A string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean.
A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building.
An East Asian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.