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The possibility of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_relationship_%28linguistics%29" title="Genetic relationship (linguistics)">genetic relationship</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo_language" title="Goguryeo language">Goguryeo</a> (Koguryŏ) language has the most currency; a relationship to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> is widely considered but is problematic; an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages" title="Altaic languages">Altaic</a> hypothesis is less widely accepted. A few linguists support the hypothesis that Japanese is genetically related to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_languages" title="Austronesian languages">Austronesian languages</a>.<br /><br /><h3><span class="mw-headline">Extinct Korean-peninsular languages hypothesis</span></h3> <p>The Korean-peninsular Languages hypothesis dates back to the independent discovery by two Japanese scholars in 1907 that material in the extinct <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo_language" title="Goguryeo language">Goguryeo language</a> found in historical sources on the early Korean Peninsula was obviously related to Japanese.<sup class="noprint Template-Fact"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since June 2008" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a></i>]</span></sup> The hypothesis proposes that Japanese is a relative of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language" title="Extinct language">extinct languages</a> spoken by the Buyeo-Goguryeo cultures of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea" title="Korea">Korea</a>, southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchuria" title="Manchuria">Manchuria</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liaodong" class="mw-redirect" title="Liaodong">Liaodong</a>. The best attested of these is the language of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goguryeo" title="Goguryeo">Goguryeo</a>, with the more poorly-attested <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyeo_languages" title="Buyeo languages">Buyeo languages</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baekje" title="Baekje">Baekje</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyeo_%28state%29" class="mw-redirect" title="Buyeo (state)">Buyeo</a> believed to also be related. Supporters of this theory do not include modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a> as part of that family because it is thought to have derived from the ancient language of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silla" title="Silla">Silla</a> and it has been shown that the Korean and Buyeo-Goguryeo languages share only a few <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_items" class="mw-redirect" title="Lexical items">lexical items</a>, which are typical cultural loanwords. A recent monograph by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Beckwith" title="Christopher Beckwith">Christopher Beckwith</a> (2004) has now established that there are about 140 lexical items in the Goguryeo corpus alone. They mostly occur in place name collocations, many of which include grammatical morphemes (including cognates of the Japanese genitive marker <i>no</i> and the Japanese adjective-attributive morpheme -<i>si</i>) and a few of which reveal syntax relationships. The majority of the identified Goguryeo corpus, including all the grammatical morphemes, are clearly related to Japanese. Most discussion of this theory now centers on arguments about the identity of the speakers of the language recorded as Goguryeo, but so far the identification of the language with the Goguryeo people, which agrees with the ancient Chinese accounts, has been shown to be the most secure historically and linguistically (Beckwith 2006a, 2006b).</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279018369784693123.post-22487834320602812322008-07-12T03:25:00.001-07:002008-07-12T03:25:55.390-07:00Japanese loanwords in Hawaii<ul class="mw-search-results"><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong" title="Japanese occupation of Hong Kong">Japanese occupation of Hong Kong</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... Hong Kong|fierce fighting]] between British and Canadian defenders against <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> Imperial forces. The occupation ultimately lasted for three years and eigh ... [[Image:Jap occupy hk.jpg|thumb|left|<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> soldiers marching along Queen's Road on Hong Kong Island in December 1941. ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">24 KB (3592 words) - 12:03, 19 June 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_history" title="Japanese American history">Japanese American history</a> <div class="searchresult"><span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> people's migration to the Americas started with migration to [[Hawaii]] in ... According to the Association of Nikkei & <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> Abroad, there are an estimated 2.5 million Nikkei people living in their a ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">13 KB (1846 words) - 17:35, 27 June 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_anti-Japanese_demonstrations" title="2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations">2005 anti-Japanese demonstrations</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... ues, including the approval of a [[<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> history textbook controversies|<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> history textbook]] and the [[Reform of the United Nations|proposal that Ja ... ... ge was caused to businesses which were Chinese-owned and operated. Several <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> nationals residing in China reported being injured, though there were no f ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">23 KB (3277 words) - 09:54, 18 May 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigarah" title="Tigarah">Tigarah</a> <div class="searchresult">| Born = 1982<br />[[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|25px|<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> flag]] [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] ... kyo and [[Los Angeles, California]]. 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The mutilation of <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> service personnel included the taking of body parts as “war souvenirs” ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">24 KB (3677 words) - 22:20, 10 July 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl" title="Magical girl">Magical girl</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... ra Kinomoto]] of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', a classic example of a magical <span class="searchmatch">girl</span>.]] ... <span class="searchmatch">girl</span> anime. ''[[Sally, the Witch]]'' in 1966 is seen as the first magical <span class="searchmatch">girl</span> anime.<ref name="anime explosion p 123"> </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">12 KB (1902 words) - 15:12, 14 June 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garden_media_and_materials" title="Red Garden media and materials">Red Garden media and materials</a> <div class="searchresult">==== The Four <span class="searchmatch">Girl</span>s and their Friend ==== * Kate Ashley - [[Akira Tomisaka]] (<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span>), [[Melissa Davis]] (English) </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">7 KB (914 words) - 20:11, 30 June 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_%28novel%29" title="Naomi (novel)">Naomi (novel)</a> <div class="searchresult">| publisher = {{nihongo|Shinchōsha|新潮社}} (<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span>)<br/> [[Alfred A. Knopf|Knopf]] (English) | pages = 449 (<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span>)<br /> 237 (English) </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">17 KB (2503 words) - 08:28, 1 July 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Japanese name</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... isambiguation)|Tarō]] ({{lang|ja|山田太郎}}), a typical or stereotype <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> name (male), equivalent to ''John Smith'' in English. ''Jane Smith'' would ... {{nihongo|'''<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> names'''|人名|jinmei}} in modern times usually consist of a [[family nam ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">36 KB (5379 words) - 04:20, 11 July 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ryukyu_Islands" title="History of Ryukyu Islands">History of Ryukyu Islands</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... explain that the mainland <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> are rather a complex mix of prehistoric <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> aborigines and immigrants who originated in the ancestral populations of v ... ... deyoshi. The [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma Province|Satsuma]], the nearest <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> neighbors of the kingdom, were the victors. </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">23 KB (3576 words) - 12:37, 26 June 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_loanwords_in_Hawaii" title="Japanese loanwords in Hawaii">Japanese loanwords in Hawaii</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... with the first immigrants from Japan in 1868 and continue with the large [[<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> American]] population in Hawai{{okina}}i today. The following lists three categories of <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> [[loanword]]s in Hawai{{okina}}i: Food, Objects, and Miscellaneous. </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">9 KB (1336 words) - 00:34, 19 May 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women" title="Comfort women">Comfort women</a> <div class="searchresult">| sort=<span class="searchmatch">japanese</span>3 ... ism]] for women involved in [[prostitution]] serving the [[Empire of Japan|<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span>]] military brothels during [[World War II]] some of who were forced into [ ... </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">66 KB (9512 words) - 09:32, 12 July 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Cemetery_Park" title="Japanese Cemetery Park">Japanese Cemetery Park</a> <div class="searchresult">[[Image:<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> Prayer Hall.jpg|250px|thumb|The Prayer Hall of the <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> Cemetery Park in Chuan Hoe Avenue, [[Singapore]].]] ... ial]] park by the [[Singapore Government]] in 1987.<ref name="Bose">Bose, "<span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> War Dead", pp. 53—59.</ref> </div> <div class="mw-search-result-data">14 KB (2191 words) - 18:02, 28 May 2008</div></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Leapt_Through_Time" title="The Girl Who Leapt Through Time">The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</a> <div class="searchresult"> ... the TV film ''Shinshun! 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The duration of the massacre is not c ... </div></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279018369784693123.post-35805446695254704192008-07-12T03:19:00.002-07:002008-07-12T03:25:15.400-07:00Japanese American<b>Japanese Americans</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja" lang="ja">日系アメリカ人</span><span class="t_nihongo_comma" style="display: none;">,</span> <i><span class="t_nihongo_romaji">Nikkei Amerikajin</span></i><span class="t_nihongo_help"><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Japanese" title="Help:Japanese"><span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="padding: 0pt 0.1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 80%; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; text-decoration: none;">?</span></a></sup></span>)</span> are Americans of Japanese heritage. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> is a western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archipelago" title="Archipelago">multi-archipelagic</a> nation east of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="People's Republic of China">China</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>. Japanese Americans are a subgroup of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asian</a> Americans, which is further a subgroup of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian Americans">Asian Americans</a>. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_American" title="Asian American">Asian American</a> communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest (at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity). In the 2000 census, the largest Japanese American communities were in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> with 394,896, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> with 296,674, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington" title="Washington">Washington</a> with 56,210, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a> with 45,237, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a> with 27,702. Each year, about 7,000 new Japanese immigrants enter United States ports, making up about 4% of immigration from Asia; net migration, however, is significantly lower because some older Japanese Americans have been moving to Japan.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279018369784693123.post-11633373949734418892008-07-12T03:19:00.001-07:002008-07-12T03:19:36.043-07:00Anti-Japanese sentiment<p>Anti-Japanese sentiments range from animosity towards the Japanese government's actions and disdain for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Japan" title="Culture of Japan">Japanese culture</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism" title="Racism">racism</a> against the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese people</a>. Sentiments of dehumanization have been fueled by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_propaganda" title="Anti-Japanese propaganda">anti-Japanese propaganda</a> of the Allied governments in World War II; this propaganda was often of racially-disparaging character. Anti-Japanese sentiment may be strongest in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup><cite id="CITEREF"><i><a href="http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf" class="external text" title="http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf" rel="nofollow">24-Nation Pew Global Attitudes Survey</a></i>, [www.pewglobal.org The Pew Global Attitudes Project], <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_12" title="June 12">June 12</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a><span class="printonly">, <<a href="http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf" class="external free" title="http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://pewglobal.org/reports/pdf/260.pdf</a>></span>. Retrieved on <span class="wpAutoDate">28 June 2008</span></cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.title=24-Nation+Pew+Global+Attitudes+Survey&rft.date=%5B%5BJune+12%5D%5D%2C%5B%5B2008%5D%5D&rft.pub=%5Bwww.pewglobal.org+The+Pew+Global+Attitudes+Project%5D&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fpewglobal.org%2Freports%2Fpdf%2F260.pdf"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span title="The material in the vicinity of this tag failed verification of its source citation(s) since June 2008" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">not in citation given</a></i>]</span></sup></p> <p>In the past, anti-Japanese sentiment contained innuendos of Japanese people as barbaric. Japan was intent to adopt Western ways in an attempt to join the West as an industrialized imperial power. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuzawa_Yukichi" title="Fukuzawa Yukichi">Fukuzawa Yukichi</a>'s seminal 1885 text, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datsu-A_Ron" title="Datsu-A Ron">Leaving Asia</a></i>, outlines the intellectual basis for modernizing and Westernizing Japan. A lack of acceptance of the Japanese in the West complicated integration and assimilation. One commonly held view was that the Japanese were evolutionarily inferior. Japanese culture was viewed with suspicion and even disdain.</p> <p>While passions have settled somewhat since Japan's defeat in World War II, tempers continue to flare on occasion over the widespread perception that the Japanese government has made insufficient penance for their past atrocities, or has sought to whitewash the history of these events.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup> Today, though the Japanese Government has effected some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan" title="List of war apology statements issued by Japan">compensatory measures</a>, anti-Japanese sentiment continues based on historical and nationalist animosities linked to imperial Japanese military aggression, especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_war_atrocities" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Japanese war atrocities">war atrocities</a> committed in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> era. Japan's delay in clearing more than 700,000 pieces of life threatening and environment contaminating chemical weapons (according to Japanese Government<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup>) buried in China at the end of WWII is another cause of anti-Japanese sentiment.</p> <p>Periodically, individuals within Japan spur external criticism. Former Prime Minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junichiro_Koizumi" title="Junichiro Koizumi">Junichiro Koizumi</a> was heavily criticized by South Korea and China for annually paying his respects to the war dead at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine" title="Yasukuni Shrine">Yasukuni Shrine</a>, which enshrines all those who fought and died for Japan during World War II, including 1,068 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East" title="International Military Tribunal for the Far East">convicted war criminals</a>. Right-wing nationalist groups have produced history textbooks whitewashing Japanese atrocities,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></sup> and the recurring controversies over these books occasionally attract hostile foreign attention. Some critics have attributed regional anti-Japanese sentiment to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocentrism" title="Ethnocentrism">ethnocentrism</a> and lingering wartime hatred.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span title="The material in the vicinity of this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. since April 2008" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">who?</a></i>]</span></sup></p> <p>Some anti-Japanese sentiment originates from business practices used by some Japanese companies, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_%28pricing_policy%29" title="Dumping (pricing policy)">dumping</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2279018369784693123.post-85503797956737692272008-07-12T03:16:00.000-07:002008-07-12T03:17:35.149-07:00The American Diary of a Japanese Girl<span style="font-weight: bold;">The American Diary of a Japanese Girl</span> is the first English novel published in the United States by a person of Japanese ancestry. Acquired for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Monthly Magazine by editor Ellery Sedgwick in 1901, it appeared in two excerpted installments in November and December of that year with illustrations by Genjiro Yeto. In 1902, it was published in book form by the New York firm of Frederick A. Stokes. Marketed as (and believed, with some doubts, to be) an authentic diary by an 18-year-old visitor to the United States named "Miss Morning Glory" (Asagao), it was in actuality the work of Yone Noguchi, who wrote it with the editorial assistance of Blanche Partington and Léonie Gilmour.<br /><br />The book describes Morning Glory's preparations, activities and observations as she undertakes her transcontinental American journey with her uncle, a wealthy mining executive. Arriving in San Francisco by steamship, they stay briefly at the Palace Hotel before moving to a "high-toned boarding house" in Nob Hill. Through the American wife of the Japanese consul, Morning Glory befriends Ada, a denizen of Van Ness Avenue with a taste for coon songs, who introduces her to Golden Gate Park and vaudeville and is in turn initiated by Morning Glory in the ways of kimono. Morning Glory briefly takes over proprietorship of a cigar store on the edge of San Francisco Chinatown before moving to the rustic Oakland home of an eccentric local poet named Heine (a character based on Joaquin Miller). After some days there spent developing her literary skills and a romantic interest with local artist Oscar Ellis, and a brief excursion to Los Angeles, she departs with her uncle for Chicago and New York, continuing, along the way, her satirical observations on various aspects of American life and culture. The novel closes with Morning Glory's declared intention to continue her investigations into American life by taking a job as a domestic servant, thus preparing the way for a sequel.<br /><br />Noguchi had in fact already written the sequel, The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor-Maid, at the time of the American Diary 's publication, but Stokes, citing lackluster sales, declined to publish the sequel, thus obliging Noguchi to defer publication until his return to Japan in 1904. There, Tokyo publisher Fuzanbo issued a new edition of The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (this time under Noguchi's own name, with an appendix documenting the book's history) as well as The American Letters of a Japanese Parlor-Maid (1905), published with a preface by Tsubouchi Shoyo. Another publisher issued Noguchi's Japanese translation of The American Diary of a Japanese Girl under the title 邦文日本少女の米國日記 in 1905. In 1912, Fuzanbo published a new edition of The American Diary with a fold-out illustration (kuchi-e) by ukiyoe artist Eiho Hirezaki, which was also sold under the imprint of London publisher and bookseller Elkin Mathews. In 2007, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl was reissued in an annotated edition by Temple University Press.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0