Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.

Capital: Tokyo

Population: 12.45 crores (2023) World Bank

Government: Democracy, Unitary state, Parliamentary system, Constitutional monarchy

Prime minister: Shigeru Ishiba

Dialing code: +81

Currency: Japanese yen (¥)