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Bell Activity. Monday: Copy and answer. Why does Japan experience many earthquakes?. JAPAN : The land of Rising Sun. Land and Geography: Lies on the Ring of Fire They experience many earthquakes and tsunamis every year Japan is an archipelago Mt. Fuji, the highest peak Climate:
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Bell Activity Monday: Copy and answer. Why does Japan experience many earthquakes?
JAPAN: The land of Rising Sun Land and Geography: Lies on the Ring of Fire They experience many earthquakes and tsunamis every year Japan is an archipelago Mt. Fuji, the highest peak Climate: Northern island are cold while southern islands are warm
Japan’s Economy • The people of Japan are • - highly skilled, hard working, educated, cooperative • Japan has few mineral resources. It imports raw materials • Known for variety and quality of its manufactured goods • Products: • Agriculture • Farmland is limited • Intensive cultivation, use fertilizers and modern machinery to produce high crop yield. • Economic Challenges: • World’s leading exporter but limits import • Preserving the environment
Japan’s History and Government • Trace their ancestry to various clans. • Originally from ______. • Rulers: • - Emperors • Model of Society • - Chinese way of life • - Borrowed Chinese Writing • - Accepted Buddhist Religion • Shinto, Japan’s own traditional nature religion • Shoguns • - military leaders • Samurai • - powerful land-owning warriors • U.S.A . Pressured Japan to trade with others countries • Military power in 1900’s • Pearl Harbor • Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan
Japan’s Government • Japan’s government is constitutional monarchy • - Emperor, the head of state • Japan has great influence as a world economic power. • Japan keeps military small caused by the suffering during WWII • Improved health care and education for its people. • Lowest infant death rate • 100% literacy rate • Crime rate is very low. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko
JAPAN’S PEOPLE AND CULTURE • About the size of California but the population is nearly half of the US. • Most of the people live in urban area or city. • Some people are still wearing the traditional dress called kimono • Family ties still remain strong • Religion; • Shinto and Buddhism • Shinto teaches respect of nature, love of simple things, cleanliness and good manners.
JAPANESE TRADITIONAL ARTS • Japan’s religion has influenced country’s art • Many paintings portray the beauty of nature • Kabuki – theater arts • Sports: • Sumo wrestling, judo and karate martial arts They enjoy baseball, rock music, modern fashion, television, movies and Japanese cartoons
JAPAN N A M E P E R I O D D A T E The Land of the Rising Sun
Bell Activity: 10-18-11 • Read the story of the Thousand Cranes on page 194. • Just write your answer to this question: • What was it about Sadako that made other Japanese people connected to her and proud of her?