Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup Y is otherwise found mainly among Nivkhs, and with lower frequency among Tungusic peoples, Koreans, Mongols ( including Kalmyks and Buryats ), Chinese, Japanese, Central Asians, South Siberian Turkic peoples ( e. g. Tuvans, Todjins, Soyots ), Koryaks, Alyutors, Itelmens, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, and Malaysians.

Haplogroup M7a has been found elsewhere mainly among Japanese and Ryukyuans, and with lower frequency among Udegeys, Koreans, Chinese, Filipinos, Taiwanese aborigines, Buryats, Central Asians, and Waars of the Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India.

In the census of December 1939, the total population of the South Pacific Mandate was 129, 104, of which 77, 257 were Japanese ( including ethnic Taiwanese and Koreans ).

This weakness in National Semiconductor was evident in its failure to compete during the globalisation of Japanese semiconductor companies in the 1980s, followed by the Taiwanese and South Koreans.

) In 2008, Americans grew in dominance, winning 9 of 34 events, tied with Koreans, but no majors, one of which was won by a Mexican player, one by Taiwanese, and the other two by teenage Korean players ( See 2008 LPGA Tour for more details on the 2008 season.

Currently, Yasukuni Shrine has enshrined 27, 863 Taiwanese and 21, 181 Koreans without consultation of surviving family members and in some cases against the stated wishes of the family members.

The city has a large Asian-born population, specifically Taiwanese, Koreans, Lebanese, and Iranians, evident in the city's mosque and pagodas.

It is not widely known to Koreans or Taiwanese that the V sign can mean " peace " or used as an insult ; some may believe that the meaning of the sign is " victory ".

In the immediate aftermath of the war, the legal status of Koreans and Taiwanese was not clear.

Some Koreans and Taiwanese came to insist that, since they were from a liberated country, they were no longer under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Imperial government.

This resulted in many poor Taiwanese and Koreans who were previously suppressed under colonial rule to form criminal gangs such as the Yamiichi, a black market which was against the rationing system which continued after the war.

It is a term that came to be used around the late 19th century to distinguish the residents of mainland Japan from other minority ethnic groups who have resided in the peripheral areas of Japan, such as the Ainu, Ryukyuans, Nivkh, Oroks, as well as Koreans, Taiwanese, and Taiwanese aborigines who were incorporated into the Empire of Japan in the early 20th century.

In the census of December 1939, the total population was 129, 104, of which 77, 257 were Japanese ( including ethnic Taiwanese and Koreans ), 51, 723 indigenous islanders and 124 foreigners.

According to National Police Agency records, out of 85 non-Japanese people arrested for in 2007, 37 ( 43. 5 %) were mainland Chinese and 13 ( 15. 3 %) were Thai, while Taiwanese and Koreans made up 12 ( 7. 2 %) each.

The general composition of the school is about 35 % Singaporeans, 25 % Koreans, 15 % Taiwanese and 25 % Others.

They were also criticised due to releasing Monster Hunter Frontier Online only to Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players, citing cultural and language issues with western players interacting with the Asian players.

The first decades after the Nationalists moved the seat of government to the province of Taiwan are associated with the organized effort to resist Communism known as " the " White Terror ", during which about 140, 000 Taiwanese were imprisoned for their real or perceived opposition to the Kuomintang.

Historically, Japanese attempts to normalize their relationship with China were met with Taiwanese accusations of ingratitude.

Some opponents charge that Chiang's efforts in developing Taiwan were mostly to make the island a strong base from which to one day return to mainland China, and that Chiang had little regard for the long-term prosperity and well-being of the Taiwanese people.

By the 1980s, though, as living standards increased, many instruments that were once too expensive to buy could be bought by the Taiwanese in preference to the harmonica.

Following a shipwreck of a Ryūkyūan vessel on the southeastern tip of Taiwan in winter of 1871, in which the heads of 54 crew members were taken by the aboriginal Taiwanese Paiwan people in Mutan village ( 牡丹社 ), the Japanese sought to use this incident as a pretext to have the Qing formally acknowledge Japanese sovereignty over the Ryuku islands as a Japanese prefecture and to test reactions to potential expansion into Taiwan.

Some were goaded by Chinese nationalism, while others contained nascent Taiwanese self-determination.

Rebellions were often caused by a combination of the effects of unequal colonial policies on local elites and extant millenarian beliefs of the local Taiwanese and plains Aborigines.

It began with an oppressive period of crackdown and paternalistic rule, then a dōka ( 同化 ) period of aims to treat all people ( races ) alike proclaimed by Taiwanese Nationalists who were inspired by the Self-Determination of Nations ( 民族自決 ) proposed by Woodrow Wilson after World War I, and finally, during World War II, a period of kōminka ( 皇民化 ), a policy which aimed to turn Taiwanese into loyal subjects of the Japanese emperor.

The second group of Taiwanese were eager to become imperial subjects, believing that such action would lead to equal status with Japanese nationals.

He expressed his admiration about the efficiency of Japanese government in developing Taiwan, and commented on how lucky the Taiwanese were to live under such effective administration.

The Takasago Volunteers were a unit of the Japanese Army recruited from Taiwanese aboriginal tribes.

From 1937 to 1945, 126, 750 Taiwanese joined and served in the military of the Japanese Empire, while a further 80, 433 were conscripted between 1942 to 1945.

Also lifted were the restrictions on the use of Taiwanese languages in the broadcast media and in schools.

Reports from American envoys and others suggest that Taiwanese aboriginals under Qing rule were treated extremely harshly.

Taiwanese aborigines first encountered the Nationalist government in 1946, when the Japanese village schools were replaced by schools of the KMT.

The opposition tang wai activists seized upon the new image of the Plains aborigines as a means to directly challenge the KMT's official narrative of Taiwan as a historical part of China, and the government's assertion that Taiwanese were " pure " Han Chinese (; ).

Following that, most Taiwanese were unable to read out Chinese poetry or Classical Chinese in Taiwanese.

Today, there were also large number of Taiwanese scholars dedicated to researching the language.

The Kuomintang did little to promote a unique Taiwanese identity ; often newly-immigrated Chinese or " mainlanders " as they were called, working in administrative positions lived in neighborhoods where they were segregated from the Taiwanese.

" Pearl milk tea " is also used by English speakers and overseas Chinese and Taiwanese speakers, but it is usually called bubble tea.

This popular paste is also used in Fujian and Taiwanese cuisine.

On December 9, 2007, the United States Coast Guard swept the runway at Johnston Island of debris and used the runway in the removal and rescue of an ill Taiwanese fisherman to Oahu, Hawaii.

Kana was used in Taiwanese as a gloss ( furigana ) for Chinese characters during the Japanese administration of Taiwan.

This is in part due to the considerations of some Taiwanese Buddhists, a traditional reluctance towards slaughtering precious cattle needed for agriculture, and an emotional attachment and feeling of gratefulness and thanks to the animals traditionally used for very hard labour.

Wade – Giles spellings and pinyin spellings for Taiwanese place names and words long accepted in English usage are still used interchangeably in English-language texts.

# Having the same name with a wanted criminal, like 陳進興, a common name used by not only a convicted kidnapper and murderer who was executed in Taiwan for major crimes in 1997 (: zh: 陳進興 ( 台灣罪犯 )) but also a Taiwanese statesman (: zh: 陳進興 ( 台灣政治人物 )).

Examples of Japanese loan words ( some which had in turn been borrowed from English ) used in Taiwanese include piān-só ͘ ( 便所 ) for " toilet ", pêⁿ ( 坪 ) for a Japanese unit of land, ka-suh ( ガス ) for " gas ", o ͘- tó ͘- bái ( オートバイ " autobike ") for motorcycle.

Taiwanization (; Pe ̍ h-oē-jī: Tâi-oân pún-thó ͘- hòa ūn-tōng ), also known as the Taiwanese localization movement, is a political term used in Taiwan to emphasize the importance of a separate Taiwanese culture rather than to regard Taiwan as solely an appendage of China.

The Flushing Chinatown was spearheaded by many Chinese fleeing the Communist retaking of Hong Kong in 1997 as well as Taiwanese who used their considerable capital to buy out land from the former residents.

In Chinese culture, the azalea is known as " thinking of home bush " ( siangish shu ) and is immortalized in the poetry of Tu Fu and is used to rich effect in contemporary stories such as by Taiwanese author Pai, Hsien-Yung.

As a result, in the past, Hánguó () had been used to refer to the whole Korea, and Taiwanese textbooks treated Korea as a unified nation ( like mainland China ).

Taiwanese Sign Language or TSL () is the deaf sign language most commonly used in Taiwan.

During the Japanese colonial period of 1895 to 1945, the phrase " Japanese people " was used to refer not only to residents of the Japanese archipelago, but also to people from colonies who held Japanese citizenship, such as Taiwanese people and Korean people.

Taiwanese is used by a majority of the population and is quite important from a socio-political and cultural perspective, forming the second most important, if not the more influential pole of the language due to the popularity of Taiwanese Hokkien media.

Dragon boaters in Portland OR USA first used Taiwanese dragon boats fitted with sweep oars for steering that were mounted over the centre line or keel line of the boat, rather than of to the side and off centre.

This phrase was most notably used beginning as early as a decade ago in Asian democratic elections, specifically Tiawan: Taiwanese () These usually include strong supporters of Taiwan independence or Chinese reunification.

The letter is used in Seneca, in Turoyo and Taiwanese Hokkien when written in Latin script.

The creation of the A-Bian doll has allowed Taiwanese President Chen staffers to create a new culture where the " kawaii " image of a politician can be used to mobilize supports, and gain election votes.

Chinese Taipei was also the term used by Major League Baseball for the Taiwanese teams that participated in the 2006 and 2009 World Baseball Classic competitions, competing under the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag.

However, MPS II was not used for the official Romanized names of Taiwanese places ( though many road signs replaced during this period uses MPS II ).

* Tan, used in Teochew in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Min Nan ( including Taiwanese ), and Hainanese