The following is an overview of the year 2018 in Japan. Emperor: Akihito Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture:...

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the...

In late June through mid-July 2018, successive heavy downpours in southwestern Japan resulted in widespread, devastating floods and mudflows. The event...

introduced to Japan in 1859 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. The first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s. The...

This is a list of earthquakes in Japan with either a magnitude greater than or equal to 7.0 or which caused significant damage or casualties. As indicated...

(AV) in Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the Japanese Adult Video industry. Animated films are referred to as hentai in English, but in Japan...

population. Japanese students consistently achieve high rankings in reading, mathematics, and sciences according to OECD evaluations. In the 2018 Programme...

2018 Japan Open may refer to: 2018 Japan Open (table tennis) 2018 Japan Open (badminton) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...

creating videos about Japanese culture, Japanese food, and travel in Japan, primarily in the Tōhoku region. Broad's interest in filmmaking began at the...

people in Japan have fewer legal protections than in most other developed countries, although some developments towards stronger rights have been made in the...

The 2018 Japan–South Korea radar lock-on dispute is about an incident between a Japanese airplane and a South Korean warship. The aircraft was part of...

The 2018–2019 Japanese protests were a series of peaceful demonstrations and anti-government protests nationwide between May 2018 and June 2019 against...

have sex with men in Japan date back to ancient times. Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan. Though these relations...

census statistics in 2018, 97.8% of Japan's population are Japanese, with the remainder being foreign nationals residing in Japan. The number of foreign...

Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...

Japan is regularly affected by natural disasters, with the country being in the Ring of Fire. Two out of the five most expensive natural disasters in...

Nuclear power generated 5.55% of Japan's electricity in 2023. The country's nuclear power industry was heavily influenced by the Fukushima accident, caused...

Japan is a major consumer of energy, ranking fifth in the world by primary energy use. Fossil fuels accounted for 88% of Japan's primary energy in 2019...

Cool Japan (クールジャパン, Kūru Japan) refers to the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people perceive as "cool". After the success of "Cool Britannia...

The 2017-18 Japan Figure Skating Championships were held on December 20–24, 2017 at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo. It was the 86th edition...

Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there were...

Subaru, Isuzu, Komatsu, Sharp, Nikon, Canon and NEC. In 2018, the top TWO export markets for Japan were: South Korea, Thailand (Nippon Steel, JFE Steel...

(LDP) when Abe Shinzō became Japan's prime minister in ... "Why Steve Bannon Admires Japan". The Diplomat. 22 June 2018. In Japan, populist and extreme right-wing...

Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However,...

Sports in Japan are a significant part of Japanese culture. Traditional sports, such as sumo and martial arts, as well as Western imports like baseball...

Toilets in Japan are sometimes designed more elaborately than toilets commonly seen in other developed nations. European toilets occasionally have a separate...

Events in 2018 in Japanese television. 2018 in anime 2018 in Japan 2018 in Japanese music List of Japanese films of 2018 "Boruto: Naruto the Next Generations...

X Japan (Japanese: エックス・ジャパン, Hepburn: Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer and pianist Yoshiki and lead vocalist...

Rape in Japan is sexual assault involving sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent in the nation. Victims and perpetrators...

for streaming on Netflix in the United States and United Kingdom in May 2018; in Japan in July 2018; and in the Philippines in February 2020. Hyakkaou...