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Japan

Country · East Asia

About this place

Japan is an island country in East Asia. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Japan as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate 36.142538, 138.44217. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Geographic context: East Asia. A canonical parent object is not yet published in this cohort.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Japan → Eastern Asia → Asia.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159320937 · ISO JP · Wikidata Q17.

Open Japan in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

Places within this geography

• Tokyo — City
• Kyoto — City
• Ōsaka — City

Related places in the current index

• Tokyo — City, Japan
• Kyoto — City, Japan
• Ōsaka — City, Japan
• Seoul — City, South Korea

Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:110m Admin 0 — Countries v5.1.1. Source feature 1159320937 · upstream file 1e6ab74c7042. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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Truth boundary: this Place page verifies geographic identity and map context. It does not by itself establish species presence, ecosystem health, pressure, causality or ecological outcome.