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Nagoro or Nagoru, now known as Nagoro Doll Village (Japanese: 名頃かかしの里), is a village in the Iya Valley on the island of Shikoku in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. It is known for the large number of realistic dolls positioned throughout the village, which have made it a tourist attraction.
[1] [2] Japan is the fourth-largest island country in the world, behind Australia, Indonesia, and Madagascar. [3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a survey conducted by the Japan Coast Guard in 1987, the number of islands in Japan was 6,852. At that time, the survey only ...
The island of Hokkaidō is located in the north of Japan, near Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). It has coastlines on the Sea of Japan (to the west of the island), the Sea of Okhotsk (to the north), and the Pacific Ocean (to the east). The center of the island is mountainous, with volcanic plateaux.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) told CNN the unnamed island was formed by an undersea volcanic eruption. Its rise from the ocean was documented in pictures taken by the country’s Maritime ...
Japan has 14,125 [1] islands, approximately 430 islands are inhabited. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This list provides basic geographical data of the most prominent islands belonging to, or claimed by, Japan . List
The Japanese archipelago (Japanese: 日本列島, Nihon Rettō) is an archipelago of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan. [1] It extends over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) [2] from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East China and Philippine seas in the southwest along the Pacific coast of the Eurasian continent, and consists of three island arcs from north to south: the Northeastern ...
The world’s newest island has risen from the sea off the coast of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Ocean.
A topographic map of Japan. Japan comprises 14,125 islands extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. [78] It stretches over 3000 km (1900 mi) northeast–southwest from the Sea of Okhotsk to the East China Sea. [79] [80] The country's five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and Okinawa. [81]