Japan

From Smurfology

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

The time-lost Smurfs visited this country in the episodes "Karate Clumsy" and "Papa's Big Snooze". It was also previously visited by the group of Smurfs searching for the purest source of the air element to restore the power of the Long Life Force Stone in the episode "Smurfquest".