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WikiProject Japan (Talk)
Founded: 18 March 2006 (20 years, 3 months and 6 days ago) Articles: 107,010 (205 featured)
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Akira Takano

Good day! I've opened up a discussion for Akira Takano at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 28#Akira Takano. Your input is appreciated. Cheers! lullabying (talk) 20:37, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Hotarumachi

The article Hotarumachi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 7 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. No evidence of notability; run of the mill mixed-use building.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 02:04, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Masumi Uno

Please add additional sources. Thank you kindly. Bearian (talk) 23:32, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Does not appear to be notable. Dekimasuよ! 15:49, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sanyo Electric Railway Aboshi Line#Requested move 3 June 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sanyo Electric Railway Aboshi Line#Requested move 3 June 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sinsyuan✍️PJTW 03:35, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Rakuten Viki

i have opened up a discussion on Talk:Rakuten Viki#Rename discussion. Any input is appreciated. Thanks! lullabying (talk) 06:06, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Zero! The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific

Hi! I started Zero! The Story of Japan's Air War in the Pacific. The English version of this book was published in 1956. I am trying to find if there's a source saying it is a translation of 零戦――日本海軍航空小史 (from 1953) or if 零戦――日本海軍航空小史 is a separate book. WhisperToMe (talk) 02:18, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Yasuo Ōtani

The article Yasuo Ōtani has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged for BLP sources, notability concerns, and primary sources for 10 years. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Poorly sourced BLP. Fails WP:GNG.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 01:53, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Yukio Mishima

Recently, the "fascist" categories have been removed from Yukio Mishima's article. Relevant information can be found in the article edit summaries and on my talk page. GnocchiFan (talk) 17:17, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Discussion has now been raised on the article talk page. GnocchiFan (talk) 16:39, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

File:Many ways in which New Yorkers say "Merry Christmas" or its equivalent. LOC 3797854913.jpg

Hi! I'm trying to see what the Japanese text in File:Many ways in which New Yorkers say "Merry Christmas" or its equivalent. LOC 3797854913.jpg is transcribed as. I tried using text grabbing programs but they couldn't grab any text. I am not sure if this is Hiragana or classical text or sensical text ... ? WhisperToMe (talk) 21:23, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

I am fairly sure it is:

クリスマス御目出たふ

where 'me-de-ta-fu' is the old orthography for medetō, so

Kurisumasu omedetō

The ending is in old kana form, which a random website says should be たう (ta-u); I cannot really resolve the た, but the last is fairly clearly ふ not う. Imaginatorium (talk) 04:25, 22 June 2026 (UTC)

@Imaginatorium: Thank you so much! I added the text to the image description! WhisperToMe (talk) 08:10, 22 June 2026 (UTC)