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1 day ago · Japan portal. v. t. 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.
- Demographics of Japan
126,226,568. −0.7%. Population size may be affected by...
- NHK World-Japan
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- Demographics of Japan
1 day ago · 4,470,000 km 2 (1,730,000 sq mi) Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. [8] It consists of 14,125 islands. [9] [10] The five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Okinawa. The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands ...
- Mount Fuji, 3,776 m (12,388 ft)
- East Asia
- Hachirōgata, −4 m (−13 ft)
2 days ago · Japan. Japan, island country lying off the east coast of Asia. It consists of a great string of islands in a northeast-southwest arc that stretches for approximately 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through the western North Pacific Ocean. Nearly the entire land area is taken up by the country’s four main islands; from north to south these are Hokkaido ...
1 day ago · 126,226,568. −0.7%. Population size may be affected by changes in administrative divisions. As of 2017, Japan was the world's eleventh-most populous country. The total population had declined by 0.8 percent from the time of the census five years previously, the first time it had declined since the 1945 census.
- 6.6 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- -0.7% (2020 est.)
- 11.7 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- 124,631,000 (11th)
Zuku TV (Kenya) Channel 570. Streaming media. NHK World-Japan. Watch live (available worldwide) NHK World Radio Japan. Listen live (available worldwide) NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
6 days ago · Japanese language, a language isolate (i.e., a language unrelated to any other language) and one of the world’s major languages, with more than 127 million speakers in the early 21st century. It is primarily spoken throughout the Japanese archipelago; there are also some 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and their descendants living abroad ...
5 days ago · The English-language Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan is based on Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (1993), and contains almost all 11,000 main-text entries of that book, many updated. It has numerous hyperlinks, but does not contain any illustrations, nor the bibliographies of the earlier 9-volume Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, published in ...
