Japan is located in East Asia, and its territory consists of four big islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, and more than 6,800 small islands, with a total area of 378,000 square kilometers. The main ethnic group is the Japanese-speaking Yamato ethnic group, with a total population of about 1.26 billion. The three major metropolitan areas in Japan are Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Osaka Metropolitan Area and Nagoya Metropolitan Area.

Japan is an island country on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It is separated from China, North Korea and South Korea by the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Korean Strait and the Sea of Japan. It belongs to temperate maritime monsoon climate, which is mild and humid all year round. It is rainy in June and typhoons in summer and autumn.

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Relevant situation in Japan:

1. Japan is bounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east and south, the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea in the west, the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, and faces North Korea, South Korea, China, the Russian Federation and the Philippines across the sea.

2. Mountains are distributed in the center of Japan in the form of ridges, which divide Japan's territory into one side of the Pacific Ocean and one side of the Sea of Japan. Mountains and hills account for 765,438+0% of the total area, and most of them are volcanoes.

3. The Japanese archipelago is located at the junction of the Asia-Europe plate and the Pacific plate, that is, the volcanic seismic belt around the Pacific Ocean. Volcanic and seismic activities are frequent, and the more harmful earthquakes will occur 1 time on average within three years.

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