Capital: TOKYO
Political System: Constitutional Monarchy
Economy: 2nd largest economic power in GDP
Population: 126,5 million, 10th most populous country in the world
Religions: Shinto, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity and others
Facts and curiosities:
Japan (this is the entire name of the country), “Nippon” or “Nihon” in Japanese, means “Land of the Rising Sun”, has more than three thousand islands, is one of the richest and most developed countries on the planet, land of technology and people super educated, but bad in English, was the target of two atomic bombs. The largest islands are Honshu (the largest and main), Hokkaido (to the north), Kyushu (to the south) and Shikoku (also to the south), and is divided into 8 regions and 47 prefectures (also called provinces). Situated east of Russia, Korea and China between the East China Sea and the Okhotsk Sea in the Pacific Ocean. Before developing two other writing systems (Hiragana and Katagana), he adopted Chinese ideograms, and currently merges the three writing systems, when he does not use Latinized writing, the “Romandi”.
The Portuguese arrived here in the 16th century, but did not establish a colony. With the restoration of the Meiji Era in the 19th century, imperial Japan underwent profound changes in politics and launched the country into the industrial era, with the end of the Shogunate of the Tokugawa clan in 1867, becoming a major power in Asia and beginning Japanese expansionism throughout Asia. Japan is what it is today, due to this history, the destruction of Japan in World War II only slowed the modernization process.
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