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Japan: An Archipelago Overview

I. This document provides background information on Japan including its geography, population, and culture. II. Japan is an island country located in East Asia consisting of over 6,800 islands. The four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku which make up 97% of Japan's land. Tokyo has over 38 million people making it the most populated metropolitan area in the world. III. Early Japanese culture was heavily influenced by China but developed its own distinct culture during its isolationist Edo period. Modern Japanese culture blends traditional customs with influences from around the world.

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Japan: An Archipelago Overview

I. This document provides background information on Japan including its geography, population, and culture. II. Japan is an island country located in East Asia consisting of over 6,800 islands. The four main islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku which make up 97% of Japan's land. Tokyo has over 38 million people making it the most populated metropolitan area in the world. III. Early Japanese culture was heavily influenced by China but developed its own distinct culture during its isolationist Edo period. Modern Japanese culture blends traditional customs with influences from around the world.

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I.

LITERARY PIECES
II. COUNTRY BACKGROUND,
CULTURE, TRADITION, CUISINE

COUNTRY BACKGROUND
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of
the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine
Sea in the south.
The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".
Japan is a stratovolcanicarchipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest
are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku, which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area
and often are referred to as home islands. The country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions,
with Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one. Japan is the 2nd
most populous island country. The population of 127 million is the world's eleventh largest, of which 98.5%
are ethnic Japanese. 90.7% of people live in cities, while 9.3% live in the countryside. About 13.8 million
people live in Tokyo, the capital of Japan. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in
the world with over 38 million people.

CULTURE
Early Japanese culture was heavily influenced by China. During the Edo era, Japan exercised a strict isolationist policy,
closing its doors to all relationships with the outside world. This cultivated a distinct Japanese culture.

After the fall of that era in 1868, Japan reversed this practice, adopting cultural practices from all over the world and
mixing them with what was established during the Edo era. Over the years, Western culture has influenced all aspects of
Japanese culture including art, lifestyle and food.

Early Japanese culture was heavily influenced by China during the Edo era, Japan exercised a strict isolationist policy,
Closing its doors to all relationships with the outside world. This culitivated a distinct Japanes culutr

TRADITION
CUISINE
III. BACKGROUND
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V. Elements
Characters
Settings
Plot
Theme
Moral
VI. ACTIVITY
JAPAN

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