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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.
Pacific and North American plates are grinding against one another along the Western side of the United States and near Japan. The Filipino and Eurasian plates also meet near Japan. Thus Japan has a lot of seismic activity due to the proximity of four plates. The Australian-Indian plate is pushing up against the Eurasian plate which means the Himalaya mountain range is growing and grinding against the Pacific plate causing seismic activity in New Zealand which is across both plates.