- Japan (in Japanese, Nihon, " country of the Rising sun "), State of oriental Asia formed by four main islands (from the northeast to the southwest, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu) and by a multitude of islands bathed by the Sea of Okhotsk in the North, by the Pacific Ocean in the East, by the East China Sea in the South, and by the Sea of Japan on the West. The total surface of Japan is of 377 765 km2. Situated on the island of Honshu, Tokyo is the capital of the country.
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