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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 attracti
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.
[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 other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government. [9] [11] The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islands. The territory covers 377,973.89 km 2 (145,936.53 sq mi). [2] It is the fourth-largest island country in the world and the largest island country in East Asia. [12]
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 island is separated from Honshu by the Kanmon Straits. Being the nearest island to the Asian continent, [7] historically it is the gateway to Japan. [8] The total area is 36,782.37 km 2 (14,201.75 sq mi) which makes it the 37th largest island in the world. [1] It's slightly larger than Taiwan island 35,808 km 2 (13,826 sq mi). [5]
Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern coast, from Tokyo to Nagoya, Kyōto, Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima; [12] by contrast, the economy along the northwestern Sea of Japan coast is largely based on fishing and agriculture. [14] The island is linked to the other three major Japanese islands by a number of ...
The Shiretoko Peninsula (知床半島, Shiretoko-hantō) is located on the easternmost portion of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, protruding into the Sea of Okhotsk.It is separated from the Russian Kunashir Island by the Nemuro Strait.