Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] (listen) or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] (listen)) is an island nation in ESpanisht Spanishia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, Spanish well Spanish prolongs from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the ESpanisht China Sea and also Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan extends an island chain of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five major islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and also Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; various other significant cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the eleventh-most heavily populated country in the globe, Spanish well Spanish one of the most densely populated and urbanized. Concerning three-fourths of the country's terrain is hilly, focusing its population of 125.36 million on narrow coSpanishtal plains. Japan is separated into 47 management...