Rummaging around for tropes not on the sandbox page that are candidates for Japanese Tropes (aside from the Useful Notes ones):
- Visual Kei - often crops up as a trope (musicians or wannabe musicians or just aping the style)
- Bifauxnen and Lad-ette
Listed on Anime Settings (which is apparently common settings, not anime-specific settings):
And potentially some of the tropes on Anime Hair:
Took a look at the UsefulNotes.Japan page; there's a whole bunch of different kinds of pages.
There's historical/background information about people/ places/events in Japan (marked UN according to my impression)
There's "notes about Japanese culture that would be matter-of-fact in Japan but causes foreigners to go huh?" (marked "trivia" according to my impression).
There's stuff that is used in Japan as a trope, particularly Japanese cultural stuff that gets exaggerated or portrayed inaccurately in fiction for plot purposes or to make it more interesting (marked "trope" according to my impression)
And a lot of them overlap.
I'd suggest moving the ones that are clearly tropes onto index pages like Japanese Tropes or Stock Japanese Characters, etc, and linking the UN/Japan page to the indexes as See Also; that would clean things up immensely. There might also be value in a "famous Japanese people" index.
- Imperial Japan - UN
- Japanese Political System - UN
- Kaiju Defense Force (Japan Self-Defense Force) - UN
- Katanas Of The Rising Sun (Imperial Japanese Armed Forces) - UN
- 108 - Trivia or trope
- The 47 Ronin - UN
- Baka - Trivia or trope
- Bicep-Polishing Gesture - Trivia or trope
- Bishōnen Jump Syndrome - Trivia or trope
- Big Fancy House - Trope
- The Thing That Goes Doink - Trope
- Boke and Tsukkomi Routine - Trope
- Flipping the Table - Trope
- Boys Love Notes - Trivia or trope
- Butterfly of Death and Rebirth - Trope
- Christmas Cake - Trope
- Christianity In Japan - Trivia or trope
- Christmas In Japan - Trivia or trope
- Compensated Dating - Trope
- Cram School - UN or trope
- Doujinshi - UN or trope
- Ear Cleaning - UN or trope
- Every Japanese Sword is a Katana - UN
- The Four Gods - UN or trope
- Fundoshi - Trivia or trope
- Geisha - Trivia
- Goldfish Scooping Game - Trivia
- Ghost Lights - Trivia or trope
- Hachiko (purebred Akita dog representing loyalty) - Trivia, with a whoooole bunch of similar stories from other countries. Obviously we need a Pet Faithful After Death trope.
- Hachimaki (headband) - Trope
- Hattori Hanzo - UN
- Henohenomoheji (the face made of hiragana) - Trope
- Hikikomori a.k.a. the Shut In. - Trope
- Host Club - Trope
- Idiots Cannot Catch Colds - Trope
- Idol Singer - Trivia or trope
- Inside Shoes - Trivia
- Instant Fan Club - Trope
- Ishikawa Goemon - UN
- Japanese Architecture - UN
- Japanese Holidays - UN
- Japanese Language - UN
- Alternate Character Reading - UN
- Four Is Death - Trope
- Gender And Japanese Language - UN
- Gratuitous English - Trope
- Green Is Blue - UN and trope kinda mashed together
- Japanese Honorifics - UN
- Japanese Pronouns - UN
- Pronoun Trouble - Trope
- Japanese Sibling Terminology - UN
- Japanese Stock Phrases - Index - cum - trivia
- Kansai Regional Accent - Trope
- Keigo - Trivia
- Kotobagari - Trivia
- One, Two, Three, Four, Go! - Trope
- Seven Is Nana - Trope
- Tohoku Regional Accent - Trope
- Japanese Ranguage - Trope (largely Western)
- Japanese School Club - Trivia or trope
- Japanese Vampire - this went away and is now a redirect to Our Vampires Are Different
- Joshikousei - Trope
- Kabuki Sounds - Trope
- Kappa - Trivia or trope
- Karaoke Box - Trivia or trope
- Kawaisa - Trope
- Kendo - UN
- Kigo - Trope
- Kimodameshi - Trivia or trope
- Kimono - UN
- Kimono Is Traditional - Trope
- Kimono Fanservice - Trope
- Kotatsu - Trivia
- Kotobagari - Trivia
- Kyu and Dan Ranks - Trivia or trope
- Lolicon - recently redefined as a character type...
- Love Hotels - Trivia or trope
- Mahjong - UN or trope
- The Makioka Sisters - A works page. A famous work, granted, but why is it here?
- Maneki Neko - Trivia or trope
- Manga Demographics - Industry information
- Miko - Trope
- Miyamoto Musashi - UN
- Mukokuseki - Trope
- No Koreans In Japan - Trope
- Nuns Are Mikos - Trope
- Odango Hair - Trope
- Oda Nobunaga (a Japanese warlord) - Trope
- Onmyodo - Trivia or trope
- Orochi - Trivia or trope
- Out Of The Country - This could be a trope, needs work. TRS or YKTTW.
- Paper Talisman - Trope
- Personality Blood Types - Trope
- Personal Seals - Trivia
- Pettanko - Trope
- Phenotype Stereotype - Trope
- Pillars of Moral Character - Trivia or trope
- Pose of Supplication - Trope
- Public Domain Artifact (of note, the three imperial regalia show up often) - Not Japan-specific
- Red Armband of Leadership - Trope
- Red Eye - Trope, not Japanese-specific
- Red Oni, Blue Oni - Trope
- Red String of Fate - Trope
- "Romantic" Two-Girl Friendship - Ought to be a UN, has broadened into a very messy trope, has been brought up in TRS here
- Ryokan Inn - Trivia or trope
- Sacred First Kiss - Trope
- Sailor Fuku - Trope
- Salaryman - Trope
- Sarashi - Trivia or trope
- Sarutobi Sasuke - UN
- Sasaki Kojiro - UN
- School Festival - Trivia or trope
- Second Sino-Japanese War - UN
- Sempai/Kōhai - UN
- Seppuku - Trivia or trope
- Shinigami - Trope
- Shiritori - Trivia or trope
- The Shinsengumi - UN
- Shotacon - currently a genre, may go the way of lolicon
- Shrines and Temples - This ought to be a UN but at the moment it's a very bare trope, needs a rename
- Sneezing - Trope, needs to be renamed
- Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl - Trope
- Subcultures In Japan - UN with a side order of tropes
- Takarazuka - UN
- Tanabata - Trivia or trope
- Teru-Teru Bōzu - Trivia or trope
- This Is Unforgivable! - Kind of a mess, started off as a Japanese trope but seems now to include a lot of non-Japanese examples. Might be worth breaking off the Japanese Stock Phrase (Yurusumaji!) and rewriting the main trope.
- 1000 Origami Cranes - Trivia or trope
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (another warlord, the ultimate unifier of Japan) - UN
- Tokyo University (Japan's own version of an Ivy League School) - UN or trope
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (yet another warlord) - UN
- Transfer Student Uniforms - Trope
- Tanuki - UN or trope
- V-Sign - probably doesn't belong here
- Weddings in Japan- UN or trope
- Yagyu Jubei - UN
- Yamato Nadeshiko - Trope
- Yaoi Fangirl (demographically more numerous in Japan than in most other places) - Trope
- Youkai - Trivia or trope
- Yonkoma - Trivia or trope
- Zettai Ryouiki - Trope
- Zigzag Paper Tassel - Trivia or trope
