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日本国
Nippon/Nihon-koku


( Flag of Japan)	( Imperial Seal)

Official language

Japanese

Capital

Tokyo (also largest city, and the world's largest metropolitan area)

Emperor

Akihito

Prime Minister

Junichiro Koizumi

Area
- Total
- % water

Ranked 60th
377,835 km²
0.8%

Population
- Total ( 2004 est. )
- Density

Ranked 10th
127,333,002
335/km²

GDP
- Total (PPP, 2003)
- Total (Nominal)
- GDP/capita (PPP)
- GDP/capita (Nominal)

$3.6 trillion ( 3rd)
$4.3 trillion ( 2nd)
$28,700 ( 13th)
$36,184 ( 9th)

Currency

Japanese yen (JPY, ¥)

Time zone

UTC +9

National anthem

" Kimi Ga Yo"

Internet TLD

.jp

Calling Code

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Japan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun") is a country in East Asia situated on a chain of islands east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The largest of these islands are, from north to south, Hokkaido (北海道), Honshu (本州, the largest island), Shikoku (四国), and Kyushu (九州). A number of smaller islands immediately surround these four, as well as one outlying group of small islands well to the south in Okinawa.

1 History

Main article: History of Japan

1.1 Prehistory

A reconstructed Yayoi period building in Kyushu.

Archeological research indicates that Japan had already been occupied by early humans at least 500,000 years ago, during the Lower Paleolithic period. Over repeated ice-ages during the last million years, Japan was regularly connected by land bridgeLand bridge is essentially a historical term: it refers to dry land exposed during periods of low sea level (see regression), connecting what are now separate continents or islands. The best-known is the Bering land bridge, which connected Asia and Norths to the Asian mainland (by SakhalinSakhalin ( Russian: , also Saghalien (Ku Ye Dao, Chinese), or Karafuto ( Japanese: is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45° 50' and 54° 24' N, in East Siberia, Russia. The capital of Sakhalin is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ( Russian: Japa to the North, and probably Kyushu to the South), facilitating migrationMigration occurs when living things move from one biome to another. In most cases organisms migrate to avoid local shortages of food, usually caused by winter. Animals may also migrate to a certain location to breed. Bird migration is common. The longests of humans, animals and plants to the Japanese archipelago from the area that is now ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute and KoreaKorea is a formerly unified country, situated on the Korean Peninsula in north East Asia adjacent to China in the west and Russia in the north. When World War II ended in 1945, the country was divided into two: the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) and the.

With the end of the last ice ageFor the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie . For the band, see Ice Age (band . An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers (" glaciation"). Glaci and general warming, the Jomon culture emerged around 11,000 BC , characterized by a mesolithic to neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the manufacture of the earliest known pottery in the world. It is thought that Jomon populations were the ancestors of the Proto-Japanese and today's Ainu. The start of the Yayoi period around 300 BC marked the influx of new technologies such as rice farming and irrigation, brought by migrants from Korea, China, and other parts of Asia.

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