Japan is a large island with many little islands around it.
Japan is an archepelago of 6,852 islands total.
The answer is 6852 islands.
Best guess: 3,000 small islands, and 4 large islands.
There are four main islands that make up the main body of Japan: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
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There are 4 large islands and 3, 000 small islands. Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku are the 4 main islands.
There are 4 large islands that constitute 97% of Japan's land area: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku. There are nearly 7000 smaller islands, stretching in an arc from Sakhalin Island (Russia) in the north to near Taiwan in the south.
The bulk of Japan is made up of the four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and about three thousand others.
Japan has 6852 islands.
it has 4 Japan has 4 MAIN islands, (Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku) but Japan actually has over 1000 islands. Only around 30 or more of those islands have citizens. Other islands include Okinawa, Bonin islands, and the Ryuku Islands
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