As elsewhere in East Asia, the use of nengō, also known as, was originally derived from Chinese Imperial practice, although the Japanese system is independent of the Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese era-naming systems.

Lists of the proposed Kyūshū nengō can be seen in the Japanese Wikipedia pages ja: 鶴峯戊申 and ja: 九州王朝説.

Because Japanese era names ( nengō ) change with the Emperor and the Imperial House split in two after 1336, the Kenmu era was counted by the two sides in two different ways.

In his coronation address which was read to the people, the newly enthroned emperor referenced this Japanese era name or nengō: " I have visited the battlefields of the Great War in France.

Because of the anomalous situation, which he had himself created and which saw two Emperors reign simultaneously, one in Yoshino and one in Kyoto, the years in which Takauji was shogun as reckoned by the Gregorian calendar are identified in Japanese historical records by two different series of Japanese era names ( nengō ), that following the datation used by the legitimate Southern Court and that formulated by the pretender Northern Court.

While not describing true interregna, the Japanese era name or nengō system which was introduced in reign of Emperor Kōtoku was abandoned at the end of his reign, thus resulting in sitting emperors without era names ; these era names were not updated for some time, except for a very brief re-occurrence near the close of Emperor Temmu's reign.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

, also called Shōkyū, was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

, also romanized as Jō-ō, was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Meitoku ( 明徳 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Kōwa ( 弘和 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Tenju ( 天授 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Bunchū ( 文中 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Genkō ( 元弘 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

, also romanized as Kō-ō, was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Kakei ( 嘉慶 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Shitoku ( 至徳 ) was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

was a Japanese era name ( 年号, nengō, lit.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.

The Ainu language has had no system of writing, and has historically been transliterated by the Japanese kana or the Russian Cyrillic.

The caves and bunkers were connected to a vast system throughout central Peleliu, which allowed the Japanese to evacuate or reoccupy positions as needed, and to take advantage of shrinking interior lines.

The Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail system is heavily used by commuters in the Greater Tokyo Area.

The Japanese chafed under the " unequal treaty system " which characterized Asian and western relations during this period.

DeVos and Wagatsuma observe that a systematic and extensive caste system was part of the Japanese society.

Millennia ago, the Japanese imperial family developed its own peculiar system of hereditary succession.

In the end, the Fujiwara were destroyed, the old system of government supplanted, and the insei system left powerless as bushi took control of court affairs, marking a turning point in Japanese history.

Category: Japanese writing system terms

It consisted of a single cylinder and 22 gears, and employed the mixed base-2 and base-5 number system familiar to users to the soroban ( Japanese abacus ).

is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin-script alphabet ( referred to in Japanese as romaji ).

The article Japanese writing system discusses in detail how the various systems of writing are used.

Each Japanese syllabic alphabet ( hiragana or katakana, see Kana ) would fit, but like several other alphabets of the world they aren't encoded in the ISO / IEC 8859 system.

It meant that European ( and North American and Japanese ) capitalists were forced by the internal logic of their competitive system to seek abroad in less developed countries opportunities to control raw material, to find markets, and to find profitable fields of investment.

* Japanese addressing system

Japanese citizens are recorded in koseki ( family registry ) and jūminhyō ( resident registry ) systems, while foreign residents are only recorded in a separate alien registration system.

From July 2012 a new registration system will be enacted: all residents ( both Japanese and resident foreigners ) will be recorded by municipal offices in the jūminhyō system.

The Japanese family register system will continue for Japanese citizens, whilst foreigners will be recorded in a separate residency management system administered by immigration offices which will combine previous immigration status and local alien registration systems.