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  2. Japanese clans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Japanese clans. The old clans ( gōzoku ) mentioned in the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki lost their political power before the Heian period , during which new aristocracies and families, kuge , emerged in their place.

  3. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん ⓘ) and Nippon (にっぽん ⓘ). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called the people of the Japanese archipelago something like "ˀWâ" (倭), which ...

  4. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    List of prefectures. The following list contains the etymology of each current prefecture. The default alphabetic order in this sortable table can be altered to mirror the traditional Japanese regions and ISO parsing. Prefecture. Kanji. origin and meaning of name. Aichi. 愛知県. Aichi-ken (愛知県) means "love knowledge".

  5. Family tree of Japanese monarchs - Wikipedia

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    However, the conventionally accepted names and dates of the early emperors were not to be confirmed as "traditional" until the reign of Emperor Kanmu (737–806), the 50th sovereign of the imperial dynasty. [6] This family tree emphasizes the medieval to modern history of the Japanese royal family.

  6. Empire of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Imperial State of Greater Japan or the Great Japanese Empire. The Empire of Japan, [c] also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation-state [d] that existed from the Meiji Restoration on 3 January 1868 until the Constitution of Japan took effect on 3 May 1947. [8] From 1910 to 1945, it included the Japanese ...

  7. List of common Japanese surnames - Wikipedia

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    Rank Name 2008 estimates Kanji Romaji Numbers % 1 佐藤: Satō: 1,990,000 1.57 2 鈴木: Suzuki: 1,900,000 1.50 3 高橋: Takahashi: 1,470,000 1.16 4 田中

  8. Category:Japanese masculine given names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. List of emperors of Japan - Wikipedia

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    586–587 (1 year) 517–587 (70 years) Son of Emperor Kinmei; half-brother of Emperor Bidatsu. [ 44 ] 32. Hatsusebe 泊瀬部. Emperor Sushun 崇峻天皇. 588–592 (4 years) 522–592 (70 years) Son of Emperor Kinmei; half-brother of Emperor Bidatsu and Emperor Yōmei. Made emperor by Soga no Umako following the Soga–Mononobe conflict.