Japan
The Land of the Rising Sun.
Name:
Japan
Aliases:
- 日本
- Nippon
- Nihon
Start year:
1935
First issue:
Les Aventures De Tintin (1930) #5 Le Lotus Bleu
Japan is an island nation that is part of Asia. It is a popular comic and manga location.
Characters from Japan
Capcom
- Akuma
- Edmond Honda
- Gouken
- Guy
- Ibuki
- Karin Kanzuki
- Maki Genryusai
- Makoto
- Oro
- Rainbow Mika
- Retsu
- Ryu
- Sakura Kasugano
DC Comics
- Arashi Ohaishi
- Bushido
- Doctor Lightsurge
- Dragon King
- Junior Waveman Kimura
- Katana
- Mister Unknown
- Rising Sun
- Shado
- Sonny Sumo
- Toyman III
- R.A.M.
Heroes
- Ando Masahashi
- Hiro Nakamura
Kenichi: The World's Mightiest Disciple
- Akisame Koetsuji
- Haruo Niijima
- Hayato Furinji
- Kenichi Shirahama
- Kisara Nanjo
- Koga the Kicker
- Miu Furinji
- Shio Sakaki
- Shinnosuke Tsuji
- Takeda the Puncher
- Ukita the Thrower
Lupin III
- Goemon Ishikawa XIII
- Inspector Zenigata
Marvel Comics
- Akira Kiamata
- Amiko Kobayashi
- Armor
- Atsuko
- Colleen Wing
- Daken
- Decay
- Ebon Samurai
- GoGo Tomago
- Hiro Sokuto
- Hiro Takachiho
- Honey Lemon
- Ichisumi
- Kamikaze
- Lady Deathstrike
- Lord Dark Wind
- Mariko Yashida
- Matsu'o Tsurayaba
- Silver Samurai
- Sunfire
- Sunpyre
- Zero
- Zoe Ishihara
Ranma 1/2
- Akane Tendo
- Doctor Tofu Ono
- Genma Saotome
- Nabiki Tendo
- Nodoka Saotome
- Ranma Saotome
- Soun Tendo
SNK
- Athena Asamiya
- Goro Daimon
- Iori Yagami
- Kyo Kusanagi
- Mai Shiranui
- Ryo Sakazaki
- Yuri Sakazaki
Yu Yu Hakusho
- Asato Kido
- Genkai
- Kazuma Kuwabara
- Keiko Yukimura
- Mitsunari Yanagisawa
- Shizuru Kuwabara
- Yu Kaito
- Yusuke Urameshi
Comic Book Locations
- Crystal Tokyo - Fictional city of Tokyo 1000 years in the future
- Kyoto - Former capital of Japan
- Neo Tokyo - Fictional replacement of Tokyo
- Tokyo - Capital of Japan
- Hiroshima - Infamously known as the first city in the world to be attacked by an atomic bomb in the closing years of WW II.
- Nagasaki - The second city to be attacked by an atomic bomb.
- Yokohama - The largest incorporated city in Japan.
- Osaka - A city in the Kansai region of Japan.
- Nagoya - The third largest incorporated city in Japan.
- Sapporo - The fourth largest city in Japan, by population.
- Kobe - Japan's fifth largest city. Once one of the busiest ports in the country.
- Fukuoka - A city in Southern Japan. Name may also refer to the Fukuoka Prefecture, the region in which the city is located.
- Kawasaki - A city in the Kanagawa prefecture of Japan.
- Saitama - A city in the Greater Tokyo region of Japan. Name may also refer to the Saitama Prefecture, the region in which the city is located.
- Sendai - One of Japan's 19 designated cities.
- Kitakyushu - A city located halfway between Shanghai and Tokyo.
- Chiba - A city located in southern Japan. Name may also refer to the Chiba Prefecture, the region in which the city is located.
- Sakai - One of the largest sea ports in Japan.
- Niigata - The name of both a city and prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu.
- Hamamatsu - A city in the south of Japan.
- Kumamoto - The name of both a city and prefecture on the Japanese island of Kyushu.
- Sagamihara - A city in Northern Japan.
- Shizuoka - Another of Japan's 19 designated cities. Name may also refer to the Shizuoka Prefecture, the region in which the city is located.
