Japan is a prosperous nation with long history, rich culture and successful economic and technological development. There are many top travel and vacation destinations in Japan with famous tourist attractions. With a rich history and culture, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, offers visitors with excellent museums and many historical attractions, performance arts, world-class symphony orchestras, and spring cherry blossoms festival. Osaka is one of Japan's largest and most dynamic metropolis. Just about one hour away from Osaka, are the ancient capital of Kyoto, old castle town of Nara and picturesque seaport town of Kobe.

With total 377,835 square kilometers of island chain between the Sea of Japan and the North Pacific Ocean, the Japanese archipelago stretches in a 3,800 kilometers long narrow arc off the eastern coast of the Asian continent.

Japan consists of four main islands — Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku and thousands of smaller islands. Honshu accounts for over 60% of the total area. Based on 2004 estimate, Japan has a population of 127,333,002. However, they live in an area slightly smaller than California.

There are four distinct seasons in most parts of Japan: A cherry blossom spring, a green summer, a golden blown fall, and a white snow winter.

Japan is an island country. In spite of disadvantages in natural resources, government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) have helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically powerful economy in the world after the U.S. and third-largest economy in the world after the US and China.

Japan is among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals; textiles, processed foods.

Japan will continuously be a nation with great achievements in technology and economics, rich contributions in history, arts and cultures. Tokyo and many Japan's cities are some of the world's most attractive leisure and business travel destinations.