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  2. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In the 16th century in Malacca, Portuguese traders first heard from Indonesian and Malay the names Jepang, Jipang, and Jepun. [7] In 1577 it was first recorded in English, spelled Giapan . [ 7 ] At the end of the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to coastal islands of Japan and created brief grammars and dictionaries of Middle Japanese ...

  3. Sapporo - Wikipedia

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    Sapporo [a] (札幌市, Sapporo-shi, [sapːoɾo ɕi] ⓘ) is a designated city in Hokkaido, Japan.Located in the southwest of Hokkaido, it lies within the alluvial fan of the Toyohira River, a tributary of the Ishikari River.

  4. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    kota city Tamil கோட்டை / kōṭṭai kredo creed Latin credō kucai chives Hokkien (Chinese) 韭菜 / kú-tshài kuda horse Tamil கோடை kōṭai < Sanskrit घोट ghoṭa kue | kuih | kek cake Hokkien (Chinese) kué 粿 kualitas: quality: Latin: quālitās kualiti quality English quality kurma date Persian خرما / khormā

  5. List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of loanwords in English language, that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Malay language.Many of the words are decisively Malay or shared with other Malayic languages group, while others obviously entered Malay both from related Austronesian languages and unrelated languages of India and China.

  6. Japanese language - Wikipedia

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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

  7. Twenty-Fifth Army (Japan) - Wikipedia

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    Japanese troops landed at Kota Bharu and advanced down the eastern coastline of the Malay Peninsula. This was made in conjunction with landings at Pattani and Songkhla in Thailand , where units then proceeded south overland across the Thailand-Malayan border to attack the western portion of Malaya.

  8. Jesselton revolt - Wikipedia

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    The movement succeeded in killing around 50–90 Japanese police and soldiers and temporarily took control of Jesselton (which after the war in 1946 would become the North Borneo and then later Sabah capital) and several neighbouring districts of Tuaran and Kota Belud. Owing to extremely limited arms supplies, however, the movement was forced ...

  9. Battle of Kota Bharu - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Kota Bharu began just after midnight on 8 December 1941 (local time) before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the first major battle of the Pacific War , [ 11 ] and was fought between ground forces of the British Indian Army and the Empire of Japan .