On your map, label: Japan N. Korea (NK) S. Korea (SK) Russia Mongolia China Sea of Japan Pacific Ocean

Japan is an Archipelago (Chain of many small Islands)

Japan is very mountainous (4/5ths of Japan is a mountain!!!!) and has very little

Arable Land- so it uses terrace farming

Mount Fuji

Japan gets a lot of its food from the sea. This is another way they adapted to their geography

Japan has very few natural resources

Iron ore

Coal

Japan has a very high Population Density (a lot of people in a small space)

Population:• California:

38,802,500• Japan:

127,103,388

Land mass (sq. km)

• California 423,967

• Japan 377,915

Japan is a little smaller than California but has more than 3 times the population

In Japan, there are people employed as “pushers” who push people onto the train during rush hour so

more people can fit) See a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLK9VU9JSfc&list=PL7-MIQJGkdsfXXLQ-W-2uzRr-YaPpaESD

A capsule hotel is a type of hotel developed in Japan that features a large number of extremely small "rooms" (capsules) intended to provide cheap, basic overnight

accommodation for guests who do not require the services offered by more conventional hotels. There are also “reuglar” hotels in Japan, but these are helpful to provide more cheap rooms for such a big

population

Japan is a homogeneous Society (people all have the same genes, ethnicity and basic culture)

(America would be the opposite of a homogenous culture; we are very DIVERSE)

Island isolation encourages them to be ethnocentric

Japanese religion is a blending of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and Shintoism

Spirits in Nature

The Japanese have a truerespect for nature

They practice Selective Borrowing which is when a country deliberately takes on only certain aspects of a

culture (ideas mostly came from China and Korea)

– Missionaries from China introduced Buddhism, Confucianism and writing

– Japan sent people to China to study their government, art, science, literature, etc.

– Ignored ideas like the civil service test which did not fit with their culture (in Japanese culture you inherited your position rather than having to earn it through a test)

Korea acts as a cultural “bridge” between China and Japan

*Please write this on your note sheet below the last box on the right

Japanese Feudalism

Emperor (Figurehead)

Shogun (Political leader)

Daimyo

(Nobles)

Samurai (Warriors)

Peasants & Merchants (Farmers, Fishermen & Sales People)

(90% of population)

Feudalism is a system in which land is exchanged for military service and loyalty

It provided social stability because everyone had a clear place/role in society

It provided a way for rulers to preserve law and order

It is very similar to European feudalism

Samurais followed the Code of Bushido: a strict code of behavior/how to act(Be loyal, moral, courageous, respectful, honest, humane, respect elders)

Tokugawa Shogunate

The Tokugawa shoguns gained control of

Japan in the 1600s

o Tokugawa= the name of the warrior family that

ruled Japan from 1603-1863

o Shogun= the leader of Japan’s military (this job

was hereditary/inherited)

Increase in social order/ stability

oMore peaceful conditions

oMore trade and travel on rivers and roads

oGrowth of cities

Tokugawa shoguns enforced a policy of isolationism.

o 1600-Missonaries, Japanese Christians, and foreigners

are persecuted

o 1639They banned almost all contact with the outside

world

Foreigners cannot come in

Japanese cannot come back if they leave

Not allowed to build oceangoing ships

o Strengthens homogeneous culture & leads to a more

unified nation