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In 2015, trade between Japan and Spain totaled €5.5 billion (¥729 billion). Japan's main exports to Spain include chemical products, machinery and transportation equipment. Spain's exports to Japan include transportation equipment and machinery. [22] Japanese cultural exports to Spain include anime, film, video games, and food.
* Tokyo hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the SVG file, tap or hover over a city to show its name (only on the desktop). The following is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games , both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896.
Place names in Okinawa Prefecture are drawn from the traditional Ryukyuan languages. Many place names use the unique languages names, while other place names have both a method of reading the name in Japanese and a way to read the name in the traditional local language. The capital city Naha is Naafa in the Okinawan language.
Japanese people in Spain consist largely of expatriate managers in Japanese corporations, as well as international students. [3] There are also some people of Japanese ancestry in Spain , including descendants of 17th-century migrants to Spain, as well as migrants from among Nikkei populations in Latin America . [ 4 ]
See Japan–Spain relations. Japan has an embassy in Madrid and consulates in Barcelona and Las Palmas. Spain has an embassy in Tokyo. Since 1997, every year a Japan–Spain Symposium for the cultural exchange between the two countries is held. Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs about relations with Spain Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback ...
After exploration, Takeshiro Matsuura chose the name, and in 1869, the northern Japanese island became known as Hokkaido. Hyōgo: 兵庫県: Hyōgo-ken (兵庫県) – This was the location of the government arsenal, in Japanese shako, changed to kyo no ko, and finally to Hyogo (兵庫)→military-storehouse. Ibaraki: 茨城県
In June 1614, Hasekura left New Spain via Veracruz and continued on his journey to Spain to meet with the Spanish king leaving behind a small delegation. In Spain, Hasekura was baptized a Catholic and changed his name to Francisco Felipe Faxicura. Two years later in February 1617, Hasekura/Faxicura returned from Spain to Veracruz and traveled ...
[12] [13] [14] Such words which use certain kanji to name a certain Japanese word solely for the purpose of representing the word's meaning regardless of the given kanji's on'yomi or kun'yomi, a.k.a. jukujikun, is not uncommon in Japanese. Other original names in Chinese texts include Yamatai country (邪馬台国), where a Queen Himiko lived.