Japan is 31 times larger than Vanuatu.
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
Area: 12,189 km2 World Factbook
Population: 266,937 (July 2014) World Factbook
Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is an Oceanian island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. Wikipedia