Sakura Honda

Sakura Honda is the personification of Japan and able to speak English and Japanese fluently.

She is described as a shy, quiet, and hard-working woman. She does not know very much about the outside world, partially due to her self-isolation, and needs time to adjust to other people. She is very curious and interested in learning things from other nations. Her distinct island customs may seem mysterious to others, although she finds them perfectly normal. Though she appears scared by the idea of nudity or intimate contact, she has erotic woodcuts in her possession, which she tries to hide secretly between her non-erotic books. Sakura is apparently an otaku as she has voiced on several occasions. Her otaku side is further shown when she decides to buy several mangas in her preparations for the New Year.

Sakura seems to be fond of food in general, very similar to China's fondness, her country's food in particular, as evidenced by her annoyance of having her salted salmon taken off Germany's diet plan. However, unlike China, Sakura seems willing to share recipes and ingredients of some dishes. She expressed dismay at the increase of the price of eggs due to a bad economy. She also had the urge to touch the Italy sisters' ahoges due to them reminding her of vegetables. It is said that cockroaches are one of the things that Sakura hates the most, to the extent where she could cry over them. Although she appears relatively calm most of the time, it is suggested that her anger would be the "scariest". However, it is shown that it is hard for her to get that angry, as she is mostly able to only summon an "unpleasant feeling".

She loves animals, especially cats, and owns a white dog called Pochi that resembles an Akita or Shiba Inu, both Japanese breeds. She also owns a black cat, a rabbit, and a guinea pig. She tends to have a weakness for things that are soft and fluffy.

Although she has lost connection to her spiritual side that allowed her to see and communicate with the mystic spirits of her land, Sakura is still very respectful towards spirits of the deceased and tries to prevent the other countries from doing anything that would upset them out of both respect and fear of what an angry spirit would do.

Sakura finds the Western nations to be her friends, especially Canada, France, England, America, Italy, and Germany. However, she sees China as a rival, Korea as annoying, and Russia as openly hostile. She tends to try and avoid conflict, being more peaceful nowadays, but, as of recently, she may be rethinking the peaceful attitude and condering revamping her military to keep rivals in check.

Appearance: Sakura is a Japanese lady with a fair skin tone, standing at 5 feet and 2 inches in height. She has a bob hairstyle, and has shine to her eyes unlike her male counterpart, with them being amber in color. Her hair color is black.

She often wears a simple pink and purple kimono or other civilian clothes such as a school uniform. She seems to always have a shy expression, befitting of one with a Yamato personality. She also has a pink chrysanthemum flower in her hair on the left side of her head as well as Japanese styled slippers on her feet.

Just a nice and quiet afternoon with Sakura under the cherry blossoms in the scenic Japanese countryside.