Japan (jpn)

Japan

Japan ranks 81st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Edinburgh, Alexandria, and Kyoto. Memorable people born in Japan include Emperor Jimmu, Himiko, and Tomoe Gozen. Memorable people who died in Japan include Emperor Jimmu, Morihei Ueshiba, and Abe no Seimei. Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many soccer players and politicians. Japan is located in Japan.

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, 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 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, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Read more on Wikipedia