Japan

Japan är beläget i Stilla havet, öster om Japanska havet, Kina, Nordkorea, Sydkorea och Ryssland och sträcker sig från Ochotska havet i norr till Östkinesiska havet och Taiwan i söder. De tecken som utgör Japans namn betyder "solens ursprung", varför Japan ibland kallas "Soluppgångens land".

Japan är en östat bestående av 6 852 öar. De fyra största öarna är Honshu, Hokkaidō, Kyushu och Shikoku, som tillsammans står för 97% av Japans yta. Japan har världens elfte största befolkning med över 127 miljoner invånare. Stortokyo är det största storstadsområdet i världen med över 35,7 miljoner invånare.

Japan har den näst lägsta mordfrekvensen (inklusive mordförsök) i världen. Enligt både FN och WHO:s uppskattningar har Japan den längsta livslängden av alla länder i världen.

Städer i Japan

Abashiri, Abiko, Ageoshimo, Aioi, Akashi, Aki, Akita, Akitashi, Akune, Amagasaki, Amagi, Ami, Anan, Anjō, Annaka, Aomorishi, Arai, Asahi, Asahikawa, Asaka, Ashibetsu, Ashikaga, Ashiya, Aso, Atami, Atsugi, Ayabe, Beppu, Bibai, Bihoro, Bungo-Takada-shi, Buzen, Chatan, Chiba, Chichibu, Chigasaki, Chikushino-shi, Chino, Chiryū, Chitose, Chōfugaoka, Daigo, Daitōchō, Date, Dazaifu, Ebetsu, Edosaki, Enzan, Fuchūchō, Fuji, Fujieda, Fujikawaguchiko, Fujinomiya, Fujioka, Fujioka, Fujisawa, Fujishiro, Fukagawa, Fukayachō, Fukiage-fujimi, Fukuchiyama, Fukuechō, Fukui-shi, Fukumitsu, Fukuoka, Fukura, Fukuroi, Fukushima, Fukuyama, Funaishikawa, Funehikimachi-funehiki, Furukawa, Fussa, Futtsu, Gamagōri, Gero, Gifu-shi, Ginowan, Gobō, Gōdo, Gojō, Gose, Gosen, Goshogawara, Gotenba, Gōtsuchō, Gujō, Gushikawa, Gyōda, Hachinohe, Hachiōji, Hadano, Hagi, Haibara-akanedai, Hakodate, Hakui, Hamada, Hamakita, Hamamatsu, Hamanoichi, Hanamaki, Hanawa, Handa, Hannō, Hanyū, Hasaki, Hashimoto, Hasuda, Hatogaya-honchō, Hatsukaichi, Hayama, Hekinan, Higashimurayama-shi, Higashine, Hiji, Hikari, Hikone, Himeji, Himimachi, Hino, Hino, Hirado, Hirakata, Hirara, Hiratachō, Hiratsuka, Hirosaki, Hiroshima, Hisai-motomachi, Hita, Hitachi, Hitachi-Naka, Hitoyoshi, Hobaramachi, Hōfu, Hōjō, Honchō, Hondo, Honjō, Hotaka, Ibara, Ibaraki, Ibusuki, Ichihara, Ichinohe, Ichinomiya, Ichinoseki, Iida, Iiyama, Iizuka, Ijūin, Ikeda, Ikedachō, Ikoma, Imaichi, Imarichō-kō, Ina, Inashiki, Inawashiro, Inazawa, Innoshima, Ino, Inuyama, Isahaya, Isawa, Ise, Isehara, Isesaki, Ishigaki, Ishige, Ishii, Ishikari, Ishikawa, Ishikawa, Ishiki, Ishinomaki, Ishioka, Itako, Itami, Itō, Itoigawa, Itoman, Itsukaichi, Iwade, Iwai, Iwaki, Iwakuni, Iwakura, Iwamizawa, Iwanai, Iwanuma, Iwase, Iwata, Iwatsuki, Iyo, Izumi, Izumi, Izumiōtsu, Izumo, Jōetsu, Kadoma, Kagoshima, Kainan, Kaizuka, Kajiki, Kakamigahara, Kakegawa, Kakogawachō-honmachi, Kakuda, Kamaishi, Kamakura, Kameda-honchō, Kameoka, Kameyama, Kamifukuoka, Kamigyō-ku, Kamiichi, Kamiiso, Kamimaruko, Kaminokawa, Kaminoyama, Kamirenjaku, Kamo, Kamogatachō-kamogata, Kamogawa, Kamojimachō-jōgejima, Kan’onjichō, Kanaya, Kanazawa, Kanda, Kanekomachi, Kanie, Kannabechō-yahiro, Kanoya, Kanuma, Kanzakimachi-kanzaki, Karasuyama, Karatsu, Kariya, Kariya, Kasama, Kasamatsuchō, Kasaoka, Kaseda-shirakame, Kashihara, Kashihara-shi, Kashima, Kashima-shi, Kashiwa, Kashiwazaki, Kasugai, Kasukabe, Katori-shi, Katsuren-haebaru, Katsuta, Katsuura, Katsuyama, Kawage, Kawagoe, Kawaguchi, Kawanishi, Kawanoechō, Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Kazo, Kikuchi, Kimitsu, Kiryū, Kisai, Kisarazu, Kishiwada, Kitahama, Kitahiroshima, Kitaibaraki, Kitakami, Kitakata, Kitakyushu, Kitami, Kitsuki, Kobayashi, Kobe, Kochi, Kodamachō-kodamaminami, Kōfu, Koga, Koga, Kogota, Kokubu-matsuki, Kokubunji, Komaki, Komatsu, Komatsushimachō, Komono, Komoro, Kōnan, Kōnosu, Kōriyama, Kosai-shi, Koshigaya, Kozakai-chō, Kudamatsu, Kukichūō, Kumagaya, Kumamoto, Kurashiki, Kurayoshi, Kure, Kurihashi, Kuroda, Kuroishi, Kuroiso, Kurume, Kusatsu, Kushikino, Kushima, Kushiro, Kyoto, Machida, Maebaru-chūō, Maebashi, Maizuru, Makabe, Maki, Makubetsu, Makurazaki, Marugame, Marumori, Maruoka, Masaki-chō, Mashiko, Masuda, Matsubara, Matsubase, Matsudo, Matsue, Matsumoto, Matsushima, Matsutō, Matsuyama, Menuma, Mibu, Mihara, Miharu, Miki, Mikuni, Minakuchichō-matoba, Minamata, Minamirinkan, Minato, Mino, Mino, Minokamo, Misawa, Mishima, Mitaka-shi, Mitake, Mito, Mitsukaidō, Mitsuke, Miura, Miyako, Miyakonojō, Miyata, Miyazaki, Miyazu, Miyoshi, Mizunami, Mizusawa, Mobara, Mombetsu, Mooka, Mori, Moriguchi, Morioka, Moriya, Moriyama, Morohongō, Motegi, Motomiya, Muikamachi, Mukō, Murakami, Muramatsu, Muroran, Muroto-misakicho, Musashino, Mutsu, Nabari, Nagahama, Nagai, Nagano, Nagaoka, Nagareyama, Nagasaki, Nagato, Nago, Nagoya, Naha, Naka, Nakama, Nakamura, Nakano, Nakanojōmachi, Nakatsu, Nakatsugawa, Namerikawa, Namie, Namioka, Nanae, Nanao, Nanto-shi, Nara-shi, Narita, Narutō, Narutochō-mitsuishi, Nayoro, Naze, Nemuro, Neyagawa, Nichinan, Nihommatsu, Niigata, Niihama, Niimi, Niitsu-honchō, Nikkō, Ninomiya, Nirasaki, Nishi-Tokyo-shi, Nishifukuma, Nishinomiya-hama, Nishinoomote, Nishio, Nishishinminato, Nishiwaki, Nobeoka, Noda, Nōgata, Nonoichi, Noshiro, Numata, Numazu, Nyūzen, Ōami, Ōarai, Obama, Obanazawa, Obihiro, Obita, Ōbu, Ōdachō-ōda, Ōdate, Odawara, Ōfunato, Ōgaki, Ogawa, Ogōri-shimogō, Ōhara, Ōi, Ōiso, Ōita, Ojiya, Ōkawa, Ōkawara, Okaya, Okayama, Okazaki, Okegawa, Okinawa, Ōkuchi-shinohara, Okunoya, Ōmachi, Ōmagari, Ōmamachō-ōmama, Ōme, Omigawa, Ōmihachiman, Ōmiya, Ōmura, Ōmuta, Ono, Ono, Ōno-hara, Onoda, Ōnojō, Onomichi, Osaka, Ōta, Ōtake, Otaru, Ōtawara, Otofuke, Ōtsu, Ōtsuchi, Ōtsuki, Owase, Oyama, Ōyama, Ōzu, Ōzu, Rifu, Rumoi, Ryōtsu-minato, Ryūgasaki, Ryūō, Sabae, Saga, Sagae, Sagara, Saijō, Saiki, Saitama, Sakado, Sakai, Sakai, Sakai-nakajima, Sakaidechō, Sakaiminato, Sakata, Saku, Sakura, Sakurai, Sandachō, Sanjō, Sano, Sapporo, Sasaguri, Sasayama, Sasebo, Satsumasendai, Satte, Sawara, Sayama, Sendai, Sendai, Setakamachi-takayanagi, Seto, Shibata, Shibetsu, Shibukawa, Shibushi, Shido, Shiki, Shimabara, Shimada, Shimo-furano, Shimoda, Shimodate, Shimokizukuri, Shimonoseki, Shimotoda, Shin’ichi, Shingū, Shingū, Shinjō, Shinshiro, Shiogama, Shiojiri, Shiozawa, Shirahamachō-usazakiminami, Shiraoi, Shiraoka, Shiroi, Shiroishi, Shirone, Shisui, Shizukuishi, Shizunai-furukawachō, Shizuoka, Shōbara, Shōbu, Sobue, Sōja, Sōka, Sueyoshichō-ninokata, Sugito, Suibara, Suita, Sukagawa, Sukumo, Sumoto, Sunagawa, Susaki, Suwa, Suzaka, Suzuka, Tadotsu, Tagawa, Tahara, Tajimi, Takahagi, Takahama, Takahashi, Takahata, Takaishi, Takamatsu, Takanabe, Takanosu, Takaoka, Takarazuka, Takasaki, Takatsuki, Takayama, Takedamachi, Takefu, Takehara, Takeochō-takeo, Taketoyo, Takikawa, Tamamura, Tamana, Tamano, Tanabe, Tanabe, Tanashichō, Tanuma, Tanushimarumachi-toyoki, Tarui, Tarumizu, Tatebayashi, Tateyama, Tatsuno, Tatsunochō-tominaga, Tawaramoto, Tendō, Tennō, Tenri, Toba, Tōbetsu, Tochigi, Tochio-honchō, Tōgane, Togitsu, Tōkamachi, Toki, Tokoname, Tokorozawa, Tokushima, Tokuyama, Tokyo, Tomakomai, Tomigusuku, Tomioka, Tomiya, Tomobe, Tondabayashichō, Tōno, Tonoshō, Toride, Tosu, Tottori, Toyama, Toyohama, Toyohashi, Toyokawa, Toyonaka, Toyooka, Toyoshina, Toyota, Tsu, Tsubame, Tsubata, Tsukawaki, Tsukuba, Tsukumiura, Tsuma, Tsuruga, Tsurugi-asahimachi, Tsuruoka, Tsurusaki, Tsushima, Tsuyama, Ube, Ueda, Ueki, Ueno-ebisumachi, Uenohara, Uji, Ujiie, Umi, Uozu, Urayasu, Ureshinomachi-shimojuku, Ushibuka, Ushiku, Usuki, Uto, Utsunomiya, Uwajima, Wakayama, Wakimachi, Wakkanai, Wako, Wakuya, Watari, Yachimata, Yaita, Yaizu, Yamada, Yamaga, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamazakichō-nakabirose, Yamoto, Yanagawa, Yanagawamachi-saiwaichō, Yanai, Yao, Yashio-shi, Yashiro, Yasugichō, Yatsuomachi-higashikumisaka, Yatsushiro, Yawata, Yoichi, Yōkaichiba, Yokkaichi, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Yokotemachi, Yonago, Yonezawa, Yono, Yorii, Yoshida-kasugachō, Yoshii, Yoshikawa, Yotsukaidō, Youkaichi, Yugawara, Yūki, Yukuhashi, Yuza, Yuzawa, Zama, Zushi