The Human Geography of Japan By Kieran McLaughlin‚ M.S. Ed. Physical Geography Land area – 145‚882 square miles‚ smaller than Montana Four Main Islands: Hokkaido‚ Honshu‚ Kyushu‚ and Shikoku Japan is mostly mountainous and the cities are located on the coast Mount Fuji is the highest point – elevation 12‚388 ft. Mild earthquakes are common and severe earthquakes occur every few years The Japanese experience all four seasons. The Location of Tokyo - 35 40 N 139 45 E •
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Secondly‚ the geography in “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller‚ affected the setting and influenced things such as plot and characters‚ like Abigail. This story occurred in Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ during the Salem witch trials. As stated before‚ The setting in the book affected things such as the plot and characters. The Woods‚ or “Satan’s house” where the group of girls were dancing‚ contributed to the plot of the “The Crucible”. If there were no woods or dancing in the story‚ then there wouldn’t be a
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How did the changes resulting from isolation affect Japan economically? Because of this isolation japan’s economy wasn’t that affected.due to the peace‚they did not have to worry about missionaries coming in their land and trying to convert the japanese to christian’s the isolation mostly is had a positive influence on japan’s economy and also had a slight negative influence The positive influences were that they did not have to worry about other countries the economy had a Slight negative influence
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A chapter “Iitiko-Dori” in this book says that the Japanese are willing to accept foreign cultures and Japan has developed it’s economy with using technologies and systems that are imported from foreign countries. However‚ the Japanese have also excluded foreigners or foreign cultures. In Edo era‚ Tokugawa government forbade trading with almost all the countries. In one sense‚ that helped Japan improve it’s unique culture‚ such as kabuki‚ ennichi‚ and so on. The Japanese can enjoy it’s specific culture
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European Exploration: In 1543‚ shipwrecked Portuguese sailors washed up on the shores of southern Japan. Merchants soon followed them. Their intentions were to involve themselves in Japan’s trade with China and southeast Asia. They brought clocks‚ eyeglasses‚ tobacco‚ firearms and other unfamiliar items from Europe. Japanese purchased weapons and soon started their own production. Cannons especially had a huge impact on Japan’s warfare and living situations. They started to build fortified castles
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R314632 Japan – China ‚ Their Modernization and the comparison China and Japan both came under pressure from the West in the 19th century. The West wanted to open up foreign trade and relations‚ during this period in time neither Japan or China had the means to stand up against the West. This due to the fact that both the United states of America and Europe went through an industrial revolution‚ hence they had superior technology and weaponry for this time period. Japan and China basically
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empire and desired the strongest fighting force in the world. Japan is not resource dense‚ so it felt the need to spread its scope to the areas of Asia that are dense (Manchuria). Japan left the League of Nations as they escalated land grabs‚ displaying their desire for autonomy. Japan felt that they deserved the areas surrounding them‚ and that they had to defeat those that inhabited those areas. As the Japanese military expanded rapidly so did the nation’s bravado. The Japanese people thought their mainland
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How Western Imperialism affects China and Japan China and Japan had very different experiences with Western Imperialism . Their reactions to western interference would lay a foundation for their destiny in a world that was rapidly progressing forward ‚ leaving the traditional world behind . China viewed themselves as totally self sufficient ‚ superior ‚ and the only truly civilized land in a barbarous world. They were inward looking and were encouraged by the conservative Confucianistic beliefs
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Geography is an important factor of International Business operations of a country. South Koreas place in the map makes it part of the East Asian monsoonal region. The country has a temperate climate with four seasons. Winter is usually long‚ cold and dry. January is the coldest month in South Korea. The temperature ranges from -5o C to -25o C in January. Summer is hot‚ humid and short. Autumn and spring are short in duration. If the weather is too cold‚ too hot‚ too windy and natural disasters affects
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Japan is under struggle since its early days of its rise as industrial power. The one of the most important reasons of its sufferings are the scarcity of natural resources which influence the economy badly as well as national security. In agriculture sector also Japan have not a satisfactory because yearly per production of the crops were increasing which is not good for the land and land mass are in unrest and second important thing is international environment which is not stable. There are some
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