Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains in Japan

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Trains in Japan. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Scope and Goals

As of 24 October 2026, there are 10,573 articles within the scope of WikiProject Japan, of which 0 are featured. This makes up 0.15% of the articles on Wikipedia and 0% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 21,146 pages in the project.

Our main category is Category:Rail transport in Japan. Many of these articles have been translated from the respective Japanese version (see the category on the Japanese Wikipedia). Some articles are in states of bad disrepair, with awkward grammar, formatting and spelling. This WikiProject helps highlight and correct these problems, seeking to improve the visibility and reliability of articles about trains in Japan.

Although "Trains in Japan" may sound like a narrow topic, in reality there are thousands of pages to be created and expanded.

Goals

Our goals are to:

  1. Provide a centralized discussion point for articles about railways in Japan
  2. Standardize articles about Trains in Japan
  3. Provide information that's useful for both railway enthusiasts and visitors to Japan
  4. And of course... improve as many Japanese railway articles to featured status

Inter-wiki relations

Since many of the articles in our scope originated as translations of the articles at the Japanese Wikipedia, one of our aims is to improve relations with Wikipedias in other languages. In particular, we could improve the quality of the articles here by inviting English-speaking users from the Japanese Wikipedia, and translating articles as part of this Project.

Tasks

Here are some tasks needing attention. Even a small update helps maintain our reliability, so be bold!

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Categories

Rail transport in Japan - main category

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Parentage

This WikiProject's parents are WikiProject Trains and WikiProject Japan.

Participants

If you wish to label yourself as a member of our project, you can add yourself to Category:WikiProject Trains in Japan participants. Please keep the list alphabetical by display name for ease of reading and reference. Note:Inactive editors who have not edited for over a year have been removed from the list. If you happen to resume editing, please manually add yourself back to the list. Thank you.

You can add the following userbox to your page if you wish: {{User JTrain}}. This will add the following userbox to your userpage:

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