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Japan

Japan, known as Nihon or Nippon in Japanese, is an island nation in . Its insular character has allowed it to develop a unique and very intricate culture, while its closeness to other ancient East Asian cultures, in particular , has left lasting influence.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tokyo and Osaka.

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is the enormous and wealthy capital of Japan, and its main city, overflowing with culture, commerce, and most of all, people. As the most populated urban area in the world, is a fascinating and dynamic metropolis that mixes foreign influences, consumer culture and global business along with remnants of the capital of old Japan.

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Ōsaka is the beating heart of Japan's region and the largest of the Osaka-- trio of cities, with a population of over 17 million people in the greater metropolitan area.

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Kyōto was the capital of Japan for over a millennium, and carries a reputation as the nation's most beautiful city and its cultural capital - even the national government's Agency for Cultural Affairs moved there in 2023.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Kanto and Chubu.

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The Kantō region of Japan, on the eastern side of the main island , is a broad plain dominated by and nearly synonymous with the megalopolis of and its suburbs.

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Chūbu is the central region of Japan's island, located at the border between West Japan and East Japan. There are many high-altitude mountains, such as Mount Fuji and the Japanese Alps. The food culture is different for each region.

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is the western region of the main Japanese island of , second only to region of Eastern Japan in population. The area is also known as Kinki District, literally "near the capital", and its three big cities - Kyoto, , and - as Keihanshin.

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Kyūshū is the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan. The climate is slightly warmer and more tropical than Honshu, and the southern and eastern coasts are regularly battered by typhoons each year.

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is the northeastern region of Japan's island. In winter, the Snow Country of the western Japan Sea coast racks up some of the highest snowfall figures in the world, which also means great skiing and lots of hot springs to warm up in.

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Chūgoku is the westernmost part of the main Japanese island . Aside from , most of is probably well off the beaten track for a brief visit to Japan; but if time permits, you'll find a region full of memorable sights and experiences, and a side of Japan that's completely unlike the better-known destinations in and .

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is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands and at the same time a prefecture. With both size and population similar to , it is the most sparsely populated part of Japan.

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is an oft-forgotten island in Japan. The smallest of Japan's Big Four with around four million inhabitants, it lies to the south of . The island is thought of as a rural backwater, with few must-see attractions, but a visit there can wash away those doubts; the mountainous inner regions offer some good hiking.

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is a subtropical island chain between mainland Japan and . Formerly the Ryukyu Kingdom, with its own language and culture, it's now one of Japan's 47 prefectures and the country's answer to , with a complicated mix of gorgeous scenery, mass tourism, tragic history, cultural pride, and looming military presence.
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Japan

Latitude of center
36.75° or 36° 45′ north
Longitude of center
139.6° or 139° 36′ east
Population
127,000,000
Area
377,835 km² (145,883 miles²)
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Capital
Currency
Yen (JPY)
Phone code
.jp
Internet domain
81
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1861060
Wiki­data ID
Q17
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Japan” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Иапониа”
  • Achinese: “Jeupang”
  • Achinese: “Jeupun”
  • Adyghe: “Японие”
  • Afar: “Japan”
  • Afrikaans: “Japan”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Japan”
  • Akan: “Gyapan”
  • Albanian: “Japoni”
  • Albanian: “Japonia”
  • Amharic: “ጃፓን”
  • Amis: “Japan”
  • Amis: “Ripon”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἰαπωνία”
  • Angika: “जापान”
  • Arabic: “اليابان”
  • Arabic: “دولة اليابان”
  • Arabic: “يابان”
  • Aragonese: “Chapón”
  • Armenian: “Ճապոնիա”
  • Arpitan: “J·apon”
  • Arpitan: “Japon”
  • Assamese: “জাপান”
  • Asturian: “Xapón”
  • Atayal: “Gipun”
  • Atayal: “Japan”
  • Atikamekw: “Japan”
  • Avaric: “Япония”
  • Awadhi: “जापान”
  • Aymara: “Nihun”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaponiya”
  • Balinese: “Jepang”
  • Bambara: “Japan”
  • Bambara: “Zapɔn”
  • Banjar: “Japang”
  • Bashkir: “Япония”
  • Basque: “Japonia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Jepang”
  • Batak Toba: “Japang”
  • Bavarian: “Japan”
  • Bavarian: “Stoot Japan”
  • Belarusian: “Японія”
  • Bengali: “জাপান”
  • Bengali: “নিপ্পন”
  • Bengali: “সূর্য উদয়ের দেশ”
  • Betawi: “Jepang”
  • Bhojpuri: “उगते सूरज का देश”
  • Bhojpuri: “जपान”
  • Bhojpuri: “जापान”
  • Bhojpuri: “निप्पन”
  • Bishnupriya: “জাপান”
  • Bislama: “Japan”
  • Bosnian: “Japan”
  • Brahui: “Jápán”
  • Breton: “Japan”
  • Breton: “Japon”
  • Buginese: “Japang”
  • Buginese: “Jepang”
  • Buginese: “Jeppang”
  • Buginese: “Nihong”
  • Buginese: “Nippong”
  • Buginese: “ᨊᨗᨄᨚ”
  • Buginese: “ᨊᨗᨖᨚ”
  • Buginese: “ᨍᨄ”
  • Buginese: “ᨍᨛᨄ”
  • Bulgarian: “страната на изгряващото Слънце”
  • Bulgarian: “Япония”
  • Burmese: “ဂျပန်”
  • Burmese: “ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estat del Japó”
  • Catalan: “Japó”
  • Cebuano: “Hapon”
  • Central Bikol: “Hapon”
  • Central Kanuri: “Japan”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەوڵەتی ژاپۆن”
  • Central Kurdish: “ژاپۆن”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیپۆن”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیھۆن”
  • Central Kurdish: “یابان”
  • Central Okinawan: “やまとぅ”
  • Central Okinawan: “やまとぅくく”
  • Central Okinawan: “大和”
  • Central Okinawan: “大和国”
  • Chamorro: “Chapan”
  • Chavacano: “Japón”
  • Chechen: “Ипнойчоь”
  • Chechen: “Япон”
  • Chechen: “Япони”
  • Cherokee: “ᏣᏆᏂᏱ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏣᏩᏂᏏ”
  • Cheyenne: “Japan”
  • Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún”
  • Chinese: “Rìběn”
  • Chinese: “大日本帝国”
  • Chinese: “扶桑”
  • Chinese: “扶桑國”
  • Chinese: “日”
  • Chinese: “日本”
  • Chinese: “日本国”
  • Chinese: “日本國”
  • Choctaw: “Japan”
  • Church Slavic: “Ꙗпѡнїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Япони”
  • Cornish: “Japan”
  • Cornish: “Nihon”
  • Corsican: “Ghjappone”
  • Corsican: “Giappone”
  • Corsican: “Statu di u Ghjappone”
  • Corsican: “Statu di u Giappone”
  • Cree: “capān”
  • Cree: “ᔭᐊᐸᐊᐣ”
  • Creek: “Japan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Japon”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yaponiya”
  • Croatian: “Japan”
  • Croatian: “Nippon”
  • Croatian: “Zemlja Izlazećeg Sunca”
  • Czech: “Japonsko”
  • Czech: “Země vycházejícího slunce”
  • Dagbani: “Japan”
  • Danish: “Japan”
  • Dhivehi: “ޖަޕާނު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Japonya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Naponya”
  • Dinka: “Japan”
  • Dotyali: “जापान”
  • Dutch: “Japan”
  • Dutch: “Staat Japan”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇ་པཱན”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇཱ་པཱན།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Японий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليابان”
  • Erzya: “Япония Мастор”
  • Erzya: “Япония”
  • Esperanto: “Japanio”
  • Esperanto: “Japanujo”
  • Esperanto: “Nipono”
  • Estonian: “Jaapan”
  • Estonian: “Tõusva Päikese Maa”
  • Ewe: “Dzapan nutome”
  • Ewe: “Japan”
  • Extremaduran: “Japón”
  • Faroese: “Japan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Japan”
  • Fijian: “Japani”
  • Finnish: “Japani”
  • French: “État du Japon”
  • French: “Jap.”
  • French: “Japon”
  • French: “le Japon”
  • French: “pays du soleil levant”
  • Friulian: “Gjapon”
  • Fulah: “Japan”
  • Fulah: “Sapoo”
  • Gagauz: “Yaponiya”
  • Galician: “Estado do Xapón”
  • Galician: “O Xapón”
  • Galician: “Xapón”
  • Gan Chinese: “日本”
  • Ganda: “Japan”
  • Ganda: “Japani”
  • Georgian: “იაპონია”
  • German: “Japan”
  • German: “Land der aufgehenden Sonne”
  • German: “Nihon”
  • German: “Nippon”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Japan”
  • Gheg Albanian: “Japan”
  • Gilaki: “ژاپؤن”
  • Goan Konkani: “Japan”
  • Goan Konkani: “जपान”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಜಪಾನ್”
  • Gorontalo: “Japangi”
  • Gothic: “𐌾𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌽”
  • Greek: “Ιαπωνία”
  • Greek: “Χώρα του ανατέλλοντος ηλίου”
  • Guarani: “Hapõ”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Japon”
  • Gujarati: “જાપાન”
  • Gun: “Japan”
  • Haitian: “Japon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngi̍t-pún”
  • Hausa: “Japan”
  • Hawaiian: “Iāpana”
  • Hebrew: “יפאן”
  • Hebrew: “יפן”
  • Hindi: “उगते सूरज की भूमि”
  • Hindi: “उदयवर्ष”
  • Hindi: “जापान”
  • Hindi: “निप्पोन”
  • Hindi: “निहोन”
  • Hungarian: “Japán”
  • Iban: “Jipun”
  • Icelandic: “Japan”
  • Ido: “Japonia”
  • Igala: “Japan”
  • Igbo: “Japan”
  • Iloko: “Hapon”
  • Inari Sami: “Jaapaan”
  • Indonesian: “Jepang”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Jepang”
  • Indonesian: “Negeri Matahari Terbit”
  • Indonesian: “Tanah Matahari Terbit”
  • Ingush: “Японехье”
  • Ingush: “Япони”
  • Interlingua: “Japon”
  • Interlingue: “Japan”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓃᑉᐊᓐ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᔭᐹᓐ”
  • Inupiaq: “Japan”
  • Inupiaq: “Nippan”
  • Irish: “an tSeapáin”
  • Irish: “An tSeapáin”
  • Italian: “Giappone”
  • Italian: “Stato del Giappone”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Japan”
  • Japanese: “Nippon”
  • Japanese: “あきつしま”
  • Japanese: “おおやしま”
  • Japanese: “しきしま”
  • Japanese: “ジャパン”
  • Japanese: “しんしゅう”
  • Japanese: “にっぽん”
  • Japanese: “にっぽんこく”
  • Japanese: “にほん”
  • Japanese: “にほんこく”
  • Japanese: “ひいずるくに”
  • Japanese: “ふそう”
  • Japanese: “大八州”
  • Japanese: “扶木之地”
  • Japanese: “扶桑”
  • Japanese: “扶桑国”
  • Japanese: “敷島”
  • Japanese: “日出る国”
  • Japanese: “日本”
  • Japanese: “日本国”
  • Japanese: “榑木之地”
  • Japanese: “神州”
  • Japanese: “秋津島”
  • Javanese: “Jepang”
  • Kabardian: “Япон”
  • Kabiyè: “Japɔŋ”
  • Kabiyè: “Sapɔŋ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Japon”
  • Kabyle: “Japun”
  • Kabyle: “Yapan”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Jepun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Japani”
  • Kalmyk: “Ниxуудин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಉದಯಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ಸೂರ್ಯನ ನಾಡು, ನಿಪ್ಪಾನ್,”
  • Kannada: “ಜಪಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kúnshıǵıs eli”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nippon”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yaponiya Mámleketi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yaponiya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Күншығыс ели”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ниппон”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Япония Мәмлекети”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Япония”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Джапония”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Япония”
  • Kashmiri: “جاپان”
  • Kashmiri: “जापान”
  • Kashubian: “Japòńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Жапония”
  • Khmer: “ជប៉ុន”
  • Kikuyu: “Japan”
  • Kikuyu: “Njabani”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hapon”
  • Kinaray-A: “pongsod Haponanun”
  • Kinaray-A: “pongsod Haponis”
  • Kinaray-A: “pungsod Haponanën”
  • Kinaray-A: “pungsod Hapones”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubuyapani”
  • Kirghiz: “Жапония”
  • Kirghiz: “Япония”
  • Kölsch: “Japan”
  • Komering: “Jopang”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Ниппон”
  • Komi: “Япония”
  • Kongo: “Japan”
  • Korean: “일본”
  • Korean: “일본국”
  • Kotava: “Nipona”
  • Kuanyama: “Japan”
  • Kurdish: “Japon”
  • Kurdish: “Japonya”
  • Kurdish: “ژاپۆن”
  • Ladin: “Iapan”
  • Ladino: “Djapon”
  • Ladino: “Japon”
  • Lak: “Japan”
  • Lak: “Япония”
  • Lao: “ຍີ່ປຸ່ນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດຍີ່ປຸ່ນ”
  • Latgalian: “Japoneja”
  • Latin: “Iaponia”
  • Latvian: “Japāna”
  • Lezghian: “Япония”
  • Ligurian: “Giappon”
  • Limburgan: “Japan”
  • Lingala: “Zapɔ”
  • Lingala: “Zapɔ́”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Japan”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Nion”
  • Literary Chinese: “扶桑”
  • Literary Chinese: “扶桑國”
  • Literary Chinese: “日本”
  • Literary Chinese: “日本國”
  • Literary Chinese: “榑木之地”
  • Lithuanian: “Japonija”
  • Livvi: “Japounii”
  • Lojban: “pongu’e”
  • Lojban: “pongue”
  • Lombard: “Giapon”
  • Lombard: “Giapun”
  • Low German: “Japan”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Japańska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Japu”
  • Lule Sami: “Japádna”
  • Lule Sami: “Japánna”
  • Luxembourgish: “Japan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nihon”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nippon”
  • Luxembourgish: “日本”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Japonia”
  • Macedonian: “Јапонија”
  • Madurese: “Jeppang”
  • Maithili: “जापान”
  • Malagasy: “Japana”
  • Malagasy: “Japàna”
  • Malay: “Jepun”
  • Malay: “Negara Matahari Terbit”
  • Malay: “جڤون”
  • Malayalam: “ജപ്പാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Ġappun”
  • Maltese: “il-Ġappun”
  • Manchu: “ᡰᡳ ᠪᡝᠨ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯖꯄꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Hapaan”
  • Manx: “Shapaan”
  • Manx: “y Çhapaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Çhapaan”
  • Maori: “Hapani”
  • Maori: “Nipono”
  • Marathi: “जपान”
  • Marshallese: “Japan”
  • Mazanderani: “جاپون”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “اليابان”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “يابان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nĭk-buōng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “日本”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ji̍t-pún”
  • Minangkabau: “Japang”
  • Mingrelian: “Nihon”
  • Mingrelian: “Nippon”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჟაეშალუშ ქიანა”
  • Mingrelian: “იაპონია”
  • Mingrelian: “საკურაშ ქიანა”
  • Mirandese: “Japon”
  • Moksha: “Японмастор”
  • Mon: “ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Mongolian: “Япон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “الجاپون”
  • Mossi: “Japan”
  • N'Ko: “ߗ߭ߊߔߐ߲߫”
  • Narom: “Japon”
  • Nauru: “Djapan”
  • Navajo: “Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Navajo: “Binaʼadaałtzózí Dinéʼiʼ Bikéyah”
  • Ndonga: “Japan”
  • Neapolitan: “Giappone”
  • Nepali: “जापान”
  • Newari: “जापान”
  • Nias: “Jepang”
  • Nias: “Nifo”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Japan”
  • North Ndebele: “Japan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jaapan”
  • Northern Luri: “جاپون”
  • Northern Luri: “چاپن”
  • Northern Sami: “Jáhpan”
  • Northern Sami: “Jáhpán”
  • Northern Sami: “Japan”
  • Northern Sami: “Japána”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Japan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nihon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nippon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Japan”
  • Norwegian: “Japan”
  • Novial: “Japan”
  • Nyanja: “Japan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat del Japon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Japon”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܦܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iapan”
  • Oriya: “ଜାପାନ”
  • Oriya: “ଜାପାନ୍”
  • Oromo: “Jaappaan”
  • Oromo: “Japan”
  • Ossetian: “Япон”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဂျပန်ခမ်းထီ”
  • Paiwan: “Dripun”
  • Pali: “जापान”
  • Pampanga: “Hapon”
  • Pampanga: “Hapun”
  • Pampanga: “Japún”
  • Pangasinan: “Hapon”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਪਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Hapon”
  • Pedi: “Japane”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Japan”
  • Persian: “ژاپن”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Japan”
  • Picard: “Japon”
  • Piemontese: “Giapon”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Japan”
  • Polish: “Japonia”
  • Polish: “Kraj Kwitnącej Wiśni”
  • Polish: “Kraj Wschodzącego Słońca”
  • Polish: “Nihon”
  • Polish: “Nippon”
  • Pontic: “Ιαπωνία”
  • Portuguese: “Estado do Japão”
  • Portuguese: “Japão”
  • Portuguese: “Nihon-koku”
  • Portuguese: “Nihon”
  • Portuguese: “Nippon-koku”
  • Portuguese: “Nippon”
  • Portuguese: “Terra do Sol Nascente”
  • Pushto: “جاپان”
  • Quechua: “Hapun”
  • Quechua: “Japón”
  • Quechua: “Nihun”
  • Rakhine: “ဂျပန်ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်”
  • Romanian: “Japonia”
  • Romanian: “Țara crizantemei”
  • Romanian: “Țara Crizantemei”
  • Romanian: “Țara soarelui răsare”
  • Romanian: “Țara Soarelui Răsare”
  • Romanian: “Жапония”
  • Romansh: “Giapun”
  • Rundi: “Ubuyapani”
  • Rundi: “Yapon”
  • Russia Buriat: “Япон Улас”
  • Russian: “Ниппон”
  • Russian: “Страна восходящего солнца”
  • Russian: “Япония”
  • Rusyn: “Японія”
  • Sakizaya: “Zipun”
  • Samoan: “Iapani”
  • Samogitian: “Japuonėjė”
  • Sango: “Zapöo”
  • Sango: “Zapöon”
  • Sanskrit: “जपान्”
  • Sanskrit: “जापन:”
  • Sanskrit: “जापान”
  • Sanskrit: “सूर्यमूलम्”
  • Sanskrit: “सूर्योदयदेशः”
  • Santali: “ᱡᱟᱯᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “جاپان”
  • Sardinian: “Giapone”
  • Sardinian: “Giappone”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de su Giapone”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de su Giappone”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Japan”
  • Scots: “Japan”
  • Scots: “State o Japan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Iapan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Seapan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Iapan”
  • Serbian: “Japan”
  • Serbian: “Држава Јапан”
  • Serbian: “Земља излазећег Сунца”
  • Serbian: “ЈАП”
  • Serbian: “Јапан”
  • Serbian: “Нипон-коку”
  • Serbian: “Нипон”
  • Serbian: “Нихон-коку”
  • Serbian: “Нихон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Japan”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵျႃႇပၢၼ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Japan”
  • Shona: “Japani”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꏝꀪ”
  • Sicilian: “Giappuni”
  • Sicilian: “u Giappuni”
  • Silesian: “Japůńijo”
  • Sindhi: “جاپان”
  • Sinhala: “ජපානය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Japaan”
  • Slovak: “Japonsko”
  • Slovenian: “Dežela vzhajajočega sonca”
  • Slovenian: “Japonska”
  • Slovenian: “Nihon”
  • Slovenian: “Nipon”
  • Somali: “Jabaan”
  • Somali: “Jabbaan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژاپون”
  • South Ndebele: “Japan”
  • South Ndebele: “Japane”
  • Southern Altai: “Јопон”
  • Southern Altai: “Япония”
  • Southern Sotho: “Japane”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Japón”
  • Spanish: “Japón”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Japan”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵏⵉⴱⵓⵏ”
  • Sundanese: “Jepang”
  • Swahili: “Japani”
  • Swahili: “Ujapani”
  • Swati: “IJapani”
  • Swati: “IJaphani”
  • Swedish: “Japan”
  • Swedish: “Japanska imperiet”
  • Swedish: “Japanska kejsardömet”
  • Swedish: “Kejsardömet Japan”
  • Swedish: “Nihon”
  • Swedish: “Nippon”
  • Swedish: “Soluppgångens land”
  • Swedish: “Staten Japan”
  • Swiss German: “Japan”
  • Sylheti: “ꠎꠣꠙꠣꠘ”
  • Tagalog: “bansang unang sinisikatan ng araw”
  • Tagalog: “Estado ng Hapon”
  • Tagalog: “Hapon”
  • Tahitian: “Tāpōnē”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥓᥣᥱ ᥙᥣᥢᥱ”
  • Tajik: “Жопун”
  • Tajik: “Ҷопон”
  • Tajik: “Япония”
  • Talysh: “Japonijə”
  • Tamil: “சப்பான்”
  • Tamil: “யப்பான்”
  • Tamil: “ஜப்பான்”
  • Taroko: “Japan”
  • Taroko: “Tanah Tunux”
  • Tatar: “Yaponiä”
  • Tatar: “Япония”
  • Tatar: “Япун иле”
  • Tatar: “Япуниә”
  • Tatar: “Япуния”
  • Tatar: “Япунстан”
  • Telugu: “జపాన్”
  • Tetum: “Japaun”
  • Thai: “Japan”
  • Thai: “เจแปน”
  • Thai: “แจแพน”
  • Thai: “ญี่ปุ่น”
  • Thai: “นิปปง”
  • Thai: “นิปปอน”
  • Thai: “นิฮง”
  • Thai: “ประเทศญี่ปุ่น”
  • Tibetan: “ཉི་ཧོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཉི་ཧོང་”
  • Tibetan: “རི་པིན།”
  • Tigre: “ጃፓን”
  • Tigrinya: “Japan”
  • Tigrinya: “ጃፓን”
  • Tok Pisin: “Siapan”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Siapani”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Japan”
  • Tsonga: “Japan”
  • Tsonga: “Japani”
  • Tswana: “Japan”
  • Tulu: “ಜಪಾನ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Japan”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اليابان”
  • Turkish: “Doğan Güneşin Ülkesi”
  • Turkish: “Japonya Devleti”
  • Turkish: “Japonya”
  • Turkmen: “Ýaponiýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Япония”
  • Twi: “Japan”
  • Twi: “Yapan”
  • Tyap: “Ja̱pan”
  • Udmurt: “Япония”
  • Uighur: “ياپونىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Японія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Japanska”
  • Urdu: “جاپان”
  • Urdu: “نیہون”
  • Uzbek: “Yaponiya”
  • Uzbek: “Япония”
  • Venda: “Japan”
  • Venetian: “Giapòn”
  • Venetian: “Japon”
  • Veps: “Japonii”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhật Bản”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhật Bổn”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhật”
  • Vietnamese: “Nihon”
  • Vietnamese: “Nippon”
  • Vlaams: “Japan”
  • Vlaams: “Stoat Japan”
  • Vlax Romani: “Japan”
  • Volapük: “Yapän”
  • Võro: “Jaapan”
  • Wallisian: “Saponia”
  • Walloon: “Djapon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hapon”
  • Welsh: “Japan”
  • Welsh: “Siapan”
  • West Coast Bajau: “Gipun”
  • Western Armenian: “Ճափոն”
  • Western Balochi: “جاپان”
  • Western Frisian: “Japan”
  • Western Frisian: “Steat Japan”
  • Western Mari: “Япони”
  • Western Panjabi: “جاپان”
  • Western Panjabi: “جپان”
  • Wolof: “Sapoŋ”
  • Wolof: “Sàppoŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “日本”
  • Xhosa: “IJapani”
  • Yakut: “Дьоппуон”
  • Yiddish: “יאפאן”
  • Yiddish: “יאַפּאַן”
  • Yoruba: “Japan”
  • Yoruba: “Japani”
  • Yue Chinese: “扶桑”
  • Yue Chinese: “扶桑國”
  • Yue Chinese: “日本”
  • Yue Chinese: “日本國”
  • Yue Chinese: “東洋”
  • Yue Chinese: “東瀛”
  • Zeeuws: “Japan”
  • Zhuang: “Nditbonj”
  • Zhuang: “Nyiedbonj”
  • Zhuang: “Yizbwnj”
  • Zulu: “i-Japan”
  • Zulu: “IJapani”
  • Zulu: “IJaphani”
  • “Giapòṅ”
  • “Giappone”
  • “Hapon”
  • “Hapon Tlahtohkayotl”
  • “Hapon Tlalli”
  • “Ja”
  • “JA”
  • “Jaapan”
  • “Jap”
  • “JAP”
  • “Japonia”
  • “Japuonėjė”
  • “Jepang”
  • “jp”
  • “JP”
  • “JPN”
  • “ma Nijon”
  • “ma Nipon”
  • “Жапония”
  • “जापान”

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