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Japanese Wikipedia
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Main page of the Japanese Wikipedia in August 2023
Type of site
Online encyclopedia
Available in
Japanese
Owner
Wikimedia Foundation
URL
ja
.wikipedia
.org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Users
2.61 million (as of 24 April 2026)
Launched
11 May 2001
; 24 years ago
2001-05-11
Current status
Active
Content license
Creative Commons Attribution/
Share-Alike
4.0
(most text also dual-licensed under
GFDL
Media licensing varies
The
Japanese Wikipedia
ウィキペディア日本語版
Wikipedia Nihongoban
lit.
Japanese version of Wikipedia
is the
Japanese
edition of
Wikipedia
, a free,
open-source
online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001,
the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of 24 April 2026, it has 1,499,208 articles with 24,902 active contributors, ranking sixth in the latter metric behind the
Spanish
German
French
and
Italian
As of November 2024, the Japanese Wikipedia is the world's
second most visited Wikipedia language edition
after the English Wikipedia;
it has been the second most viewed Wikipedia during most periods since at least 2008.
It has a high proportion of anonymous contributors and one of the lowest admin-to-user ratios of any Wikipedia language edition. The Japanese edition is one of the best Wikipedias in retention of new editors and has one of the lowest edit revert rates.
History
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In March 2001, three non-English editions of Wikipedia were created, namely, the
German
Catalan
and Japanese Wikipedias.
The original site address of the Japanese Wikipedia was
and all pages were written in the
Latin alphabet
or
romaji
, as the software did not work with Japanese characters at the time. The home page also showed an early attempt at creating a vertical text.
The first article was named "Nihongo no Funimekusu" (meaning "Phonemics of the Japanese language"). Until late December in that year, there were only two articles.
Awards
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In September 2004, the Japanese Wikipedia was awarded the "2004 Web Creation Award Web-Person Special Prize"
from the
Japan Advertisers Association
10
This award, normally given to individuals for great contributions to the
Internet
in Japanese, was accepted by a long-standing contributor on behalf of the project.
Characteristics
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Origin of viewers on the Japanese Wikipedia
The Japanese Wikipedia is different from the
English Wikipedia
in a number of ways.
Editing
edit
An edit is kept only if it is legal under both Japanese and
United States
laws, to account for the fact that the vast majority of contributors live in Japan. This has two major consequences:
The
fair use
provisions of US law are not considered to be applicable. Articles and media files which do not have a
GFDL
-compatible license are prohibited, even if they would be legal under the "fair use" doctrine in the US.
Materials considered illegal cannot be kept in the archive, even reverted by oneself but caught in history archive. If an illegal edit is inserted between valid versions, an
admin
may make specific revisions inaccessible from the history.
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Quotation
is discouraged. There is controversy over the GFDL compatibility of quotations. Articles that contain quotations will be deleted unless they meet all the following legal requirements:
The source is clearly referred to.
The quotation is necessary.
The quoting and quoted works can respectively be regarded as the principal and subordinate both in quantity and quality.
The quoting and quoted works are clearly distinguishable.
citation needed
Cut-and-paste
moves within Wikipedias, including merging, splitting, and translation from another language, are not allowed unless the original article source and date is explicitly referred to in the edit summary, because such moves are considered to be GFDL violations.
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Articles created in such a manner will be deleted. A comparable policy is in place on the English Wikipedia, but it is only casually enforced.
Editors on the Japanese Wikipedia generally do not create independent lists of volumes of manga, or episodes of anime; however, there are exceptions, e.g.
ja:Q.E.D. 証明終了のエピソード一覧
and
ja:ONE PIECEのアニメエピソード一覧
. Articles about manga works usually do not contain lists of chapters. Also lists of episodes of anime embedded in related articles and independent lists of episodes of anime do not contain plot synopsis.
Community
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The Japanese Wikipedia has the most anonymous contributions as compared to other major languages in Wikipedia.
13
The image is as of December 2007.
Anonymous contributions are high compared to other major language versions of Wikipedia (see graph).
14
The Japanese Wikipedia has the lowest number of administrators per active editors (only 0.16%).
15
Edit wars
are strongly frowned upon. Articles may be protected as a result of an edit war with as little as three or four edits. Protected pages will not be unprotected unless someone explicitly requests it. Perhaps because of this, as of September 2005
[update]
the Japanese Wikipedia had the second-highest number of articles protected for over two weeks, after the German Wikipedia.
16
In May 2008, 0.0906% of articles were fully protected (only editable by admins), which was by far the highest percentage among the ten largest Wikipedias.
17
Articles on sensitive topics, such as
Japanese war crimes
and
current territorial disputes
, are almost always under lengthy protection.
On 18 April 2010, there was a proposal to create a new namespace specifically for
WikiProjects
to shorten the name of a WikiProject. This proposal finally passed and a new namespace named "プロジェクト:" (Project:) was created for WikiProjects on 20 September the same year (UTC).
18
The edition stresses the fact that it is not a news bulletin, and discourages edits on current events.
19
The Japanese Wikipedia is Japan-centered, due to the fact that the overwhelming majority of editors are
Japanese people
, nearly all living in Japan. When referring to places outside Japan they are often called "overseas", and references to Japanese perspective on articles are common. They are trying to discourage this tendency.
20
It ranks among the best Wikipedias in retention of new editors and also has one of the lowest edit revert rates.
14
Policies
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Articles will be deleted if they contain the names of private
citizens
, unless they are public figures (under section
B-2
of Japanese deletion policy). For example, an article about
Shosei Koda
, a Japanese citizen kidnapped in Iraq, does not refer to him by name,
21
but former Prime Minister
Yasuo Fukuda
's name may be mentioned due to his public position. Convicted criminals and their victims are considered private citizens, even if the case was extensively covered in Japanese media, and their names may not be published until their death.
22
The Japanese edition
of the English policy
Ignore All Rules
(directly linked to one of Five Pillars) is neither a policy nor a guideline.
The Japanese edition
of the English
Wikipedia how-to guide
How to write a plot summary
is a formal guideline.
The Japanese edition
of the English Wikipedia page
Handling trivia
(which is an explanatory supplement to
the Manual of Style guideline on trivia sections
) is a formal guideline as well.
The Japanese edition
of the English
banning policy
is not a policy, for lack of an Arbitration Committee.
Toukou Burokku Irai
(Requesting for Block), which has no corresponding rules in English Wikipedia, is frequently used. And often well-known editors who have been active for a long time are blocked indefinitely. The blocked user may appeal for lifting the block, as in the case of blocking in English Wikipedia.
There is no local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Japan.
Culture
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Andrew Lih
wrote that influence from
2channel
resulted in many Japanese Wikipedia editors being unregistered and anonymous.
23
Because of the lack of registered editors, Japanese Wikipedia editors as a whole interact less with the international Wikipedia community and the
Wikimedia Foundation
than editors of other Wikipedias do. Lih also wrote that Japanese Wikipedia editors are less likely to engage in edit wars than editors on Wikipedias of Western languages, and typically they would instead make alternative drafts of articles on their own userspaces.
24
Jimmy Wales
pointed out at a conference in 2009 that the Japanese Wikipedia was significantly more dominated by articles about pop culture than other Wikipedia projects, and according to one of his slides, "barely 20 percent" of the articles on the Japanese Wikipedia were about anything else.
25
The Japanese Wikipedia was known to have relatively few moderators as of 2010,
26
and this characteristic has not changed as of 2025.
15
Nobuo Ikeda
, a public policy academic and media critic in Japan, suggested in 2006 an ongoing "2channel-ization" phenomenon on the Japanese Wikipedia.
27
Ikeda argued that by allowing anonymous editing, the community spawns a type of culture seen in anonymous message boards such as 2channel, where
hate speech
, personal attacks, and derogatory expressions are common and are also the source of entertainment. He also remarked on the "emotional-outlet" and "get rid of stress" aspects of Japanese
Internet culture
, where 90% of blogs were anonymous, the opposite of the U.S. where 80% of blogs were authored under real names.
28
In 2006, Naoko Kizu
木津 尚子
, a Japanese Wikipedian, stated that on the Japanese Wikipedia most people start out as page editors and uploaders of images, and that the majority of people continue to serve in those roles. Some people apply to become administrators. Kizu said "Unfortunately, some apply for this role out of a desire for power! And then are surprised when they get rejected."
29
There are threads of
textboards
named "
【百科事典】ウィキペディア第
刷【Wikipedia】
" (
lit.
[Encyclopedia] Wikipedia Part
Edition [Wikipedia]
) related to the Japanese Wikipedia on
2channel
. In these textboards, the Japanese Wikipedia community informally discuss with other editors anonymously. On
, they use accounts associated with their username and "#jawp" for mentioning the Japanese Wikipedia.
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Controversies
edit
Attention was drawn to the Japanese Wikipedia article on
Kozo Iizuka
飯塚幸三
), which used to describe his accomplishments in detail, with no mention of how he killed a woman and her young daughter in the
Higashi-Ikebukuro runaway car accident
that made him a household name in Japan.
31
An administrator applied protection to the article and later explained that the Japanese Wikipedia community takes legal risks arising from potential privacy violations very seriously, as there is no local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation to support them in court.
32
Allegations of historical revisionism
edit
Further information:
Ideological bias on Wikipedia
In a 2018 book,
Florian Schneider
of
Leiden University
compared and contrasted the articles on the
Nanjing Massacre
in the
Chinese Wikipedia
Baidu
, and the Japanese Wikipedia (
南京事件
). Schneider was critical of some aspects of each version, but noted that a 2015 version of the Japanese article attempted to justify the rape and murder of Chinese civilians by claiming Japanese soldiers were doing it in the context of apprehending Chinese defectors. Schneider also noted that there were also few to no images on the article; instead it contained a single image of Japanese soldiers checking Chinese prisoners of war for weapons.
33
In a 2019 paper, Karl Gustafsson of
Stockholm University
compared various Chinese and Japanese Wikipedia articles. Gustafsson was critical of aspects of both versions. For the Nanjing Massacre article, Gustafsson noted that the first paragraph of the Japanese version expressed doubt about the details of the incident and "thereby portrays the Japanese military less negatively". For the article on the
Battle of Shanghai
, Gustafsson noted that the Japanese article generally emphasized violence by the Chinese combatants against both Japanese soldiers and civilians, while omitting mentions of civilian deaths from Japanese air raids. Gustafsson described the Japanese article as framing the Japanese invasion of the city as a reaction to Chinese aggression.
34
In a 2021 article published in
Slate
magazine, Yumiko Sato argued that several Japanese Wikipedia articles contained
historical revisionism
and
whitewashing
. Notable articles mentioned included those on the
Battle of Hong Kong
香港の戦い
),
comfort women
日本の慰安婦
), the
Nanjing Massacre
南京事件
), and
Unit 731
731部隊
).
35
36
A Wikipedia editor and academic,
Sae Kitamura
, responded to Sato's article. While acknowledging that historical revisionism is indeed an issue on the Japanese Wikipedia, she pointed out factual errors in Sato's argument that centered around Wikipedia policy.
37
In a talk sponsored by the Wikimedia Foundation, Kitamura argued that the revisionism was, in part, the result of a severe shortage of administrators.
38
: 12:20
Kitamura argued that, to combat this, more competent users needed to be attracted and the toxicity of the website needed to be controlled.
38
: 16:00
In a 2021 article, professor Chelsea Szendi Schieder of
Aoyama Gakuin University
39
described Japanese Wikipedia's coverage of World War II as right-wing revisionism, and argued there was a divergence between right-wing narratives that are popular online in Japan and academic writings in English.
40
Studies
edit
Further information:
Academic studies about Wikipedia
2022 study on IP editing
edit
In 2022, a report on IP editing on the Japanese Wikipedia was submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation. The report, based on interviews with Japanese Wikipedians, claimed that the Japanese Wikipedia's culture was seen as antagonistic, hostile, and susceptible to being manipulated by cliques. One Japanese Wikipedian interviewed said, "I think the Wikipedia community is similar to 2Chan in a negative way; it's just as hostile. You can get viciously attacked for what you write".
41
An interviewee alleged that an editor and administrator collaborated to manipulate the website, which resulted in the Wikimedia Foundation investigating the situation.
42
Some users felt that having an account created more vectors for being antagonized and thus avoided logging in.
42
One interviewee claimed to mainly make minor edits, as large edits were more likely to invite attacks.
43
Interviewees felt that IP users had significant sway over the website's content and toxic atmosphere.
42
The community reportedly held numerous discussions on if and how to regulate IP users, but failed to reach consensus due to polarized opinions. Most of the interviewees felt that IP editing was not an issue on the site.
44
2023 study on historical revisionism
edit
At the 10th Wiki Workshop on 11 May 2023 hosted by the
Wikimedia Foundation
, Taehee Kim, David Garcia, and Pablo Aragón analyzed which articles were controversial on the Japanese Wikipedia. They found that articles on the "Historical recognition and post-war settlement" portal were particularly reverted, and that of the top 20 most controversial articles, 11 were related to Japanese war crimes and topics commonly associated with Japanese right-wing ideology. They also performed a network analysis of editors who mutually reverted other edits in general, and found that those editors were more likely to be editors of articles discussing topics susceptible to right-wing revisionist narratives.
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