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 of East Asia in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It borders the Sea of Japan to the west and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and comprises an archipelago of 6,852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); its five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city; other major cities include Osaka and Nagoya. Read more on Wikipedia