Transcript The Geography of Japan - Alena Pettit / FrontPage
Question # 1
Describe what you think the geography of Japan is like? (i.e. is it desert-like, mountainous, flat, cold, etc.)
Nippon - “Land of the Rising Sun”
Japan and the United States
Japan’s Regions
Japan’s Prefectures
Japan’s Topography
Bodie s of Water Ishikari R.
Sea of Japan Shinano R.
Tone R.
Pacific Ocean Inland Sea
Mountai ns And Peaks Kitani Mts.
Kitakami Mts.
Mt. Fuji
Plains Ishikari Plain Kanto Plain Nobi Plain Osaka Plain
Island s Honshu Kyushu Okinawa Shikuku Hokkaido
Countrie s China N. Korea S. Korea Russia
Cities Sapporo Hiroshima Kyoto Kobe Tokyo Nagoya Osaka Yokohama Nagasaki
Final Map
China N. Korea S. Korea Hiroshima Nagasaki Kyushu Russia Sapporo Hokkaido Sea of Japan Shinano R.
Ishikari Plain Kitakami Mts.
Kyoto Kobe Tokyo Osaka Yokohama Pacific Ocean Okinawa
Fast Travel Throughout Japan Shinkansen: Bullet Train Bullet Train National Lines
Very Mountainous: Little Arable Land
Hells Lake Pool in Beppu
Mt. Fuji
Swift-Moving Rivers: Hydroelectric Power
Japan’s Land Area and Utilization
Japan by Satellite
Mt. Aso -- Active Volcano
Shiranesan Caldera
Global Tectonic Plates
Japan - On the “Fire Rim of the Pacific”
Japan’s Sub-Oceanic Trenches
Japanese Earthquakes: 1961 1994
Ginza Ruins After The Great Kanto Earthquake -- Tokyo, 1923 Over 100,000 dead!
Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995
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7.2 Richter scale
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5,500 deaths
Kobe Earthquake -- January 17, 1995
Tsunamis – Tidal Waves
Japan and the United States
Japan’s Oceanic Currents
Average Monthly Precipitation in Three Cities
Precipitation
Average January Temperature
Average July Temperature
Different Climates and Seasons in Japan Spring Summer Fall Winter
Igawa Town on the Izumo Plain
Rice Farmer’s Farmhouse: Okutsu Town, Okayama Prefecture
Terrace Farming of Rice
The Japanese Farm the Sea
Tokyo Fish Market
Natural Resources
Raw Materials
World Contributions to Global Warming
Japan’s Population Density
Japan’s Population Trends
1,400 1,200 1,000 800 600 400 200 0
Population Comparisons
1,250 61 126 7 Population in Millions 4 Thailand Japan China Hong Kong Singapore
Japan’s Population Over 65 versus the United States
Japan’s Growing Older
Japan’s Age Breakdown
Under 15 years 15.8% 15 – 59 years 60 and over years 63.3% 20.9%
THE FIRST SETTLERS OF JAPAN
The First Settlers of Japan The Yayoi 300 B.C. The Yayoi appeared.
Organized into clans or group of families related by blood and marriage.
Introduced farming and metalworking.
The Yamato 500 A.D. a clan called the Yamato became strong enough to rule most of Japan.
Claimed to be descendents of the sun goddess and therefore had the right to rule.
The Yamato leader Jimmu took the title “emperor of heaven” and founded a line of rulers in Japan that has never been broken.
Yamato Period: 300-710
Began promoting the adoption of Chinese culture:
Confucianism.
Language (
kanji
characters).
Buddhist sects.
Chinese art & architecture.
Government structure.
“Great Kings” era
Prince Shotoku:
573-621
Adopted Chinese culture and Confucianism.
Buddhist sects allowed to develop.
Created a new government structure:
17 Article Constitution in 604.
Prince Shotuku’s Reforms
600 A.D. a Yamato prince name Shotoku took charge of Japan on behalf of his aunt, the empress Suiko.
Wanted a strong government like China.
Created a constitution that gave all the power to the emperor.
Sent officials to China to learn from their brilliant civilization.
Brought back art, medicine, and philosophy-much of which had been brought through Korea.
Brought Buddhism to Japan.
Yamato began the Taika or Great Change.
He divided Japan into provinces.
Shotoku’s reforms created Japan’s first strong central government.
Horyuji Japan’s Oldest temple and the world’s oldest surviving wooden building .