Date of Independence or Date of Formation: (not meaningful)

Date of Admission to the United Nations: 18 December 1956

Geographical Size:

  Land: 364,485 sq km

 Total: 377,915 sq km

Population: 126,253,652 (As of April, 2019)

Demographic Information (religious mix):

 Shintoism 70.4%

 Buddhism 69.8%

 Christianity 1.5%

 Others 6.9% (As of 2015)

Form of Government: Parliamentary constitutional monarchy