Japan
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| Basic Facts |
| Country name |
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Japan local long form: Nihon-koku/Nippon-koku local short form: Nihon/Nippon |
| Gevernment type | constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government |
| Capital |
name: Tokyo
geographic coordinates: 35 42 N, 139 46 E time difference: UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time) |
| Flag description | white with a large red disk (representing the sun without rays) in the center |
| Currency | yen (JPY) |
| Internet country code | .jp |
| Ports and terminals | Chiba, Kawasaki, Kiire, Kisarazu, Kobe, Mizushima, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Yohohama |
| Agriculture products | rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish |
| Industries | among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods |
| Geography |
| Location | Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula |
| Coordinates | 36 00 N, 138 00 E |
| Continent | Asia |
| Area |
total: 377,835 sq km
land: 374,744 sq km water: 3,091 sq km note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto) |
| Boundaries | 0 km |
| Coastline | 29,751 km |
| Climate | varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north |
| Terrain | mostly rugged and mountainous |
| Natural resources | negligible mineral resources, fish |
| Natural hazards | many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors) every year; tsunamis; typhoons |
| People |
| Population | 127,463,611 (July 2006 est.) |
| Ethnic groups | Japanese 99%, others 1% (Korean 511,262, Chinese 244,241, Brazilian 182,232, Filipino 89,851, other 237,914)
note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004) |
| Religions | observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%) |
| Languages | Japanese |
