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JAPAN

Location

• Japan is an island nation in East Asia.• Located in the Pacific ocean, it lies to the east

of the Sea of Japan

• Japan is an archipelago of 6825 islands. The four main islands (from North to South) of Japan are:

• Hokkaido• Honshu• Shikoku• Kyushu

Climate

• The climate of Japan is predominantly temperate, but varies greatly from north to south.

• The highest temperature ever measured in Japan was 40.9 °C and it was recorded on August 16, 2007

Japanese houses

• Traditional Japanese houses are built by erecting wooden columns on top of a flat foundation made of packed earth or stones

• In order to avoid moisture from the ground, the floor is elevated several tens of centimeters

• In Japan the houses are normally made of plywood (a type of manufactured wood made from thin sheets of wood)

•The Floor is normally made of tatami•A common caracteristic in japanese houses is the garden

Religion

• The highest estimates suggest that 84–96 percent of the Japanese population are Buddhists

• These estimates are based on people associated with a temple, rather than the number of people truly following the religion

Samurai

• Samurai is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan.

• They were warriors who not feared death.• They give a lot of value to the honor and the

loyalty

Food

• Japan is known all over the world by its sushi.• Sushi is made of cooked vinegared rice

combined with other ingredients, such as fish or other seafood

Clothes

• Nowadays we see japanese wearing clothes like ours, but in the past they were a type of clothes named kimonos

• Kimonos can be used to practice martial arts or to use at home like a rob

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