After running some circles, I now understand everything on my Japanese karate diploma, except for the date: [diploma] It should be August 7th 2011, but for me the writing before the 年 just doesn’t make any sense. Please help me solve this mystery!

Looks like Heisei 23. Take a look at the wikipedia pages to learn more about Japanese eras [image] Japanese era name The Japanese era name (Japanese: 年号, Hepburn: nengō, "year name"), also known as gengō (元号), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era cale…

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seanblue November 25, 2019, 11:32pm 6

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