Nippon -- “Land of the Rising Sun”
1 Japan History
Japan used to have a shogunate system similar to the feudal King and Queen system in Europe • The Shoguns were really powerful 1100-1800 samurai warriors=knights
Japan History and religion
Tradition and religion are a focus of Japanese culture. • Shinto 54% • Buddhism 40% • Other about6%
2 Newspaper Cartoon, 1870s?
Enlightened Half-Enlightened Un-Enlightened
Everything Western Was Fashionable!
3 The Rulers Set the Tone with Western Dress
Emperor Meiji Empress Haruko (1868- 1912)
Japan’s Topography
4 Japan and the United States
Fast Travel Throughout Japan
Shinkansen: Bullet Train
Bullet Train National Lines
5 Very Mountainous: Little Arable Land
Mt. Fuji
6 Swift-Moving Rivers: Hydroelectric Power
Japan’s Land Area and Utilization
7 Mt. Aso -- Active Volcano
Global Tectonic Plates Japan -- On the “Fire Rim of the Pacific”
8 Japan’s Sub-Oceanic Trenches
Japanese Earthquakes: 1961-1994
9 Ginza Ruins After The Great Kanto Earthquake -- Tokyo, 1923
Over 100,000 dead!
Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995
► 7.2 Richter scale ► 5,500 deaths
10 Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995
Tsunamis – Tidal Waves
11 Japan’s Oceanic Currents
12 Average Monthly Precipitation in Three Cities
Precipitation
13 Average January Temperature
Average July Temperature
14 Different Climates and Seasons in Japan
Spring Summer
Fall Winter
15 Igawa Town on the Izumo Plain
Rice Farmer’s Farmhouse: Okutsu Town, Okayama Prefecture
16 Terrace Farming of Rice
The Japanese Farm the Sea
Tokyo Fish Market Japan fleet also continues to hunt whales. The government of Japan activly fights the ban on whale hunting
17 Natural Resources
18 Raw Materials
19 Japan’s Population Density
Japan’s Population Trends
20 Population Comparisons
1,400 1,250 1,200 1,000 Thailand 800 Japan 600 China 400 Hong Kong Singapore 200 126 61 7 4 0 Population in Millions
Japan’s Population Over 65 versus the United States
21 Japan’s Growing Older
Japan’s Age Breakdown
Under 15 years 15.8%
15 – 59 years 63.3%
60 and over 20.9% years
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