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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 ...
This template converts a year number in the Gregorian calendar into the corresponding era year in the Japanese calendar. It depends on the {}, {{Japanese era}}, and {{Japanese year number}} templates. If the era cannot be determined by the {} template, the output of this template will be blank. If the given year is a transitional year between ...
In Japan today, the system of counting years from the reign of Emperor Jimmu is used in some judicial contexts. [8] The existing law determining the placement of leap years is based on the Kōki years, using a formula that is effectively equivalent to that of the Gregorian calendar. [9] Kōki is also used in Shinto context.
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National standard format is yyyy-mm-dd. [161] dd.mm.yyyy format is used in some places where it is required by EU regulations, for example for best-before dates on food [162] and on driver's licenses. d/m format is used casually, when the year is obvious from the context, and for date ranges, e.g. 28-31/8 for 28–31 August.
Japanese 10 yen coin. The date beneath the "10" reads 平成七年 Heisei year 7, or the year 1995. The most commonly used date format in Japan is "year month day (weekday)", with the Japanese characters meaning "year", "month" and "day" inserted after the numerals. Example: 2023年12月31日 (日) for "Sunday 31 December 2023".
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