Asia vs Japan

Asia and Japan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asia	Yes	No	No	No
Japan	Yes	No	No	No

Asia (noun)	Japan (noun)
the nations of the Asian continent collectively	a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations	a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean