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What are shoguns?: military leaders
What does Japan lead in making?: automobiles
How many symbols were used to write hangul?: 30
What is a constitutional monarchy?: emperor is the official head of the state but elected leaders run the country
What seperates it from China?: the Yalu River
In the 1950s what did the armies of North Korea do?: they attacked South Korea
Why does Japan choose to keep their military small?: because the suffering of WWII.
What was the name of the kingdom that united most of the peninsula?: Silla
Japan's democracy is a form of a _____.: constitutional monarchy
Were did the religion Shinto begin?: in Japan
What does the communist government discourage?: religion
From the1100s to the 1860s Japan was ruled by _____.: shoguns
What does Japan lie on?: The ring of fire
What is Japan's major port city?: Yokohama
Who conquered Korea and made it part of its empire?: Japan
What did the Korean Peninsula hold for a while?: a unified contry
What industrial goods does Japan produce?: steel, cement, fertilizer, plastics, and fabrics
Many people believe that what first came from Japan?: the first novel
For a while Japan was the leading military power over who?: Asia
Have the two government been pulling closer together?: yes
How long did Japan have control over Korea?: until the end of WWII
What did Korea divide along?: the 38th parallel
After WWII what here the governments like?: bitter enemies
What nation is communist?: North Korea
Who are the samurai?: powerful land-owning warriors
What is its capital and largest city?: Pyongyang
How many people does South Korea have?: 49 million
Do these farms grow enough food for the country?: no
What dominates South Korea?: manufacturing and trade
What is squeeze between the mountains and seacoast?: plains
Who took over Korea after WWII?: Soviet Union took over North Korea while the American troops took over South Korea
When did Korea divide?: after the Soviet Union and American troops both claimed pert of it
Japan has about how many people?: 127.1 million
What sport beside sumo is popular in Japan?: baseball
About 3 fourths of its people are crowded were?: urban areas on the coastal plains
What is Japan's largest plain?: Kanto Plain
What happened when China lost control?: separate kingdoms arose
What is there major crop?: rice
Who was the 2nd communist leader?: Kim Jong II
Most of its people live where?: urban areas along the coasts and river valleys
What is Japan's capital?: Tokyo
Who is Japan ruled by?: emperors
What affects the climate?: monsoons
What does the government also practice?: the needs of the communist system over the needs of individual families
What part of Japan catches cold arctic winds and ocean currents?: The northern islands
Did Korea develope their own culture?: yes
What does Buddhism teach?: respect for nature and the need to achieve inner peace
Do many people still practice a religion?: yes
What do the people in Japan value?: hard work, cooperation, and education
What did South Korea have difficulties with a high power of Asia?: economic difficulties
What is Japan known for?: the variety and quality of its manufactured goods
More than 30% of the people are what?: farmers
What has led to disagreements with trading partners?: trade restrictions
What is the most popular sport in Japan?: sumo
Where have most people moved to since the end of the Korean War?: United States
The crime rate is ___ ____.: very low
How many people does North Korea have?: 22 million
Today, most Japanese people practice what religion?: Buddhist and Shinto
What do Japanese farmers use to produce crops?: fertilizers and modern technology
What are the four large cities?: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Osaka
Japan has great influence as what?: a world economic power
What nation is non-communist?: South Korea
Who originally ruled Korea?: China
What type of land forms dominate Japan?: rugged mountains and forested hills
Who do most of their monuments honor?: Kim II Sung
It generally has ___ climate then the rest of the country.: warmer
The Pearl Harbor attack caused the United States to_____.: enter World War II
What went back and forth over the peninsula?: ideas
What is their basic food item?: rice
What is the most famous peak in Japan?: Mount Fuji
During the time of the Silla, what advances did they make?: cultural and scientific advances
What was the Korean Peninsula used for?: a passage way to get from Japan to the mainland of Asia
What does Japan need to import a lot of?: raw minerals, sch as iron ore, coal, and oil
Why did Japan take land from China?: because they needed more space to farm
Japan forces attacked who and were?: American Navel at Pearl Harbor
22% of the people live where?: in rural areas
Japan has few what?: mineral resources
The capital has many monuments to who?: their communist leaders
What did the United States do to try and get trade with Japan?: sent a fleet demanding trade privileges
What does it suffer from?: old equipment and power shortages
What is the capital and largest city?: Seoul
Japan began to use western ideas to what?: modernize the country, improve education, and set up industries
What has grown tremendously?: technology and service industries
After WWII, the US helped Japan become a what?: democracy
What is it the leading exporter of?: ships, cars, textiles, computers, and electronic appliances
What does Shinto teach?: love of simple things and concern for cleanliness
Where do most of the people live?: in cities and towns
Where did the Untied Stated drop bombs at?: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan is one of the worlds ______.: leading exporters
Where is the Korean Peninsula located?: off the northern part of China between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
What is a megalopolis?: huge urban area made up of several large cities and communities near them
What was the name of the war between South and North Korea?: the Korean War
What has influinced the arts of Korea: China
What are the main religions?: Buddhist, Confucianism, and Christianity
When did Japan start trading with other countries?: after the United States demanded it
What has the government improved for its people?: health care and education
What is the names that Korea is divided into?: North Korea and South Korea
What does it spend much money on?: military
What will you discover in Seoul?: ancient palaces modeled after the Imperial Palace
What was one of the great achievements of the early people?: pottery
What was the new way to write their language called?: hangul
Unlike South Korea it is _____ _____.: economically poor
What does Japan's modern factories use?: high technology and robots to make their products quickly and carefully
What is a archipelago?: a group of islands
What does the Japanese people create that is popular around the world?: cartoon shows
What are the four main islands?: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyshu
Both Koreas belong to what?: the same ethnic group
Farmers practice______: intensive cultivation
North Korea is _____ than South Korea.: larger
What is the basic home?: tall apartment buildings
Its has the ___ ___ ____ ___ in the world.: lowest infant death rate
What has Japan's industry benefited from?: Having highly skilled workers
Who do the Koreans trace their ancestry to?: people who settled on the peninsula
What would you learn if you were taught kwon?: discipline and self-defense
Where does it land on the Korean Peninsula?: the southern part
Who have Japan created close ties to?: China and Asian mainland
Why did North Korea attack South Korea?: they hoped they could gain control and unite the to seperate nations under one communist rule
Who followed the Silla?: dynasties
What does it own and run?: farms and factories
Were do Japanese people trace their ancestry to?: clans
Japan did not want to ___ with foreign countries.: trade
There is still what kind of life?: traditional
Japan's cities are very ___.: crowded
What have the done to the capital since the Korean War?: rebuilt
How has their religion influenced their art?: because there religion teaches to respect nature there art reflects that
How did the Korean war end?: without a peace treaty and neither side won
What covers much of South Korea?: mountains
Where do most of the Korean people live?: coastal areas that are effected by monsoons
In the 1400s what did scholars invent?: a new way to write the Korean language
What part gets warm ocean winds?: southern part
What is a problem Japan faces?: preserving the environment
What do the monsoons bring to South Korea?: hot humid weather and in the winter, cold dry weather
More than 60% of it is covered under what?: forests
What are plentiful to North Korea?: coal and iron ore
What other things do Japan's factories produce?: consumer goods such as electronic equipment , watches, small appliances, and calculators
What does Japan import then any other nation: fish

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