Japanese archipelago
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The Japanese archipelago is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that constitute the sovereign state of Japan. It spans over 3,000 km from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East China and Philipp
The Ryukyu Islands, which stretch towards Taiwan, are administered by Kagoshima Prefecture and Okinawa Prefecture.
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Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, an
Japanese archipelago
…Japanese: 日本列島, Hepburn: Nippon/Nihon Rettō; Japanese pronunciation: ) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that constitute the sovereign state of Japan. It spans over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East China and Philippine seas in the southwest along the Pacific…
Legendary Emperor Jimmu (神武天皇, Jinmu-tennō)
Japanese samurai boarding a Mongol vessel during the Mongol invasions of Japan, depicted in the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, 1293
Three unifiers of Japan. Left to right: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Emperor Meiji (明治天皇, Meiji-tennō); 1852–1912