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Japan – The Art Of Living With Volcanic Mountains

The capital of Japan is Tokyo city. The Tokyo consists of a city which is found to be one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world. The de facto is the name of the largest metropolitan city in Tokyo.

Japan is called as nation of islands. Japan is having about six thousand eight hundred and fifty two islands in it and though most of them are only mountains still Japan has quite good population in it. The de facto along with all of the prefectures surrounding it consist of one hundred and twenty seven million people.

If you visit Japan, you can find one thing in common. It is the houses. Most of the houses in Japan which are located near mountains are constructed using wood as element for construction. These houses in Japan are very unique in looks and are very much beautiful. Most of the houses do not consists of any regular items. They do not use much house hold items in their houses because of Lava Mountains.

The doors which are used in house will be found having push slide doors. A reason for using wooden house and the push slide doors is because of volcanic mountains. In Japan volcanic eruption is very common. Thus by building wooden houses, it will not make them loose much.

Whenever there is volcanic eruption, people go out of their houses taking all their belongings. Thus only wooden house gets burnt. If the same house is built using concrete as in other parts of the world, the expense will be more for them to build the houses with concrete again and again. However the houses will be destroyed by volcano.

Much of the people who stay near mountain do not use much house hold items in their house. Thus when the time of volcano they can relocate to some safe place easily.

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Japan The True Hard Worker

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Japan is the most advanced country in the world. They stand within first two places when it comes to technology. Japanese are the term used to call the people who belong to Japan. They have proved their capability many a times with the inventions.

The first nuclear bomb was dropped over japans’ main islands. The name of the islands was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The suffering what they faced after the nuclear bomb tragedy cannot be forgotten by any one. Even the pilot who dropped that nuclear bomb over the two islands, regretted till he had his last breath.

It is considered to be the worst time so far in the three world wars. The nuclear bomb was dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki was because, it had the military head quarters of Japan in there. They had few airports nearby Nagasaki. Thus when the bomb explosion happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it created a history which shows the disaster that is the outcome of war.

After the nuclear bomb was dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the major islands of Japan lost lots of airplanes to fight back against U.S. they took decades to recover the suffering what they faced as consequence of war.

The two islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were literally erased from the map. The condition was so cruel. The land where the nuclear bomb was dropped in Japan didn’t have any cultivation value. The property of soil was so bad that even every grain of sand was burnt to the core. Thus the fertility was almost lost to the maximum extent.

There were lots of measures taken to return back the fertility of the soil of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ninety nine percent were failure. Years after this incident, the fertility does not seem to be returning and thus all the farmers were forced to start any other work to make living in Japan.

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Japan, After The Mighty Blast

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Everyone knows about the power of nuclear weapon. It is the most powerful weapon man has ever created. The proof of that is Japan itself. We all know that the nuclear bomb was dropped during the world was between Japan and U.S, the destruction was so severe and the proof is right in front of us.

If any plants were tried to be planted in that soil condition, that plant would die in next few hours. The soil has become so poisoned for anything to be grown. There was nothing remaining after the collision happened with nuclear bomb. Even for the present situation, the land is found to be dead with no values.

Even at the present situation, if any plant is tried to grown in that soil it would die after a couple of days or weeks. It is not a Child’s play to get back the fertile values of any soil. Japan is still suffering for what happened with two of its main islands, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Still Japan took the situation as a challenge and made it happen to get their glory back.

They are now one of the most advanced counties in this whole world. The people of Japan are still trying their maximum to do what they can to get the value of Japan in the World’s view. Japan is trying to make the world easier and simpler. They are marching towards the next generation of technology.

Japan has succeeded almost, if it’s considered for economic growth. They have made their mark in economic status when considered with other country economic status. The currency which is used in Japan is signified with a different name and symbol. The main evidence for the growth of Japan in economic status is the symbol of their currency yen. The symbol of yen is Â¥.

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The archeological structure of the land of rising sun

According to the research made by some of the great archeologists, the research specifies that the existence of Japan is found from upper Paleolithic period. The people who were residing on the islands of Japan were found to be there from the upper Paleolithic period as well.

According the information gathered from the first written source which is in the text from Chinese history, there is brief information about their appearances. The first written source belongs to first century AD. Japan has adopted the constitution that it follows in year 1947.

Japan follows the system of unitary constitutional monarchy. Which means the rule will be with one emperor and the diet. The parliament with handful of elected members in Japan is called Diet. Japan has the major economy power. It is found that Japan has the second largest economy in the world. The symbol for their currency is the best example.

Japan is also in purchasing power parity as the third largest in the world. They are in exporting as the fourth largest in the world and also the fifth largest importer of goods in the world.

Japan is currently serving for United Nations Security Council as a non permanent member. Once in history, Japan was in war and was targeted with most powerful weapon that is nuclear bomb. After the nuclear blast Japan had lost almost everything. But now if one can see, they are standing in a position where many other countries are dreaming to be.

The dedication of the people in Japan and their true hard work for their country had made the country stand in such a position. They have officially claimed the right to declare war when there is any need. This authority cannot be given to any country unless it is capable and has power.

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The Climatic Conditions Of Japan

The climate of Japan will be moderate most of the times. The temperature varies a lot from north to south. The geographical feature of Japan has been divided into six zones depending upon their principal climate. The six zones are Sea of Japan, Seto inland, Hokkaido, central highland, Ryukyu Islands and Pacific Ocean.

Hokkaido is the northernmost zone among all the six zones of Japan. The temperature of Hokkaido will be of long and cold winters also with cool summers. Rainfall will not be heavy, but there will be deep snow bank found in winter season over the islands.
Sea of Japan zone is located at the west coast on Honshu. There will be heavy snow fall due to the wind blowing from northwest during summer season. This region gets a lot cooler than compared to pacific area of the country. There can be occurrence of very hot temperature sometimes; this is due to the phenomenon of the Foehn wind which blows through the zone.

The central highland will always have a typical inland climate; there will be huge difference with temperature during summer and winter season. There will be huge temperature change also during day and night times. Rainfall will not be heavy. The Seto inland sea will be protected from the seasonal winds by Chugoku and Shikoku, the two mountains present in the inland.

The Ryukyu always carry on a subtropical climate. The country is blessed with hot summers and cool winters. The rainfall in this area is very heavy. Heavy rainfall is recorded in the rainy seasons. Typhoons occur very often and hence it’s very common in this inland.
40.9 degree Celsius is found to be the highest temperature measured so far. This highest temperature was recorded in 2007 during the month of august.

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The Early Period Of Japan

The origin of Japan is found to be from the upper Paleolithic period. This period is around 30,000 BC. This upper Paleolithic period was followed in Japan since fourteen thousand BC. This period consists of decorated clay vessels, patterns that are often plaited. These are some of the oldest forms of potteries existed in the world.
Since 500 BC Japan started using of different types of practices which were new to that time. Some of the practices were farming of wet rice, making new styles of pottery and also different styles of metallurgy.

The existence of Japan was found by the research team of archeologists from the written of first century AD. The written scripts from first century were in China’s book called Book of Han. According to the written knowledge in the book, the people of Japan were residing on the islands of Japan.

It is also mentioned in the book that Japanese were the first to follow Buddhism. It then got influenced to china. There were three major kingdoms existed at that time, according to the information available in the book. The three kingdoms were called with the name Yamataikoku.

Baekje introduced Buddhism to Japan for the first time. It is one among the three powerful kingdoms of Korea. There was successive expansion of Buddhist sculptures and Japanese Buddhism was then influenced by china. At the early times, Buddhism was only followed by the class of people who were called the ruling class.

After few years it gradually gained the interest and grew acceptance at the time of Asuka period. The Nara period, this was considered to be one the most influential state of Japan during 8th century. They manifested the appearance of a strong Japanese state. The literature written about the Nara period is the proof of all their existence and their chronicles.

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The History Of Japan At The World War

The people who survived that blast in Japan can be considered as living dead. They were not able to work the normal way they used to before the explosion. There are lots of examples for the suffering caused by Japan after the nuclear bomb. Some of those sufferings are carried through even for the present situation. There have also been lots of researches conducted in attempting to restore the original glory of Japan.
The kids born in that particular place of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were born with lots of defects. Most of them didn’t have proper organs functionality. Some were born handicapped. Some were born with mental illness. There were lots of damages happening with the human process. The air was so much poisoned that inhaling that it for several days would cause death to the people survived.

After lots of research the scientists were able to get back the normal behavior with the birth of child in Japan, now a day the children born in those particular islands are getting back into their normal life style except their cultivation.

Almost ninety nine percent of population was erased in an instance when the blast occurred from the nuclear bomb over japans two major military base and shipping center. There was nothing left after the explosion of nuclear bomb happened. The poison was also present in soils leaving nothing to grow over there for decades.
The population of Japan got reduced into one fourth of total population as soon the nuclear bomb got exploded. The remaining were either contagious with the poison of the explosion or they were in the verge of death. The people who survived the blast were forced to relocate the city as the soil was not at all getting any good for their cultivation.

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The Inside Knowledge Of Japan

The meaning of the word Japan in Japanese word tells that it is the country where the sun rises first. So, Japan is called as “the land of rising sun”. Japan is actually a country of many islands within it. It is found to be consisting of about six thousand eight hundred and fifty two islands within it. There are about four islands which are the largest among all six thousand eight hundred and fifty two islands.

Japan is actually an island nation that is located in the eastern part of Asia. Japan is located around Pacific Ocean which happens to be at the east part of many other places like china, North Korea, Sea of Japan, South Korea and Russia.
The origination of the name of Japan is because of the special characteristic that Japan has which no other countries will have in this whole world. It is the name of Japan has a special meaning to it. The character used for the name Japan which means in Japanese is “sun – origi”.

The country Japan has many popular and largest islands. These four islands cover about ninety seven percent of land space. Japan has lots of mountains and peaks. Among six thousand eight hundred and fifty two most of the islands are consisting of mountains. Almost ninety percent of the mountains are volcanic.

The highest peak of Japan is called as Mount Fuji. Even this found to be a volcanic mountain. Though it is covered with ice it has lots of lava inside it. Volcanic eruption is most common in Japan. The people who are residing in Japan are very much used to the volcanic eruption. The houses that are built in Japan are made of wood and they are having typical designs for their houses.

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