Japan (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Japan" in English language version.

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"Team Japan". Asian Football Confederation. Archived from the original on January 25, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2014.

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Ambrose, Drew; Armont, Rhiona-Jade (June 13, 2018). "Zainichi: Being Korean in Japan". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on November 28, 2020.

amnesty.org

"Japan: 'Will this day be my last?' The death penalty in Japan". Amnesty International. July 6, 2006.
"Japan: Long-standing discrimination unchanged" (PDF). Amnesty International. 2023.

anp.cl

"World Press Trends 2016" (PDF). WAN-IFRA. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

apjjf.org

Lewallen, Ann-Elise (November 1, 2008). "Indigenous at last! Ainu Grassroots Organizing and the Indigenous Peoples Summit in Ainu Mosir". The Asia Pacific Journal (Japan Focus). No. 11. Archived from the original on October 23, 2023.
Burgess, Chris (March 1, 2007). "Multicultural Japan? Discourse and the 'Myth' of Homogeneity". The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Vol. 5, no. 3. Archived from the original on November 24, 2016.

archive.org

Hendry, Joy (2012). Understanding Japanese Society. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-136-27918-8.
Malm, William P. (2000). Traditional Japanese music and musical instruments (New ed.). Kodansha International. pp. 31–45. ISBN 978-4-7700-2395-7.

asiapacificcurriculum.ca

"Womenomics, Will women help solve Japan's economic problems?" (PDF). Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. 2019. p. 4. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 27, 2021.

asiarugby.com

"History". Asia Rugby. Retrieved December 5, 2020.

autosport.com

Newbold, James (June 7, 2018). "The man behind Japan's only Le Mans winner". Autosport.

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"Japan launches first lunar probe". BBC News. September 14, 2007. Archived from the original on May 11, 2011.
"Japanese probe crashes into Moon". BBC News. June 11, 2009. Archived from the original on September 30, 2009.
Hindell, Juliet (January 10, 2000). "Happy Monday in Japan". BBC News.

bbc.co.uk

"Nuclear power back in Japan for the first time since Fukushima". BBC News. August 11, 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020.

bbc.com

Shiraishi, Sakiko; Mao, Frances (March 14, 2024). "Japan same-sex marriage ban ruled unconstitutional again by courts". BBC.
"Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years". BBC News. July 1, 2019. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020.
Wingfield-Hayes, Rupert (October 10, 2012). "Japan's high-spending legacy". BBC News. Archived from the original on August 9, 2021.
Lufkin, Bryan (December 10, 2018). "More seniors, more foreigners: How Japan is changing". BBC. Archived from the original on July 27, 2019.
Tobace, Ewerthon (July 17, 2015). "The Brazilians winning in Japan". BBC News. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022.
"Japan's hidden caste of untouchables". BBC News. October 23, 2015. Archived from the original on September 2, 2022.
Ro, Christine (June 12, 2019). "Did manga shape how the world sees Japan?". BBC.

bloomberg.com

Sieloff, Sarah (October 7, 2020). "Japan's Bullet Trains Are Hitting a Speed Bump". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on October 8, 2020.

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Piggott, Joan R. (1997). The Emergence of Japanese Kingship. Stanford University Press. pp. 143–144. ISBN 978-0-8047-2832-4.
Batchelor, Robert K. (2014). London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549–1689. University of Chicago Press. pp. 76, 79. ISBN 978-0-226-08079-6.
Habu, Junko (2004). Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-521-77670-7.
Brown, Delmer M.; Hall, John Whitney; Jansen, Marius B.; Shively, Donald H.; Twitchett, Denis (1988). The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press. pp. 140–149, 275. ISBN 978-0-521-22352-2.
Beasley, William Gerald (1999). The Japanese Experience: A Short History of Japan. University of California Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-520-22560-2.
Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan: 1334–1615. Stanford University Press. pp. 57, 68. ISBN 978-0-8047-0525-7.
Totman, Conrad (2002). A History of Japan. Blackwell. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Totman, Conrad (2002). A History of Japan. Blackwell. pp. 64–79. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Henshall, Kenneth (2012). "Of Courtiers and Warriors: Early and Medieval History (710–1600)". A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 24–52. ISBN 978-0-230-36918-4.
Hays, J.N. (2005). Epidemics and pandemics: their impacts on human history. ABC-CLIO. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-85109-658-9.
Totman, Conrad (2002). A History of Japan. Blackwell. pp. 79–87, 122–123. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Leibo, Steven A. (2015). East and Southeast Asia 2015–2016. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 99–104. ISBN 978-1-4758-1875-8.
Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. pp. 106–112. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Shirane, Haruo (2012). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. Columbia University Press. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-231-15730-8.
Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan: 1334–1615. Stanford University Press. pp. 42, 217. ISBN 978-0-8047-0525-7.
Turnbull, Stephen (2011). Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Osprey Publishing. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-84603-960-7.
Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. pp. 142–143. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Howe, Christopher (1996). The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy. Hurst & Company. pp. 58ff. ISBN 978-1-85065-538-1.
Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. pp. 289–296. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
McCargo, Duncan (2000). Contemporary Japan. Macmillan. pp. 18–19. ISBN 978-0-333-71000-5.
Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. pp. 312–314. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
Hiroshi, Shimizu; Hitoshi, Hirakawa (1999). Japan and Singapore in the world economy: Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870–1965. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-415-19236-1.
"The Japanese Nation: It has a history of feudalism, nationalism, war and now defeat". LIFE. Vol. 19, no. 12. September 17, 1945. pp. 109–111.
Paine, S. C. M. (2012). The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949. Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–125. ISBN 978-1-139-56087-0.
Worth, Roland H. Jr. (1995). No Choice But War: the United States Embargo Against Japan and the Eruption of War in the Pacific. McFarland. pp. 56, 86. ISBN 978-0-7864-0141-3.
Watt, Lori (2010). When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press. pp. 1–4. ISBN 978-0-674-05598-8.
McCargo, Duncan (2000). Contemporary Japan. Macmillan. pp. 8–11. ISBN 978-0-333-71000-5.
Karan, Pradyumna Prasad; Gilbreath, Dick (2005). Japan in the 21st century. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 18–21, 41. ISBN 978-0-8131-2342-4.
Sakurai, Ryo (2019). Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management in Japan: From Asia to the World. Springer. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-981-13-6332-0.
Dean, Meryll (2002). Japanese legal system: text, cases & materials (2nd ed.). Cavendish. pp. 55–58, 131. ISBN 978-1-85941-673-0.
Inoue, Kyoko (2007). MacArthur's Japanese Constitution (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press. pp. 132–133. ISBN 978-0-226-38391-0.
Ikegami, Naoki (October 14, 2014). Universal Health Coverage for Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Lessons from Japan. World Bank Publications. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-1-4648-0408-3.
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Totman, Conrad (2005). A History of Japan (2nd ed.). Blackwell. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-1-4051-2359-4.
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Keene, Donald (1999). World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11467-7.
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Liff, Adam P. (May 22, 2023). "No, Japan is not planning to 'double its defense budget'". Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on May 23, 2023.

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Shellnutt, Kate (May 29, 2018). "Why Japan Wants Its Past Persecution of Christians to Be World Renowned". Christianity Today. Archived from the original on May 3, 2019.

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Kuwahara, Sueo (2012). "The development of small islands in Japan: An historical perspective". Journal of Marine and Island Cultures. 1 (1): 38–45. doi:10.1016/j.imic.2012.04.004.
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