I've always wanted to visit Japan. A beautiful island in the Pacific, but has one of the most modern cities in the world. 
I agree.  Nippon or Nihon-koku meaning "State of Japan".  It's a sovereign nation in Asia.
And that nation has gone through a millennia of changes. Kyoto is a really interesting city. I mostly know it from the Kyoto protocols though
Modern day Kyoto, Japan is occasionally referred to as the Thousand-Year Capital.
I find it really interesting that they still have an Emperor (and thus a royal family), although they are ceremonial figureheads, much like the royal family of Great Britain today.
is a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area and often are referred to as home islands. The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions, with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. Japan is the 2nd most populous island country. The population of 126 million (2019) is the world's eleventh largest, of which 98.5% are ethnic Japanese
in English in 1577 spelled "Giapan".
In English, the modern official title of the country is simply "Japan", one of the few nation-states to have no "long form" name. The official Japanese-language name is "Nippon-koku" or "Nihon-koku" (), literally ""State of Japan"". From the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II, the full title of Japan was the "Empire of Greater Japan" ( "Dai