Japan is an island in the East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean and it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.
The characters that make up Japans name means ‘sun-origin’, which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the ‘Land Of The Rising Sun’. Japan has the tenth largest population in the world with over 127 million people.
About 99% of Japan speaks Japanese as their first language. There are two forms of language in Japan: Standard Japanese and common Japanese, which is the colloquial language.
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