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Japan lies over 4 tectonic plates. These are: The North American Plate The Eurasian Plate The Philippine Sea Plate The Pacific Plate.+ 5 others found this useful.Nathaniel Preece.apan lies on the North American, Eurasian and Pacific plates, and is close to the Phillipine plate. Tokyo and Sendai, for example are on the North American plate.
Japan's Earthquake Research Committee said the earthquake forced the North American plate eastward by about 66 feet (20 meters), reported Japan's national broadcast agency, NHK. The entire island of Honshu was moved about 8 feet (2.4 m) east, according to USGS scientists.ore recently, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Kobe in 1995, killing more than 6,000 people. Japan has such a large potential for earthquakes and disaster because the nation sits atop four huge slabs of the Earth's crust, called tectonic plates.