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Bookmark or Share- Tokyo | Japan, Population, Map, History, & Facts | BritannicaTokyo, city and capital of Tokyo ‘to’ (metropolis) and of Japan. It is located at the head of Tokyo Bay on the Pacific coast of central Honshu. It is the focus of the vast metropolitan area often called Greater Tokyo, the largest urban and industrial agglomeration in Japan.
- Japan - Politics, Economy, Society | BritannicaJapan’s constitution was promulgated in 1946 and came into force in 1947, superseding the Meiji Constitution of 1889. It differs from the earlier document in two fundamental ways: the principle of sovereignty and the stated aim of maintaining Japan as a peaceful and democratic country in perpetuity.
- Japan - Culture, Traditions, Etiquette | BritannicaJapan - Culture, Traditions, Etiquette: Contemporary Japanese society is decidedly urban. Not only do the vast majority of Japanese live in urban settings, but urban culture is transmitted throughout the country by a mass media largely concentrated in Tokyo.
- Japan - Shintoism, Buddhism, Samurai | BritannicaJapan - Shintoism, Buddhism, Samurai: It is not known when humans first settled on the Japanese archipelago. It was long believed that there was no Paleolithic occupation in Japan, but since World War II thousands of sites have been unearthed throughout the country, yielding a wide variety of Paleolithic tools.
- Japan - Ethnicity, Religion, Language | BritannicaJapan - Ethnicity, Religion, Language: The Japanese people constitute the overwhelming majority of the population. They are ethnically closely akin to the other peoples of eastern Asia. During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603–1867), there was a social division of the populace into four classes—warrior, farmer, craftsman, and merchant—with ...
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