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Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto .

The Japanese Wikipedia (Japanese: ウィキペディア日本語版) is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia. This edition was started in September 2002. It is the 13th largest edition by article count. As of November 5, 2016, it has over 1,036,000 articles. References

e. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38-39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.

Apr 23, 2023 · Japanese Wikipedia is the 12th largest Wikipedia in terms of number of articles, having 1,303,943 articles as of 8 December, 2021. It became active at the end of January 2003 when the Wired News covered English Wikipedia and the news was translated into Japanese.

The Japanese language (Japanese: 日本語, romanized: Nihongo) is the official language of Japan, in East Asia. Japanese belongs to the Japonic language family, which also includes the endangered Ryukyuan languages. One theory says Japanese and Korean are related, but most linguists no longer think so