Discussing Japan.

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This is my essay on Japan. The following paragraphs will outline what I am going to talk about. Japan is located off the shore of Asia by Russia and South Korea. It is made up of four major islands and is located in the Sea Of Japan and the North Pacific Ocean. Japan is very mountainous and crowded with a mountainous relief.

The country’s climate is very, very warm but when the weather turns nasty, it turns nasty. The country suffers from at least thirty major storms a year. These range from Typhoons to Tsunamis.

The Japanese still live their lives with regards to tradition. They still play their big drums for long periods of time and everything is simplistic and minimal. The Japanese religion is mainly Buddhism and they sit for hours preying to their god. They feel that it is an important part of life.

Japans job structure has lots of things to offer. The recent figures show that people are turning away from family businesses and farms and going into the new hi-tech age. These figures are as follows: Only 7.4% of Japans employment structure is Primary (Raw materials). Secondary is bigger with 33.5% (Manufacturing). Now the Japanese are going towards sales with Tertiary jobs having a massive 59.1% chunk of Japans employment structure.

The Japanese like to live very simplistic lives and don’t like lots of clutter. It is called minimalist living. They have wooden floors and lots of plants. But, even though the Japanese like this simple style, they adore their gadgets. The Japanese live in quite big apartments or flats. They are very expensive though and leave a hole in your pocket.

Japan has a real problem with transport. Their technology has to be stretched to big Triple Decker roads and even they have to be built across large rivers. In Japan, time is of the essence and to keep up with this tradition, they must keep building bypasses around the traffic and bad spots to keep the country moving and to stop the whole of the transport system from grinding to a halt. They have recently finished a new high speed link with a bullet train which travels at 273 Km/h and runs across all four of the major islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. However, the old traditions of Japan are still in place, even on this new piece of masterful engineering. The driver still wears white gloves and the inspector still bows to the passengers in the passenger compartments. The new bullet trains are very clean and spacious and they move very quickly. But due to the sheer speed of these trains, they have to be run with split second timing. There is only seven minutes between trains which means a delay could be costly. But there is no denying that Japan is one of the most developed countries in the world. You only have to look at it’s technology to find this out.

Japan has lots of very big problems especially land and space. It is quite big at 378,000 square kilometres but is has a massive population too at 122.61 million people. Less than twenty percent is flat and suitable to build on. The rest of the land is hill and mountain. Even though these great looming piles are not too tall, they are extremely steep which makes them more or less impossible to build on. This means that the country has to knock down smaller buildings in the large and over populated cities and replace them with tall, modern and hi-tech skyscrapers to get the most out of the land. Even when this is done, there will still be a big population problem. There are simply too many people and not enough land. To combat this problem though, the Japanese are taking all the land and rubble from the very steep mountains from one end of the country and they are dumping it into the sea to build up little man made islands. This is not only creating more land in the ocean but it is getting rid of the mountains so more buildings can be built in their place. The only downside to this is that moving this dirt and transporting it is very, very expensive. It seems like there is no end to the problems of overcrowding.

When Japan was devastated during World War Two, the whole of their businesses were wiped out and it’s economy suffered violently. This is when the Japanese turned to production and industry to get back on track and to make it one of the richest countries in the world. They started to do this by opening Iron and steel works and importing and exporting all of their goods around the world. One thing then lead to another and Japan changed with the times. Nowadays Japan faces another problem with their energy resources. How can the richest country in the world have virtually no energy at all? Japan now has to either look towards renewable energy sources like Hydro-Electricity and Geothermal power or import all their energy which would be extremely expensive considering the amount they will have to be bring in. To give you an idea of just how badly Japan is affected by this problem here are the figures for imported energies such as gas and oil: Oil 99.7% imported, Coal 99.8% imported, Copper 98.7% imported, Iron Ore 99.8% imported and Timber 75% imported from abroad. Even though this problem affected the Japanese badly, they have turned this handicap around to make the phrase “made in Japan” a must have on all new technology from televisions to DVD players. So from being down in the gutter one minute, they are the richest country in the world the next. So, it just goes to show what you can do in such a short space of time, even a large country like Japan with all it’s problems can overcome them to bring people all around the world the best technology and inspiring ideas.

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The country has achieved it’s success by the imports and exports trade. Back when the war started they were devastated with the destruction of all their major businesses and money making empires but now they have come back. They started this incredible revolution back in the 1940’s after the Second World War. They had to start somewhere so they decided to go with Iron and Steel. When they had manufactured it, they sent it all around the globe and for a huge profit. After this, they needed something to take all of this produce around the world so they could ...

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