what are the major physical features in japan?
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There are four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. There are also nearly 4,000 smaller islands! Japan's nearest mainland neighbors are the Siberian region of Russia in the north and Korea and China farther south. Almost four-fifths of Japan is covered with mountains.
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Habitat. The Japanese hare is found across Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, that is, all the main islands of Japan except Hokkaido, up to an altitude of 2700 m. It is mostly found in mountains or hilly areas. It also inhabits forests or brushy areas.
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['Wood. By far the most prominent feature of traditional Japanese buildings is the dominance of wood. ... ', 'Screens and sliding doors. Old Japanese houses relied on movable screens (shoji) and sliding doors (fusuma) to divide and re-divide rooms as needed. ... ', 'Tatami. ... ', 'Verandas. ... ', 'Genkan. ... ', 'Relationship with nature. ... ', 'Similar to this:']
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Why? Japan is located on the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate. The Pacific Plate, which is an oceanic plate, subducts (sinks under) the Eurasian Plate, which is a continental plate, to the east of Japan. This type of plate margin is known as a destructive plate margin.
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Mount Fuji, Japanese Fuji-san, also spelled Fujisan, also called Fujiyama or Fuji no Yama, highest mountain in Japan. It rises to 12,388 feet (3,776 metres) near the Pacific Ocean coast in Yamanashi and Shizuoka ken (prefectures) of central Honshu, about 60 miles (100 km) west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area.
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Japan is the most seismically active country in the world and experiences about 1,500 earthquakes annually, although the majority of them are barely felt.
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Japan is famous for three pine species, Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii), Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora), and Japanese red pine, (Pinus densiflora).
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Japan is located on the eastern edge of the Eurasian Plate. The Pacific Plate, which is an oceanic plate, subducts (sinks under) the Eurasian Plate, which is a continental plate, to the east of Japan. This type of plate margin is known as a destructive plate margin. The process of subduction is not smooth.
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Japan is bordered by the Sea of Japan to the west, the Sea of Okhotsk to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the east.
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Japan has the most recorded earthquakes, with Indonesia believed to be the country to have more seismic activity (due to its size). The nation sits where four major plates meet, with the converging point being right off the eastern coast of Kanto and Chubu (where Tokyo, Yokohama, Shizuoka, and Nagoya are).
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Places are jointly characterized by their physical and human properties. Their physical characteristics include landforms, climate, soils, and hydrology. Things such as language, religion, political systems, economic systems, and population distribution are examples of human characteristics.
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Rice is by far the most important crop in Japan and planted on the best agricultural land. Other crops grown in Japan include soybeans, wheat, barley, and a large variety of fruit and vegetables.
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Physical Geography. East Asia is surrounded by a series of mountain ranges in the west, Mongolia and Russia in the north, and Southeast Asia to the south. The Himalayas border Tibet and Nepal; the Karakoram Ranges, Pamirs, and the Tian Shan Mountains shadow Central Asia; and the Altay Mountains are next to Russia.
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Japan's place Human characteristics: They are able to cater to authority, that they are introverts and like to stick to their own small communities, they care a lot about human feelings. Human characteristics: Ideas and actions of people that change the environment.
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Japan, which extends roughly 4000 km from northeast to southwest along the northeastern coast of the Eurasia mainland, comprises five main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa, with countless “rito” – remote (or small) islands.