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noun
- 1. a hard, dark, enamel-like varnish containing asphalt, used to give a black gloss to metal objects.
verb
- 1. cover (something) with a hard black varnish: "the pillars are to be japanned"
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Tokyo is its capital and largest city. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of the country's terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains.
noun. uk / dʒəˈpæn / us / dʒəˈpæn / Add to word list. a country in East Asia formed of a group of islands. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Countries, nationalities & continents: country names. Afghanistan. Albania. Albion. Algeria. Andorra. Equatorial Guinea. Eritrea. Estonia. Eswatini. Ethiopia. Mauritius. Melanesia. Mexico.
nē-ˈhȯn. country in eastern Asia comprising Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku, and other islands in the western Pacific; a constitutional monarchy; capital Tokyo area 145,914 square miles (377,915 square kilometers), population 126,168,000. see also japanese.
3 days ago · Japan, island country lying off the east coast of Asia. It consists of a great string of islands in a northeast-southwest arc that stretches for approximately 1,500 miles (2,400 km) through the western North Pacific Ocean.
Japan (Japanese: 日本; romanised as nihon or nippon) is a country in East Asia. It is a group of 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.
Japan is an archipelago, or string of islands, on the eastern edge of Asia. FAST FACTS. OFFICIAL NAME: Japan. FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Parliamentary government with a...
Definition of Japan noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Japan definition: 1. a country consisting of a group of islands near the east coast of Asia 2. coming from or…. Learn more.
Jul 26, 2023 · Published. 26 July 2023. Japan has the world's third-largest economy, having achieved remarkable growth in the second half of the 20th Century after the devastation of World War Two. Its role in...
Japan. Island nation in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the coast of east Asia, separated by the Sea of Japan from Russian Siberia, China, and Korea. The Japanese archipelago includes four major islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku) as well as many smaller islands. Its capital and largest city is Tokyo.
