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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 Japanese influence in the city has resulted in a keen interest in the Japanese language among the people of Chennai, who learn it to better understand Japanese culture and the language's traditional linguistic similarity to Tamil, the official language of Tamil Nadu. Some also learn Japanese to explore new business opportunities.
Japan - Ethnicity, Religion, Language: The Japanese people constitute the overwhelming majority of the population. They are ethnically closely akin to the other peoples of eastern Asia. During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), there was a social division of the populace into four classes—warrior, farmer, craftsman, and merchant—with a peer class above and an outcast class below ...
Japanese people in Singapore. There is a large community of Japanese people in Singapore (在シンガポール日本人, Zai Shingapōru Nihonjin), consisting mostly of corporate employees and their families. [3] The first Japanese person to settle in Singapore was Yamamoto Otokichi, who arrived in 1862. [4] Larger-scale migration from Japan ...
Nippon-koku. Nihon-koku. Japan ( Japanese: 日本; romanised as nihon or nippon) is a country in East Asia. It is a group of islands close to the east coast of Korea, China and Russia. The Pacific Ocean is to the east of Japan and the Sea of Japan is to the west. [15] Most people in Japan live on one of the four islands.
The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. 'Japanese-language version of Wikipedia') is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, [1] the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008.
Demographics [ edit] As of 2001 5,167 Japanese citizens resided in Spain, with 1,189 of them in Barcelona and 87 of them in the remainder of Catalonia. Most residing in Catalonia are employees of Japanese companies. [10] There are an estimated 2,000 people of Japanese descent in the Madrid area, most of them working for Japanese firms.
