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What is the population of Japan ? Overview of Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun". Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together comprising about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people. Honshū's Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is thelargest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents. Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected legislature called the Diet. A major economic power, Japan has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fourth-largest exporterand fourth-largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the sixth largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. After Singapore, Japan has the lowest homicide rate (including attempted homicide) in the world. According to both UN and WHO estimates, Japan has the second highest life expectancy of any country in the world. According to the United Nations, Japan also has the third lowest infant mortality rate. Japan Map View Larger Map
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Japan (日本, Nippon ili Nihon, službeno, 日本国 Nippon-koku ili Nihon-koku) je otočna država u istočnoj Aziji smještena na lancu otoka istočno od Azijskog kontinenta, na zapadnom rubu Pacifičkog oceana sjeverno od Istočnokineskog mora. Japan čini otočje od više od 3000 otoka, a najveći otoci sa sjevera prema jugu su: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku i Kyushu koji čine više od 97% površine. Veći broj manjih otoka okružuje ova četiri, kao i grupe udaljenih otoka Okinawa i Ryukyu. Japansko je otočje dio pacifičkoga vatrenog prstena i nastalo je kao posljedica podvlačenja Filipinske i Tihooceanske litosferne ploče pod Euroazijsku. Dva japanska slova koja označavaju ime Japana znače "izvor sunca" pa se tako cijela zemlja često naziva "Zemlja izlazećeg sunca". Japansko otočje vulkanskog je podrijetla pa je dio geološki izrazito nemirnog prostora obala Tihog oceana, tvz. vatrenog prstena. Brojni potresi i vulkani glavno su obilježje Japana. Najpoznatiji vulkan je Fuji koji je ujedno i najviši vrh Japana (3776 m). Japan je planinska zemlja, budući da oko 80% površine čine planine. Oko 66% površine prekriveno je šumama. Po državnom uređenju Japan je ustavna parlamentarna monarhija s carem na čelu. Japan je deseta zemlja svijeta po broju s nešto manje od 128 milijuna, od kojih 99% čine Japanci. Glavni grad je Tokio (東京) koji sa susjednim gradovima ima oko 32 milijuna stanovnika te je najveće metropolitansko područje svijeta. Japan je jedna od vodećih svjetskih sila. Po nominalnom BDP-u treća je svjetska ekomonija, a po Paritetu kupovne moći također je treći, iza SAD-a i Kine. Japan je četvrti svjetski izvoznik i šesti uvoznik. Jedan je od tehnološki najrazvijenijih država svijeta, vodeći na mnogim poljima znanstvenih istraživanja posebice u elektronici i robotici. S više od 130 milijardi USD ulaganja u znanstvena istraživanja, treći je na Svijetu. Japan je član Ujedinjenih naroda, G8, G4, OECD-a i APEC-a.