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...

(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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Religion in Japan by affiliation (Pew Research Center 2023) Buddhism (46%) No religion (42%) Christianity (2%) Others (9%) Don't know / no response (1%)...

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

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

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

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...

found all over Japan, and they are operated by private companies. As of 2011, there are about 12,480 pachinko parlors in Japan. In 2018, Japan spent $200...

In Japan, relative poverty is defined as a state at which the income of a household is at or below half of the median household income. According to OECD...

Women in Japan were recognized as having equal legal rights to men after World War II. Japanese women first gained the right to vote in 1880, but this...

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...

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

Prostitution in Japan has existed throughout the country's history. While the Prostitution Prevention Law of 1956 states that "No person may either do...

Sexuality in Japan developed separately from that of mainland Asia,[clarification needed] as Japan did not adopt the Confucian view of marriage, in which...

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

Transport in Japan is modern and highly developed. Japan's transport sector stands out for its energy efficiency: it uses less energy per person compared...

In Japan, suicide (自殺, jisatsu) is considered a major social issue, even though the country has only 49th highest suicide rate globally (WHO, 2021). The...

Public holidays in Japan (国民の祝日, kokumin no shukujitsu) were first established by the Public Holiday Law (国民の祝日に関する法律, Kokumin no Shukujitsu ni Kansuru...