I would love to visit Japan someday.  Have you ever been?
Yes, I love Japan. It is a sovereign island nation in East Asia
I have been watching the news about boys in Thailand, but I think I briefly saw that Japan had major flooding from storms and many missing? I wonder if that is typical weather in Japan.
Yes It is. Lets pray for it, the storm i heard is extending to China. Oh well, since the characters that make up its name is often called Land of the Rising Sun", lets hope the sun warm them up soon. 
Perfect analogy.. Land of the Rising Sun.  I'd like to see Tokyo, since on television it seems to be such a progressively electronic city!
It would interest you to know that Japan is a  stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands.
Really?  I thought it was just one big island!
. 90.7% of people live in cities, while 9.3% live in the countryside. About 13.8 million people live in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world with over 38 million people.
Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, particularly from Western Europe
. "When I got back [to the United States], if I had the power to push a button and sink every island in Japan, that's what I would have done. But since the Lord's been in my life, I've been back to Japan four times to preach to them. I love them."
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