What are the Major Islands of Japan?
The largest islands of Japan are Honshū, Shikoku, Hokkaidō, and Kyūshū,, which together account for 97% of the land area of Japan. In all, Japan has over 3,000 islands. The islands of Japan have been occupied for an extremely long time, since at least 35,000 BCE. During the last Ice Age, Japan would have been relatively balmy, spared from the huge glaciers that covered most of Europe and Asia at the time. Today, the islands of Japan have about 127 million occupants, making this nation the world’s 10th most populous. Japan has the world’s third largest economy, only behind the United States and China.
