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Japan is located in the Eastern Asia, between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan.
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population: about 127.3 million, the tenth most populated country in the world. The Tokyo/Yokohama region has the higest population of any urban area in the world: 34.3 million people, and 11,300 people per square mile.
health: The average Japanese citizen lives 82 years—the third highest life expectancy in the world.
size: 145,884 square miles of mountain islands. 95% of Japan's land area is concentrated in 4 main islands: Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, and Shikoku, but there are more than 3,000 Japanese islands.
economy: the third largest economy in the world.
culture: about 98.5% percent of the people are ethnically Japanese. 84% are both Shinto and Buddhist; less than 1% of Japanese are Christians.
last updated 5/30/08 sources
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