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  Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nihon or Nippon) is an East Asian island country located in the Pacific Ocean, east of China and Korea, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.
Japan has the world's second largest economy, one of the world's leading industrialized nations and is member of the G8, G4, APEC nations and a major economic global power as sixth largest exporter and importer.
Japan's medieval era was characterized by the emergence of a ruling class of warriors, the buke or more commonly known in the West as the samurai and bushi.
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 Japan - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
It is bounded on the north by the Sea of Okhotsk, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea, and on the west by the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
Japan was awarded the lease (to 1923, later extended to 1997) of the Liaodong Peninsula, including the Guangdong (Kwangtung) territory, and the southern half of Sakhalin, thereafter known as Karafuto.
After Ohira died at the height of the 1980 election campaign, Zenko Suzuki was chosen by the LDP to succeed him.
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 Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Japan is a member state of the United Nations, the G8, and the G4 nations, and is one of the major donors towards international development.
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.
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 Wang Jingwei Government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the attack was unsuccessfully carried out, Wang had gone to Germany for treatment, and subsequently met with Adolf Hitler, before returning home to continue with his struggle to overthrow the central government.
A common monopolistic economic policy was applied in the area, to the benefit of Japanese zaibatsu and local representatives, with the permission of the Japanese Army, when supposedly these companies had equal treatment with the "local" Chinese companies by the "Government".
After assessing the general situation, Supreme Chinese Commander-in-Chief General Chiang Kai-shek, in coordination with American forces in China, regrouped at 3° War Zone, and for three months, maintained sustained resistance against the Japanese, and in the process, rescued some USAAF Americans, who were then sent to secure pro-Allied Chinese positions.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Empire of Japan (natural resources, Asia mainland and Pacific areas, after 1937)
From 1937, during the Japanese military occupation of territories in China, they controlled certain mineral deposits in those areas.
In the area was also the iron factory of Shihchingshan, processing the Chahar iron, and deposits of bauxite.
French Indochina: in Honggay (near Haipong) extracted ones 2,308,000 tonnes of Coal in 1937.
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 Japan - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nihon or Nippon) is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean, east of China and Korea, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to Taiwan in the south.
Japan's medieval era was characterized by the emergence of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai.
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 depletion in fish stocks such as tuna.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Japan   (4506 words)

  
 Japan - Karmiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Japan (Japanese: 日本国, Nihon; the older formal form is Nippon) is an island nation located on the Pacific Ocean, east of China and Korea, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south.
Japan's medieval era was characterized by the emergence of a ruling class of warriors, the Bushi or commonly known in the West as samurai.
Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch Template:Citation needed, prompting some claims that Japan's fishing is leading to depletion in fish stocks Template:Citation needed such as tuna.
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