Chapter 1
Human and physical geography
Japan is located in the continent of Asia it covers 364,485 square kilometres of land and 13,430 square kilometres of water. Japan is the 62nd largest nation of the world with a total area of 377,915 square kilometres.
Japan has beautiful physical landscape features like mountains, waterfalls, forests and islands. Japanese people have a deep affection for the beauty of nature and the landscape. The ancient Shinto religion says natural features have their own sprits like sounds.
Most of Japan is covered by countryside. But with more than 100 million people living in such a small place, wildlife has suffered.
Japans geography impacts it development because of its location.
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Japan has the 3rd largest economy in the world; Japan had created successful brands that are famous across the globe such like Toyota, Sony, Fujifilm and Panasonic.
People in Japan work very hard to make Japan a richer and better place. The number of people in the Japanese labour force increased steadily from 36 million workers in 1950 to 64 million in 1995, and then began to decline slightly. In 1950 nearly half of the labour force went to work at farming, fishing and forestry. Japanese people also worked in mining, constructions or manufacturing industries.
Japanese women also works, women made up fewer than 40% of the Japanese labour force.
Well, Because of its size and rocky land, Japan lacks the natural resources to support its growing economy and large population. As a result, Japan exports goods in exchange for the import of raw materials and petroleum. Japan is one of the biggest agricultural importers in the world. Japan has become one of the largest processors of raw materials imported from abroad, depending on a strong transportation and highly skilled workforce. Therefore Japan is more economically developed
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This is an area of high seismic and volcanic activity from New Zealand, up through Japan, across to Alaska, and down the west coasts of North and South America. Japan’s specific location in this “ring”, causes frequent earthquakes as well as many volcanoes and hot springs across the country.
Japan thought it was prepared for and natural disease. It had conducted drills and planned and evacuation routes. Such as, Schools in Japan are always prepared for any danger for all of the children in all grades. So around the school there are drills; the drills take place every with the children being taught to go head-first under the desk and cling to table legs until the quake is over. If the children are out in the playground the rush to the centre of any open space to avoid being hit by falling debris.
The Sendai earthquake that hit in Japan 2010 had a very big effect on the country. It destroyed 138,000 buildings and cost $360 billion in economic damage. The earthquake hit northeast Japan. This region was responsible for 6-8 percent of the country's total production. There, rebuilding took seven years. Japan's nuclear industry was
Japan was a country of contradictions in the early 1900's. Her growth in industry was a major factor for influencing her growth of power; whilst at the same time their structure was a very traditional political one. The Japanese Emperor Hirohito was right in the centre of the Japanese government. The emperor made Japan very militaristic and the military had a very strong influence in Japan. Japan's growth in industry had risen greatly since in the preceding 50 years and still it continued to grow.
Within a short period of time, Japan had caught up with many Western technologies; having established universities, founded telegraph and railroad lines, as well as a national postal system being created. Shipping and textile industries were a huge success an exports rose.
...954. However, once Japan began to flourish, it has now become the world’s 14th richest country – having a GDP per capita of $32,640 (2006). Despite a major stock market crash in 1990, from which the country is recovering gradually, Japan remains a global economic power today and is now bidding for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Japan has moved on since then. They now have become one of the world's wealthiest countries and one of the United States' most powerful allies. Although Japan was hurting for a while, they overcame their struggles which is testament to how strong the people of Japan are, just ask Tamiko Tamonaga and Sachie Tashima. Word Count: 888
This is due to the Meiji Modernization that successfully transformed Japan “into a modern industrial and military power in the late 1800s.” The Japanese created an industrial economy that only paralleled to those of Western countries. Additionally, they transformed the improvised imperial government from the 1870s into a Western-style constitutional monarchy with a democratic parliament. From this point the Japanese wanted to prove themselves and their nationalist abilities to the rest of the world, and they did exactly that with their victory over the Chinese in 1895 and Russia in
The Great Kanto Earthquake also known as the Tokyo-Yokohama Earthquake of 1923 hit the metropolitan area of Kanto on September 1st, 1923 around 11:58 pm. It was a 7.9 on the Richter magnitude scale, killing over one-hundred and forty thousand people due to its high magnitude and the time it happened. The earthquake struck around lunch time, when many Japanese people were at home cooking at their charcoal or gas fueled stoves. At the moment the earthquake hit, it knocked down buildings that caught flames from the stoves that fell over, enflaming the city. The fire was swept up and able to spread due to the gusts of wind that occurred for two days afterwards, resulting in firestorms. Charles Blauvelt experienced the ordeal of the fire describing the flames as “[covering] the whole city [as they] burned all day and night.” In addition to the firestorms and the earthquake itself, there was a shock because of all the fallen debris which triggered tsunamis to fill and flood Japanese cities. These tsunamis, that were about thirty feet tall, destroyed central Tokyo and immensely added to the death toll.
The United States also contributed to much of Japan’s recovery by occupying it from 1945-1951. After the bombs shattered the cities on August 6 and August 9 in 1945, the war was concluded. Japan had many parts to pick up, such as the deaths of innocent citizens and the dilapidation of their major cities. Peter Tasker (40) mouthed “When the casualties were counted they calculated to more than three million people and left more than ten million people lacking housing.” The war forced the economy to be cut off from its normal flow of trade.
Japanese Gardens The role of gardens plays a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside influences, mainly Chinese, that effect not only changing aesthetic tastes but also the values of patrons. In observing a Japanese garden, it is important to remember that the line between the garden and the landscape that surrounds it is not separate.
We will explore some important facts about Japan’s cultural society and environment. The country of Japan is an island nation, which is separated from Mainland Asia by the Sea of Japan. (“Facts about Japan”) On the west side it is surrounded by the Northern Pacific Ocean. It has no land boundaries.
Japanese culture has many distinctive characteristics, buried in a long and rich history. Japanese people are a very proud people, who believe in love and respect and living a peaceful life. There is a distinct social structure as with many other countries. The Japanese have a language that has been adapted from other languages and built into a unique language of their own. Japan has much pride in their food and cooking techniques and preparation of their food. The Japanese culture can deter international business people due to a lack of understanding the business etiquette in Japan.
Perhaps more than any other nation in the world, Japan is shaped by its geography to a tremendous extent. Technically classified as an archipelago, Japan is a curved chain of four islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, plus over a thousand smaller islands). However, it is first and foremost an island nation, a fact which isolated Japan from the rest of the world. The second largest influence in Japanese geography is the size of the nation. The total area of Japan proper is a little under 143 thousand square miles; the contiguous United States spreads across just over 3 million. To say that
An earthquake occurs abruptly and causes severs damage to people, property, landscape and more. A great mega-thrust earthquake, known as the Great Tohoku Earthquake has shaken Japan at 5:46:24 UTC on March 11, 2011. It caused a severe disaster, including tsunami and nuclear radiation exposure.. This mega-quake located at the latitude 38.297 degree North and longitude of 142.372 degree East, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan (USGS, 2013). An earthquake and tsunami waves caused widespread damage to many areas of Japan. People in Japan are still recovering from the damages.
In Western news stories, Japan and the environment usually only come up together in one form: Japan is ruining the environment. Japan is hunting endangered whales; Japan is overfishing depleted fishing stocks; Japan has walled up the last of its wild rivers; Japan is building up all its wild areas.
Japan is a large island off to the east of China it is a great country that has a rich culture. The Japanese religion is based off of two main beliefs, the belief in Shinto and Buddhism many Japanese people believe consider themselves both. The Japanese people were known to be around as early as 4,500 B.C. They have constructed their government style to a constitutional monarchy where they do in fact have an emperor, but he has limited power within the country. The main power of the country is held by the Prime Minister of Japan. Japan is made up of many islands that extend along the Pacific coast of Asia. The land area is made up of a lot of forest and mountainous area that cannot be used for agricultural, industrial or residential use. Japan also has one of the largest and growing economies in the world. They are growing every day and it is all because the people of Japan work very hard in order for their economy to flourish as it has.
The death toll climbs to over 10,000 and is still rising (Branigan 2). The disaster in Japan began without warning on Friday March 11, 2011 at 2:46pm with a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the strongest ever recorded in the country (Fackler 3). A massive thirty-three foot high tsunami, generated by the earthquake, swept over lands in northern Japan, taking objects and debris with it. To make matters worse, the tsunami caused the cooling systems at several nuclear power plants to fail. The disaster in Japan was a tragic event, and it had a plethora of causes and effects.