Japan

Japan

Japan ranks 3rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind United States and United Kingdom. Memorable people born in present day Japan include Hirohito, Hokusai, and Hayao Miyazaki. Memorable people who died in Japan include Hirohito, Hokusai, and Akira Kurosawa. Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and soccer players.

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Read more on Wikipedia