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Contents 1 Some famous people?? 2 6852 islands? 3 Spam filter 4 Official language 5 Mixed Martial Arts On Sports 6 City Populations 7 "Recognized regional languages" 8 about the item of “Education and health” in the article of “Japan” 9 Not refernces of Albanian influnce in Japan 10 Japan GDP 2008-2009 problem

[edit] Some famous people??

Some famous people from Japan?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohannaiw (talk • contribs) 17:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Yes, there are quite a few. Anyone listed in Category:Japanese people (and its subcategories) are notable enough to have articles here. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 6852 islands?

The Japanese Wiki version says there are 6852 islands [[1]]. Is this correct? Wakablogger (talk) 00:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I think it's correct. At least Japan Coast Guard says so. See 海の相談室 豆知識(4) on this page. Oda Mari (talk) 01:44, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

That article also says that there are 971 islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, 605 in Kagoshima Prefecture, and 508 in Hokkaidō. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 04:16, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Spam filter

Hello. I just tried to undo an accidental revert, but was unable to because it said it triggered the spam filter (rollback worked though). The link was to moneyweek, and as best I can tell, the reference that triggered it is reference #70. I'm not sure what exactly should be done about it, but I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention. Cheers! Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 22:15, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Official language

While browsing, I found Japan to make English as Official language, published in English edition of Yomiuri Shimbun, Date unknown. [2]--UserChiba (talk) 16:21, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh my god, I think that was a April fool post. --UserChiba (talk) 16:24, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

My laugh of the day. --Eugeniu Bmsg 22:03, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mixed Martial Arts On Sports

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is very popular in Japan. Many promotions such as Pride Fight Championships, Dream, and Sengoku have attracted crowds of 40,000+ and a paragraph about MMA should be included in the Japan article as Mixed Martial Arts are heavily tied into the Japanese culture and MMA has a substantial market over there. Besides baseball MMA to my knowledge is one of the largest sports over there and the article on Japan's sports is severely lacking without addressing this topic.

Hendo92 (talk) 04:49, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] City Populations

Why does Kyoto and Fukuoka have the exact number of people? Is it an error? 216.99.61.148 (talk) 03:16, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

http://행정도시건설청.총판.kr —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.142.116.165 (talk) 17:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

The populations are different but the table is repeating Kyoto’s population for Fukuoka. Some sort of software error. —Stephen (talk) 17:34, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Nope, not a software error. Someone had the formatting messed up in the template, so I fixed it. It should be displaying correctly now (you may need to clear your browser cache to see the corrected version). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe 17:46, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] "Recognized regional languages"

I was under the impression that "recognized regional languages" in the infobox template referred to legal recognition. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure none of these languages are recognized by Japanese law; if Ainu is I am almost certain Ryukyuan languages are not. If it's just there because they are regional languages, keep in mind that this is inconsistent with other country pages: the US page makes no mention of Spanish, (contrary to popular belief, it's not just an immigrant language, it has had a historical presence in much of the Southwest since before that became US territory), spoken by a much much larger percentage of the population than Ainu is in Japan, or any indigenous languages either. The page for Germany doesn't even mention Sorbian, even though it is legally recognized. I think that, unless the infobox text is changed from "Recognized regional languages" to just "Regional languages", the section should be removed from the Japan article. --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 07:28, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, right now it looks the like Ainu and the Ryukyuan languages have more legal recognition than Japanese itself. The country infobox has a pair of parameters, languages_type and languages, for types of languages other than official and recognized regional ones; however, these parameters are currently being used to indicate that Japanese is the national language. I'm not sure what the solution is, but this is definitely a problem. --Chris Johnson (talk) 15:24, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] about the item of “Education and health” in the article of “Japan”

The two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and Keio University.[130]

Above is not the ranking about the level of the universities in japan but about the education for the students in universities. The two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University in the former ranking. the sorce: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results

Please correct the error. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ontsan (talk • contribs) 08:36, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I also think the part refered to ranking is wierd. The cited ranking (citation of 130) was made on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs. However, according to ranking on the basis of the stringency of entry requirements (which is general view on ranking in Japan too), as well as the context of the sentences before, the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University would be top two.

Therefore, the possible correction would be, 'The two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University.'

See; ‘Practical Information’ of University Rankings from World Education Services http://www.wes.org/eWENR/06aug/japan.htm#select —Preceding unsigned comment added by Milestone0911 (talk • contribs) 18:59, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I've corrected. [3]―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 09:03, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Not refernces of Albanian influnce in Japan

Hello, I would like to say that Japan culture, language and people were affected a lot by Albanian culture many years ago, I know this because there are many Albanian texts who say that.

I inputed ctrl+F and wrote "Alban" in this article and did not found any results, I want this to change, I represent the Albanian race that has feeded many cultures (Greek, Roman, Turkish, Jewish, Japanese, South American).

Thank you and please change that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.212.41.168 (talk) 19:53, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Japan GDP 2008-2009 problem

According do this site (IMF) : http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2006&ey=2009&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=158&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a=&pr.x=55&pr.y=16 Japan's GDP in 2009 will be $5,048.634 billions (it was $4,910.692 billions in 2008).

How is this possible ? We know that the Projected % Change of Japan's GDP for 2009 is -5,4% ! (http://www.imf.org/external/country/JPN/index.htm) --Zhonghuo (talk) 21:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC)