Japan (Alexander the Liberator)

Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon or Nihon), officially the Empire of Japan (大日本帝國 Dai Nippon Teikoku, literally meaning "Greater Japanese Empire") is a sovereign island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and China in the southwest.