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Japan

The land of the rising sun

Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto.

Japan is the eleventh-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 125.36 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.4 million residents.


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Are you coming to Japan for vacation or for a longer stay? Congratulations! Everyone around you is probably jealous. It's okay, though. You can appease them by buying them cool things from Japan, which is a nice way of saying "Look, I went to this awesome country and you didn't, but I brought you back a souvenir to make you feel kind of like you went." Kind of.


Here is a list of the top five souvenirs from Japan:
  1. Candy & Snacks
  2. Matcha
  3. Yukata
  4. Chopsticks
  5. Ninja Goods



Created by Mari Kubota