Where is Japan located on the world map? Japan is an island nation in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, North Korea, China, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south.

As a country in Asia, Japan is positioned in the Pacific Ocean, making Japan an island country. Just east of the continent of Asia, Japan is made up of 6,852 islands in total.

13/05/2018 · Japan is located on the east of the Korean Peninsula between the North Pacific Ocean and the Japanese Sea in the Great Ocean. Japan is an island country in East Asia. Japan consists of 6.852 islands and is an archipelago.

24/02/2021 · Japan is an East Asian country comprising a chain of islands between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, at the eastern coast off the Asian Korean Peninsula. It is located in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth. The Island Nation stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.

The location map of Japan below highlights the geographical position of Japan within Asia on the world map. Japan location highlighted on the world …

Destination Japan, a Nations Online country profile of the "Land of the Rising Sun," a nation that occupies a chain of islands in East Asia in the North Pacific Ocean roughly parallel with the eastern coast of Asia's mainland. The archipelago stretches from south of the Russian Sakhalin Island in the north to near Taiwan in the southwest.