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  2. Wikipedia : WikiProject Japan/Year references

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    The Meiji period is a Japanese era which extended from September 8, 1868 through July 30, 1912. For the first five years (marked with an * asterisk in the first table below), the Gregorian years do not exactly equal the Japanese era years. This is because the Gregorian calendar was not adopted in Japan until Meiji 6.

  3. Japanese calendar - Wikipedia

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    Over the centuries, Japan has used up to four systems for designating years: [2] the Chinese sexagenary cycle, the era name (元号, gengō) system, the Japanese imperial year (皇紀, kōki, or 紀元 kigen) and the Western Common Era (Anno Domini) (西暦, seireki) system. In the 21st century, however, the era system (gengo) and Western ...

  4. List of date formats by country - Wikipedia

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    2.1 Table coding. 3 See also. 4 ... or you can also say "3 June 2023" or in Spanish "3 de junio del 2023"You can also use the ... sometimes Japanese era year is used, ...

  5. Reiwa era - Wikipedia

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    The year 2019 corresponds with Heisei 31 from 1 January to 30 April, and with Reiwa 1 (令和元年, Reiwa gannen, 'the base year of Reiwa') from 1 May. [3] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan explained the meaning of Reiwa to be "beautiful harmony".

  6. Japanese imperial year - Wikipedia

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    The IJA's Type 92 battalion gun was called "ninety-two" because its design was completed in 1932, and the 2592nd year since the first Emperor of Japan was 1932 (Kōki 2592). Japan's wartime cipher machine was named the System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters because it entered service in 1937 ( Kōki 25 97 ).

  7. Japanese era name - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese era name (Japanese: 元号, Hepburn: gengō, "era name") or nengō (年号, year name), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan ( 元 ) ") meaning "origin, basis", followed ...

  8. Shōwa era - Wikipedia

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    Japan had been the only Asian and non-Western power to industrialize itself successfully and rival great Western empires. While largely described by contemporary Western observers as a front for the expansion of the Japanese army, the idea behind the Co-Prosperity Sphere was that Asia would be united against the Western powers under the ...

  9. Actually, a (large :-) table which simple allowed on to look up a Japanese year, and see on which Western dates each Japanese month of that year started would be the best of all, but does one exist? Without some practical means of conversion, the issue of whether we should convert them may be moot.