Japan Country Info - Asia

Description and Basic Information

Japan with its capital Tokyo is located in Asia (Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan). It covers some 377,836 square kilometres (slightly smaller than California) with 127,288,000 citizens. Japanese is the language used by the people in Japan.

Japan known as Nihon or Nippon in Japanese, is an island nation in East Asia.The Land of the Rising Sun is a country where the past meets the future. Japanese culture stretches back millennia, yet has also adopted (and created) the latest modern fashions and trends. Cities are as modern and high tech as anywhere else, but tumbledown wooden shacks can still be spotted next to glass fronted designer condominiums. On an average subway ride, you might see childishly cute character toys and incredibly violent pornography - sometimes enjoyed by the same passenger, at the same time!

Pictures from Capital (Tokyo)

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About Japan

The landscape features mostly rugged and mountainous. The average density of population is about 336 per km². The climate in Japan can be described as varying from tropical in south to cool temperate in north. Potential threats by nature are many dormant and some active volcanoes or about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors but occasional severe earthquakes) every year, tsunamis or typhoons.

To reach someone in Japan dial +81 prior to a number. There are 44,364,000 installed telephones. And there are 114,917,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 3G. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".jp". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 100V - 50/60Hz. The following list are the 47 regions/states in Japan we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Japanese population shrinked at a rate of -0.24% (or by 306,867 citizens). With 1,246,488 deaths and 939,621 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at -0.24%. 0 persons more in total immigrated to the country than emmigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Japan: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.