The Japanese Language

With around 125 million speakers, Japanese ranks ninth among the world's major languages. It is almost exclusively spoken in the country of Japan itself, however, there are around 1.5 million Japanese immigrants living mostly in North and South America who also continue to speak the language with differing degrees of proficiency.1

Below are some brief but important facts about the country of Japan and its people.

Capital: Tokyo
Currency: Yen (currency code: JPY)
Government Type: Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
Population: 127,333,002 (July 2004 est.)
Internet Country Code: .jp
Internet Hosts: 12,962,065 (2003)
Internet Users: 57.2 million (2002)

For more information on The Japanese Language, please see our Japanese Quick Facts Library or follow one of the links listed above.

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Japan

http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=JPN

1.      "Japanese language" Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9109805
[Accessed October 30, 2004]


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