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2 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.
1 day 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.
1 day ago · WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash. Japan. 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.
1 day 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.
3 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.
2 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 .
1 day 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 ...
