| A | B |
|---|
| archipelago | group of islands |
| arable land | land that can be farmed |
| terracing | cut steps in hill to farm |
| what percent of Japan is mountains | 85% |
| typhoons | violent hurricanes |
| staple foods of Japan | rice and fish |
| capital of Japan | Tokyo |
| Largest and main island | Honshu |
| Nippon | land of the rising sun |
| ethnocentric | think culture is best |
| high pop. density of Japan | Japan has 1/2 pop living in size of California |
| Japanese native religion | shintoism |
| what does shintoism stress | worship of nature and ancestors |
| Kanji | system of writing |
| calligraphy | art of handwriting |
| ainus | originial people of Japan |
| race of Japanese | mongoloid |
| Juku | weekend Japnanese school |
| literacy rate ofJapan | nearly 100% |
| Japan's emperor today | figurehead only a symbol |
| samarai | knights/warriors who protected land for lords |
| shogun | feudal chieftain who held real power |
| kamikaze | divine wind-fierce typhoon that attacked invading forces in 13th century |
| Matthew Perry | navy officer who opened up Japan in 1853 |
| Pearl Habor | 1941-US enters WWII |
| places where atomic bomb used in WWII | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| date of atomic bombing | 1945 |
| general who led occupation of Japan after WWII | D. MacArthur |
| type of gov't in Japan today | parliamentary democracy |
| reason Japanese industry so successful | teamwork,loyalty,hard work,gov't support |
| Japanese products sold abroad | TV's,radios,cars,home appliances |
| Japan's problems | overcrowding,pollution,few natural resources,little farm land,labor shortage |
| feudalism | lord's own land/peasants work for them |
| Japanese education | 6 days a week,lots of homework, little vacation |
| are Japan's rivers navigable? | no but used for hydroelectric power |
