Talk:Japanese Alps

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 01:05, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

...is this located on the map?

...named using an English name given to a Japanese geographical feature which already has a given Japanese name? Especially when the name was coined for one of the three ranges? Is there no better Japanese name, respectful of their geographical conventions? 71.239.87.100 (talk) 01:49, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Because it's common name for that mountains ranges in Japan --61.215.99.250 (talk) 01:46, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This name is commonly used by English speakers in Japan, at least as late as the 1980s in my experience. But the Western bias seems pervasive in this article. "During the 1600s, people tried to discover the river valleys and to map road networks. However, the ridges had never been known and studied." The article doesn't say explicitly that "people" means Europeans, but the context makes it seems likely. The notion that the Japanese did not know the mountain ridges is implausible in the extreme.64.222.119.184 (talk) 00:10, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think Japan Alps is the more standard English name in Japan. --JWB (talk) 08:21, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]