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  1. 1 day ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Old_JapaneseOld Japanese - Wikipedia

    6 days ago · Old Japanese is usually defined as the language of the Nara period (710–794), when the capital was Heijō-kyō (now Nara ). [1] [2] That is the period of the earliest connected texts in Japanese, the 112 songs included in the Kojiki (712). The other major literary sources of the period are the 128 songs included in the Nihon Shoki (720) and ...

  3. ja.wikipedia.org › wiki › 日本人日本人 - Wikipedia

    2 days ago · 本土日本人 (Mainland Japanese)、琉球人 (Ryukyuan)、アイヌ人 (Ainu)と他のアジア民族集団の系統樹。本土日本人は集団としては韓国人と同じクラスターに属した 。 以下、人類学的観点から、日本人の系統または起源に関する諸説について記述する。

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › KanjiKanji - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Kanji (漢字, Japanese pronunciation: [kaɲdʑi]) are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese. [1] They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of hiragana and katakana.

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  6. 1 day ago · Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. [8] It consists of 14,125 islands. [9] [10] The four main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government.

  7. 2 days ago · 126,226,568. −0.7%. Population size may be affected by changes in administrative divisions. As of 2017, Japan was the world's eleventh-most populous country. The total population had declined by 0.8 percent from the time of the census five years previously, the first time it had declined since the 1945 census.

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