Key facts
Capital: Tokyo
Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
Government: Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Currency: Yen (JPY)
Area: 377,915 sq km
Population: 124,687,293 (July 2021 est.)
Languages: Japanese
Religion: Shintoism 69%, Buddhism 66.7%, Christianity 1.5%, other 6.2% (2018 est.)
TimeZone: UTC+9
Tel Code: +81
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