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In the 13th century, Marco Polo recorded the early Mandarin or Wu Chinese pronunciation of the characters ж—Ґжњ¬ењ‹ as Cipangu. The name Japan is based on the Chinese pronunciation of ж—Ґжњ¬ and was introduced to European languages through early trade. The characters ж—Ґжњ¬ mean 'sun origin', which is the source of the popular Western epithet 'Land of the Rising Sun'. Nihon is typically used in everyday speech and reflects shifts in Japanese phonology during the Edo period. Nippon, the original Sino-Japanese reading of the characters, is favored for official uses, including on banknotes and postage stamps. Before ж—Ґжњ¬ was adopted in the early 8th century, the country was known in China as Wa ( еЂ) and in Japan by the endonym Yamato. The name for Japan in Japanese is written using the kanji ж—Ґжњ¬ and pronounced Nippon or Nihon. The culture of Japan is well known around the world, including its art, cuisine, music, and popular culture, which encompasses prominent comic, animation and video game industries. Ranked 'very high' on the Human Development Index, Japan has one of the world's highest life expectancies, though it is experiencing a decline in population. A global leader in the automotive and electronics industries, Japan has made significant contributions to science and technology.

As of 2021, the country's economy is the third-largest by nominal GDP and the fourth-largest by PPP. After World War II, Japan experienced record growth in an economic miracle, becoming the second-largest economy in the world by 1990. Although it has renounced its right to declare war, the country maintains Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world's strongest militaries. Japan is a great power and a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations (since 1956), the OECD, and the Group of Seven. Under the 1947 constitution, Japan has maintained a unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a bicameral legislature, the National Diet. After suffering defeat in the Pacific War and two atomic bombings, Japan surrendered in 1945 and came under a seven-year Allied occupation, during which it adopted a new constitution. In 1937, Japan invaded China in 1941, it entered World War II as an Axis power. In the Meiji period, the Empire of Japan adopted a Western-modeled constitution and pursued a program of industrialization and modernization.

In 1854, a United States fleet forced Japan to open trade to the West, which led to the end of the shogunate and the restoration of imperial power in 1868. After a century-long period of civil war, the country was reunified in 1603 under the Tokugawa shogunate, which enacted an isolationist foreign policy.

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Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators ( shЕЌgun) and feudal lords ( daimyЕЌ), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility ( samurai). Between the 4th and 9th centuries, the kingdoms of Japan became unified under an emperor and the imperial court based in Heian-kyЕЌ. Japan has been inhabited since the Upper Paleolithic period (30,000 BC), though the first written mention of the archipelago appears in a Chinese chronicle finished in the 2nd century AD. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37.4 million residents. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its population of 125.36 million on narrow coastal plains. Japan is the eleventh-most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated and urbanized. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937В sqВ mi) the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.

Japan ( Japanese: ж—Ґжњ¬, Nippon or Nihon, and formally ж—Ґжњ¬е›Ѕ) is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

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