Japan

Japan

Japan ranks 6th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind France, Germany, and Italy. Memorable people born in present day Japan include Hirohito, Akihito, and Matsuo Bashō. Memorable people who died in Japan include Hirohito, Matsuo Bashō, and Hokusai. 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 borders the Sea of Japan to the west, the Pacific Ocean to the east, and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of nearly 7,000 islands and covers 375,000 square kilometers (145,000 sq mi); its five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and most populous city; other major cities include Osaka, Nagoya, and Fukuoka. Read more on Wikipedia