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I think that the information on this link could be merged into the main article: Japan... What do you think, administrators? -- 154.20.102.96 03:13, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Should this article really have coordinates? Japan is a location. "Geography of Japan" is not a location, but because this article has been geotagged it shows up in visualization services (like Google Earth) as if it was a location.
I think the coords should be removed.
- Amake 14:33, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Ok not to "burst your bubble" but i think that the coordinates should be there they make it a lot easier instead of going to 100 different websights.
In the introduction the article states that the total area is comparable to Montana (area:381156 kmsq). Then in the next section the size is closer to California(area:410000 kmsq). Japan's actual area is 378000 kmsq. Choose one or the other. Go with Montana for accuracy, or with California for name recognition. Don't be confusing with both of them. High-command ( talk) 20:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
I removed the sentence "Japan's area has been steadily increasing due to construction of artificial islands." While it's true that Japan constructs islands, it's unclear whether the area of the country increases when they are constructed. The area may be naturally decreasing due to erosion, for example, and the artificial islands might or might not be enough to offset that. Whether or not the construction increases the area, it's so tiny a fraction that the increase in area is not worth mentioning. (The construction of islands may be worth mentioning, but probably not in the introduction.) Fg2 ( talk) 02:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Japan has built some areas in Tokyo and Yokohama on reclaimed land, but it's so insignificant that it does not increase the total size of the country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.23.216.6 ( talk) 19:41, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Who calls the islands the "Home Islands," and where is the citation for that? Wakablogger ( talk) 06:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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According to the Bonin Islands article, the Volcano Islands are separate from the Bonins, but this article presents them as separate. Wakablogger ( talk) 07:14, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
According to List of islands of Japan, there are 6852 islands. Wakablogger ( talk) 07:21, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
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"As of 2011, 46.1% of energy in Japan was produced from petroleum, 21.3% from coal, 21.4% from natural gas, 4.0% from nuclear power and 3.3% from hydropower. Nuclear power is a major domestic source of energy and produced 9.2 percent of Japan's electricity, as of 2011, down from 24.9 percent the previous year"
What is the correct figure for nuclear power in 2011? 4% or 9.2% ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.223.99.198 ( talk) 20:44, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, this is LongRoadLongRoad. I have a request for more pages about the plains and plateaus of Japan. As of now, there only 4 pages i could find on this topic. They are:
The reason why I have a request is that I kinda suck at making new pages. LongRoadLongRoad ( talk) 19:03, 1 July 2022 (UTC)LongRoadLongRoad
A lot of Japanese islands have the word "shima" or "jima" at the end which means island. In English it is called for example Minami-Tori-shima (南鳥島 , southern bird island). It is often written in foreign articles as Minami-tori-shima island. So it says island 2 times. I think a more logical name would be Minami-tori island. There are more examples like this such as Nishinoshima. A better English translation would be Nishino island. Iwo Jima would be Iwo island. Tanegashima would be Tanega island. Such a change would require renaming dozens of articles on Wikipedia though. - Artanisen ( talk) 07:47, 2 July 2022 (UTC)