Has Japan Paid The Price For Growing Too Fast
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Location of Japan Population Japan's land and natural resources How Japan recovered after the war Japan's Economy What went wrong? What can Japan do? Conclusion Location of Japan Map: Japan is made up of several main islands: Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido. Japan is an Asian Country located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan (It's East of the Korean Peninsula). Japan's geographic co-ordinates are 36 00 N, 138 00 E Population From the 18th century through the first half of the 19th century, Japan's population remained steady, at 30 million-plus citizens. However, following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it began expanding in tandem with the drive to build a modern nation-state. In 1926, it measured 60 million, and in 1967, had surpassed the 100 million mark. The annual pace of population growth averaged about 1 percent from the 1960s through the 1970s. Since the 1980s, though, it has declined sharply below the 0.2 percent mark in...


