Japan, Pennsylvania is a small village in eastern Hazle Township, Luzerne County located on Route 940.

Pennsylvania Route 940

Pennsylvania Route 940 is a long Pennsylvania highway located in the sparsely-developed Poconos. It runs from Pennsylvania Route 309 in Hazleton to Pennsylvania Route 191 in Paradise Valley. Large segments of PA 940 are located in densely forested areas....

 It is just west of the borough of Jeddo

Jeddo, Pennsylvania

Jeddo is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 98 at the 2010 census. It was named after a Japanese port to which coal was exported by the Hazleton Coal Company.-Geography:Jeddo is located at ....

 and these two names were designated by the Hazleton Coal Company, which used the Japanese port of Jeddo. It is drained by the Black Creek

Black Creek (Nescopeck Creek)

Black Creek is a tributary of Nescopeck Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Black Creek joins Nescopeck Creek approximately upstream of the Susquehanna River.-References:...

, a tributary of the Nescopeck Creek

Nescopeck Creek

Nescopeck Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.The creek rises in the saddle between Mount Yeager and Pine Mountain in Dennison Township, Pennsylvania, flowing into a former swamp dammed to form Olympus Pond. It meets Creasy Creek and...

, westward into the Susquehanna River

Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River is a river located in the northeastern United States. At long, it is the longest river on the American east coast that drains into the Atlantic Ocean, and with its watershed it is the 16th largest river in the United States, and the longest river in the continental United...

. It is split between the Hazleton zip code

ZIP Code

ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the...

s of 18201 and 18202. http://www.hipcodes.com/Pennsylvania/Freeland/