Japan Geography

Japan as a geographical entity comprises several thousands of islands. Out of them Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the four major isles. The Sea of Japan separates Japan isles from its neighbors like Korea, Russia and China. The topography of the Japanese archipelago is almost similar to that of a plateau.

Area wise Japan is equivalent to that of Germany or California of the US. More than 50% of the country is mountainous and covered by forests. Japan is politically structured into 8 regions and 47 prefectures. Japan has a population of 125,000,000 of which approximately two million are foreign residents. People of Korean descent comprise more than half of the non-Japanese population in Japan. Japan is located on the meeting point of the various continental plates. As a result, the country is prone to earthquakes. Frequent earthquakes occur in different parts of Japan. There are several volcanoes in Japan. Among them Mt. Fuji is the most well known and it is also the highest point on the Japanese peninsula.Large North South extension of Japan causes different climate in different regions of the country. The weather in most of the major cities is temperate and subtropic. There are four seasons in Japan. The winter is placid, but the summer is hot and humid. Rain occurs in early summer, and typhoons often hit various parts of the country during late summer. The climate of the northern island of Hokkaido is colder, and snow storms occur frequently during winter. In Okinawa, on the other hand, the mean temperature of January is a warm 16 degrees Celsius.

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