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Wikimapia (stylized as wikimapia) is a geographic online encyclopedia project. The project implements an interactive "clickable" web map that utilizes Google Maps with a geographically-referenced wiki system, with the aim to mark and describe all geographical objects in the world.
A Japanese soldier poses with the severed head of one of his victims. Perhaps the most notorious atrocity was a killing contest between two Japanese officers as reported in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and the English-language Japan Advertiser. The contest—a race between the two officers to see who could kill 100 people first using only a ...
Japanese people ( Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. [15] [16] Japanese people constitute 97.5% of the population of the country of Japan. [1] Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them one of the largest ethnic groups.
The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was deutsche.wikipedia.com (created on Friday 16 March 2001, 01:38 UTC), followed after a few hours by catalan.wikipedia.com (at 13:07 UTC). The Japanese Wikipedia, started as nihongo.wikipedia.com, was created around that period, and initially used only Romanized Japanese.
Mikimoto Kokichi (1858–1954), founder of Mikimoto. Soichiro Honda (1906–1991), co-founder of the automobile manufacturer Honda. Jujiro Matsuda (1875-1952), founder of Mazda automobile company. Michio Suzuki (1887–1982), founder of Suzuki. Eiji Toyoda (1913–2013), founder of luxury automobile manufacturer Lexus.
Ancestors of East Asians ( Ancient East Eurasians) split from other human populations possibly as early as 70,000 to 50,000 years ago. Possible routes into East Asia include a northern route model from Central Asia, beginning north of the Himalayas, and a southern route model, beginning south of the Himalayas and moving through Southeast Asia.
The Ryukyuan people (also Lewchewan) are an indigenous people native to the Ryukyu Islands. There are different subgroups of the Ryukyuan ethnic group, the Okinawan, Amami, Miyako, Yaeyama and Yonaguni peoples. Their languages comprise the Ryukyuan languages, [11] one of the two branches of the Japonic language family (the other being Japanese ...
The Javanese are the inventors of batik; it is an Indonesian culture that is widely known and popular in many countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka and East African countries. The Javanese culture is one of the oldest civilizations and has flourished in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.