Japan
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Capital | Tokyo 35°41′N 139°46′E / 35.683°N 139.767°E |
Japanese | |
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Religion |
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Demonym(s) | Japanese |
Government | Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy |
• Emperor | Naruhito |
Fumio Kishida | |
Vacant | |
Legislature | National Diet |
House of Councillors | |
House of Representatives | |
Formation | |
February 11, 660 BCE | |
November 29, 1890 | |
May 3, 1947 | |
Area | |
• Total | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (61st) |
• Water (%) | 1.40 (as of 2015) |
Population | |
• 2017 census | 126,572,604 (10th) |
• Density | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). (36th) |
GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $5.420 trillion (4th) |
• Per capita | $42,960 (27th) |
GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $4.841 trillion (3rd) |
• Per capita | $38,281 (20th) |
Gini (2008) | 37.6 medium · 76th |
HDI (2015) | 0.903 very high · 17th |
Currency | Yen (¥) / <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">En 円 (JPY) |
Time zone | UTC+9 (JST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+9 (not observed) |
Date format | |
Driving side | left |
Calling code | +81 |
ISO 3166 code | JP |
Internet TLD | .jp |
Website www.japan.go.jp |
Japan | |||||||
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Literal meaning | State of Japan | ||||||
Japanese name | |||||||
Kanji | 日本国 | ||||||
Hiragana | にっぽんこく にほんこく | ||||||
Kyūjitai | 日本國 | ||||||
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Japan (Japanese: 日本; Romanised as nihon or nippon) is a country in East Asia. It is a group of many islands close to the east coast of Korea, China and Russia. The Pacific Ocean is to the east of Japan and the Sea of Japan is to the west. Most people in Japan live on one of the four islands. The biggest of these islands, Honshu, has the most people. Honshu is the 7th largest island in the world. Tokyo is the capital of Japan and its biggest city.