Template:Country data Japan

Template documentation

Template:Country data Japan is an internal data container not intended to be transcluded directly. It is used indirectly by templates such as flag, flagicon, and others.

Standard parameters

Parameter name	Value	Meaning
alias	Japan	Main article name (Japan)
flag alias	Flag of Japan.svg	Image name (File:Flag of Japan.svg, shown on right)

Flag variants

Label	Flag image (40px)	Image name
1870		Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg
1945		Flag of Allied Occupied Japan.svg
1947		Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg
ryukyu		Civil ensign of the Ryukyu Islands (1952–1967).svg
naval		Naval Ensign of Japan.svg
marines		Flag of JSDF.svg
military		Flag of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.svg
coast guard		Ensign of the Japanese Coast Guard.svg
navy		Naval Ensign of Japan.svg
air force		Flag of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force.svg
army		Flag of JSDF.svg

Military ensigns

This template includes a naval ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Navy:

• {{navy|Japan}} → Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• {{flagicon|Japan|naval}} →

This template includes an air force ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Air force:

• {{air force|Japan}} → Japan Air Self-Defense Force
• {{flagicon|Japan|air force}} →

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Marines:

• {{marines|Japan}} → Japanese Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade
• {{flagicon|Japan|marines}} →

This template includes a marine ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Armed forces:

• {{Armed forces|Japan}} → Japan Self-Defense Forces
• {{flagicon|Japan|military}} →

This template includes a navy flag variant that can be used with Template:Naval:

• {{naval|Japan}} → Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
• {{flagicon|Japan|navy}} →

This template includes a coast guard ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Coast guard:

• {{coast guard|Japan}} → Japan Coast Guard
• {{flagicon|Japan|coast guard}} →

This template includes an army ensign flag variant that can be used with Template:Army:

• {{army|Japan}} → Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
• {{flagicon|Japan|army}} →

Redirect aliases

This template can also be used via an alias name (implemented as a redirect to this template):

Alias name	{{flag|alias}} output	{{flagcountry|alias}} output
JPN (view)	JPN	Japan

See What links here for a full list of redirects.

Example usage

• {{flag|Japan}} → Japan
• {{flagicon|Japan}} →

Using a flag variant

• {{flag|Japan|1870}} → Japan
• {{flagicon|Japan|1870}} →

Using a redirect alias

• {{flagicon|JPN}} →
• {{flagcountry|JPN}} → Japan
• {{flag|JPN}} → JPN

Related templates

Please see the following related country_data templates:

• Template:Country data Empire of JapanEmpire of Japan

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see a monthly parameter usage report for this template in articles.

TemplateData for Country data Japan

This template should not be used directly. It is used indirectly by flag templates such as Template:Flag and Template:Flagicon. See Category:Flag template system for a full list of flag templates and Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template for further documentation.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

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