The name "neon country" has no historical origin, just because "Japan" has two sounds in Japanese, one is "にほん"nihon" and the other is "にっぽん"nippon." Listen.
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Japan:
Referred to as "Japan", located in East Asia, the country name means "the country of sunrise". Its territory consists of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu and more than 7,200 small islands, with a total area of 378,000 square kilometers. The main ethnic group is the Japanese-speaking Yamato ethnic group, with a total population of about 1.26 billion. ?
In the middle of the 3rd century, a big country, Yamato, appeared in its territory. In 645, the Japanese learned from the Tang Dynasty in China and made a big change. /kloc-In the late 20th century, the emperor's imperial power was marginalized and entered the Tokugawa era. /kloc-In the mid-1950s of 0/9, the invasion of European and American powers forced Japan to abandon its "closed door policy" and signed a series of unequal treaties. The Japanese people launched a struggle against aggression and the Tokugawa era.
From 65438 to 0868, Emperor Meiji regained power, carried out the Meiji Restoration, and quickly became one of the capitalist powers, and gradually embarked on the path of militarism of aggression and expansion, invading China, North Korea and other Asian countries many times. After Japan surrendered in World War II, it promulgated a new constitution, which changed from an imperial country to a parliamentary cabinet country with the emperor as the national symbol.
Japan is a highly developed capitalist country and the third largest economy in the world. Its resources are scarce, and it is extremely dependent on imports. The developed manufacturing industry is the main pillar of the national economy. Scientific research, aerospace, manufacturing and education all rank among the top in the world.
In addition, the cultural industry dominated by animation and game industry and the developed tourism industry are also important symbols. Japan is a world model in many aspects, such as environmental protection and resource utilization, and its citizens generally have good education, extremely high living standards and national quality. Up to now, the traditional Japanese culture represented by tea ceremony, flower path and book path has been preserved.
20 17 12 8, Emperor Akihito abdicated on April 30th, 20 19.
2. Regional location:
Japan is located in the east of Eurasia and the northwest of the Pacific Ocean. Its territory consists of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu and more than 7,200 other small islands, so it is also known as the "country of thousands of islands".
Japan has a land area of about 377,900 square kilometers. Japan is bounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east and south, the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea in the west, the Sea of Okhotsk in the north, and faces North Korea, South Korea, China, Russia, the Philippines and other countries across the sea. Hokkaido, Japan has one of the most famous fishing grounds in the world-Hokkaido Fishing Ground, which is formed by the confluence of Thousand Island Cold Current and Japanese Warm Current.
3. Terrain:
Japan is a mountainous island country. Mountains are distributed in the center of Japan in the form of ridges, which divide Japan's territory into one side of the Pacific Ocean and one side of the Sea of Japan. Mountains and hills account for 765,438+0% of the total area, and most of them are volcanoes. The forest coverage rate is as high as 67%. Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan, with an altitude of 3776 meters. It is the highest peak in Japan and is honored as "Shengyue" by the Japanese.
The Japanese archipelago is located at the junction of the Asia-Europe plate and the Pacific plate, that is, the volcanic seismic belt around the Pacific Ocean. Volcanic and seismic activities are frequent, and the more harmful earthquakes will occur 1 time on average within three years.
The plains of Japan are mainly distributed in the coastal areas of the lower reaches of rivers, mostly alluvial plains, with a small scale. The larger plains are Shikai Plain, Yuehou Plain, Houwei Plain and Shi Sheng Plain, the largest of which is Kanto Plain. Japan's plain area is small, the cultivated land is very limited, and the population physiological density is as high as 2924 people/square kilometer, ranking 26th in the world.
Japan is located at the extinction boundary between the Asia-Europe plate and the Pacific plate, and it is a part of the combination of island arc, coastal mountains and trenches in the western Pacific. 68% of this country is mountainous. Japan is located in the volcanic seismic belt around the Pacific Ocean. One tenth of the world's volcanoes are located in Japan, and volcanic activities often occur all over the country. According to statistics, more than 20% of all earthquakes of magnitude 6 or above in the world occurred in Japan.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Japan