Japan

Population: 126,771,662 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: Japanese

Background: While retaining its time-honored culture, Japan rapidly absorbed Western technology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After its devastating defeat in World War II, Japan recovered to become the second most powerful economy in the world...

Currency: Japanese Yen (JPY, JPY (¥120.00 = US$1))

Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.

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Japanese Font Foundries

 · Amato
 · Brush Art Design Office
 · Daylight Fonts
 · Dharma Type
 · Digitalogue
 · DNP
 · Flop Design
 · Fonts66
 · Fontworks
 · Hawken King
 · IWATA
 · Jiyu Kobo
 · Julmeme
 · Larabie
 · Launchpad English
 · Morisawa
 · Motoya
 · Neokawaii
 · Nihon Literal
 · Nissan
 · Norio Kanisawa
 · One Fonty Day
 · pororoca
 · Prop-a-ganda
 · REN FONT
 · RICOH
 · SCREEN Graphic Solutions
 · Shina Design
 · Skill Information"S"
 · sugargliderz
 · Takehiko Ono
 · Thirdin
 · Type Project
 · type.normalize.asia
 · Typodermic
 · Unsifonts
 · Vladimir Tamari
 · Wordshape
 · xDharma Type-donotuse
 · yamayama
 · YellowType
 · Yuta Ukai

Japanese Typographic People

 · Ken Balluet
 · Marta Blazquez
 · Kevin Foley
 · Damien Haikal
 · Natsuko Hayashida
 · Motoki Higa
 · Shinpei Ino
 · Minoru Kamono
 · Kazuo Kanai
 · Norio Kanisawa
 · kano
 · Yamashita Kaoru
 · Hajime Kawakami
 · Shuji Kikuchi
 · Akira Kobayashi
 · Masahiko Kozuka
 · Ray Larabie
 · Chikako Larabie
 · Ian Lynam
 · Teruyoshi Matsui
 · Julien Mercier
 · Monotype Design Studio Japan
 · Shoko Mugikura
 · Soshi Naemura
 · Shin Oka
 · Shojiro Okuno
 · Takehiko Ono
 · Kaori Onoda
 · Gabriel Richter
 · Yasushi Saikusa
 · Shina Design
 · Erik Storness-Kress
 · Isao Suzuki
 · Chiharu Tanaka
 · Ryuichi Tateno
 · Jun Tomita
 · Shuhei Toyoda
 · Ryoichi Tsunekawa
 · Masahiko Yamada

Related Links

 · CIA World Factbook: Japan
 · Ethnologue: Languages of Japan
 · BBC Country profile: Japan