Yusaku Maezawa, a fashion billionaire, and his producer Yozo Hirano became the first self-paying passengers to visit the space station since 2009. After spending 12 days aboard the International Space Station, a Japanese tycoon, his producer, and a Russian cosmonaut successfully landed on Earth on Monday.
Japan is an East Asian island country. It is located in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bounded on the west by the Sea of Japan while stretching north from the Sea of Okhotsk to the East China Sea and Taiwan on the south. Japan is part of the Ring of Fire and consists of 6852 islands spread across 377,975 square kilometers. Hokkaido, Okinawa, Kyushu, Honshu, and Shikoku are the 5 main islands. Tokyo is the nation's capital and largest city, with Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto as prominent cities.
Japan is the world's eleventh most populous country, as well as one of its most densely inhabited and urbanized. Three-fourths of the region's terrain is mountainous, confining its 125.44 million population to limited coastal areas. Japan has 47 functional regions and 8 ancient regions. With almost 37.4 million inhabitants, the Greater Tokyo Region is the world's most populated metropolitan area.
