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	Japan - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The islands of Japan are the projecting summits of a huge chain of mountains originally a part of the continent of Asia, from which they were detached in the Cenozoic era.
		In the north, the island of Hokkaido is marked by a volcanic range that descends from the Kurils and merges in the south-western part of the island with a chain branching from Point Soya in the north-western tip.
		Japan has limited sources of traditional natural energy yet it sustains a rapidly expanding industrial sector and a large population with one of the highest standards of living in the world.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761566679___2/Japan.html (2332 words)

	Learn more about Japan in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Japan is academically considered a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament, the Kokkai or Diet but most Japanese feel strange about the term monarchy and quite a few scholars argue Japan is a republic.
		Japan, a country of islands, extends along the eastern or Pacific coast of Asia.
		As Japan is situated in a volcanic zone along the Pacific deeps, frequent low intensity earth tremors and occasional volcanic activity are felt throughout the islands.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /j/ja/japan_1.html (2184 words)

	Japan & Mt. Fuji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The islands of Japan are the exposed tops of massive undersea ridges that rise from the floor of the Pacific Ocean on the eastern edge of the Asian continental shelf.
		The Japan Deep, to the east, is a north-south trench that plummets to a depth of 28,000 feet (8,500 meters) in the Pacific.
		To the southeast of the island is the Japan Trench.
	www.letus.northwestern.edu /projects/esp/top10/japanpage/Japan.html (405 words)

	Around Japan
		Japan was awarded the lease (to 1923, later extended to 1997) of the Liaodong Peninsula, including the Guangdong territory, and the southern half of Sakhalin, thereafter known as Karafuto.
		Japan’s four main islands are connected by a series of bridges, including the Akashi Kaikyo (1998), the longest suspension bridge in the world, which connects Kobe on the mainland with the island of Awaji.
		The population of Japan (1993 est.) was 124,670,000.
	aroundjapan.wordpress.com (12629 words)

	Guadalcanal Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fighting took place on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands and was the first major offensive launched by Allied forces against the Imperial Japanese Empire.
		The capture of the island was the first breach of the perimeter that Japan had established during the first six months of the Pacific War.
		Japan's leaders planned a major offensive in the Indian Ocean and so notified their German ally, but the ships and planes required for the undertaking were instead drained into the Guadalcanal quagmire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Guadalcanal (4296 words)

	Japan: A Geographical Sketch
		The Japanese islands are, in fact, the summits of mountain ridges that were uplifted near the outer edge of the Asian continental shelf.
		Japan is located in the Pacific Basin, a zone where the earth’s crust is unstable.
		Japan lies in approximately the same latitude as the eastern coast of the United States.
	www.askasia.org /features/AsianArt/other.geo.japan.htm (290 words)

	Top20Japan.com - Your Top20 Guide to Japan!
		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.
	www.top20japan.com (4842 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		In late March, a group of seven mainland Chinese activists landed on one of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in an effort to solidify China's claim to the small island chain, triggering the latest in a growing trend of brief spats involving Tokyo, Beijing and, to a lesser extent, Taipei.
		The island chain accounts for only 20 square kilometers of land made up of the five islands and three rock outcroppings, yet it is far from an inconsequential no-man's land.
		Japan formally claimed the islands in 1895, the same year it gained control over Taiwan and other surrounding islands as the result of war with China.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FE06Dh02.html (1109 words)

	Japan Islands Still Shaking - CBS News
		The islands were hit with moderate shaking on Monday, including one registering a magnitude 4.3, but no new reports of damage or injuries emerged, said Miyakejima island official Keizaburo Fujii.
		Roads were closed as authorities began the familiar practice of disaster management on the island, which has seen an exodus of residents heading for safety on the mainland.
		Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries as it sits atop four tectonic plates, slabs of land that move across the earth's surface.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/06/27/world/main209804.shtml (505 words)

	Senkaku Islands - disputed between Japan & China
		The islands sit on the edge of the continental shelf, and are separated from the Ryukyu islands by a deep sea trench.
		Japan discovered the islands in 1895, and were not transferred under the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
		Japan's history of controlling the islands from their discovery until the Second World War is not disputed.
	www.japan-101.com /geography/senkaku_islands.htm (622 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Korea's Islands, Not Japan's
		However, the islands unilaterally were incorporated into Japan in 1905 with the purpose of supporting Japan's military campaign during the Russo-Japanese War.
		Dokdo was the first parcel of Korea's sovereign territory that Japan seized in the course of its colonization of the Korean peninsula.
		Further, it was only in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War that the term "Sea of Japan" gained increased usage to designate the body of water legitimately known as the "East Sea." For obvious reasons, this historically tenuous appellation had been disseminated by the Japanese during their colonial rule of the Korean peninsula.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A20076-2005Apr1?language=printer (161 words)

	Volcano Islands (Japan) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Volcano Islands (Japan), (Japanese Kazan Reto), group of three islands, Japan, in the western Pacific Ocean, south of the Bonin Islands.
		The Ryukyu chain’s larger islands are volcanic, while the smaller ones are coral formations.
		Bonin Islands (Japanese Ogasawara-Gunto), also known as Bonins, group of volcanic islands in the western Pacific Ocean, Japan, near the...
	encarta.msn.com /Volcano_Islands_(Japan).html (132 words)

	UN Seahorse: Oceans around Japan
		he Sea of Okhotsk is to the north of the four main islands of Japan, the Pacific Ocean is to the east and south, the East China Sea is to the southwest, and the Korea Strait and the Sea of Japan are on the west.
		On the Asian continent, Russia is to the north and northwest of Japan, and North Korea, South Korea, and China are to the west.
		A marginal sea on the northern rim of the Pacific Ocean centered near 55 N and 150 E. It is bounded by the Siberian coast to the west and north, the Kamchatka Peninsula to the east, and the Kurile Islands to the south and southeast.
	www.gdrc.org /oceans/un-seahorse/ocean.html (1096 words)

	Jostling over islands upsets Japan's neighbours - World - www.smh.com.au
		Japan is involved in disputes with South Korea, China and Russia.
		Japan's poor relationship with China grew even worse last month when it put a lighthouse on the Senkaku Islands under state ownership, in what was widely seen as a strategic move to ward off China's claim to the islands.
		Japan is also in dispute with China over Okino-Tori-shima Island which, although part of Japanese territory, is so strategically important for the oilfields surrounding it that both countries have been posturing over it.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Jostling-over-islands-upsets-Japans-neighbours/2005/03/18/1111086011218.html?oneclick=true (608 words)

	Islands
		In fact, the Japanese islands consist of the rugged upper part of a great mountain range that rises from the floor of the North Pacific Ocean.
		Japan's four chief islands have 4,628 miles (7,448 kilometers) of coastline.
		Japan's tallest and most famous peak, Mount Fuji, or Fujiyama, is one of these volcanoes.
	members.bellatlantic.net /~vze2w8ja/Webquest/islands.htm (939 words)

	Main Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Japan's highest mountain and most famous peak, Mt. Fuji, or Fujiyama, is one of these volcanoes.
		The largest city Hokkaido's and administrative center of the island is Sapporo.
		Kyushu, the southernmost of the main islands is 14,114 square feet.
	www.tooter4kids.com /Japan/main_islands.htm (199 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan
		Japan hopes that when Putin visits next year - unless he cancels for political reasons - serious progress can be made in resolving the issue and returning the territory to Japan.
		Japan has consistently been requesting that Russia return all four islands in the post-war period, but it has also shown flexibility over the timing of the return - if Japan's sovereignty over those four islands is confirmed.
		It aimed to barter those Russian-held islands for Japan's huge economic assistance, in a bid to persuade the Russian government and local governments in both Sakhalin and the Southern Kuril islands, which have needs often exceeding the Russian central government's financial means (such as payment suspension of old-age pension), to release control of the islands.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Japan/FK25Dh01.html (1677 words)

	List of islands of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Okinawa is the fifth largest island except the disputed northern territories, and is the smallest island which has a prefectural capital.
		Besides the four main islands, Japan has about 3,000 small islands.
		The Japanese word for "island" is shima, which as a suffix often changes to jima.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_of_Japan (127 words)

	World InfoZone - Japan Information - Page 1
		The islands of Japan, lying between the "Sea of Japan" (Korea's East Sea) and the Pacific Ocean, are part of a chain running along the coast of Asia opposite China, Korea and, in the north, the former Soviet Union.
		Japan consists of a number of islands: Kyushu, Hokkaido, Honshu and Shikoku and around three thousand small islands, including the Volcano Islands and Iwo-jima.
		The islands are very mountainous; between seventy and eighty percent of Japan is occupied by hills and mountains.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=Japan (1100 words)

	Japan
		A beautiful mountainous group of islands, Japan is a multi-faceted country where the modern technological age rubs shoulders comfortably with centuries of tradition.
		Most people confine their stay in Japan to the main island of Honshu where there are plenty of sights, including the capital, Tokyo, an enormous sprawling city with 23 wards, 26 cities, 7 towns, 8 villages and the 7 islands of Izu under its metropolitan jurisdiction.
		On all these islands the pace tends to be slower and prices are generally lower, while the people seem more receptive to foreigners, for their natural curiosity makes them more open and friendly.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /asia/japan/introduction.html (697 words)

	S Korea warns Japan over islands
		The islands, known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan, have been a recurring flashpoint in relations.
		The islands also lie within rich fishing grounds, and it is thought they may allow access to extensive gas fields.
		Japan called off its maritime survey after South Korea agreed to drop plans to register new names for trenches and ridges on the seabed.
	prisonplanet.com /articles/april2006/250406_b_islands.htm (428 words)

	OSAC - South Koreans Protest Over Disputed Islands with Japan
		Japan and South Korea have disagreed about who owns the islands since the end of the Second World War.
		Japan ruled the Korean Peninsula as a colony from 1910 to 1945 and harshly suppressed Korean cultural identity.
		For decades, South Korean authorities have accused Japan of whitewashing its colonial past and failing to compensate Koreans for abuses during the colonial period.
	www.osac.gov /News/story.cfm?contentID=25365&print (488 words)

	Islands Japan Asia Regional
		?The relationship between Solomon Islands and Japan continues to grow and it is with projects such as this that shows how committed the people of Japan are...
		South Korea says the islands were among the first territory taken by Japan when it started to colonise the peninsula.
		to be descendants of a single species that migrated to the islands from the...
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/Japan/Islands (334 words)

	Long Island University - Japan - Okinawa Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Okinawa Prefecture consists of 160 primary islands, and occupies the southern half of the Ryukyu archipelago.
		The islands are spread over 1,000 km east and west, and 400 km north to south.
		The Okinawan Islands are located at the confluence of many Asian lands and cultures: Korea and Japan to the north, China to the west, and the countries of Southeast Asia to the south.
	www.liu.edu /but04/japan/okinawa/okinawa.html (1018 words)

	CNN.com - Progress in Japan-Russia islands row - November 15, 2000
		Soviet troops seized the islands, located off Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido, at the end of the war in 1945.
		Japan has ruled out an interim deal and said a possible compromise involving the return of just two islands -- Habomai and Shikotan -- was equally unacceptable.
		In a 1956 Japan-Soviet Joint Declaration Russia had agreed to hand over two of the islands and promised to discuss the other two on conclusion of a peace treaty but the declaration was scrapped when Japan signed the 1960 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ASIANOW/east/11/15/russia.japan.reut/index.html (629 words)

	Japan Yaeyama Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Most of the island is covered by primitive forest, and many ravines meander through there.
		In the island, natives say themselves as "Shimanchu", means island people.
		Therefore I asked her, "Where do you want to go?", but she replied, "I want to be in my island." I was very impressed that she, yet a child, had firm pride on her hometown having beautiful nature and warmhearted people.
	members.aol.com /MotoHarasawa3/LonelyPlanet3/JapanYaeyamaIslands_e.htm (591 words)

	Islands.com \| Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And if the past isn't your vision of Japan, you can plan a ski trip to Sapporo or Nagano (both hosted winter Olympics), or simply hit the streets of Tokyo's famous Gion (and somewhat infamous Shinjuku) districts, where shopping and nightlife are the stuff of legends.
		There is another, no-so-timeless Kyoto, modern to the moment, but for a walk through traditional Japan, don't miss: the classic Zen rock garden at Ryoanji temple, the Katsura Imperial Villa (a harmonious marriage of architecture and landscape garden), and the Gion District (setting for Memoirs of a Geisha).
		The official site of the Japan National Tourist Organization has gotten a facelift, and the result is a much improved update from what was a disappointing: text-heavy, somewhat clumsy design.
	www.islands.com /japan (686 words)

	CNN.com - Russia talks islands with Japan - March 25, 2001
		Russia seized the islands, lying 15 km (nine miles) off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, in the last days of the war.
		The communiqué also said both sides stood by a 1956 agreement that calls for two of the four islands to be returned to Japan.
		In an interview with Japan's NHK television on the eve of his meeting with Mori, Putin said Russia agreed in principle to transfer the two islands.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/25/japan.russia.02 (609 words)

	Comments
		China Says Japan 'Generating New Conflicts' over Gas Field Dispute (Agence France Presse, Aug. 30, 2006) The statement was referring to Japan's protest this week that state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp had begun the first stage of gas production in the Chunxiao field.
		Japan issued a verbal warning as the ship entered waters near the East China Sea islands, called Diaoyu in Chinese and Senkaku in Japanese.
		(Japan Times, June 30, 2006) There are encouraging signs that both China and Japan are looking for ways to ease the prolonged deadlock between their two countries and improve relations.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TSR-Japan.htm (2607 words)

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