What is the Exact Number of Islands in Japan? -

For my global studies class I need to find out what the exact number of Islands in Japan is. Anyone know?

The best I can find is a Japanese page describing the number of islands with a shoreline of 100 metres or more. Whether this is a low or high tide I don t know, but apparently there are 6,852 such islands.

KEN is right... Hokkaido -- 509 islands Honshu -- 3,194 Shikoku -- 626 Kyushu -- 2,160 Okinawa -- 363 http://www.emecs.or.jp/01cd-rom/section1... (click 国土構成島数) http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr2/c...

By general definition the Japanese archipelago has over 3000 islands. Japan has 4 major islands which are Honshu, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Shikoku.