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The climate of Japan is predominantly temperate,
but varies greatly from north to south. Japan's geographical features
divide it into six principal climatic zones: Hokkaido, Sea of Japan,
Central Highland, Seto Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Ryukyu Islands.
The northernmost zone, Hokkaido, has a temperate climate with long, cold
winters and cool summers. More than 99 percent of the population speaks
Japanese as their first language.[2] It is an agglutinative language
distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical
nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary
indicating the relative status of speaker and listener. The yen is
the official national currency of Japan, and is denoted by JPY. The
Meiji government introduced the yen to replace the previous complex
system of the Edo Period, where there was no fixed exchange rate between
the various coins used. Japan's 2009 total population was 127.51 million.
This ranked tenth in the world and made up 1.9 percent of the world's
total. Japan's population density measured 343 persons per square
kilometer in 2005, ranking fifth among countries with a population of 10
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