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ARTICLES RELATED TO Japanese era name | | | |  Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese era name - Conversion table from nengō to Gregorian calendar yearsThe Japanese calendars prior to 1873 were derived from the Chinese. Japan adopted the Chinese calendar in 645.
To convert a Japanese year to a Western year, find the first year of the nengō (=era name, see list below). When found, subtract 1, and add the number of the Japanese year. For example, the 23rd year of the Showa Era (Showa 23) would be 1948 ...
1926 − 1 = 1925, then 1925 + 23 = 1948.
645 大化 Taika
650 白雉 Hakuchi (era)
686 朱鳥 Shuchō
701 ...
See also:Japanese era name, Japanese era name - Overview, Japanese era name - Historical nengō, Japanese era name - Nengō in Modern Japan, Japanese era name - Conversion table from nengō to Gregorian calendar years, Japanese era name - Unofficial nengō system 私年号 Read more here: » Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese era name - Conversion table from nengō to Gregorian calendar years |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Heisei - Events 1989 marked one of the most rapid economic growth spurts in Japanese history. With a strong yen and a favorable exchange rate with the dollar, the Bank of Japan kept interest rates low, sparking an investment boom that drove Tokyo property values up sixty percent within the year. Shortly before New Year's Day, the Nikkei 225 reached its record high of 39,000. By 1991, it had fallen to 15,000, signifying the end o ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Months The modern Japanese names for the months literally translate to "first month", "second month", and so on. The corresponding number is combined with the suffix -gatsu (month):
January - 一月 (ichigatsu)
February - 二月 (nigatsu)
March - 三月 (sangatsu)
April - 四月 (shigatsu)
May - 五月 (gogatsu)
June - 六月 (rokugatsu)
July - 七月 (shichigatsu)
August - 八月 (hachigatsu)
September - 九月 (kugatsu)
October - 十月 (jūgatsu)
November - 十一月 (jūichigatsu)
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See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Months |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Days of the month Each day of the month has a semi-systematic but irregularly formed name:
In the traditional calendar, the thirtieth was the last day of the month, and its traditional name, misoka, survives (although sanjunichi is far more common, and is the usual term). The last day of the year is ōmisoka (the big thirtieth day), and that term is still in use.
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See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Days of the month |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Years Since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, three different systems for counting years have or had been used in Japan:
The Western Common Era (西暦, seireki) designation
The Japanese era name (年号, nengō) based on the reign of the current emperor, the year 2005 being Heisei 17
The imperial year (皇紀, kōki) based on the mythical founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu in 660BCE
Of these three, the first two are still in current use; the imperial calen ...
See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Years |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - National holidays Notes: Single days between two national holidays are taken as a bank holiday. This applies to May 4, which is a holiday each year. When a national holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday is taken as a holiday.
† Traditional date of the founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu, in 660 BC. Veracity of this claim is often questioned.
* Part of Golden Week
Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays.
1948 - The following national holidays were introduced: New ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals The following are known as the five seasonal festivals (節句 sekku, also 五節句 go sekku). The Sekku were made official holidays during Edo era.
January 7 (1/7) - 人日 (Jinjitsu), 七草の節句 (Nanakusa no sekku)
March 3 (3/3) - 上巳 (Jōshi, Jōmi), 桃の節句 (Momo no sekku)
雛祭り (Hina matsuri), Girls' Day.
May 5 (5/5) - 端午 (Tango), 端午の節句 (Tango no sekku), 菖蒲の節句 (Ayame no se ...
See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Seasonal days Some days have special names to mark the change in seasons. The 24 Sekki (二十四節気 Nijūshi sekki) are days that divide a year in the Lunisolar calendar into twenty four equal sections. Zassetsu (雑節) is a collective term for the seasonal days other than the 24 Sekki. 72 Kō (七十二候 Shichijūni kō) days are made from dividing the 24 Sekki of a year further by three. Some of these names are sti ...
See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Seasonal days |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Rokuyō The rokuyō (六曜) are a series of six days that predict whether there will be good or bad fortune during that day. The rokuyō are still commonly found on Japanese calendars today, and are often used to plan weddings and funerals. The rokuyō are also known as the rokki (六輝). In order, they are:
先勝 (senshō) - Good luck before noon, bad luck after noon. Good day for beginnings (in the morning).
友引 (tomobiki) - Bad things will happen to your friends. Funerals avoid ...
See also:Japanese calendar, Japanese calendar - Years, Japanese calendar - Months, Japanese calendar - Days of the month, Japanese calendar - Days of the week, Japanese calendar - National holidays, Japanese calendar - Timeline of changes to the national holidays, Japanese calendar - Seasonal days, Japanese calendar - 24 Sekki, Japanese calendar - Zassetsu, Japanese calendar - Seasonal festivals, Japanese calendar - Rokuyō, Japanese calendar - April 1 Read more here: » Japanese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Japanese calendar - Rokuyō |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Taishō period - Japan after World War I: Taishō Democracy The postwar era brought Japan unprecedented prosperity. Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order. Tokyo was granted a permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations, and the peace treaty confirmed the transfer to Japan of Germany's rights in Shandong, a provision that led to anti-Japanese riots and a mass political movement throughout China. Similarly, Germany's form ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - List of Japan-related topics 123-K - A A City With No People, A Personal Matter, A.I. Love You, Aba, Okayama, Abashiri, Hokkaido, Abashiri subprefecture, ABCL/1, ABCL/R, ABCL/R2, Abe clan of Mikawa, Abe Hiroshi, Abe Iso, Abe Kobo, Abe Masakatsu, Abe no Hirafu, Abe no Seimei, Abe Nobuyuki, Abe Yutaka, Abe River, Abe Shintaro, Abenobashi Magical Shopping District, Abh, Abiko, Chiba, Abolition of the han system, Abu District, Yamaguchi, Abu, Yamaguchi, Abukuma River, Abura kiri
Acala, ActRaiser, Acura, AD Police, Adachi clan, Adachi Kagemori, Adachi Morinaga, Adachi, Tokyo, A ...
See also:List of Japan-related topics 123-K, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - 123, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - A, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - B, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - C, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - D, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - E, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - F, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - G, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - H, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - I, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - J, List of Japan-related topics 123-K - K Read more here: » List of Japan-related topics 123-K: Encyclopedia II - List of Japan-related topics 123-K - A |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Meiji period - Politics Main articles: Meiji oligarchy, Government of Meiji Japan
The major institutional accomplishment after the Satsuma Rebellion was the start of the trend toward developing representative government. People who had been forced out or left out of the governing apparatus after the Meiji Restoration had witnessed or heard of the success of representative institutions in other countries of the world and applied gr ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Jomon - Incipient and Initial Jomon 10000 - 4000 BC More stable living patterns gave rise by around 10,000 BC to a Mesolithic or, as some scholars argue, Neolithic culture. Possibly distant ancestors of the Ainu aboriginal people of modern Japan, members of the heterogeneous Jomon culture (c. 10,000-300 BC) left the clearest archaeological record.
According to archeological evidence, the Jomon people created the earliest pottery in the world, dated to the 11th millennium BC, as well as the earliest ground stone tools: "The earliest known pottery comes from Japan, and is dated to about ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - History of Japan - Feudal Japan The "feudal" period of Japanese history, dominated by the powerful regional families (daimyo) and the military rule of warlords (shogun), stretched from the twelfth through the nineteenth centuries. This time is usually divided into periods following the reigning family of the shogun:
History of Japan - Kamakura Period.
Main article: Kamakura Period
The Kamakura period 1185 to 1333 is a period that marks the governance of the Kamakura Shogunate; officially established in 1192 b ...
See also:History of Japan, History of Japan - Japanese Pre-History, History of Japan - Paleolithic, History of Japan - Jomon Period, History of Japan - Yayoi Period, History of Japan - Ancient/Classical Japan, History of Japan - Kofun era Also known as the Yamato Period, History of Japan - Nara Period, History of Japan - Heian Period, History of Japan - Feudal Japan, History of Japan - Kamakura Period, History of Japan - Muromachi Period, History of Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama Period, History of Japan - Edo Period, History of Japan - Meiji Restoration, History of Japan - Wars with China and Russia, History of Japan - Anglo-Japanese Alliance, History of Japan - World War I to End of World War II, History of Japan - World War II, History of Japan - Occupied Japan, History of Japan - Post-Occupation Japan, History of Japan - The 'Lost Decade', History of Japan - Political life, History of Japan - Periodization, History of Japan - Japanese era names Read more here: » History of Japan: Encyclopedia II - History of Japan - Feudal Japan |
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Meiji period - Military Main articles: Modernization of Japanese Military 1868-1931, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy
Undeterred by opposition, the Meiji leaders continued to modernize the nation through government-sponsored telegraph cable links to all major Japanese cities and the Asian mainland and construction of railroads, shipyards, munitions factories, mines, textile manufacturing facilities, factories, and experimental agriculture stations. Much concerned about national security, the leaders made significant efforts at military m ...
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| | | | Japanese era name: Encyclopedia II - Meiji period - Economy Considering that the economic structure and production of the country was roughly equivalent to Elizabethan era England, becoming a world power in such a short time was remarkable progress. There were at least two reasons for the speed of Japan's modernization: the employment of over 3,000 foreign experts (called o-yatoi gaikokujin or 'hired foreigners') in a variety of specialist fields such as teaching English, science, engineering, the army and navy etc.; and the dispatch of many Japanese students overseas to Europe and America, ba ...
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