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    JapanFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor the Wikipedia Manual of Style concerning Japan-related articles, see MOS:JP"Nippon" redirects here. For other uses, see Japan (disambiguation) and Nippon (disambiguation).Japan???Nippon-kokuNihon-kokuCentered red circle on a white rectangle. Golden circle subdivided by golden wedges with rounded outer edges and thin black outlines.Flag Imperial SealAnthem:"Kimigayo""???"

    Government Seal of JapanSeal of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Government of Japan??? (Go-Shichi no Kiri?)

    Capital Tokyo3541'N 13946'EOfficial languages None[1]

    Recognised regional languagesAynu itakRyukyuan languagesEastern JapaneseWestern Japaneseseveral other Japanese dialectsNational language JapaneseEthnic groups (2011[2])98.5% Japanese0.5% Korean0.4% Chinese0.6% otherDemonym Japanese

    Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy- Emperor Akihito- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe- Deputy Prime Minister Taro AsoLegislature National Diet- Upper house House of Councillors- Lower house House of RepresentativesFormation- National Foundation Day February 11, 660 BC[3]- Meiji Constitution November 29, 1890- Current constitution May 3, 1947- San FranciscoPeace Treaty April 28, 1952

    Area- Total 377,944 km2[4] (62nd)145,925 sq mi- Water (%) 0.8Population- 2012 estimate 126,659,683[5] (10th)- 2010 census 128,056,026[6]- Density 337.1/km2 (36th)873.1/sq miGDP (PPP) 2014 estimate

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    It is also the world's fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the world's eighth largest military budget,[11] used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan ranks high in metrics of prosperity such as the Human Development Index, with Japanese women enjoying the highest life expectancy of any country in the world and the infant mortality rate being the third lowest globally.[12][13][14]

    Contents [hide]1 Etymology2 History2.1 Prehistory and ancient history2.2 Feudal era2.3 Modern era3 Government and politics4 Foreign relations and military5 Administrative divisions6 Geography6.1 Climate6.2 Biodiversity6.3 Environment7 Economy7.1 Economic history7.2 Exports

    7.3 Imports7.4 Science and technology7.5 Infrastructure8 Demographics8.1 Religion8.2 Languages8.3 Education8.4 Health9 Culture9.1 Art9.2 Music9.3 Literature9.4 Cuisine

    9.5 Sports10 See also11 References12 Further reading13 External linksEtymologyMain article: Names of JapanThe English word Japan derives from the Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese name, ?? , which in Japanese is pronounced Nippon About this sound listen (helpinfo) or Nihon About this sound listen (helpinfo).

    From the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II, the full title of Japan was Dai Nippon Teikoku (??????), meaning "the Empire of Great Japan". Today th

    e name Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku (????) is used as a formal modern-day equivalent; countries like Japan whose long form does not contain a descriptive designation are generally given a name appended by the character koku (??), meaning "country", "nation" or "state".

    Japanese people refer to themselves as Nihonjin (????) and to their language asNihongo (????). Both Nippon and Nihon mean "sun-origin" and are often translatedas Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Japanese missions to Imperial China and refers to Japan's eastward position relative to China. Before Nihon came into official use, Japan was known as Wa (??) or Wakoku (???).[15]

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    The English word for Japan came to the West via early trade routes. The Old Mandarin or possibly early Wu Chinese (??) pronunciation of Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. In modern Shanghainese, a Wu dialect, the pronunciation ofcharacters ?? 'Japan' is Zeppen [z??p?n]. The old Malay word for Japan, Jepang,was borrowed from a southern coastal Chinese dialect, probably Fukienese or Ningpo,[16] and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca inthe 16th century. Portuguese traders were the first to bring the word to Europe.[17] An early record of the word in English is in a 1565 letter, spelled Giapan.[18]

    HistoryMain article: History of JapanPrehistory and ancient history

    The Golden Hall and five-storey pagoda of Horyu-ji, among the oldest wooden buildings in the world, National Treasures, and a UNESCO World Heritage SiteA Paleolithic culture around 30,000 BC constitutes the first known habitation ofthe Japanese archipelago. This was followed from around 14,000 BC (the start ofthe Jomon period) by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture, who include ancestors of both the contemporary Ainu people and Yamato people,[19][20] characterized by pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture.[21] Decorated clay vessels from this period are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. Around 300 BC, the Yayoi people began to enter the Japan

    ese islands, intermingling with the Jomon.[22] The Yayoi period, starting around500 BC, saw the introduction of practices like wet-rice farming,[23] a new style of pottery,[24] and metallurgy, introduced from China and Korea.[25]

    Japan first appears in written history in the Chinese Book of Han.[26] Accordingto the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the most powerful kingdom on the archipelago during the 3rd century was called Yamataikoku. Buddhism was first introducedto Japan from Baekje of Korea, but the subsequent development of Japanese Buddhism was primarily influenced by China.[27] Despite early resistance, Buddhism was promoted by the ruling class and gained widespread acceptance beginning in theAsuka period (592710).[28]

    The Nara period (710784) of the 8th century marked the emergence of a strong Japa

    nese state, centered on an imperial court in Heijo-kyo (modern Nara). The Nara period is characterized by the appearance of a nascent literature as well as thedevelopment of Buddhist-inspired art and architecture.[29] The smallpox epidemicof 735737 is believed to have killed as much as one-third of Japan's population.[30] In 784, Emperor Kammu moved the capital from Nara to Nagaoka-kyo before relocating it to Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) in 794.

    Samurai warriors face Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan. The Kamikaze, two storms, are said to have saved Japan from Mongol fleets.This marked the beginning of the Heian period (7941185), during which a distinctly indigenous Japanese culture emerged, noted for its art, poetry and prose. LadyMurasaki's The Tale of Genji and the lyrics of Japan's national anthem Kimigayo

    were written during this time.[31]

    Buddhism began to spread during the Heian era chiefly through two major sects, Tendai by Saicho, and Shingon by Kukai. Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo-shu, Jodo Shinshu) greatly becomes popular in the latter half of the 11th century.

    Feudal eraJapan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence and dominance of a rulingclass of warriors, the samurai. In 1185, following the defeat of the Taira clanin the Genpei war, sung in the epic Tale of Heike, samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo

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    was appointed shogun and established a base of power in Kamakura. After his death, the Hojo clan came to power as regents for the shoguns. The Zen school of Buddhism was introduced from China in the Kamakura period (11851333) and became popular among the samurai class.[32] The Kamakura shogunate repelled Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281, but was eventually overthrown by Emperor Go-Daigo. Go-Daigowas himself defeated by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336.

    Samurai could kill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared bythe Japanese population. Edo period, 1798Ashikaga Takauji established the shogunate in Muromachi, Kyoto. This was the start of the Muromachi Period (13361573). The Ashikaga shogunate achieved glory in the age of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the culture based on Zen Buddhism (art of Miyabi) prospered. This evolved to Higashiyama Culture, and prospered until the 16th century. On the other hand, the succeeding Ashikaga shogunate failed to control the feudal warlords (daimyo), and a civil war (the Onin War) began in 1467, opening the century-long Sengoku period ("Warring States").[33]

    During the 16th century, traders and Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Japan for the first time, initiating direct commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West. Oda Nobunaga conquered many other daimyo using Europeantechnology and firearms; after he was assassinated in 1582, his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the nation in 1590. Hideyoshi invaded Korea twice, but following defeats by Korean and Ming Chinese forces and Hideyoshi's death, Japanese

    troops were withdrawn in 1598.[34] This age is called AzuchiMomoyama period (15731603).

    Re-engraved map of JapanTokugawa Ieyasu served as regent for Hideyoshi's son and used his position to gain political and military support. When open war broke out, he defeated rival clans in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Ieyasu was appointed shogun in 1603 andestablished the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo (modern Tokyo).[35] The Tokugawa shogunate enacted measures including buke shohatto, as a code of conduct to controlthe autonomous daimyo;[36] and in 1639, the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period (16031868).[37] The study of Western sciences, known as ra

    ngaku, continued through contact with the Dutch enclave at Dejima in Nagasaki. The Edo period also gave rise to kokugaku ("national studies"), the study of Japan by the Japanese.[38]

    Modern eraOn March 31, 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry and the "Black Ships" of the United States Navy forced the opening of Japan to the outside world with the Conventionof Kanagawa. Subsequent similar treaties with Western countries in the Bakumatsuperiod brought economic and political crises. The resignation of the shogun ledto the Boshin War and the establishment of a centralized state nominally unified under the Emperor (the Meiji Restoration).[39]

    Chinese generals surrendering to the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War of 18941895Adopting Western political, judicial and military institutions, the Cabinet organized the Privy Council, introduced the Meiji Constitution, and assembled the Imperial Diet. The Meiji Restoration transformed the Empire of Japan into an industrialized world power that pursued military conflict to expand its sphere of influence. After victories in the First Sino-Japanese War (18941895) and the Russo-Japanese War (19041905), Japan gained control of Taiwan, Korea, and the southern half of Sakhalin.[40] Japan's population grew from 35 million in 1873 to 70 million in 1935.[41]

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    Emperor Meiji (18681912), in whose name imperial rule was restored at the end ofthe Tokugawa shogunateThe early 20th century saw a brief period of "Taisho democracy" overshadowed byincreasing expansionism and militarization. World War I enabled Japan, on the side of the victorious Allies, to widen its influence and territorial holdings. Itcontinued its expansionist policy by occupying Manchuria in 1931; as a result of international condemnation of this occupation, Japan resigned from the Leagueof Nations two years later. In 1936, Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany, and the 1940 Tripartite Pact made it one of the Axis Powers.[42] In1941, Japan negotiated the SovietJapanese Neutrality Pact.[43]

    The Empire of Japan invaded other parts of China in 1937, precipitating the Second Sino-Japanese War (19371945). The Imperial Japanese Army swiftly captured thecapital Nanjing and conducted the Nanking Massacre.[44] In 1940, the Empire theninvaded French Indochina, after which the United States placed an oil embargo on Japan.[45] On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor and declared war, bringing the US into World War II.[46][47] After the Sovietinvasion of Manchuria and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 15.[48] The war cost Japan and the rest of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the nation's industry and infrastructure destroyed. The Allies (led by the US) repatriated millions of ethnic Japanese from colonies and militar

    y camps throughout Asia, largely eliminating the Japanese empire and restoring the independence of its conquered territories.[49] The Allies also convened the International Military Tribunal for the Far East on May 3, 1946 to prosecute someJapanese leaders for war crimes. However, the bacteriological research units and members of the imperial family involved in the war were exonerated from criminal prosecutions by the Supreme Allied Commander despite calls for trials for both groups.[50]

    In 1947, Japan adopted a new constitution emphasizing liberal democratic practices. The Allied occupation ended with the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952[51] andJapan was granted membership in the United Nations in 1956. Japan later achieved rapid growth to become the second-largest economy in the world, until surpassed by China in 2010. This ended in the mid-1990s when Japan suffered a major rece

    ssion. In the beginning of the 21st century, positive growth has signaled a gradual economic recovery.[52] On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the strongest earthquake in its recorded history; this triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, one of the worst disasters in the history of nuclear power.[53]

    Government and politicsMain articles: Government of Japan and Politics of Japan

    Emperor Akihito and Empress MichikoJapan is a constitutional monarchy where the power of the Emperor is very limited. As a ceremonial figurehead, he is defined by the constitution as "the symbolof the state and of the unity of the people." Power is held chiefly by the PrimeMinister and other elected members of the Diet, while sovereignty is vested in

    the Japanese people.[54] Akihito is the current Emperor of Japan; Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, stands as next in line to the throne.

    Japan's legislative organ is the National Diet, a bicameral parliament. The Dietconsists of a House of Representatives with 480 seats, elected by popular voteevery four years or when dissolved, and a House of Councillors of 242 seats, whose popularly elected members serve six-year terms. There is universal suffrage for adults over 20 years of age,[2] with a secret ballot for all elected offices.[54] The Diet is dominated by the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan and the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The LDP has enjoyed near continu

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    ous electoral success since 1955, except for a brief 11 month period between 1993 and 1994, and from 2009 to 2012. It holds 294 seats in the lower house and 83seats in the upper house.

    The Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government and is appointed by the Emperor after being designated by the Diet from among its members. The Prime Minister is the head of the Cabinet, and he appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State. Following the LDP's landslide victory in the 2012 general election, ShinzoAbe replaced Yoshihiko Noda as the Prime Minister on December 26, 2012.[55] Although the Prime Minister is formally appointed by the Emperor, the Constitutionof Japan explicitly requires the Emperor to appoint whoever is designated by theDiet.[54]

    Historically influenced by Chinese law, the Japanese legal system developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as Kujikata Osadamegaki.[56]However, since the late 19th century the judicial system has been largely basedon the civil law of Europe, notably Germany. For example, in 1896, the Japanesegovernment established a civil code based on a draft of the German Brgerliches Gesetzbuch; with postWorld War II modifications, the code remains in effect.[57] Statutory law originates in Japan's legislature and has the rubber stamp of the Emperor. The Constitution requires that the Emperor promulgate legislation passedby the Diet, without specifically giving him the power to oppose legislation.[54] Japan's court system is divided into four basic tiers: the Supreme Court and three levels of lower courts.[58] The main body of Japanese statutory law is call

    ed the Six Codes.[59]Foreign relations and militaryMain articles: Foreign relations of Japan and Japan Self-Defense Forces

    JDS Kongo (DDG-173) guided missile destroyer launching a Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missileJapan is a member of the G8, APEC, and "ASEAN Plus Three", and is a participantin the East Asia Summit. Japan signed a security pact with Australia in March 2007[60] and with India in October 2008.[61] It is the world's third largest donorof official development assistance after the United States and France, donatingUS$9.48 billion in 2009.[62]

    Japan has close economic and military relations with the United States; the US-Japan security alliance acts as the cornerstone of the nation's foreign policy.[63] A member state of the United Nations since 1956, Japan has served as a non-permanent Security Council member for a total of 20 years, most recently for 2009and 2010. It is one of the G4 nations seeking permanent membership in the Security Council.[64]

    Japan is engaged in several territorial disputes with its neighbors: with Russiaover the South Kuril Islands, with South Korea over the Liancourt Rocks, with China and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands, and with China over the EEZ around Okinotorishima.[65] Japan also faces an ongoing dispute with North Korea over the latter's abduction of Japanese citizens and its nuclear weapons and missile program (see also Six-party talks).[66]

    Japan maintains one of the largest military budgets of any country in the world.[67] Japan contributed non-combatant troops to the Iraq War but subsequently withdrew its forces.[68] The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a regular participant in RIMPAC maritime exercises.[69]

    Japan's military (the Japan Self-Defense Forces) is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. Accordingly Japan's Self-Defence force is a usual military that has never fired shots outside Japan.[70] It is governed

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    by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). The forces have been recently used in peacekeeping operations; the deployment of troops to Iraq marked the first overseas use ofJapan's military since World War II.[68] Nippon Keidanren has called on the government to lift the ban on arms exports so that Japan can join multinational projects such as the Joint Strike Fighter.[71]

    In May 2014 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan wanted to shed the passivenessit has maintained since the end of World War II and take more responsibility forregional security. He said Japan wanted to play a key role and offered neighboring countries Japan's support.[72]

    Administrative divisionsFurther information: Prefectures of Japan, Regions of Japan, Cities of Japan, Towns of Japan and Villages of JapanJapan consists of forty-seven prefectures, each overseen by an elected governor,legislature and administrative bureaucracy. Each prefecture is further dividedinto cities, towns and villages.[73] The nation is currently undergoing administrative reorganization by merging many of the cities, towns and villages with each other. This process will reduce the number of sub-prefecture administrative regions and is expected to cut administrative costs.[74]

    Regions and Prefectures of Japan 2.svg

    About this imageGeographyMain articles: Geography of Japan and Geology of Japan

    Topographic map of the Japanese archipelagoJapan has a total of 6,852 islands extending along the Pacific coast of East Asia. The country, including all of the islands it controls, lies between latitudes24 and 46N, and longitudes 122 and 146E. The main islands, from north to south, arHokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. The Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are a chain to the south of Kyushu. Together they are often known as the Japanese Archipelago.[75]

    About 73 percent of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultu

    ral, industrial, or residential use.[2][76] As a result, the habitable zones, mainly located in coastal areas, have extremely high population densities. Japan is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.[77]

    The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire.They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plateand Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast ofthe Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening theSea of Japan around 15 million years ago.[78]

    Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century.[79] The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over140,000 people.[80] More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, a 9.0-magnitude[81] quake which hit Japan onMarch 11, 2011, and triggered a large tsunami.[53] Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk in the developed world.[10]

    ClimateMain article: Climate of Japan

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    Cherry blossoms of Mount Yoshino has been the subject of many plays and waka poetry.

    Autumn maple leaves (momiji) at Kongobu-ji on Mount Koya, a UNESCO World Heritage SiteThe climate of Japan is predominantly temperate, but varies greatly from north to south. Japan's geographical features divide it into six principal climatic zones: Hokkaido, Sea of Japan, Central Highland, Seto Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Ryukyu Islands. The northernmost zone, Hokkaido, has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters and very warm to cool summers. Precipitation is not heavy, but the islands usually develop deep snowbanks in the winter.[82]

    In the Sea of Japan zone on Honshu's west coast, northwest winter winds bring heavy snowfall. In the summer, the region is cooler than the Pacific area, thoughit sometimes experiences extremely hot temperatures because of the foehn wind. The Central Highland has a typical inland humid continental climate, with large temperature differences between summer and winter, and between day and night; precipitation is light, though winters are usually snowy. The mountains of the Chugoku and Shikoku regions shelter the Seto Inland Sea from seasonal winds, bringing mild weather year-round.[82]

    The Pacific coast features a humid subtropical climate that experiences milder winters with occasional snowfall and hot, humid summers because of the southeast

    seasonal wind. The Ryukyu Islands have a subtropical climate, with warm wintersand hot summers. Precipitation is very heavy, especially during the rainy season. The generally humid, temperate climate exhibits marked seasonal variation suchas the blooming of the spring cherry blossoms, the calls of the summer cicada and fall foliage colors that are celebrated in art and literature.[82]

    The average winter temperature in Japan is 5.1 C (41.2 F) and the average summer temperature is 25.2 C (77.4 F).[83] The highest temperature ever measured in Japan40.9 C (105.6 F)was recorded on August 16, 2007.[84] The main rainy season begins inearly May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north until reaching Hokkaido in late July. In most of Honshu, the rainy season begins before the middle of June and lasts about six weeks. In late summer and early autumn, typhoons often bring heavy rain.[85]

    Biodiversity

    The Japanese macaques at Jigokudani hot spring are notable for visiting the spain the winter.Japan has nine forest ecoregions which reflect the climate and geography of theislands. They range from subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands, to temperate broadleaf and mixed forests in the mild climate regions of the main islands, to temperate coniferous forests in the cold, winter portions of the northern islands.[86] Japan has over 90,000 species of wildlife, including the brown bear, the Japanese macaque, the Japanese raccoon dog, and the Japanese giant salamander.[87] A large network of national parks has been established to protect important areas of flora and fauna as well as thirty-seven Ramsa

    r wetland sites.[88][89] Four sites have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List for their outstanding natural value.[90]

    EnvironmentMain article: Environmental issues in JapanIn the period of rapid economic growth after World War II, environmental policies were downplayed by the government and industrial corporations; as a result, environmental pollution was widespread in the 1950s and 1960s. Responding to rising concern about the problem, the government introduced several environmental protection laws in 1970.[91] The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient u

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    se of energy because of Japan's lack of natural resources.[92] Current environmental issues include urban air pollution (NOx, suspended particulate matter, andtoxics), waste management, water eutrophication, nature conservation, climate change, chemical management and international co-operation for conservation.[93]

    Japan is a world leader in developing and implementing new environmentally-friendly technologies, subsequently ranking 26th in the 2014 Environmental Performance Index, which measures a nation's commitment to environmental sustainability.[94] As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, and host of the 1997 conference that created it, Japan is under treaty obligation to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and to take other steps to curb climate change.[95]

    EconomyMain article: Economy of Japan

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest stock exchange in Asia[96]Economic historySome of the structural features for Japan's economic growth developed in the Edoperiod, such as the network of transport routes, by road and water, and the futures contracts, banking and insurance of the Osaka rice brokers.[97] During theMeiji period from 1868, Japan expanded economically with the embrace of the market economy.[98] Many of today's enterprises were founded at the time, and Japanemerged as the most developed nation in Asia.[99] The period of overall real economic growth from the 1960s to the 1980s has been called the Japanese post-war e

    conomic miracle: it averaged 7.5 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, and 3.2 percentin the 1980s and early 1990s.[100]

    Growth slowed markedly in the 1990s during what the Japanese call the Lost Decade, largely because of the after-effects of the Japanese asset price bubble and domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and realestate markets. Government efforts to revive economic growth met with little success and were further hampered by the global slowdown in 2000.[2] The economy showed strong signs of recovery after 2005; GDP growth for that year was 2.8 percent, surpassing the growth rates of the US and European Union during the same period.[101]

    As of 2012, Japan is the third largest national economy in the world, after the

    United States and China, in terms of nominal GDP,[102] and the fourth largest national economy in the world, after the United States, China and India, in termsof purchasing power parity.[7] As of December 2013, Japan's public debt was morethan 200 percent of its annual gross domestic product, the second largest of any nation in the world. In August 2011, Moody's rating has cut Japan's long-termsovereign debt rating one notch from Aa3 to Aa2 inline with the size of the country's deficit and borrowing level. The large budget deficits and government debtsince the 2009 global recession and followed by earthquake and tsunami in March2011 made the rating downgrade.[103] The service sector accounts for three quarters of the gross domestic product.[104]

    Exports

    A plug-in hybrid car manufactured by Toyota, one of the world's largest carmakers. Japan is the second-largest producer of automobiles in the world.[105]Japan has a large industrial capacity, and is home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronics, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemical substances, textiles, and processed foods. Agricultural businesses in Japan cultivate 13 percent of Japan's land, and Japan accounts for nearly 15 percent of the global fish catch, second only to China.[2] As of 2010, Japan's labor force consisted of some 65.9 million workers.[106] Japan has a low unemployment rate of around four percent. Some 20 million people, around 17 per cent of the population, were below the poverty line

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    in 2007.[107] Housing in Japan is characterized by limited land supply in urbanareas.[108]

    Japan's exports amounted to US$4,210 per capita in 2005. As of 2012, Japan's main export markets were China (18.1 percent), the United States (17.8 percent), South Korea (7.7 percent), Thailand (5.5 percent) and Hong Kong (5.1 percent). Itsmain exports are transportation equipment, motor vehicles, electronics, electrical machinery and chemicals.[2] Japan's main import markets as of 2012 were China (21.3 percent), the US (8.8 percent), Australia (6.4 percent), Saudi Arabia (6.2 percent), United Arab Emirates (5.0 percent), South Korea (4.6 percent) and Qatar (4.0 percent).[2]

    ImportsJapan's main imports are machinery and equipment, fossil fuels, foodstuffs (in particular beef), chemicals, textiles and raw materials for its industries. By market share measures, domestic markets are the least open of any OECD country.[109] Junichiro Koizumi's administration began some pro-competition reforms, and foreign investment in Japan has soared.[110]

    Japan ranks 27th of 189 countries in the 2014 Ease of doing business index and has one of the smallest tax revenues of the developed world. The Japanese variantof capitalism has many distinct features: keiretsu enterprises are influential,and lifetime employment and seniority-based career advancement are relatively common in the Japanese work environment.[109][111] Japanese companies are known f

    or management methods like "The Toyota Way", and shareholder activism is rare.[112]

    Some of the largest enterprises in Japan include Toyota, Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo, Canon, Honda, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp, Nippon Steel, Nippon Oil, and Seven & I Holdings Co..[113] It has some of the world's largest banks, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (known for its Nikkei 225 and TOPIX indices) stands as the second largest in the world by market capitalization.[114] Asof 2006, Japan was home to 326 companies from the Forbes Global 2000 or 16.3 percent.[115] In 2013, it was announced that Japan would be importing shale naturalgas.[116]

    Science and technology

    Main article: Science and technology in Japan

    The Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo) at the International Space StationJapan is a leading nation in scientific research, particularly technology, machinery and biomedical research. Nearly 700,000 researchers share a US$130 billionresearch and development budget, the third largest in the world.[117] Japan is aworld leader in fundamental scientific research, having produced sixteen Nobellaureates in either physics, chemistry or medicine,[118] three Fields medalists,[119] and one Gauss Prize laureate.[120] Some of Japan's more prominent technological contributions are in the fields of electronics, automobiles, machinery, earthquake engineering, industrial robotics, optics, chemicals, semiconductors andmetals. Japan leads the world in robotics production and use, possessing more than half (402,200 of 742,500) of the world's industrial robots.[121]

    The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's space agency; it conducts space, planetary, and aviation research, and leads development of rockets andsatellites. It is a participant in the International Space Station: the Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo) was added to the station during Space Shuttle assembly flights in 2008.[122] Japan's plans in space exploration include: launching aspace probe to Venus, Akatsuki;[123][124] developing the Mercury MagnetosphericOrbiter to be launched in 2016;[125] and building a moon base by 2030.[126]

    On September 14, 2007, it launched lunar explorer "SELENE" (Selenological and En

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    gineering Explorer) on an H-IIA (Model H2A2022) carrier rocket from TanegashimaSpace Center. SELENE is also known as Kaguya, after the lunar princess of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.[127] Kaguya is the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program. Its purpose is to gather data on the moon's origin and evolution. Itentered a lunar orbit on October 4,[128][129] flying at an altitude of about 100 km (62 mi).[130] The probe's mission was ended when it was deliberately crashed by JAXA into the Moon on June 11, 2009.[131]

    InfrastructureMain articles: Energy in Japan and Transport in Japan

    A high-speed Shinkansen "Bullet train".As of 2011, 46.1 percent of energy in Japan was produced from petroleum, 21.3 percent from coal, 21.4 percent from natural gas, 4.0 percent from nuclear power,and 3.3 percent from hydropower. Nuclear power produced 9.2 percent of Japan's electricity, as of 2011, down from 24.9 percent the previous year.[132] However,as of May 5, 2012, all of the country's nuclear power plants had been taken offline because of ongoing public opposition following the Fukushima Daiichi nucleardisaster, though government officials have been continuing to try to sway public opinion in favor of returning at least some of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors toservice.[133] Given its heavy dependence on imported energy,[134] Japan has aimed to diversify its sources and maintain high levels of energy efficiency.[135]

    Japan's road spending has been extensive.[136] Its 1.2 million kilometers of pav

    ed road are the main means of transportation.[137] A single network of high-speed, divided, limited-access toll roads connects major cities and is operated by toll-collecting enterprises. New and used cars are inexpensive; car ownership fees and fuel levies are used to promote energy efficiency. However, at just 50 percent of all distance traveled, car usage is the lowest of all G8 countries.[138]

    Dozens of Japanese railway companies compete in regional and local passenger transportation markets; major companies include seven JR enterprises, Kintetsu Corporation, Seibu Railway and Keio Corporation. Some 250 high-speed Shinkansen trains connect major cities and Japanese trains are known for their safety and punctuality.[139][140] Proposals for a new Maglev route between Tokyo and Osaka are at an advanced stage.[141] There are 175 airports in Japan;[2] the largest domestic airport, Haneda Airport, is Asia's second-busiest airport.[142] The largest i

    nternational gateways are Narita International Airport, Kansai International Airport and Chubu Centrair International Airport.[143] Nagoya Port is the country'slargest and busiest port, accounting for 10 percent of Japan's trade value.[144]

    DemographicsMain articles: Demographics of Japan, Japanese people and Ethnic issues in Japan

    Ainu, an ethnic minority people from Japan

    A Japanese wedding at the Meiji ShrineJapan's population is estimated at around 127.3 million,[2] with 80% of the population living on Honshu. Japanese society is linguistically and culturally homog

    eneous,[145] composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese,[146] with small populations of foreign workers.[145] Zainichi Koreans,[147] Zainichi Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians mostly of Japanese descent,[148] and Peruvians mostly of Japanese descent are among the small minority groups in Japan.[149] In 2003, there were about 134,700 non-Latin American Western and 345,500 Latin American expatriates, 274,700 ofwhom were Brazilians (said to be primarily Japanese descendants, or nikkeijin,along with their spouses),[148] the largest community of Westerners.[150]

    The most dominant native ethnic group is the Yamato people; primary minority groups include the indigenous Ainu[151] and Ryukyuan peoples, as well as social min

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    ority groups like the burakumin.[152] There are persons of mixed ancestry incorporated among the 'ethnic Japanese' or Yamato, such as those from Ogasawara Archipelago where roughly one-tenth of the Japanese population can have European, American, Micronesian and/or Polynesian backgrounds, with some families going backup to seven generations.[153] In spite of the widespread belief that Japan is ethnically homogeneous (in 2009, foreign-born non-naturalized workers made up only1.7% of the total population),[154] also because of the absence of ethnicity and/or race statistics for Japanese nationals, at least one analysis describes Japan as a multiethnic society, for example, John Lie.[155] However, this statementis refused by many sectors of Japanese society, who still tend to preserve theidea of Japan being a monocultural society and with this ideology of homogeneity, has traditionally rejected any need to recognize ethnic differences in Japan,even as such claims have been rejected by such ethnic minorities as the Ainu andRyukyuan people. Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has once described Japan as being a nation of "one race, one civilization, one language and one culture".[156]

    Japan has the second longest overall life expectancy at birth of any country inthe world: 83.5 years for persons born in the period 20102015.[13][14] The Japanese population is rapidly aging as a result of a postWorld War II baby boom followed by a decrease in birth rates. In 2012, about 24.1 percent of the population was over 65, and the proportion is projected to rise to almost 40 percent by 2050.[157]

    The changes in demographic structure have created a number of social issues, particularly a potential decline in workforce population and increase in the cost of social security benefits like the public pension plan.[158] A growing number of younger Japanese are preferring not to marry or have families.[159] In 2011, Japan's population dropped for a fifth year, falling by 204,000 people to 126.24million people. This was the greatest decline since at least 1947, when comparable figures were first compiled.[160] This decline was made worse by the March 11earthquake and tsunami which killed nearly 16,000 people with approximately another 3,000 still listed as missing.[161]

    Japan's population is expected to drop to 95 million by 2050,[157][162] demographers and government planners are currently in a heated debate over how to cope with this problem.[159] Immigration and birth incentives are sometimes suggested

    as a solution to provide younger workers to support the nation's aging population.[163][164] Japan accepts a steady flow of 15,000 new Japanese citizens by naturalization (??) per year.[165] According to the UNHCR, in 2012 Japan accepted just 18 refugees for resettlement,[166] while the US took in 76,000.[167]

    Japan suffers from a high suicide rate.[168][169] In 2009, the number of suicides exceeded 30,000 for the twelfth straight year.[170] Suicide is the leading cause of death for people under 30.[171]

    v t eLargest cities or towns of Japan

    2010 CensusRank Name Prefecture Pop. Rank Name Prefecture Pop.TokyoTokyoYokohamaYokohama 1 Tokyo Tokyo 8,949,447 11 HiroshimaHiroshima 1,174,209 OsakaOsakaNagoyaNagoya

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    2 Yokohama Kanagawa 3,689,603 12 Sendai Miyagi1,045,9033 Osaka Osaka 2,666,371 13 Kitakyushu Fukuoka 977,2884 Nagoya Aichi 2,263,907 14 Chiba Chiba 962,1305 Sapporo Hokkaido 1,914,434 15 Sakai Osaka 842,1346 Kobe Hyogo 1,544,873 16 Niigata Niigata 812,1927 Kyoto Kyoto 1,474,473 17 Hamamatsu Shizuoka800,9128 Fukuoka Fukuoka 1,463,826 18 Kumamoto Kumamoto734,2949 Kawasaki Kanagawa 1,425,678 19 SagamiharaKanagawa 717,56110 Saitama Saitama 1,222,910 20 Shizuoka Shizuoka716,328ReligionMain article: Religion in Japan

    The Torii of Itsukushima Shrine near Hiroshima, one of the Three Views of Japanand a UNESCO World Heritage SiteJapan enjoys full religious freedom based on Article 20 of its Constitution. Upper estimates suggest that 8496 percent of the Japanese population subscribe to Buddhism or Shinto, including a large number of followers of a syncretism of bothreligions.[2][172] However, these estimates are based on people affiliated witha temple, rather than the number of true believers. Other studies have suggested

    that only 30 percent of the population identify themselves as belonging to a religion.[173] According to Edwin Reischauer and Marius Jansen, some 7080% of the Japanese regularly tell pollsters they do not consider themselves believers in any religion.[174]

    Nevertheless, the level of participation remains high, especially during festivals and occasions such as the first shrine visit of the New Year. Taoism and Confucianism from China have also influenced Japanese beliefs and customs.[175] Japanese streets are decorated on Tanabata, Obon and Christmas. Fewer than one percent of Japanese are Christian.[176] Other minority religions include Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Judaism, and since the mid-19th century numerous new religiousmovements have emerged in Japan.[177]

    LanguagesMain articles: Languages of Japan and Japanese languageMore than 99 percent of the population speaks Japanese as their first language.[2] Japanese is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorificsreflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener. Japanese writing uses kanji (Chinese characters) and two sets of kana (syllabaries based on simplified Chinese characters), as well as the Latin alphabet and Arabicnumerals.[178]

    Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages (Amami, Kunigami, Okinawan, Miyako, Yaeyama, Yonaguni), also part of the Japonic language family, are spoken in the Ryukyu Islands chain. Few children learn these languages,[179] but in recent years

    the local governments have sought to increase awareness of the traditional languages. The Okinawan Japanese dialect is also spoken in the region. The Ainu language, which has no proven relationship to Japanese or any other language, is moribund, with only a few elderly native speakers remaining in Hokkaido.[180] Most public and private schools require students to take courses in both Japanese andEnglish.[181][182]

    EducationMain article: Education in Japan

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    Announcement of the results of the entrance examinations to the University of TokyoPrimary schools, secondary schools and universities were introduced in 1872 as aresult of the Meiji Restoration.[183] Since 1947, compulsory education in Japancomprises elementary and middle school, which together last for nine years (from age 6 to age 15). Almost all children continue their education at a three-yearsenior high school, and, according to the MEXT, as of 2005 about 75.9 percent of high school graduates attended a university, junior college, trade school, orother higher education institution.[184]

    The two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and KyotoUniversity.[185][186] The Programme for International Student Assessment coordinated by the OECD currently ranks the overall knowledge and skills of Japanese 15-year-olds as sixth best in the world.[187]

    HealthMain articles: Health in Japan and Health care system in JapanIn Japan, health care is provided by national and local governments. Payment forpersonal medical services is offered through a universal health insurance system that provides relative equality of access, with fees set by a government committee. People without insurance through employers can participate in a national health insurance program administered by local governments. Since 1973, all elderly persons have been covered by government-sponsored insurance.[188] Patients are free to select the physicians or facilities of their choice.[189]

    Culture

    Kinkaku-ji or 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' in Kyoto, Special Historic Site, Special Place of Scenic Beauty, and UNESCO World Heritage Site; its torchingby a monk in 1950 is the subject of a novel by Mishima.Main article: Culture of JapanSee also: Japanese popular cultureJapanese culture has evolved greatly from its origins. Contemporary culture combines influences from Asia, Europe and North America. Traditional Japanese arts include crafts such as ceramics, textiles, lacquerware, swords and dolls; performances of bunraku, kabuki, noh, dance, and rakugo; and other practices, the tea ceremony, ikebana, martial arts, calligraphy, origami, onsen, Geisha and games. J

    apan has a developed system for the protection and promotion of both tangible and intangible Cultural Properties and National Treasures.[190] Sixteen sites havebeen inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, twelve of which are of cultural significance.[90]

    Art

    19th-century Ukiyo-e woodblock printing The Great Wave off Kanagawa, one of thebest recognized works of Japanese art in the world.Further information: Japanese art, Japanese architecture, Japanese garden and Japanese aestheticsThe Shrines of Ise have been celebrated as the prototype of Japanese architecture.[191] Largely of wood, traditional housing and many temple buildings see the u

    se of tatami mats and sliding doors that break down the distinction between rooms and indoor and outdoor space.[192] Japanese sculpture, largely of wood, and Japanese painting are among the oldest of the Japanese arts, with early figurativepaintings dating back to at least 300 BC. The history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptationof imported ideas.[193]

    The interaction between Japanese and European art has been significant: for example ukiyo-e prints, which began to be exported in the 19th century in the movement known as Japonism, had a significant influence on the development of modern a

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    rt in the West, most notably on post-Impressionism.[193] Famous ukiyo-e artistsinclude Hokusai and Hiroshige. The fusion of traditional woodblock printing andWestern art led to the creation of manga, a comic book format that is now popular within and outside Japan.[194] Manga-influenced animation for television and film is called anime. Japanese-made video game consoles have been popular since the 1980s.[195]

    MusicMain article: Music of JapanJapanese music is eclectic and diverse. Many instruments, such as the koto, wereintroduced in the 9th and 10th centuries. The accompanied recitative of the Nohdrama dates from the 14th century and the popular folk music, with the guitar-like shamisen, from the sixteenth.[196] Western classical music, introduced in the late 19th century, now forms an integral part of Japanese culture. The imperial court ensemble Gagaku has influenced the work of some modern Western composers.[197]

    Notable classical composers from Japan include Toru Takemitsu and Rentaro Taki.Popular music in post-war Japan has been heavily influenced by American and European trends, which has led to the evolution of J-pop, or Japanese popular music.[198] Karaoke is the most widely practiced cultural activity in Japan. A 1993 survey by the Cultural Affairs Agency found that more Japanese had sung karaoke that year than had participated in traditional pursuits such as flower arranging (ikebana) or tea ceremonies.[199]

    LiteratureMain articles: Japanese literature and Japanese poetry

    12th-century illustrated handscroll of The Tale of Genji, a National TreasureThe earliest works of Japanese literature include the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki chronicles and the Man'yoshu poetry anthology, all from the 8th century and writtenin Chinese characters.[200][201] In the early Heian period, the system of phonograms known as kana (Hiragana and Katakana) was developed. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest Japanese narrative.[202] An account of Heian court life is given in The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, while The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is often described as the world's first novel.[203][204]

    During the Edo period, the chonin ("townspeople") overtook the samurai aristocracy as producers and consumers of literature. The popularity of the works of Saikaku, for example, reveals this change in readership and authorship, while Bashorevivified the poetic tradition of the Kokinshu with his haikai (haiku) and wrote the poetic travelogue Oku no Hosomichi.[205] The Meiji era saw the decline oftraditional literary forms as Japanese literature integrated Western influences.Natsume Soseki and Mori Ogai were the first "modern" novelists of Japan, followed by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima and, more recently, Haruki Murakami. Japan has two Nobel Prize-winning authorsYasunari Kawabata (1968) and Kenzaburo Oe (1994).[202]

    Cuisine

    Breakfast at a ryokan or innMain article: Japanese cuisineJapanese cuisine is based on combining staple foods, typically Japanese rice ornoodles, with a soup and okazu dishes made from fish, vegetable, tofu and the like to add flavor to the staple food. In the early modern era ingredients such asred meats that had previously not been widely used in Japan were introduced. Japanese cuisine is known for its emphasis on seasonality of food,[206] quality ofingredients and presentation. Japanese cuisine offers a vast array of regionalspecialties that use traditional recipes and local ingredients. The Michelin Guide has awarded restaurants in Japan more Michelin stars than the rest of the wor

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    ld combined.[207]

    SportsMain article: Sport in Japan

    Sumo wrestlers form around the referee during the ring-entering ceremonyTraditionally, sumo is considered Japan's national sport.[208] Japanese martialarts such as judo, karate and kendo are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. After the Meiji Restoration, many Western sports were introduced in Japan and began to spread through the education system.[209] Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964. Japan has hosted the Winter Olympicstwice: Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.[210] Tokyo will host the 2020 SummerOlympics, making Tokyo the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice.[211] Japan is the most successful Asian Rugby Union country, winning the Asian Five Nations a record 6 times and winning the newly formed IRB Pacific Nations Cup in 2011. Japan will host the 2019 IRB Rugby World Cup.[212]

    Baseball is currently the most popular spectator sport in the country. Japan's top professional league, Nippon Professional Baseball, was established in 1936.[213] Since the establishment of the Japan Professional Football League in 1992, association football has also gained a wide following.[214] Japan was a venue ofthe Intercontinental Cup from 1981 to 2004 and co-hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cupwith South Korea.[215] Japan has one of the most successful football teams in Asia, winning the Asian Cup four times.[216] Also, Japan recently won the FIFA Wo

    men's World Cup in 2011.[217] Golf is also popular in Japan,[218] as are forms of auto racing like the Super GT series and Formula Nippon.[219] The country hasproduced one NBA player, Yuta Tabuse.[220]

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    98.5% Japanese0.5% Korean0.4% Chinese0.6% otherDemonym JapaneseGovernment Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy- Emperor Akihito- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe- Deputy Prime Minister Taro AsoLegislature National Diet- Upper house House of Councillors- Lower house House of RepresentativesFormation- National Foundation Day February 11, 660 BC[3]- Meiji Constitution November 29, 1890- Current constitution May 3, 1947- San FranciscoPeace Treaty April 28, 1952Area- Total 377,944 km2[4] (62nd)145,925 sq mi- Water (%) 0.8Population- 2012 estimate 126,659,683[5] (10th)

    - 2010 census 128,056,026[6]- Density 337.1/km2 (36th)873.1/sq miGDP (PPP) 2014 estimate- Total $4.835 trillion[7] (4th)- Per capita $38,053[7] (22nd)GDP (nominal) 2014 estimate- Total $4.846 trillion[7] (3rd)- Per capita $38,142[7] (25th)Gini (2008) 37.6[8]medium 76thHDI (2013) Decrease 0.890[9]very high 17th

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    Japan Listeni/d??'pan/ (Japanese: ?? Nippon or Nihon; formally ??? About this sound Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally "[the] State of Japan") is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Seaof Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea ofOkhotsk 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 often referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

    Japan is a stratovolcanic archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islandsare Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which together comprise about ninety

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    -seven percent of Japan's land area. Due to its location in the Pacific Ring ofFire, Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk in the developed world.[10] Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 126 million people. Honshu's Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures,is the largest 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 historytexts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. From the 12th century until1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns in the name of theEmperor. Japan entered into a long period of isolation in the early 17th century, which was only ended in 1853 when a United States fleet pressured Japan to open to the West. Nearly two decades of internal conflict and insurrection followedbefore the Meiji Emperor was restored as head of state in 1868 and the Empire of Japan was proclaimed, with the Emperor as a divine symbol of the nation. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victories in the First Sino-Japanese War,the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire duringa 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 theatomic 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.

    Japan is a member of the UN, the G7, the G8, the G20. A major economic great power,[2] Japan is a developed country and has the world's third-largest economy bynominal GDP and the world's fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity.It is also the world's fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the world's eighth largest military budget,[11] used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan ranks high in metrics of prosperity such as the Human Development Index, with Japanese women enjoying the highest life expectancy of any country in the world and the infant mortality rate being the third lowest globally.[12][13][14]

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    1 Etymology2 History2.1 Prehistory and ancient history2.2 Feudal era2.3 Modern era3 Government and politics4 Foreign relations and military5 Administrative divisions6 Geography6.1 Climate6.2 Biodiversity6.3 Environment7 Economy

    7.1 Economic history7.2 Exports7.3 Imports7.4 Science and technology7.5 Infrastructure8 Demographics8.1 Religion8.2 Languages8.3 Education8.4 Health

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    9 Culture9.1 Art9.2 Music9.3 Literature9.4 Cuisine9.5 Sports10 See also11 References12 Further reading13 External linksEtymologyMain article: Names of JapanThe English word Japan derives from the Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese name, ?? , which in Japanese is pronounced Nippon About this sound listen (helpinfo) or Nihon About this sound listen (helpinfo).

    From the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II, the full title of Japan was Dai Nippon Teikoku (??????), meaning "the Empire of Great Japan". Today the name Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku (????) is used as a formal modern-day equivalent; countries like Japan whose long form does not contain a descriptive designation are generally given a name appended by the character koku (??), meaning "country", "nation" or "state".

    Japanese people refer to themselves as Nihonjin (????) and to their language as

    Nihongo (????). Both Nippon and Nihon mean "sun-origin" and are often translatedas Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Japanese missions to Imperial China and refers to Japan's eastward position relative to China. Before Nihon came into official use, Japan was known as Wa (??) or Wakoku (???).[15]

    The English word for Japan came to the West via early trade routes. The Old Mandarin or possibly early Wu Chinese (??) pronunci