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Japan is an island nation in East Asia Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan,China,North Korea,South Korea,and Russia. stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan’s name mean “sun-origin”, which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the “Land of the Rising Sun”.Japan is an archipelego of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu,Hokkaido,Kyushu,and shikoku together comprising about ninety-seven percent of Japan’s land area. Japan has the world’s ten-largest population,with over 127 million people. Honsh?’s Greater Tokyo Area,which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures,is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.

Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War,the Russo-Japanese War and allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The second Sino-Japanese war of 1937 expanded into part of in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an and an elected legislature called the

A major economic power,Japan has the world’s third-largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world’s fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military force used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. After Singapore, Japan has the lowest homicide rate(including attempted homicide) in the world. According to both UN and WHO estimates, Japan has the second highest life expectancy of any country in the world. According to the United Nations, Japan also has the third lowest infant mortality rate.

Education System

In Japan, education is compulsory at the elementary and lower secondary levels. Most students attend public schools through the lower secondary level, but private education is popular at the upper secondary and university levels. Japan’s education system played a central part in Japan’s recovery and rapid economic growth in the decades following the end of World War II.

After World War II, the Fundamental Law of Education and the School Education Law were enacted in 1947 under the direction of the occupation forces. The latter law defined the school system that is still in effect today: six years of elementary school, three years of junior high school, three years of high school, two or four years of university.Education prior to elementary school is provided at kindergartens and day-care centers. Public and private day-care centers take children from under age one on up to five years old. The programmes for those children.