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4 days ago · The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia. During this period, the first known written reference to Japan was recorded in the Chinese Book of Han in the first century AD.
3 days ago · 4,470,000 km 2 (1,730,000 sq mi) Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. [8] It consists of 14,125 islands. [9] [10] The four main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
3 days ago · According to the United Nations, the population of Japan was roughly 126.4 million people (as of January 2020), which peaked from 128.5 million people in 2010. It is the 6th-most populous country in Asia, and the 11th-most populous country in the world.
2 days ago · Complexity and contrast are the keynotes of life in Japan—a country possessing an intricate and ancient cultural tradition yet one that, since 1950, has emerged as one of the world’s most economically and technologically advanced societies. Heavy emphasis is placed on education, and Japan is one of the world’s most literate ...
4 days ago · This is a list of cities in Japan sorted by prefecture and within prefecture by founding date. The list is also sortable by population, area, density and foundation date. Most large cities in Japan are cities designated by government ordinance .
3 days ago · Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ⓘ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 120 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages ...
4 days ago · Japan (amtlicher deutscher Name; japanisch 日本, ausgesprochen als Nihon oder Nippon; anhören ⓘ /?) ist ein 14.125 Inseln umfassender ostasiatischer Staat im Pazifik, der indirekt im Norden und Nordwesten an Russland, im Westen an Nord-und Südkorea und im Südwesten an Taiwan und China grenzt, flächenmäßig der viertgrößte und bevölkerungsmäßig der zweitgrößte Inselstaat der Welt.
6 days ago · Hokkaidō has the third-largest population of Japan's five main islands, with 5,111,691 people as of 2023. It has the lowest population-density in Japan with just 61 inhabitants per square kilometre (160/sq mi) (2023).
5 days ago · Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi, [naꜜɡoja] ⓘ) is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city proper with a population of 2.3 million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million. [3]
May 22, 2024 · It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island. In 1931-32, Japan occupied Manchuria, and in 1937, it launched a full-scale invasion of China. Japan attacked US forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941, triggering America's entry into World War II, and Japan soon occupied much of East and Southeast Asia.
