Japan

since 660 BC · up to 413 thousand km² · Asia

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Capital: Shigaraki Palace (744–745), Heijō-kyō (710–784), Nagaoka-kyō (784–794), Fukuhara-kyō (…–1180), Edo (1603–1868), Heian-kyō (794–1869), Tokyo Prefecture (1868–1943), Tokyo City (1889–1943), Tokyo (1943–…)

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, the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, and the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alongside over 14,000 smaller islands. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, and around 75% of its terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains.

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Predecessors: Second Shō Dynasty, Empire of Japan

Rulers

Japan: shoguns & emperors: Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) 1926 – 1989, Emperor Akihito (Heisei era) since 1989

Events on its territory

1964 First Shinkansen high-speed railway
1964 Tokyo Olympics