Japan (jpn)

Japan

Japan ranks 87th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vancouver, Stuttgart, and Marseille. Memorable people born in Japan include Satoshi Nakamoto, Tomoe Gozen, and Himiko. Memorable people who died in Japan include Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, and Tameo Ide. Japan has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Japan is located in Japan.

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alongside 14,121 smaller islands, covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi). Divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, about 75% of the country's terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains. With a population of over 123 million as of 2025, it is the 11th most populous country. The country's capital and largest city is Tokyo. Read more on Wikipedia