Japan is 497 times larger than Bahrain.
Area: 760 km2 World Factbook
Population: 1,314,089 (July 2014) World Factbook
Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island country situated near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago with Bahrain Island, the largest land mass, at 55 km long by 18 km wide. Wikipedia
Area: 377,915 km2 World Factbook
Population: 127,103,388 (July 2014) World Factbook
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