JAPAN
Japan is an archipelago nation in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of the Asian mainland, consisting of four main islands, Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, and roughly 6,800 smaller islands. It sits along the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it one of the world’s most seismically active countries, and has maintained one of the most distinctly developed cultures in the world, having spent significant periods of its history in deliberate isolation from foreign influence.
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