和

Company name

Howa Machinery

Historical term; Used in ancient China and by Ainu

Japanese person

Historical term

Ninna era (885.2.21-889.4.27)

Historical term

Genna era (1615.7.13-1624.2.30); Genwa era

Historical term; Name used in ancient China

Japan

Historical term; Name orig. used in China and Korea

wokou; wakō; Japanese pirates who raided the Chinese and Korean coastlines between the 13th and 16th centuries

Historical term

Japanese mathematics; mathematics developed in Japan

Historical term

Kyōwa era (1801.2.5-1804.2.11)

Historical term

the Boxers (China)

Historical term

Kōwa era (of the Southern Court; 1381.2.10-1384.4.28)

Historical term

Wadō era (708.1.11-715.9.2)

Historical term

Kanna era (985.4.27-987.4.5); Kanwa era

Historical term

scholar of Japanese mathematics; expert in Japanese mathematics

Historical term

Kyōwa-go; Japanese-based pidgin language spoken in Manchukuo

Historical term

Waka Office; government office responsible for compiling imperially commissioned anthologies of waka poetry

Historical term

Kokin Wakashū (Heian-period collection of poetry)

Historical term

Shōwa period (1926-1989); Showa period

Historical term

Shōwa restoration (call for Imperial restoration by militarists in the 1930s)

Historical term

Japan-US Treaty of Peace and Amity (March 31, 1854); Convention of Kanagawa; Kanagawa Treaty; unequal treaty signed between the United States and the Tokugawa shogunate that forced Japan to end its policy of national seclusion

Historical term

poems collected at the behest of the Emperor (from 905 to 1439); Imperial collection of poetry

Historical term

wadō kaichin; Japan's first circulated coinage (minted in 708 CE)

Historical term

the flourishing mid-Shōwa period (1960s and early 1970s) of peace, rapid economic growth, and life of ease

Historical term

Paris Peace Conference (1919); Versailles Peace Conference

Historical term

Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901); Boxer Uprising; Yihetuan Movement