1. Japan
Land of the Rising Sun

2. Yakuza

3. Internment

4. Japan: Geography
Most densely populated nation in the world – people per square mile
Separated and isolated from Asia, which protected it from invasion and created distrust of foreigners
Japan is a chain of islands consisting of four main islands and 6,848 smaller islands for a total of 6,852 islands.

5. Japan: Geography 85% of Japan is mountains 200 volcanoes
75% of population in coastal cities

6. Japan: Climate Four Seasons
40 inches of rain in the driest part of Japan (Seattle’s average is 38)
100 inches in other parts of the the country

7. Japan: Resources Human Resource Technology
Minerals are copper and coal
90% of their oil is from Middle East
Human Resource
Ability to industrialize lead to economic growth
Technology
Leading export

8. Japan: Culture
Hard work, practicality, modesty, reserve, humility, devotion, and loyalty
Extremely loyal to their “group”
Usually stay with “company” for life.
Fired - disgrace to person and family
Greet with a bow

9. Japan: Culture Conform – be like and act like everyone else
Impolite – yawn or chew gum in public or point with finger
Education – The literacy rate of Japan is one of the highest in the world, at almost 100%.
Economic Progress – Unemployment rate is 3.65%
Patriarchal – male dominated. If individuals threaten the family’s good name, the family would expel them
Sumo – national sport, but they LOVE their baseball
Homicide – 2nd lowest in the world, behind Iceland. Japan’s rate is .50 per 100,000 people. The United States is 4.5

10. Japan: Culture

11. 660 BCE – 1185 CE: Imperial Period
Japan: History
660 BCE – 1185 CE: Imperial Period
Ruled by an emperor, as noble families gained power the emperor’s rule weakened and became more religious and ceremonial

12. Feudal Period

13. Japan History 1868-1912 Meiji Restoration
Referred to as Enlightened Rule. The Japanese ended feudalism and began to modernize by borrowing actively from the West.
Transportation: train system (bullet)
Manufacturing: weapons /ship building industries
Technology: students went abroad to study in the West to learn adapted new ideas to fit their culture
Japan did not want to be colonized

14. Japan Today