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  Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japan is situated in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire at the juncture of the Philippine Plate, Pacific Plate, Eurasian Plate, and North American Plate.
Japan is a temperate region with, more or less, four seasons (some believe the rainy season should be a fifth season), but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to over depletion in fish stocks such as tuna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan   (5011 words)

  
 Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Japan is a temperate region with four distinct seasons, but because of its great length from north to south, its climate varies from region to region: the far north is very cold in the winter, while the far south is subtropical.
Japan's small agricultural sector is highly subsidised and protected, with government regulations that favor small-scale cultivation instead of large-scale agriculture as practiced in North America.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to overdepletion in fish stocks such as tuna.
paloweb.com /wikipedia.asp?l=en&pages=Japan   (3450 words)

  
 biology - Japan
Japan (日本, Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun" or "Land of the Rising Sun") is an island country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Japan is situated in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war baby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernised in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace).
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Japan   (4328 words)

  
 Japan Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Over repeated ice ages during the last million years, Japan was regularly connected by land bridges to the Asian mainland (by Sakhalin to the North, and probably Kyushu to the South), facilitating migrations of humans, animals and plants to the Japanese archipelago from the area that is now China and Korea.
Japan's small agricultureagricultural sector is highly subsidised and protected, with government regulations that favor small-scale cultivation instead of large-scale agriculture as practiced in North America.
The Japanese population is rapidly aging, the effect of a post-war Post-WW2_baby_boombaby boom followed by a decrease in births as the country modernised in the latter part of the 20th century (notable aspects including the shift from agricultural to urban lifestyles and the increasing tendency for women to remain in the workplace).
www.echostatic.com /Japan.html   (4351 words)

  
 Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Japan adopted a new constitution, establishing the country as a pacifist democratic nation, in 1947 under the occupation authority.
Japan is the 16th most densely populated country in the world (see List of countries by population density).
Japan's small agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with government regulations that favor small-scale cultivation instead of large-scale agriculture as practiced in North America.
www.totalbike.com /wiki/Japan   (4530 words)

  
 JAPAN FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Japan (日本) is a country on the western edge of the Pacific_Ocean.
According to traditional Japanese_mythology, Japan was founded in the 7th_century_BC by the ancestral Emperor Jinmu, who started a line of emperors that remains unbroken to this day.
Japan now also has the highest life_expectancy in the world (85.2 years for women and 78.3 years for men in 2002 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm).
www.splammer.com /?req=japan   (4264 words)

  
 Japan - SFA Software Knowledgebase
Japan (日本, Nihon) is a country on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Though Japan did not appear in written history until 57 AD, when it is first mentioned in Chinese records as the nation of "Wa" (in Chinese, "Wo"), or "dwarf slaves", these chronicles tell a much different and much more legendary history of Japan, deriving the people of Japan from the gods themselves.
Relations with the People's Republic of China occasionally worsen due to the Japanese government's supposed denial of war crimes during World War II, including the Nanking Massacre.
www.sfasoft.com /kb/Japan   (4878 words)

  
 Japan - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Japan now also has the highest life expectancy in the world (85.2 years for women and 78.3 years for men in 2002 [1] (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm)).
Japan for Dummies (http://www.generatemusic.com/japan/) Pictures of everyday life in Japan
Art Beyond the West: The Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas
www.unipedia.info /Jp.html   (4690 words)

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