Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is
situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by
the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north
toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south.
Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans an archipelago of 6852
islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five
main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and
Okinawa. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by
Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.
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