Japan

"Japan" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Japan" by people in this website by year, and whether "Japan" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 169 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2011 and 2014 and 2020
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