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The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. ' Japanese version of Wikipedia ') is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia.
Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with relatively simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment.
Japan has the highest ratio of public debt to GDP among advanced economies, [173] with a national debt estimated at 248% relative to GDP as of 2022. [174] The Japanese yen is the world's third-largest reserve currency after the US dollar and the euro. [175] Japan was the world's fifth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer in 2022.
Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture Japanese diaspora, Japanese emigrants and their descendants around the world; Japanese citizens, nationals of Japan under Japanese nationality law. Foreign-born Japanese, naturalized citizens of Japan; Japanese writing system, consisting of kanji and kana
While Japanese is the only official language of Japan, other languages such as Ainu [16] and Ryukyuan [17] are spoken on the Japanese islands. Written Japanese uses a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters pronounced as " kanji " ( 漢字 ) in Japanese, hiragana , and katakana .
Japanese writers also repurposed kanji to represent native vocabulary; as a result, there is a distinction between Sino-Japanese readings of kanji, called On'yomi, and native readings, called Kun'yomi.
Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century). It became Early Middle Japanese in the succeeding Heian period , but the precise delimitation of the stages is controversial.
Nationalist politics in Japan sometimes exacerbated these tensions, such as denial of the Nanjing Massacre and other war crimes, [291] revisionist history textbooks, and visits by some Japanese politicians to Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates Japanese soldiers who died in wars from 1868 to 1954, but also has included convicted war criminals ...