The country Japan is a crescent-shaped archipelago, extending 3,000 kilometres from top to bottom, and made up of four main islands: Hokkaido in the north, the central and largest island of Honshu, Shikoku to the south east of Honshu, and Kyushu to its south. There are about 2,450 smaller islands, the largest being Okinawa to the south of Kyushu. The capital of Japan, Tokyo, lies at 140 degrees east longitude, and 36 degrees north latitude, and is 7,830 kilometres from Sydney. Administratively the country is organised into 47 prefectures (ken). These are all broken down into a further … [Read more...]