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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 country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.
- History of Japan
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have...
- Religion in Japan
Shinto (神道, Shintō), also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous...
- Flag
The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner...
- Japanese People
Japanese people (Japanese: 日本人, Hepburn: Nihonjin) are an...
- Japanese Popular Culture
Japanese popular culture includes Japanese cinema, cuisine,...
- Territorial Disputes of Japan
The Senkaku Islands, also known as Diaoyu Islands in the...
- Japanese Cuisine
Osechi, new year special dishes. Japanese cuisine...
- History of Japan
The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. 'Wikipedia Japanese-language version') is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, [1] the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008.
- May 11, 2001; 22 years ago
- Japanese
- Optional
- Wikimedia Foundation
Geography. Japan is a group of islands in the Western Pacific, off the coast of China. The four biggest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and there are about 6,000 smaller islands there. Japan is separated from the Asian continent by the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.
- 14,000-300 BC
- before 14,000 BC
- 300-538
- Japanese
The History of Japan has old texts (things people have written) that go back to the 8th century AD, but archaeologists have found proof of people living in Japan for the last several thousand years from the time when the last Ice age ended.
- 14,000-300 BC
- before 14,000 BC
- 300-538
- 300 BC-300 AD
Prefectures of Japan (都道府県, todōfuken) are one of the basic local entities of Japan. [1] . They are the 47 subdivisions of the country. Prefectures are the governmental bodies of Japan which are larger than cities, towns, and villages . History. The former provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures between 1876 and 1879. [2]
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.