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3 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 ...
- History
Japan - Shintoism, Buddhism, Samurai: It is not known when...
- Cultural Life
Japan - Culture, Traditions, Religion: It is common for...
- Hokkaido
Hokkaido, northernmost of the four main islands of Japan. It...
- People
Japan - Ethnicity, Religion, Language: The Japanese people...
- Facts & Stats
In Japan's early modern period, women would blacken their...
- The Rise of The Militarists
Japan - Militarism, Imperialism, WWII: The notion that...
- The Bakuhan System
Japan - Bakuhan, Feudalism, Shogunate: The ancestors of...
- Political Developments
Japan - Political developments: The LDP continued its...
- History
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.
2 days ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.
17 hours ago · According to the United Nations, the population of Japan was roughly 126.4 million people (as of January 2020), which peaked from 128.5 million people in 2010. It is the 6th-most populous country in Asia, and the 11th-most populous country in the world.
- 6.6 births/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- -0.7% (2020 est.)
- 11.7 deaths/1,000 population (2023 est.)
- 124,631,000 (11th)
3 days ago · Okinawa is indicated by the archaic name “Great Liu-kiu.”. (more) Before Okinawa became a prefecture during the early part of the Meiji period (1868–1912), it was a semi-independent kingdom under the influence of both Japan and China.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Apr. 25, 2024, 5:11 AM ET (Newsweek) Russian Military Planes Intercepted in Sea of Japan. Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan (East Sea) Sea of Japan, marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded by Japan and Sakhalin Island to the east and by Russia and Korea on the Asian mainland to the west. Its area is 377,600 square miles (978,000 ...
5 days ago · Family members of the crew of USS Ronald Reagan gathered at the Navy's Yokosuka base Thursday, May 16, 2024, as the ship departed its homeport. (Eugene Hoshiko/AP) YOKOSUKA, Japan — A U.S. Navy ...
