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Japan is an archipelagic country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along the Pacific coast of East Asia. [8] It consists of 14,125 islands. [9] [10] The four main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The other 14,120 islands are classified as "remote islands" by the Japanese government.
Around 23 million years ago, western Japan was a coastal region of the Eurasia continent. The subducting plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled parts of Japan which become modern Chūgoku region and Kyushu eastward, opening the Sea of Japan (simultaneously with the Sea of Okhotsk) around 15–20 million years ago, with likely freshwater lake state before the sea has rushed in. [4 ...
Okinawa Island (Japanese: 沖縄島, Hepburn: Okinawa-jima, Okinawan: 沖縄 / うちなー, romanized: Uchinā, [4] Kunigami: ふちなー, romanized: Fuchináa), officially Okinawa Main Island (沖縄本島, Okinawa-hontō), [5] is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region.
Japan is an island nation in East Asia comprising a large stratovolcanic archipelago extending along the Pacific coast of Asia. The country is north-northeast of China and Taiwan (separated by the East China Sea) and slightly east of Korea (separated by the Sea of Japan). Its primary islands are Hokkaidō, Honshū (the "mainland"), Shikoku and ...
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 ...
Tokyo Bay (東京湾, Tōkyō-wan) is a bay located in the southern Kantō region of Japan spanning the coasts of Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Chiba Prefecture.Tokyo Bay is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Uraga Channel.
The Sea of Japan can be divided into sub-basins; the Japan Basin, Yamato Basin and Tsushima Basin. Seafloor spreading in the Sea of Japan was restricted to the Japan Basin and ceased by the middle Miocene. [4] Following the end of seafloor spreading, its eastern margin experienced weak compression between 10 and 3.5 million years ago.
The Izu peninsula (伊豆半島, Izu-hantō) is a mountainous peninsula with a deeply indented coastline to the west of Tokyo on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, Japan. Formerly known as Izu Province, Izu peninsula is now a part of Shizuoka Prefecture.