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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.
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 ...
The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji 日本 and is pronounced Nihon or Nippon. [11] Before 日本 was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa (倭, changed in Japan around 757 to 和) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. [12]
Ambassador [1] Term start Term end Lee Tiang Keng: 1958 1961 Syed Sheh Shahabudin: 1961 1964 Tengku Indera Petra Sultan Ibrahim: 1964 1967 Zaiton Ibrahim
Japanese may refer to: . Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia; Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan; Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
The Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur [1] (JSKL; Japanese: クアラルンプール日本人学校, Kuararunpūru Nihonjin Gakkō, Malay: Sekolah Pelajar-Pelajar Jepun Kuala Lumpur) is a Japanese international school in Saujana Golf and Country Club in Subang, Selangor, Malaysia. [1] The school uses the Japanese Education Curriculum as its ...
Japan–Malaysia relations refers to bilateral foreign relations between the two countries Japan and Malaysia.The earliest recorded historical relation between the two nations are the trade relations between the Malacca Sultanate and the Ryūkyū Kingdom in the 15th century.
Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法) is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago.It is largely based on the Chinese system, which spread to Japan and the rest of the Sinosphere in antiquity.