Geog photo essay
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Geography1. The Japanese elderly woman shopping in the
supermarket with a robot’s aid symbolizes the burden the huge elderly population in Japan have on the sandwich generation that have to take care of the younger generation too, putting the country’s economy in danger
2. The fruits and vegetables in the supermarket imported from other countries represent Japan’s agriculture. Steep land has been terraced for rice and other crops, carrying cultivation in tiny patches far up mountainsides. With the aid of Japan’s temperate climate, adequate rainfall, soil fertility built up and maintained over centuries, and such a large farm population that the average farm has an area of only 1.2 ha (3
Wong Hern YeeCTG 126