Map of Japan

Open Japan on the map — framed on the country itself, not on every far-off island it holds — and look at it by population density, by the historical maps of its region, or with the open data below.

Facts

As the source states them, in the source’s own words.

CapitalTokyo
Area377,930 km²
CurrencyJPY (Japanese yen)
LanguagesJapanese

Source: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0. Licence: ODbL 1.0, public domain.

Historical maps

IntMap’s historical maps of the regions this outline lies in, on every date the map draws them. A region is a frame on the map, not a statement that Japan existed then: the names on each map are the ones the historical records give.

Map of East Asia Map of Oceania

Dated events in this outline

Events of IntMap’s war record dated to a place inside today’s outline of Japan. Each links to the page of its calendar day, which opens the map on that day.

  1. 1942

    The Doolittle Raid — sixteen bombers fly off a carrier to Tokyo and none of them can come back

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    18 April →
  2. 1944

    The firebombing of the Japanese cities — 66 of them are burned between June 1944 and August 1945

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    15 June →
  3. 1945

    Battle of Iwo Jima

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    19 February →
  4. 1945

    Operation Meetinghouse — 279 B-29s burn sixteen square miles of Tokyo in one night; about 100,000 die

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    9 March →
  5. 1945

    Battle of Okinawa

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    1 April →
  6. 1945

    Atomic bombing of Hiroshima

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    6 August →
  7. 1945

    Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    9 August →
  8. 1945

    The Emperor’s broadcast: most of his subjects hear his voice for the first time, to be told the war is over

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    15 August →
  9. 1945

    Surrender of Japan

    World War II · IntMap’s war record

    2 September →

Open data about Japan

The datasets IntMap may share about Japan, each under its own terms. The values are in one file: api/v1/countries/JPN.json

airports

Public domain, ODbL 1.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OurAirports, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

country-facts

ODbL 1.0, public domain · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: mledoze/countries, IANA Time Zone Database, Natural Earth admin-0

health

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike · non-commercial

Credit: WHO Global Health Observatory — UHC service coverage index & IHR SPAR (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO), World Bank Open Data

language

public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit

Credit: CIA World Factbook, Language identity, genealogical classification and endangerment status — Glottolog (CC BY 4.0)

mobility

ODbL 1.0, public domain, CC BY 4.0 · Requires: credit · share-alike

Credit: OpenFlights — airline route database (country-pair route counts for the pandemic simulator; snapshot of June 2014, no longer updated; ODbL 1.0), OurAirports, World Bank Open Data, Country facts — mledoze/countries (capital, currency, languages, land borders, UN membership, demonym; ODbL 1.0, build time only)

religion

public domain · Requires: nothing

What this page states

The outline, the name and the code are Natural Earth’s (admin-0, public domain), the set IntMap’s map draws countries from. The map opens on the frame the app’s country search uses for it: the country itself, not every far-off island it holds.

A historical map is listed when its region’s frame overlaps this outline. It is listed for the place, not for the country: the borders on it are what the historical records draw.

An event is listed when the point the war record gives it falls inside this outline — a fact about the point, not about which state held the place at the time.

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