Japan was an island nation on Earth (Earth-38). Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lay to the east of the East Sea (Sea of Japan), 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 prefectures of Fukushima and Nagano were located here. The inhabitants of Japan spoke the Japanese language.^[1] The country was destroyed during the Anti-Monitor Crisis, when a wave of antimatter wiped out the whole universe of Earth-38.

History

When she was six years old (around 1995), Alex Danvers and her parents visited Nagano; Japan for the summer. Alex grew homesick so one night, a local village girl helped her sneak down to one of the temples. There, Alex wrote down a wish and placed the paper in a crack in the wall in the hopes that it would come true. The girl then taught Alex a rhyme, "yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara", which means "pinky swear".^[2]

In 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, located in the eponymous prefecture, broke out in disaster (including a massive radiation leak, though comparatively less than Chernobyl in Ukraine) during an earthquake.^[3]

In late 2019, the country was destroyed by a wave of antimatter, along with the rest of Earth-38.^[4]

Known locations

• Fukushima (prefecture)
• Nagano (village)
  • Temple

Known individuals

Residents

• Nagano's villager(s)

Visitors

• Alex Danvers

Season 4

Supergirl

Season 1

• "Fight or Flight" (indirectly mentioned)

Season 4

• "Elseworlds, Part 3" (indirectly mentioned)

• "Blood Memory" (mentioned)

References

Other versions of Japan
To see other versions of this location, click the Earth name below for that Earth's counterpart of Japan.
New multiverse
Earth: Prime • TUD25
Original multiverse
Earth: 1 • TUD5
Transmultiversal multiverse
Earth: