In French, the word for Japan is le Japon, which means it is masculine. In the French language, nouns are classified as either masculine or feminine, and this classification affects the articles and adjectives used with them.
For instance, when discussing Japan, you would say le Japon est beau (Japan is beautiful), using the masculine article le. This classification doesn’t necessarily reflect any cultural attributes of the country itself; it’s simply a grammatical rule in the French language.