Japan

Japan

Japan ranks 5th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Memorable people born in present day Japan include Hirohito, Hayao Miyazaki, and Hokusai. Memorable people who died in Japan include Hirohito, Hokusai, and Miyamoto Musashi. Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players.

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 14,125 islands, with the five main islands being Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Read more on Wikipedia