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| | ipedia.com: Japan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Japan ( Nippon/Nihon 日本 (the characters mean sun, and root/origin), literally "the origin of the sun ") is a country in East Asia situated between the Pacific Ocean and east of the Korean peninsula. |
 | | Japan comprises a chain of islands, the largest of which are, from south to north, Kyushu (九州), Shikoku (四国), Honshu (本州, the largest island), and Hokkaido (北海道). |
 | | Japan is a temperate region with four distinct seasons, but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical. |
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