in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country

Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] () or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] (); officially 日本国, or Nihon-koku

to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories include French Guiana in South

by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea

, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman

. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea.

to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies

. It corresponds to UTC+02:00, which makes it the same as Central Africa Time, South African Standard Time and Kaliningrad Time in Russia.

to the south, France to the southwest, and Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west.

and the Japanese government. Tokyo forms part of the Kantō region on the southeastern side of Japan's main