Japan

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This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of Japan. Japan is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. 1 contested area is marked with hatching: Pinnacle Is. (marked at minimum size, not to scale). 97 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 120.1°E to 156.8°E and 22.3°N to 47.4°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.Pinnacle Is. — status contested; see the list below.

Japan is filled. The 6 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

The hatched area is contested, and Aletheia takes no position on it. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. One of them is smaller than this map can draw and is marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is its position, not its size or shape.

97 parts of Japan in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 34.9°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 120.1°E–156.8°E, 22.3°N–47.4°N.

Disputed areas involving Japan

One area whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on it. It is described in the source’s own words.

Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.

  1. News sources

    4 sources from Japanin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • Asahi Shimbun
    • NHK (news)
    • The Japan Times
    • Japan Today

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for Japan: JMA (Japan).

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    National Diet ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    One time zone.

    The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Tokyo

    22°C / 71°FLight rainwind 8 km/h / 5 mph

    Checked 12 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Tokyo, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:27 AM · sunset 5:41 PM12h 14m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    JPNuncited
    Driving side
    leftcited
    Mains voltage
    100 Vuncited
    Capital
    Tokyo — de factouncited
    Official language
    Japaneseuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of Japan: the UN's 2025 estimate is 123,366,734 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 1.2 fewer a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    123,366,734 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    123,975,371 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 1.2 fewer a minute (-609,041 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    123,366,7342025
    GDP
    4,435,162,999,9772025
    GDP per capita
    35,9512025
    Life expectancy at birth
    84.0 years2024
    Exports
    22.0%2024
    Imports
    22.9%2024

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English, Galician and Welsh.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    27 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area · inscribed 1993
    2. Himeji Castle · inscribed 1993
    3. Yakushima · inscribed 1993
    4. Shirakami-Sanchi · inscribed 1993
    5. Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto · inscribed 1994
    6. Historic Villages of Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama · inscribed 1995
    7. Hiroshima Peace Memorial · inscribed 1996
    8. Itsukushima Shrine · inscribed 1996
    9. Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara · inscribed 1998
    10. Shrines and Temples of Nikkō · inscribed 1999
    11. Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu · inscribed 2000
    12. Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range · inscribed 2004
    13. Shiretoko · inscribed 2005
    14. Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine · inscribed 2007
    15. Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land · inscribed 2011
    16. Ogasawara Archipelago · inscribed 2011
    17. Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration · inscribed 2013
    18. The Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Industrial Heritage · inscribed 2014
    19. Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining · inscribed 2015
    20. The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier · inscribed 2016 · shared with Argentina, Belgium and 4 more countries
    21. Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region · inscribed 2017
    22. Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region · inscribed 2018
    23. Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan · inscribed 2019
    24. Amami-Ōshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island · inscribed 2021
    25. Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan · inscribed 2021
    26. Sado Island Gold Mines · inscribed 2024
    27. Ancient Capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara · inscribed 2026

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 110listed as: police
    • 118listed as: Japan Coast Guard
    • 119listed as: fire department

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    JPY

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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