By Lawrence Alvarado

1. By Lawrence Alvarado Japan

2. Page 3: Japan Page 4: Japan & China Page 5: How WWII Effected Japan Page 6: Imports & Exports of Japan Page 7: Japan’s History Page 8: In Conclusion… Page 9:My Glossary Page 10: Bibliography Table of Contents

3. As an archipelago in the Pacific, Japan is separated from the east coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. It is approximately the size of Montana. Japan's four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The Ryukyu chain to the southwest was U.S.-occupied from 1945 to 1972, when it reverted to Japanese control, and the Kurils to the northeast are Russian-occupied. Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters which make up Japan’s name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes identified as the “Land of The Rising Sun". Japan Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaidō, Kyūshū and Shikoku, together accounting for 97% of Japan's land area. Most of the islands are mountainous , many volcanic; for example, Japan’s highest peak, Mount Fuji, is a volcano. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with about 128 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.

4. Japan & China Both Japan China The Japanese speak Japanese, Japanese is a Uralic language They both have established extremely rich cultures and great senses of national identity The Chinese speak mandarin-Chinese Japan’s international commerce almost doubled that of China in 2000. The countries also share similar religions and value systems, which have influenced each other In China only 26% of the labor force works in the service industry while in Japan a whopping 65% work there Japan has shown the advantages of the capitalist system in trying to recover from its late 90s recession.

5. The effects of World War II had far-reaching implications for most of the world. Many millions of lives had been lost as a result of the war. Germany was divided into four quadrants, which were controlled by the Allied Powers — the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. The war can be identified to varying degrees as the catalyst for many continental, national and local phenomena, such as the redrawing of European borders, the birth of the United Kingdom's welfare state, the communist takeover of China and Eastern Europe, the creation of Israel, and the division of Germany and Korea and later of Vietnam. The defeat of Japan, and its occupation by Allied Forces, led to a westernization of Japan that was more far-reaching than might otherwise have occurred. Japan quickly modernized into a strong, western-style market and industrial economy, an economical boom that was to continue well into the 1990s and 2000s. How WWII Effected Japan

6. Imports and Exports of Japan Exports Pie Graph

7. Japan’s History Recorded Japanese history begins in approximately A.D. 400, when the Yamato clan, eventually based in Kyoto, managed to gain control of other family groups in central and western Japan. Contact with Korea introduced Buddhism to Japan at about this time. Through the 700s Japan was much influenced by China, and the Yamato clan set up an imperial court similar to that of China. In the ensuing centuries, the authority of the imperial court was undermined as powerful gentry families vied for control. At the same time, warrior clans were rising to prominence as a distinct class known as samurai. In 1192, the Minamoto clan set up a military government under their leader, Yoritomo. First contact with the West came in about 1542, when a Portuguese ship off course arrived in Japanese waters. Portuguese traders, Jesuit missionaries, and Spanish, Dutch, and English traders followed. Suspicious of Christianity and of Portuguese support of a local Japanese revolt, the shoguns of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867) prohibited all trade with foreign countries; only a Dutch trading post at Nagasaki was permitted. Western attempts to renew trading relations failed until 1853, when Commodore Matthew Perry sailed an American fleet into Tokyo Bay. Trade with the West was forced upon Japan under terms less than favorable to the Japanese. Strife caused by these actions brought down the feudal world of the shoguns. In 1868, the emperor Meiji came to the throne, and the shogun system was abolished. In 1904–1905, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, gaining the territory of southern Sakhalin (Karafuto) and Russia's port and rail rights in Manchuria. In World War I, Japan seized Germany's Pacific islands and leased areas in China. The Treaty of Versailles then awarded Japan a mandate over the islands. During the 1990s, Japan suffered an economic downturn prompted by scandals involving government officials, bankers, and leaders of industry. Japan succumbed to the Asian economic crisis in 1998, experiencing its worst recession since World War II.

8. In Conclusion Japan is archipelago of 6,852 islands. Japan is separated from the East coast of Asia by the Sea of Japan. Most of the islands are Mountainous, and many volcanic. Recorded Japanese history begins in approximately A.D. 400, when the Yamato clan, eventually based in Kyoto. The effects of World War II had far-reaching implications for most of the world. In Conclusion...

9. Uralic [yoo-ral-ik]-noun-a family of languages that comprises Finno-Ugric and Samoyed as subfamilies. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian belong to Uralic. ●archipelago [ahr-kuh-pel-uh-goh]-noun-a large group or chain of islands Shogun[shoh-guhn, -guhn]-noun-the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor. implication [im-pli-key-shuhn]-noun-something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood Buddhism [boo-diz-uhm, bood-iz-]-noun-a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of south eastAsia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject. My Glossary

10. And a Special Thanks To…. http://internationaltrade.suite101.com/article.cfm/japan_s_trade_buddies ●http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Country_comparisons/japan_china3.htm ●http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_some_differences_between_China_and_Japan ● http://dictionary.reference.com/browse ● http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107666.html ● http://www.bing.com/images ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_World_War_II#Defeat_of_Japan ● Cultures Of The World Japan by Rex Shelley Bibliography