Revised information about Japan

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Japan is located at the east of asia continent composed of islands including 4 of the largest ones. "Japan consists of several thousands of islands, of which Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the four largest."Across the sea, the closest neighbor countries are china, south Korea and Russia. More than half of the countries are covered with forest and there are lot of mountains. "More than 50% of the country is mountainous and covered by forests."Japan has approximately 200 million population and the main language is Japanese. "The population of Japan as per June 2008 stands at 127.7 million. Japan the 10th most populous country of the world, contributes 2% of the total global population."

Japan was influenced greatly by china on culture and politics in the Japanese feudal period which was to last before 19^th century, and affected greatly by the western ideas and technology. After WWII, japan’s economy has developed very fast and become the 2^nd largest economic nation around the world.

Japanese food cuisine has long history of ages. It’s know as it seasonality food and special way to cook. And ingredients play very important role in Japanese cooking. "Japanese cuisine is known for its emphasis on seasonality food, quality of ingredients and presentation."

One of japan most famous traditional board game is baduk, which known in western countries as Go. There are same game in china and south Korean and there are lot of excellent players in those countries.

Judo and ai ki do are 2 of the most well known traditional sports in japan.

In traditional culture, there are different clothes in their daily life for visiting formal or informal friends, bathing, and holidays. There are also different design style for each kind. "Formal japanese clothing normally takes on either of two characteristics; very elaborate designs or a simple elegant designs. "

Fuji mountain is one of the most famous landmark of japan.

Japanese manga is very popular around the world as a very special comic and drawing style. China and korea have very similar style with japan manga even they name it differently in each country. Japanese manga industry has a very successful system after development of years and produced lots of excellent manga series such as dragon balls, saint saiya and slum dunk. Japan manga style is very different with the western animation. "unlike American comic book heroes, manga characters are usually drawn with large eyes, small mouths, skinny builds and long legs."