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WakoWako can refer to: - wakō (倭寇; Chinese Wokou): Japanese pirates who raided coastal areas of East Asia-particularly China and Korea-from the thirteenth into the seventeenth century. Initially, the pirate bands were composed of Japanese, but at various times included Koreans and Chinese as well as a few Portuguese and Southeast Asians. The character for wa (Ch: wo; Korean: wae), meaning dwarf, was an ancient Chinese term for Japan; the character for kō can be translated brigand or bandit. See, inter alia, Benjamin H. Hazard, "The Formative Years of the Wakō, 1223-63," Monumenta Nipponica (1967); Benjamin H. Hazard, "The Wakō and Korean Responses," in Papers in Honor of Professor Woodbridge Bingham (1976); Ishihara Michihiro, Wakō (1964), Kwan-wai So, Japanese Piracy in Ming China During the 16th Century (1975); Mori Katsumi, "International Relations Between the 10th and 16th Century and the Development of the Japanese International Consciousness," Acta Asiatica 2 (1961); Naganuma Kenkai, Nippon no kaizoku (1955); M. S. Seoh, "A Brief Documentary Survey of Japanese Pirate Activities in Korea in the 13th-15th Centuries," Journal of Korean Studies 1.1 (1969); Tanaka Takeo, Wakō to kangō bōeki (1961); Tomaru Fukuju and Mogi Shūichirō, Wakō kenkyū (1942); Yosaburo Takegoshi, The Story of the Wako, Japanese Pioneers in the Southern Regions (1940).
- Wako, Saitama (和光): a city in Japan, part of the Greater Tokyo Area.
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