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.
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The head of the spear shattered, becoming the Japanese islands.
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Early this month, the Chinese navy sailed 11 warships through international waters between two Japanese islands.
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The people on these small, subtropical Japanese islands live longer than those almost anywhere else in the world.
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The cost of living in Honshu is notorious but it is worse on the northern Japanese islands like Hokkaido.
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Friday's drill played out a scenario in which North Korea had fired a ballistic missile on the Japanese islands.
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New Zealand, like the Philippines, Java and the Japanese Islands, is situated over a great earth-fissure or line of weakness.
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If it hits, it could cause destruction on the Japanese islands, but also play havoc with the fixtures this weekend.
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But it points to the immigration of western Asiatics by way of Corea into the Japanese islands of Izumo and Kyushu.
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But recent incursions by China sweeping from Japanese islands through to India's mountainous Himalayan highlands has produced a shift in this attitude.
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The chain of the Kuriles contains at least ten active volcanoes; the Japanese Islands and the islands to the south of Japan twenty-five.
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Okinawa, often called 'the land of immortals', has been a global centre for longevity research, as these southern Japanese islands have more than 400 centenarians.
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An allied species inhabits the Hudson's Bay territory, known as the American sable, and another, belonging to the Japanese islands, is called the Japan sable.