| | Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Japan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun" or less literally "Land of the Rising Sun") is an island country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. |
 | | This period of isolation lasted for two and a half centuries, a time of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period, considered to be the height of Japan's medieval culture. |
 | | The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has been in power since 1955, except for a short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993; the largest opposition party is the liberal-socialist Democratic Party of Japan. |
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