Japan is a small village in eastern
Hazle Township, Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania
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, located on
Route 940. It is located just west of the borough of
Jeddo 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, a tributary of the
Nescopeck Creek
Nescopeck Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The creek is in the Coal Region of ...
, westward into the
Susquehanna River. It is split between the Hazleton
zip codes of 18201 and 18202
Unincorporated communities in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania
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