The following is an overview of the year 2017 in Japan. Emperor: Akihito Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture:...

year 2017 in Japanese music. 68th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen Oricon number-one albums Oricon number-one singles Hot 100 number-one singles 59th Japan Record...

codify the status of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and also opposes nuclear power. The party was formed in the run up to the 2017 general election from a...

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland. It is bordered on the west by the...

Toilets in Japan are sometimes designed more elaborately than toilets commonly seen in other developed nations. European toilets occasionally have a separate...

General elections were held in Japan on 22 October 2017. Voting took place in all Representatives constituencies of Japan – 289 single-member districts...

X Japan (Japanese: エックス・ジャパン, Hepburn: Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer and pianist Yoshiki and lead vocalist...

(AV) in Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the Japanese Adult Video industry. Animated films are referred to as hentai in English, but in Japan...

Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. According to The Japan Times...

course of the year. 2017's missile tests are especially notable due to the several instances of North Korean missiles passing over Japan, provoking a response...

Japan Cup 2017". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2017-03-12. "戦国炎舞 -Kizna- Presents New Japan Cup 2017". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in...

invited to Japan by the J.League to take advantage of a two-week break in the J1 League during the summer season starting in 2017. 17 July 2017 (2017-07-17)...

The 2017 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the 2017 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 8 October 2017 at the Suzuka...

at Fuchū Air Station in Tokyo, Japan, on 1 July 1957 to replace the Far East Command. USFJ is headquartered at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo and is commanded...

at least one Japanese parent are generally automatically nationals at birth. Birth in Japan does not by itself entitle a child to Japanese nationality...

The 2017 Japan Series (known as the SMBC Nippon Series 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason...

Japan at Wikimedia Commons Japan Population Census 2010 Expatriates in Japan Archived 2017-06-08 at the Wayback Machine "The Dilemma Posed by Japan's...

The Japan national basketball team, also known as Akatsuki Japan (Japanese: アカツキジャパン), is the national team representing Japan in international basketball...

In Japan, suicide (自殺, jisatsu) is considered a major social issue. In 2017, the country had the seventh highest suicide rate in the OECD, at 14.9 per...

economy of Japan is a highly developed/advanced mixed economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. It is the fourth-largest economy in the world...

According to the Japanese Ministry of Justice, the number of foreign residents in Japan has steadily increased in the post Second World War period, and...

Christianity in Japan is among the nation's minority religions in terms of individuals who state an explicit affiliation or faith. In 2022, there were...

Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic...

games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming. Japanese game development is often identified...

Education in Japan is managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan. Education is compulsory at the elementary...

touring festival and a destination festival in several countries including the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Australia, Colombia, France...

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Japan. The Penal Code of Japan and several laws list 14 capital crimes. In practice, though, it is applied only...

Kashimagari Tunnel "Japan". UNESCO. Retrieved 2017-05-08. (in Japanese) World Heritage Sites in Japan (in Japanese) Database of National Cultural Properties...

on August 28, 2017. Retrieved August 29, 2017. "North Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat'". BBC News. August 29, 2017. Archived from...

Miss Grand Japan 2017 (Japanese: 2017 ミス・グランド・ジャパン) was the third edition of the Miss Grand Japan pageant, held on September 12, 2017, at the Selene Studio...