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ARTICLES RELATED TO Geography of Japan - Regions | | | |  Geography of Japan - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Geography of Japan - RegionsJapan is informally divided into eight regions. Each contains several prefectures, except the Hokkaido region, which covers only Hokkaido Prefecture.
The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name (Kinki Nippon Railway, C ...
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| | | | Geography of Japan - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Geography of Japan - Composition Topography and Drainage About 73 percent of Japan is mountainous, with a mountain range running through each of the main islands. Japan's highest mountain is Mt. Fuji, with an elevation of 3776m (12,388 feet). Since so little flat area exists, many hills and mountainsides are cultivated all the way to the top. As Japan is situated in a volcanic zone along the Pacific deeps, frequent low-intensity earth tremors and occasional volcanic activity are felt throughout the islands. Destructive earthquakes occur several tim ...
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| | | | Geography of Japan - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Geography of Japan - Natural hazards Ten percent of the world's active volcanoes—forty in the early 1990s (another 148 were dormant)—are found in Japan, which lies in a zone of extreme crustal instability. As many as 1,500 earthquakes are recorded yearly, and magnitudes of four to six on the Richter scale are not uncommon. Minor tremors occur almost daily in one part of the country or another, causing slight shaking of buildings. Major earthquakes occur infrequently; the most famous in the twentieth century was the great Kantō earthquake of 1923, in which 130,000 people died. Undersea earthquakes also expose the Japanese ...
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| | | | Geography of Japan - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Geography of Japan - Climate Japan belongs to the temperate zone with distinct four seasons, but its climate varies from cool temperate in the north to subtropical in the south. The climate is also affected by the seasonal winds that blow from the continent to the ocean in winters and vice versa in summers.
Japan is generally a rainy country with high humidity. Because of its wide range of latitude, Japan has a variety of climates, with a range often compared to that of the east coast of North America, from Nova Scotia to Georgia. Tokyo is at about 36 north latit ...
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| | | | Geography of Japan - Regions: Encyclopedia II - Geography of Japan - Statistics Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula.
Geographic coordinates: 36 00 N, 138 00 E
Map references: Asia
Area:
total: 377,835 km²
land: 374,744 km²
water: 3,091 km²
note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-guntō 小笠原群島), Daitō-shotō (大東諸島), Minami Torishima (南鳥島), Okino-tori-shima (沖ノ鳥島), Ryūkyū Islands (Ryūkyū-shotō 琉球諸島), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-rettō 火山列島)
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