This is for you, who will come to Japan in the future or have already arrived in Japan. You will find this general
information quite useful during your stay in Japan. This information is from
The World Factbook-CIA. You can find
basic information of various countries.
Japanese Map
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Geography
- Location:
- Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
- Area:
- total: 377,835 sq km
note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands
(Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
water: 3,091 sq km
land: 374,744 sq km
- Climate:
- varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north
Japanese Flag (Hinomaru)
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People
- Population:
- 127,214,499 (July 2003 est.)
- Nationality:
- noun: Japanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Japanese
- Ethnic groups:
- Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914) (2000)
- Religion:
- observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%)
- Language:
- Japanese
Japanese Capital Hill (Kokkai)
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Government
- Government type:
- constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
- Capital:
- Tokyo
- Administrative divisions:
- 47 prefectures; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gumma,
Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kochi, Kumamoto,
Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga,
Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata,
Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
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