Japan: General


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ISO code

JP

Region

East Asia

Japan is an island nation in East Asia located in the Pacific Ocean. It lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk (Russia) in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Japan lies across from China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia.

(Last updated on 2019-08-30)

Local time

UTC (GMT) +09h00

Time zone abbreviation: JST - Japan Standard Time

No Daylight Saving Time adjustments.

For local time information worldwide, see www.timeanddate.com or www.thetimenow.com.

(Last updated on 2021-07-07)

Telephone code

Country code for Japan: +81 plus one- to five-digit area code and four- to eight-digit phone number for local subscriber (always total of nine digits).

Area codes for major cities: Tokyo (capital) 3, Sapporo 11, Yokohama 45, Nagoya 52, Kyoto 75, Kobe 78, Nagasaki 95

(Last updated on 2021-02-16)

Currency

JPY = Japanese Yen [¥] (subdivided into: 100 Sen and 1'000 Rin)

(Last updated on 2018-05-29)

Official languages

Japanese

(Last updated on 2018-05-05)

Measurement

Metric system.

(Last updated on 2021-07-25)

Population

125'550'120 (26 Nov. 2022)

(Last updated on 2022-11-26)

General information sources

Review summary of Japan Economic Data.

(Last updated on 2022-06-09)

Wikipedia entry

Refer to Wikipedia site highlighting Japan.

(Last updated on 2015-11-13)

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