Geography

  Japan is and archipelago. An archipelago is a group of islands. Japan is located in Western Pacific Ocean besides China. Japan has four mayor islands and about 3000 smaller ones. Japan is composed by mountains; most of them are in the center, along the coasts of Japan are its mayor cities like its capital Tokyo.

    Japan has a humid subtropical climate and humid continental climate. Japan's vegetation is composed by tropical rainforests, coniferous forests, and deciduous forests.

    Japan has natural resources like Coal, Hydroelectric power, Tungsten, Silver, and Lead.

    Most of the land is used for forestry, commercial farming, and manufacturing.

 Japan

Japanese people are hard workers that are always looking to improve. One way they are looking to improve is by technology. Robots: Machines controlled by computers, that chores that human do or did. This was a very important advance in technology. Japanese workerswork together to improve their work on their jobs. This can mainly be noticed in great industries and factories.

Economic Ups and Down

First Japan was close to ideas but after they opened their ports they started using ideas from other nations and improving.

After World War 2 Japan was almost destroy.The United States give help to the Japanese goverments to make an stable goverments. Then Japan prospers and became an industrial nation because of its ability to change and grow.

The government helped companies economically so that they could build factories with high technology machines. Subsidizing:  Economic help given.

With more factories Japanese sell more goods, they earn more money, and spend more. Japan improve in technology and now they were at the same level or more advanced than the Germans and Swiss who are famous for producing watches and cameras. In the 80’s Japan produce and sold large amounts of cars, electronics goods, skiing gears, steel, and ships. Japan kept improving on existing products such as the pocket calculator which was created by Britain. Japanese also add new ideas such as the personal stereo, small electronic games. Japanes economy is mostly based on services in a 65%, industry 30%, and agriculture 5%.

                                                              Succes Brings Challenges

By the 80’s Japan had a very strong economy. They had so much money that they loaned money to nations and gave money to developing nations.

 Japan depends on the products that they sell to other nations although they don’t buy many imported goods.

Japanese work a lot so they earn a lot but they don’t like to spend much they prefer saving. Because Japanese don’t like to spend much other nations grew angry because they bought Japanese products and Japanese didn’t bought theirs. This lead to poor trade relationships with other nations.

In the 90’s Japanese economy had a recession: is when the product in which a nation depends on slows down.

To get over this recession Japanese started laying off or firing workers because they don’t have a job for them in the company ore the company is weak, only the best workers staid.

Japan still has a strong economy but they are looking for new ideas to stay strong through their challenges.

                                                                 The Modern and The Traditional

Traditions are still important to Japan. The best position for women is the marriage as in the past. Employees who are singles have more difficulties to earn a job.

Japanese wives who work support their family economy.