"Mainland Japan" (内地, naichi, lit. "inner lands") is a term used to distinguish Japan's core land area from its outlying territories. It is most commonly...

islands of Italy Mainland Japan, as opposed to the other home islands, or to remote islands of Japan, such as the Nanpō Islands Mainland Korea as opposed...

Japanese mainland unprotected and without a significant naval defense force. By August 1945, plans had been made for an Allied invasion of mainland Japan...

region, speakers of these languages and their descendants migrated to mainland Japan and still exist in small numbers. Not until shortly after the turn of...

Japan. Gackt Japanese pop rock singer-songwriter, actor, author Gichin Funakoshi led the efforts to propagate Okinawa karate to the Japanese mainland...

470,000 km2 (1,730,000 sq mi). The term "mainland Japan" is used to distinguish the large islands of the Japanese archipelago from the remote, smaller islands;...

21,000 years ago. Japan was then connected to mainland Asia by at least one land bridge, and nomadic hunter-gatherers crossed to Japan. Flint tools and...

"Mainland China", also referred to as "the Chinese mainland", is a geopolitical term defined as the territory under direct administration of the People's...

of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese and...

Okinawa. During the Taishō era (1912–1926), karate was introduced to mainland Japan by Gichin Funakoshi and Motobu Chōki. Karate's popularity was initially...