Geography 121 Study Guide
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- spatial Limitation
- all major cities ie on the coasta except Kyoto, totoal 146000 square miles, population 127.2 million, 775 urban, Japan's largest conurbation: Tokyo Yokohama kawasaki, kitakyushu best situated to do business with korea and china, jokota triangle-japan, korea, and taiwan
- China's Shenzhen
- open door policy of chnia to attract overseas technology and investment, to create special economic zones
- Kyoto
- former capital of japan prior to meiji restroation, only major inland city
- Austrasia
- region of Hokkaido(north japan) to coastal east asia to aurstralia and new Zealand
- Japnan's major problems
- over dependene on imports, pollution, an aging population
- Japan's population
- 127.7 million crodwed on limited land, 8% of labor force engaged in agriculture and produce 70% of food
- tokyo
- 28 million
- Prodigious Japan
- 1868 meiji restoration began, sho guns overthrown by new reform-minded organizer, economic forces began, military forces began, japan suprassed the european economic influence of the pacifc, 1923 earthquake destroyed tookyo, Meiji Restoration moved japan's capital from kyoto to tokyo, the new reformers were western minded and sough advice from the united kingdom, 1941 develped aircraft carriers, warplanes, December 1941 pearl harbor, during second alf of the 20th century japan became an economic tiger
- Hong kong
- it was a british colony until 1997, british allowed tos tay in hong kong due to its convienet contact point to the west, china will allow a free trade system for at least 50 years strating when the chinese took over in 1997
- growth triangle
- malysia -raw material iondonesia-cheap labor singaopre-technical know ho
- Australia-Canberra
- 10 times the size of Texas, 19.4 million, only allowed europeans before 1976, import substitution industry-substitute one prod for another because it is closer and cheaper to get, tasminia found on island, has desert interior, depends heavily on industry
- Japan's Natural Hazards
- Ring of fire volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis
- new zealand
- population found on peripheral, mountanious interior, depends on agriculutre
- honshu
- japan's large and main island, contating the capital and almost all of its core
- Pacific rim
- group of countries and parts of countries facing the Pacific having highh levels of economic development
- Japan's areal functional organization
- location, actvitiy, interconnections develpment, regional units evolve out of imagination, levels of development emerge
- Japan
- geographic realm based on homogeneity, language, religion: Shinto-isolation from the world
- taiwan
- not considered a country by united kingdom, former colony of japan, second in economic power in region, 22.6 million people, major exporter, capital is taipei, located on the island that used to be called formosa
- S.E. asia
- located under china
- How far does the rim expand
- Japan, south korea, british colulmbia, parts of the united state, middle mamerica, south america hong kong, taiwan
- Commerce
- commerce traveling over the pacific Ocean has surpassed that of the Atlantantic Ocean
- antarctica
- southernest of world, France chile argentina brazil new zealand australia united kingdom norway, countries must keep it clean as possible
- Singapore
- located south of Malay peninsula, s.e. asia, 78% chinese, lack of technology, low rate of educated
- After korean War(korean conflict)
- peninsula divided, line of demarcation divided north and south korea, soviet dominated north and american the south, militarty stalemate divided korea, seoul is capital of south korea