Best guess: 3,000 small islands, and 4 large islands.
Japan is made of 4 large islands but I do not think there is one made of 5 LARGE islands.
Japan is a large island with many little islands around it.
hokkaido kyushu honshu and shikoku
There are four main islands that make up the main body of Japan: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
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 two largest islands of Japan are Honshu and Hokkaido.
Japan is an archepelago of 6,852 islands total.
The bulk of Japan is made up of the four large islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and about three thousand others.
The name of 4 islands in Japan are... Hokkaido Honshu Shikoku Kyushu
The four main islands of Japan are Honshū, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, and Shikoku.