Located in Eastern Asia, Japan is an island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula.

Japan has no land boundaries.

Domain Information

Japan is located in ICANN's Asia/Australia/Pacific Region. Anyone located in this region is eligible for .asia domain registrations. If one of your contacts lives in Japan you can register a .asia domain.

A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country or a dependent territory.

ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, all two-letter top-level domains are ccTLDs. Creation and delegation of ccTLDs is performed by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), and with certain exceptions corresponds to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes maintained by the ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency.

Japan ccTLD: .jp

Country Information

Population

127433494 (July 07 est)

Capital

Tokyo

GDP

$4.883 trillion (2006 est)

Currency

Yen (JPY)

Internet Hosts

33.333 million (2007)

Internet Users

87.54 million (2006)