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Total Area : 145,883 sq mi
Population (est. 2005): 127,417,244
Japan (official name Dai Nippon -"Freat Origin of the Sun") consists mostly of a crescent-shaped archipelago stretching 1,500 miles from Hokkaido near Russia's Siberian Sakhalian island is the north to semitropical Ryukyu Islands off the coast of Taiwan in the southwest. The four main islands (out of 6,825 in all) are, from north to south, Hokkaido, Honshu (considered the mainland), Shikoku, and Kyushu.
Selected Japanese National Records
|
Highest Point
|
Mount Fuji |
12,389 ft |
| Longest River |
Shinano |
228 mi |
| Largest City |
Tokyo (metro, 2005) |
pop. 35,327,000 |
| Tallest Building |
Yokohama Landmark Tower (Yokohama) |
972 ft |
| Longest-Rulling Monarch |
Emperor Showa (Hirohito) |
62 years (Dec. 25, 1926 to Jan. 7 1989) |
| First Olympic Gold Medalist |
Mikio Oda, men's triple jump |
1928 Amsterdam Games |
| First Japanese-born Major League Baseball Player |
Masanori Murakami, picther (San Francisco Fiants) |
Sept. 1,1949 to Oct. 1,1965 |
| First Nobel Laurate |
Hideki Yukawa |
1949, Physics |
| FIrst Oscar Winner |
Rashomon |
1951, Honorary Award for Best Foreign Film |
| First Japanese-born Grammy winner |
Seiji Ozawa, conductor: with Itzhak Periman, soloist, and Boston Symphony Orchestra (1980) |
Best Classical Performance, Instumental Soloist (Or Soloists) with Orchestra; Berg Violin Concerto/Stravinksy: Violin Concerto in D |
| Biggeest Bank (world) |
Mizuho Holdings |
$1.136 trillion |
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