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  2. List of fictional Asian countries - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Siamro: Country based on Thailand in Strike Witches. Siando: A country featured in the same Ministry of Defence workshop as Dacan, lying off the southwestern coast of that country. [9] [10] Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn): A superstate in Southeast Asia which served as the primary setting of the Japanese anime film Psycho-Pass: The Movie.

  3. 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.

  4. Names of Japan - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] [14] Such words which use certain kanji to name a certain Japanese word solely for the purpose of representing the word's meaning regardless of the given kanji's on'yomi or kun'yomi, a.k.a. jukujikun, is not uncommon in Japanese. Other original names in Chinese texts include Yamatai country (邪馬台国), where a Queen Himiko lived.

  5. Family tree of Japanese monarchs - Wikipedia

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    The reign of Emperor Kinmei (c. 509 –571 AD), the 29th emperor, [4] is the first for which the contemporary historiography is able to assign verifiable dates. [5] 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 ...

  6. List of han - Wikipedia

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    Matsumae (1590-1871) – Located around modern-day Matsumae town, Matsumae District; held by the Matsumae clan.Only domain in Ezo.Renamed to Tate after the restoration when the domain seat was moved from Matsumae/Fukuyama castle (in present-day Matsumae town) which had been destroyed in the Boshin war to Tate castle (in present-day Asabu town), became Tate-ken ("Tate prefecture") in 1871 and ...

  7. Template:Japanese era names - Wikipedia

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    To achieve this, include the parameter |name where name is one of the following words that identify the groups/sections (omit any speech or quotation marks): "to 1264", "from 1264"

  8. Emishi - Wikipedia

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    The Emishi (), also called Ebisu and Ezo, were a people who lived in parts of northern Honshū in present-day Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region.. The first mention of the Emishi in literature that can be corroborated with outside sources dates to the 5th century CE, [citation needed] in which they are referred to as máorén (毛人—"hairy people") in Chinese records.

  9. List of Japanese prefectural name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The name "Chiba" was chosen for the prefecture at the time of its creation in 1873 by the Assembly of Prefectural Governors (地方官会議 Chihōkan Kaigi), an early Meiji-period body of prefectural governors that met to decide the structure of local and regional administration in Japan.千葉→thousand leaves, hapa became ba and refers to ...