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Japan is an
island country in
East Asia . It is in the northwest
Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the
Sea of Japan , extending from the
Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the
East China Sea ,
Philippine Sea , and
Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the
Ring of Fire , and spans
an archipelago of
14,125 islands , with the four main islands being
Hokkaido ,
Honshu (the "mainland"),
Shikoku , and
Kyushu .
Tokyo is
the country's capital and
largest city , followed by
Yokohama ,
Osaka ,
Nagoya ,
Sapporo ,
Fukuoka ,
Kobe , and
Kyoto .
The Japanese archipelago
has been inhabited since the
Upper Paleolithic (30,000 BC). Between the fourth and ninth centuries AD, the kingdoms of the region became unified under
an emperor and
the imperial court based in
Heian-kyō . Beginning in the 12th century, political power was held by a series of military dictators (
shōgun ) and feudal lords (
daimyō ), and enforced by a class of warrior nobility (
samurai ). After
a century-long period of civil war , the country was reunified in 1603 under the
Tokugawa shogunate , which enacted
an isolationist foreign policy . In 1854,
a United States fleet forced Japan to
open trade to the West , which led to
the end of the shogunate and
the restoration of imperial power in 1868. In the
Meiji period , the
Empire of Japan adopted
a Western-modeled constitution , and pursued a program of
industrialization and
modernization . Amidst a rise in militarism and overseas colonization, Japan
invaded China in 1937 and entered
World War II as an
Axis power in 1941. After suffering defeat in the
Pacific War and
two atomic bombings , Japan
surrendered in 1945 and came under
a seven-year Allied occupation , during which it adopted
a new constitution . (
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Run down , also referred to as rundown , run dun , rondón , fling-me-far , and fling mi for , is a
stew dish in
Jamaican cuisine and
Tobago cuisine . The traditional
Jamaican dish is eaten in several Latin American countries that share a coast with the
Caribbean Sea .
It consists of a soup made up of reduced
coconut milk , with different types of seafood (fish, crabs, small lobsters or shellfish),
plantain ,
yam ,
tomato ,
onion , and
seasonings .
Mackerel and salted mackerel are often used in the dish. Other fish are also used, including locally caught fish,
cod , salt cod,
shad , other oily fish,
red snapper ,
swordfish ,
pickled fish,
bull pizzle , and
cassava . Traditionally, the dish is served with
side dishes of
dumplings or baked
breadfruit . (
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The following are images from various island-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Bone Island, Batticaloa (from
List of islands of Sri Lanka )
Image 2 Carrera (left), Cronstadt Island (right) (from
List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago )
Image 6 Iconic windmills of Mykonos (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 8 The main beach on the southern shore of
Pamalican (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 9 Regions for Greek islands (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 10 The islet of Trafos in the Libyan Sea (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 12 Ithaca is to the upper right of the larger
Kefalonia island in this picture. The small island in the top-right corner is the uninhabited
Atokos island (
NASA World Wind satellite picture). (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 15 Panampangan Island, The island with the longest sandbar in the Philippines (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 16 Mardanas Island, officially known as Siluag (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 18 Ao Thong Nai Pan, Ko Pha Ngan (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 21 NASA image of Crete (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 22 Ioannina island in Lake Pamvotida (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 23 Ko Phi Phu Leh (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 24 Beaches of Ko Phi Phi Don (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 25 Monos (front) and Chacachacare (back).
Venezuelan mainland (
Paria Peninsula ) seen in the horizon and
Patos Island seen to the left. (from
List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago )
Image 27 Ko Yang of the Tarutao group (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 28 17th century Dutch map of Sri Lanka with the Dutch names of the Jaffna islands (from
List of islands of Sri Lanka )
Image 29
Kunashir Island coastline: photo taken by
Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev in November 2010 (from
List of islands of Russia )
Image 31 NASA image of Rhodes (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 34 Echinades islands (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 36 One of the islands in
Lakshadweep (from
List of islands of India )
Image 37 Harbor of the island of Astypalaia (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 38
Panguan Island , The last island of the Sulu Archipelago nearest the Philippine-Malaysian border (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 39 Islands of Phang Nga Bay (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 40 An
aerial view of islands in the
Seychelles (from
Lists of islands )
Image 42 A view from Tinaga beach in
Tinaga at sunset (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 43 Satellite image of
Second Thomas Shoal (Ayungin Shoal), an island of the
Spratly Islands group in the
South China Sea (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 46 Cyclades islands (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 48 The islet of Leon, on the left, next to the larger islet of Souda, within Souda bay (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 49 Aerial view of the port city of Hydra on Hydra Island (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 51 Atlasov Island from space, September 1992 (from
List of islands of Russia )
Image 52 White sand beach at
Sabtang island (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 53 A view of the southern side of
Isla de Convalecencia from the Ayala Bridge over the
Pasig River (from
List of islands of the Philippines )
Image 56 Islands of Phang Nga Bay (from
List of islands of Thailand )
Image 57 Northern Sporades (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 59 Dodcanese Islands (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 64 The Shamanka
Шаманка [
ru ] , a holy rock in
Shamanism and one of the 9 most holy places in Asia, on the westcoast of
Olkhon (from
List of islands of Russia )
Image 65 Spinalonga (Kalydon) (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 66 The islet of Pontikonisi (mouse island) which has the shape of a mouse. (from
List of islands of Greece )
Image 71
Archipelago Sea has more than 40,000 islands and islets (from
List of islands of Finland )
Image 72 A fishing village in
Jurmo (from
List of islands of Finland )
Image 73 Main Ionian Islands (from
List of islands of Greece )
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