted. See
Wikipedia: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.
In addition to requesting on here, elsewhere on the English Wikipedia, and on the Wikimedia Commons (
Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/Asia#Japan), 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.
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.
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)reply
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)reply
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)reply
@
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)reply
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)reply
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)reply
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 appreciated
Chefs-kiss (
talk) 21:10, 26 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Adding missing information/article expansion
List Japan-related articles that have missing information (and what they are missing) or that need expanding.
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.
To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{
WikiProject Japan|class=|importance=}}. 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 {{Needkanji}} or {{Needhiragana}} 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: English (Kanji, Rōmaji, extra) extra2
{{
nihongo2}} if only the Japanese characters are needed. Format: Kanji
{{
nihongo3}} if the rōmaji are needed first. Format: Rōmaji (Kanji, English, extra) extra2
{{
nihongo krt}} if the kanji/kana is needed first. Format: Kanji (Rōmaji, English, extra) extra2
{{
eigo}} if the Japanese characters are needed first. Format: Kanji (Furigana, Rōmaji, English) extra
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:
To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{subst:WPJ-Barnsensu|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
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).
After awarding this to an editor, please make an entry on
Barnsensu recipients page.
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:
To award this to an editor, place the following on their talk page: {{subst:WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0|1=Your message to the recipient. ~~~~}}
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).
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:
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: {{subst:The Japan Barnstar of National Merit|1=message ~~~~}} (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)
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:
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: {{subst:The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor|1=message ~~~~}} (be sure to link to the diff showing the closure of the discussion and the consensus reached)