Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the 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. Wikipedia

Texas is the second most populous and the second-largest of the 50 U.S. states in the United States of America, and the largest state in the 48 contiguous United States. Wikipedia