JAPAN

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JAPAN

• Submitted ByTyler Mulrooney
• Submitted on Jan. 17/01
• Submitted to Mr. Antle

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Major Land Forms

• Mt.Fuji
• Japan Alps
• The Chishma
• The Central Regions of Honshu
• East Japan Volcanic belt

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Mount Fuji
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Ecosystem

• The tremendous growth in population from the late
  19th to the mid-20th century and the rapid
  industrialization
• after 1945 put increased pressure on Japan's
  natural plant and animal communities.

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Major cities
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Resources

• Agriculture - products
• rice, sugar beets,
  vegetables, fruit pork, poultry, dairy products,
  eggs

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Major Water Forms

• Shinano River
• Tone River
• Teshio River
• Lake Biwa
• Japan Sea

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Population
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Population Densities

• Population
• 125,732,794 (July 1997
  est.)
• Population growth rate
• 0.23 (1997 est.)
• Birth rate
• 10.01 births/1,000
  population (1997 est.)
• Death rate
• 7.39 deaths/1,000
  population (1997 est.)

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Soils

• The soils of Japan are customarily divided from
  northeast to southwest into a weak podzolic
  (soils with a thin
• organic mineral layer over a gray leached layer)
  zone, a brown-earth zone, and a red-earth zone.
  There are some
• local variations. The northern half of the
  Tohoku area of northern Honshu is included in the
  area of brown forest
• soils. The northern tip of Hokkaido is classed
  as a subzone of the podzolic soils the remainder
  of the island is
• included in the subzone of the acidic brown
  forest soils. Most of western Honshu is a
  transitional zone

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Climate

• In general, Japan's climate is characterized as
  monsoonal . The main influences are the country's
  latitudinal extent, the surrounding oceans,
• and its proximity to the
  neighbouring Asian landmass. There are numerous
  local climatic
• variations, the result of relief
  features. In winter, the high pressure zone over
  eastern
• Siberia and the low pressure zone
  over the western Pacific result in an eastward
  flow of
• cold air

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Languages

• Linguists are not sure about the exact origins of
  the Japanese language. It is believed to be
  linked to the Altaic language family (Turkish,
  Mongolian, ...) but shows also similarities to
  Austronesian languages like Polynesian.