Japan

Japan
Planet	Earth
Continent	Asia
Population	125.7 million (as of 2021)
First appearance	LaL: "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan" (1977)

Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon or Nihon) is an island country located in East Asia. It is close to the east coast of Korea, China and Russia. The Pacific Ocean is to the east of country and the Sea of Japan is to the west. Tokyo is the capital of Japan and its biggest city.

Japan is considered a cultural superpower as the culture surrounding it is well known internationally, including its art, cuisine, film, music, and popular culture, which encompasses prominent manga, anime, and video game industries.

Appearances

TV series

• Laff-a-Lympics
  • 1.1 "The Swiss Alps and Tokyo, Japan"
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
  • 1.7 "The Demon of the Dugout"
  • 1.16 "The Ransom of Scooby Chief" (mentioned)
• The Thing
  • 1.9B "The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing" (mentioned)
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  • 3.7 "Freak Show" (mentioned)
  • 4.21 "Boatshow"
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998)
  • 1.1B "Monkey See, Doggie Do"
  • 2.5A "Dream Scheme"
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.5 "Shoyu Weenie"
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?
  • 2.1 "Big Appetite in Little Tokyo"
• Mike Tyson Mysteries
  • 2.7 "A Plaintive Wail" (mentioned)
  • 3.14 "My Favorite Mystery" (mentioned)
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016)
  • 1.7 "Bye Bye, Bellum" (photo)
  • 3.6 "Save the Date" (poster)
  • 3.12 "Take Your Kids to Dooms Day" (photo)
  • 3.25 "Lights Out!" (mentioned)
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
  • 2.6 "Mysteries on the Disorient Express" (mentioned)
  • 2.8 "The Curse of Kaniaku"
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • 1.15 "The Sword, the Fox and the Scooby-Doo!"
  • 1.20 "Too Many Dummies!" (mentioned)
• Birdgirl
  • 1.2 "ShareBear"
  • 2.1 "The Wanky" (indirectly mentioned)
  • 2.6 "The S.I.M.M." (billboard)
• Tom and Jerry in New York
  • 1.8D "Kabuki Cat"

Movies

• Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
• Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
• Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness
• Top Cat Begins
• Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (mentioned)

Specials

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Shorts

• Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
  • 1.2 "A Japanese Fishing Village"
• Tom and Jerry
  • 1.69 On a Roll

Comics

• Scooby-Doo
  • Issue #64: "The Dragon's Eye Part 6: Scooby-Doo Dai Kaiju Tengu"
• Scooby-Doo! World of Mystery
  • Issue #38: "Disbanded in Tokyo!!"
  • Issue #67: "A Hot Spot of Trouble!!"

Books

• Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Ghost

Behind the scenes

• A hamburger shop in Fuji, Japan is named after Baba Looey.
• The cast of The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan was retooled into a Japanese family instead of a Chinese family, for the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Shoyu Weenie".
• Wacky Races, Tom and Jerry, and The Powerpuff Girls are the three most popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons in Japan.
• Several Hanna-Barbera artists, such as Willie Ito, Steve Nakagawa, and Iwao Takamoto, were from Japan.
• Some 1980s episodes of The Jetsons were outsourced to Toei Animation, a prolific Japanese animation studio known for creating such television series as Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, Sailor Moon, and Digimon Adventure.
• The anime Powerpuff Girls Z was produced by Toei Animation, and takes place in Tokyo City; although in the English dub of the series, it is instead located in New Townsville.
• American animator Davis Doi created a piece of artwork as a gift to Japanese manga artist Kazuhiko Katō (known by his pen name, Monkey Punch) — the creator of the Lupin III manga — depicting Barney Rubble meeting with the titular character in his Fred Flintstone disguise.
• Frankenstein Jr. is thought to have similarities to Gigantor, a giant robot known as Tetsujin 28-gō (鉄人28号) in its original Japanese counterpart.