Japan Genealogical Records
Japan Birth & Baptism Records
A small index to several-hundred-thousand records from select countries.
Japan Marriage & Divorce Records
An index to more than 30,000 marriage records, including personal details, names of relations and particulars of marriage.
Japan Death & Burial Records
A searchable database of over 1 million Jewish burials with photographs of the matzevot.
Newspapers Covering Japan
Text-searchable copies of millions of Japanese newspaper articles.
An index to over 2.1 million people mentioned in Associated Press stories, including name, subject, location, date and a reference to the article.
An index to around 500,000 Associated Press articles.
An index to and digital images of hundreds-of-thousands of world newspaper articles.
Japan Immigration & Travel Records
An index to and images of passenger lists and emigration records. They list name, address, date of birth, destination and more.
Japan Military Records
Legal case files relating to crimes committed during World War II by Japanese sailors, prosecuted under US military law.
Contemporary analyses of the Allied bombing strategy in aerial attacks on Japanese targets during World War II. Tactical mission reports, aircraft action reports, tabulations of attack and bombing data, and photo intelligence reports detail effects on the Japanese infrastructure, including the petroleum, shipping, armament, and transportation industries. Hundreds of aerial photographs and many maps are included.
Legal case files relating to crimes committed during World War II by Japanese soldiers, prosecuted under US military law.
A small collection of photographs depicting life and war in Japan during World War II.
Japan Court & Legal Records
Legal case files relating to crimes committed during World War II by Japanese sailors, prosecuted under US military law.
Legal case files relating to crimes committed during World War II by Japanese soldiers, prosecuted under US military law.
Japan Directories & Gazetteers
A statistic and descriptive gazetteer of nations.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Useful for locating places, this searchable gazetteer gives brief details, latitude and longitude for more than 1.5 million features, places and regions throughout the world.
Japan Cemeteries
Photographs and transcriptions of millions of gravestones from cemeteries around the world.
Japan Obituaries
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Japan Histories & Books
Over 7 million remembrances and historic details submitted by Ancestry members. Useful for local historians.
Over 60 million historic photographs and documents submitted to Ancestry. This rich collection contains many rare sources of interest to local historians and will be relevant to most genealogical research.
A small collection of photographs depicting life and war in Japan during World War II.
Japan Occupation & Business Records
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
Contains a gazetteer of places, a directory of doctors, lists of institutions, regulations, obituaries and more.
A directory listing Anglican parishes and other divisions of the Church or England hierarchy and their various religious officers. The directory covers the UK and Anglican churches throughout the world.
A database of cricket scores and players.
Pedigrees & Family Trees Covering Japan
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A compilation of lineage-linked family trees submitted by Ancestry users. The database contains over 2 billion individuals and is searchable by numerous metrics.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
A collection of legacy trees submitted by Ancestry users containing nearly 400 million individuals.
Japan Royalty, Nobility & Heraldry Records
A searchable database of linked genealogies compiled from thousands of reputable and not-so-reputable sources. Contains many details on European gentry & nobility, but covers many countries outside Europe and people from all walks of life.
A searchable database of linked families. It largely covers royalty and nobility, but also contains actors, footballers and American presidents.
Japan Church Records
A directory listing Anglican parishes and other divisions of the Church or England hierarchy and their various religious officers. The directory covers the UK and Anglican churches throughout the world.
Japan Maps
An interactive index to thousands of maps covering the world, continents, countries and regions. The majority of maps cover Britain and Ireland.
Contemporary analyses of the Allied bombing strategy in aerial attacks on Japanese targets during World War II. Tactical mission reports, aircraft action reports, tabulations of attack and bombing data, and photo intelligence reports detail effects on the Japanese infrastructure, including the petroleum, shipping, armament, and transportation industries. Hundreds of aerial photographs and many maps are included.
Historical Description
This Island on the East is situate over against China.
Natures of the People
The nature and qualities the Inhabitants do some what participate: It is in length 200 leagues, and in breadth in some places 30 in others not above 10. It is devided into 66 Shires or petty Kingdoms.
Fertility
The Soyl is not very fruitfull subject to much Snow, but the air is very wholesome, and the Bowels of the Earth inriched with divers Metals
On this Island are two high Mountains, one of which casteth forth Flames, on the top whereof the Devil useth to shew himself in a bright Cloud, to them that by long fasting have prepared themselves for the sight. The other called Figeniaris is by some leagues higher than the Cloud. The chief Cities are Meaco and Bandum an University.
This Island is said to be frequented by the Jesuites of whom 200 is said to live here.
The Japanese Empire, which has long borne the title of “The England of the East," is a wonderfully progressive country, and of recent years has shown a remarkable power of adopting the ways and methods of the West. Korea which was annexed to Japan in 1910 is also being rapidly developed, and the favourable tariffs in operation prior to the annexation are to remain in force until 1920. Great Britain and her Colonies take the lead by a long way in the foreign trade carried on by Japan, America coming second, with China third. The staple articles of import into Japan from the United Kingdom are cotton yarn and cotton piece goods, and woollen and mixed cotton and woollen fabrics, metals, drugs, electrical apparatus motors and machinery, and those of export, silk, straw plaiting, fish and tea. The Imports from the United Kingdom in 1920 amounted to £28,006,070 and the Exports to this country, £29,699,321. The area of the empire is 235,886 square miles, and the population (1918) 79,636,126. Tokyo, 2,347,41 (1918); Osaka, 1,641,580; Kioto, 670,357; Nagoya 436,909; Kobe, 592,726; Yokohama, 447,423; Hiroshima, 162,391 ; Nagasaki, 198,147. Dairen (population 70,000) which is situated in the Liaotung Territory China, is leased by Japan.
Most Common Surnames in Japan
| Rank | Surname | Incidence | Frequency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sato | 1,957,222 | 1:65 | |
| 2 | Suzuki | 1,889,310 | 1:68 | |
| 3 | Tanaka | 1,414,306 | 1:90 | |
| 4 | Watanabe | 1,364,264 | 1:94 | |
| 5 | Takahashi | 1,343,496 | 1:95 | |
| 6 | Ito | 1,240,179 | 1:103 | |
| 7 | Yamamoto | 1,131,374 | 1:113 | |
| 8 | Nakamura | 1,123,805 | 1:114 | |
| 9 | Kobayashi | 1,075,457 | 1:119 | |
| 10 | Saito | 1,037,654 | 1:123 | |
| 11 | Kato | 936,216 | 1:137 | |
| 12 | Yoshida | 866,856 | 1:147 | |
| 13 | Yamada | 847,534 | 1:151 | |
| 14 | Sasaki | 707,008 | 1:181 | |
| 15 | Matsumoto | 684,576 | 1:187 | |
| 16 | Yamaguchi | 673,597 | 1:190 | |
| 17 | Inoue | 648,788 | 1:197 | |
| 18 | Kimura | 601,499 | 1:213 | |
| 19 | Shimizu | 574,021 | 1:223 | |
| 20 | Hayashi | 571,965 | 1:224 | |
| 21 | Abe | 547,601 | 1:233 | |
| 22 | Ono | 523,106 | 1:244 | |
| 23 | Mori | 521,171 | 1:245 | |
| 24 | Nakajima | 505,377 | 1:253 | |
| 25 | Hashimoto | 472,821 | 1:270 | |
| 26 | Ikeda | 467,663 | 1:273 | |
| 27 | Yamazaki | 451,852 | 1:283 | |
| 28 | Ishikawa | 449,414 | 1:284 | |
| 29 | Yamashita | 438,361 | 1:292 | |
| 30 | Ogawa | 429,058 | 1:298 | |
| 31 | Ishii | 419,407 | 1:305 | |
| 32 | Sakamoto | 407,966 | 1:313 | |
| 33 | Goto | 403,680 | 1:317 | |
| 34 | Maeda | 401,283 | 1:319 | |
| 35 | Okada | 398,215 | 1:321 | |
| 36 | Hasegawa | 392,504 | 1:326 | |
| 37 | Fujita | 390,177 | 1:328 | |
| 38 | Kondo | 387,221 | 1:330 | |
| 39 | Sakai | 385,483 | 1:332 | |
| 40 | Murakami | 372,186 | 1:343 | |
| 41 | Ota | 365,917 | 1:349 | |
| 42 | Kikuchi | 357,103 | 1:358 | |
| 43 | Ueda | 351,380 | 1:364 | |
| 44 | Arai | 347,441 | 1:368 | |
| 45 | Endo | 346,589 | 1:369 | |
| 46 | Aoki | 343,292 | 1:372 | |
| 47 | Takeuchi | 334,332 | 1:382 | |
| 48 | Nakano | 330,345 | 1:387 | |
| 49 | Fujii | 326,944 | 1:391 | |
| 50 | Fukuda | 324,631 | 1:394 | |
| 51 | Kaneko | 322,779 | 1:396 | |
| 52 | Nishimura | 322,477 | 1:396 | |
| 53 | Okamoto | 318,986 | 1:401 | |
| 54 | Nakagawa | 316,676 | 1:404 | |
| 55 | Fujiwara | 314,949 | 1:406 | |
| 56 | Miura | 305,855 | 1:418 | |
| 57 | Harada | 302,235 | 1:423 | |
| 58 | Matsuda | 300,605 | 1:425 | |
| 59 | Kojima | 294,967 | 1:433 | |
| 60 | Morita | 292,234 | 1:437 | |
| 61 | Tamura | 291,575 | 1:438 | |
| 62 | Nakayama | 288,151 | 1:444 | |
| 63 | Ishida | 279,066 | 1:458 | |
| 64 | Wada | 278,340 | 1:459 | |
| 65 | Shibata | 267,537 | 1:478 | |
| 66 | Masuda | 259,747 | 1:492 | |
| 67 | Hara | 259,549 | 1:493 | |
| 68 | Ando | 256,929 | 1:498 | |
| 69 | Uchida | 254,473 | 1:502 | |
| 70 | Shimada | 245,914 | 1:520 | |
| 71 | Yokoyama | 244,331 | 1:523 | |
| 72 | Miyamoto | 244,259 | 1:523 | |
| 73 | Honda | 233,144 | 1:548 | |
| 74 | Koyama | 227,193 | 1:563 | |
| 75 | Takagi | 227,063 | 1:563 | |
| 76 | Miyazaki | 226,430 | 1:565 | |
| 77 | Taniguchi | 226,309 | 1:565 | |
| 78 | Ueno | 224,388 | 1:570 | |
| 79 | Imai | 222,643 | 1:574 | |
| 80 | Maruyama | 220,250 | 1:580 | |
| 81 | Kudo | 219,043 | 1:584 | |
| 82 | Sugiyama | 218,933 | 1:584 | |
| 83 | Fujimoto | 218,875 | 1:584 | |
| 84 | Kawamura | 218,766 | 1:584 | |
| 85 | Kono | 217,499 | 1:588 | |
| 86 | Murata | 215,316 | 1:594 | |
| 87 | Kubota | 213,039 | 1:600 | |
| 88 | Hirano | 212,509 | 1:602 | |
| 89 | Otsuka | 211,954 | 1:603 | |
| 90 | Noguchi | 209,523 | 1:610 | |
| 91 | Takeda | 208,311 | 1:614 | |
| 92 | Matsui | 207,369 | 1:617 | |
| 93 | Sakurai | 205,697 | 1:622 | |
| 94 | Chiba | 201,756 | 1:634 | |
| 95 | Ida | 201,715 | 1:634 | |
| 96 | Kubo | 200,931 | 1:636 | |
| 97 | Sugawara | 200,833 | 1:637 | |
| 98 | Kinoshita | 198,568 | 1:644 | |
| 99 | Takada | 195,664 | 1:653 | |
| 100 | Nomura | 195,611 | 1:654 | |
| 101 | Kawai | 194,396 | 1:658 | |
| 102 | Sano | 193,926 | 1:659 | |
| 103 | Sugimoto | 193,157 | 1:662 | |
| 104 | Ichikawa | 191,497 | 1:668 | |
| 105 | Matsuo | 191,429 | 1:668 | |
| 106 | Oya | 190,561 | 1:671 | |
| 107 | Nagai | 189,489 | 1:675 | |
| 108 | Furukawa | 188,825 | 1:677 | |
| 109 | Adachi | 186,318 | 1:686 | |
| 110 | Nakata | 185,598 | 1:689 | |
| 111 | Onishi | 185,044 | 1:691 | |
| 112 | Yoshikawa | 182,891 | 1:699 | |
| 113 | Iwasaki | 182,766 | 1:699 | |
| 114 | Yasuda | 180,996 | 1:706 | |
| 115 | Mizuno | 180,719 | 1:707 | |
| 116 | Kawaguchi | 179,878 | 1:711 | |
| 117 | Tsuchiya | 178,716 | 1:715 | |
| 118 | Fukushima | 172,974 | 1:739 | |
| 119 | Hino | 172,769 | 1:740 | |
| 120 | Nishida | 171,210 | 1:747 | |
| 121 | Kitamura | 171,191 | 1:747 | |
| 122 | Yamauchi | 170,472 | 1:750 | |
| 123 | Nishikawa | 170,047 | 1:752 | |
| 124 | Takano | 169,213 | 1:756 | |
| 125 | Kawakami | 166,485 | 1:768 | |
| 126 | Ozawa | 165,770 | 1:771 | |
| 127 | Hamada | 165,476 | 1:773 | |
| 128 | Komatsu | 165,020 | 1:775 | |
| 129 | Seki | 164,025 | 1:779 | |
| 130 | Oda | 161,321 | 1:792 | |
| 131 | Nakanishi | 161,009 | 1:794 | |
| 132 | Igarashi | 160,183 | 1:798 | |
| 133 | Hirata | 159,755 | 1:800 | |
| 134 | Morimoto | 159,395 | 1:802 | |
| 135 | Hattori | 157,432 | 1:812 | |
| 136 | Higashi | 156,661 | 1:816 | |
| 137 | Akiyama | 156,617 | 1:816 | |
| 138 | Kawasaki | 156,585 | 1:816 | |
| 139 | Tomita | 156,528 | 1:817 | |
| 140 | Tsuji | 156,326 | 1:818 | |
| 141 | Sawada | 156,253 | 1:818 | |
| 142 | Tanabe | 155,830 | 1:820 | |
| 143 | Iwata | 155,812 | 1:821 | |
| 144 | Yoshimura | 154,912 | 1:825 | |
| 145 | Yamanaka | 153,323 | 1:834 | |
| 146 | Taguchi | 153,209 | 1:834 | |
| 147 | Oshima | 152,561 | 1:838 | |
| 148 | Higuchi | 151,653 | 1:843 | |
| 149 | Okubo | 149,450 | 1:855 | |
| 150 | Hirose | 148,219 | 1:863 | |
| 151 | Ishihara | 148,076 | 1:863 | |
| 152 | Matsuoka | 147,873 | 1:865 | |
| 153 | Baba | 147,657 | 1:866 | |
| 154 | Ohashi | 146,875 | 1:870 | |
| 155 | Asano | 145,916 | 1:876 | |
| 156 | Yoshioka | 144,448 | 1:885 | |
| 157 | Yano | 144,425 | 1:885 | |
| 158 | Matsushita | 142,707 | 1:896 | |
| 159 | Araki | 142,366 | 1:898 | |
| 160 | Koike | 141,930 | 1:901 | |
| 161 | Hoshino | 141,905 | 1:901 | |
| 162 | Noda | 140,825 | 1:908 | |
| 163 | Ohara | 140,736 | 1:908 | |
| 164 | Sudo | 140,699 | 1:909 | |
| 165 | Kawashima | 140,527 | 1:910 | |
| 166 | Uemura | 138,156 | 1:925 | |
| 167 | Ozaki | 137,070 | 1:933 | |
| 168 | Matsuura | 136,517 | 1:936 | |
| 169 | Naito | 136,222 | 1:938 | |
| 170 | Kumagai | 135,573 | 1:943 | |
| 171 | Iwamoto | 134,796 | 1:948 | |
| 172 | Kuroda | 133,096 | 1:961 | |
| 173 | Hori | 131,459 | 1:973 | |
| 174 | Nagata | 130,628 | 1:979 | |
| 175 | Matsumura | 129,553 | 1:987 | |
| 176 | Kurihara | 129,376 | 1:988 | |
| 177 | Ogura | 129,312 | 1:989 | |
| 178 | Nishiyama | 128,979 | 1:991 | |
| 179 | Hayakawa | 128,112 | 1:998 | |
| 180 | Hirai | 127,971 | 1:999 | |
| 181 | Mochizuki | 127,396 | 1:1,004 | |
| 182 | Doi | 127,380 | 1:1,004 | |
| 183 | Yoshino | 126,112 | 1:1,014 | |
| 184 | Yokota | 125,429 | 1:1,019 | |
| 185 | Ishibashi | 125,124 | 1:1,022 | |
| 186 | Koga | 123,720 | 1:1,033 | |
| 187 | Katayama | 123,677 | 1:1,034 | |
| 188 | Sakaguchi | 123,591 | 1:1,034 | |
| 189 | Osawa | 123,563 | 1:1,035 | |
| 190 | Sekiguchi | 121,797 | 1:1,050 | |
| 191 | Kamata | 120,015 | 1:1,065 | |
| 192 | Hagihara | 119,923 | 1:1,066 | |
| 193 | Oishi | 119,582 | 1:1,069 | |
| 194 | Miyata | 119,261 | 1:1,072 | |
| 195 | Konno | 117,972 | 1:1,084 | |
| 196 | Kodama | 117,957 | 1:1,084 | |
| 197 | Uehara | 117,235 | 1:1,090 | |
| 198 | Minami | 116,804 | 1:1,095 | |
| 199 | Konishi | 115,918 | 1:1,103 | |
| 200 | Shoji | 114,876 | 1:1,113 | |