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...

Universe Japan 2017 (Japanese: 2017 ミス・ユニバース・ジャパン) was the Miss Universe Japan pageant, held at the Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan, on July...

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...

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

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

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...

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

(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...

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

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...

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

Anniversary. 2017 in anime 2017 in Japan 2017 in Japanese music List of Japanese films of 2017 欅坂46の冠番組「KEYABINGO！」シーズン2放送決定 イケメンに変身も (in Japanese). modelpress...

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...

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...

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

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

Japanese liberalism (自由主義 or リベラリズム) formed in the nineteenth century as a reaction against traditional society. In the twentieth century 'liberal' (自由)...

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...

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...

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

chocolate bars produced in Japan since 2000, many exclusive to the country. Nestlé, which operates the Kit Kat brand in Japan, reports that the brand...

Japan participated at the 2017 Summer Universiade, in Taipei, Taiwan. Japan Overview Universiade Taipei 2017 Archived 2016-12-21 at the Wayback Machine...

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...

This is a list of earthquakes in Japan with either a magnitude greater than or equal to 7.0 or which caused significant damage or casualties. As indicated...