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I was wondering if there is any context implied by a sentence like
"6時に起こしてください。"

I have read it translated as "Please wake me up at 6." But is "me" implied?
Could it also mean "Please (will you) wake up at 6."?
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Implication of a Japanese sentence
You're right that there is technically some ambiguity, although slightly wrong
in your interpretation. In a sentence like ６時に起こしてください it's basically implied
that you mean _yourself_ , as in the provided translation ("Please wake me
up"). Without context, though, there's no way to be 100% sure. It could be a
request to wake up any other person (except the person to whom the request is
directed, as in "please wake up at 6").

起こす is a transitive verb, so you're asking this person to wake _someone_ up.
Wake me up, wake Jim up, wake Mary up, anyone. In Japanese this would be more
explicitly stated with を, as in "６時にジョンを起こしてください。"

If you want _that person_ to get up at 6, you would use ６時に起きてください. 起きる is an
intransitive verb, so it has a meaning closer to the simple "wake up" in
English, as in "I woke up at 6." Notice the lack of a direct object. "I woke
up at 6" does not imply that you woke someone else up -- it only refers to
you, the speaker.
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