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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

videos [ja]" (AV) in Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the Japanese pornographic film industry. Animated films are referred to as hentai in English...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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 social market economy, often referred to as an East Asian model. It is the fourth-largest economy in the world...

1986 in Japan was the first year of the Japanese asset price bubble. Emperor: Hirohito Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma) Chief Cabinet Secretary:...

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

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...

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

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

September 19, 2017, in Japan and November 20, 2018, in the US. The fourth volume, Vol. 4: I Burn, was released on October 19, 2017, in Japan and February...

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

represents Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan. Until...

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

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...

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