FACTS

Japan is an archipielago with arround 3,900 islands situated in Asia, near Korea, China and Russia, its composed by 4 biggest islands which are: Hokkaido, Shikoku, Honshu, and Kyushyu. The sea of Japan separetes the Asian continent from the archipielago. Compared with Bolivia, Japan has 1/3 of the Bolivian territory, this total area is about 377,815 square kilometers, but streches in a narrow arc of 3,800 kilometers long. More than 50% of the area of Japan is mountainous and covered by forest, the tallest mountain of Japan is mount Fuji with 3,776 meters which is a volcano, classified as one of 77 actives volcanoes in the country. Japan is politically structured in 8 regions (Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushyu) and 47 prefectures (Hokkaido, Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi, Niigata, Fukushima, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba, Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Nagano, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Toyama, Gifu, Aichi, Ishikawa, Fukui, Shiga, Mie, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Wakayama, Hyogo, Tottori, Okayama, Kagawa, Tokushima, Ehime, Kochi, Shimane, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Nagasaki, Saga, Fukuoka, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa.) 

POPULATION

The population of Japan is about 125,000.000 Almost the whole population is Japanese, more than half of the non Japanese population is Korean. 

CLIMATE

Due to the large North South extension of the country, the climate varies strongly in different regions. The climate in most of the major cities, including Tokyo, is temperate to subtropic and consists of four marked seasons. The winter is mild and the summer is hot and humid. There is a rainy season in early summer, and typhoons hit parts of the country every year during late summer. The climate of the northern island of Hokkaido is colder, and snow storms occur frequently during winter. In Okinawa, on the other hand, the mean temperature of January is a warm 16 degrees Celsius.

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