Exclusive economic zone of Japan

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Japan has the eighth-largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the world.^[1] The total area of Japan is about 380 thousand km².^[2] Japan's EEZ area is vast and the territorial waters (including the Seto Inland Sea) and EEZ together is about 4.47 million km².^[3]