Prefectures of Japan

. It is estimated that in the past 70 years over a million dolphins and porpoises have been killed in hunts off the coast of Japan. To put this in perspective quotas and catch limits enacted by the Japanese Fisheries Agency in the calendar year 2013 allowed for the killing of 16,655 small cetaceans. This industry though under the veil of regulation in Japan is actually highly unregulated with many rules allowing for discretion on the side of the fishermen rather than direct input from scientist

nation of Japan lies in the North Pacific Ocean, East of the Korean Peninsula and China. Slightly smaller than the U.S. state of California, it has a total area (land and water) of 377,915 square miles and is divided into four primary islands: Hokkaido, Kyushu, Honshu, and Shikoku. Japan is divided into 47 administrative divisions called prefectures. Japan was “founded” in 660 B.C. when Emperor Jimmu declared Japan as a sovereign Imperial nation. Until the Meiji Restoration in 1890, Japan operated

nationalistic revolutions? What factors contributed to the growth of nation-states and the rise of nationalism? How did the growth of nation-states in Europe differ from that in the rest of the world? How was China weakened by European influence? How did Japan build itself into a world power in a short time? Content Standards Addressed: Content Standards Addressed: WHG 6.1.5 Interpreting Europe’s Increasing Global Power – Describe Europe’s increasing global power between 1500 and 1900, and evaluate the

greatest Aquariums around Osaka". But before that i want tell about JAPAN and OSAKA. Japan is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean with high-rise-filled cities, imperial palaces. Osaka was formerly known as Naniwa. Before the Nara Period, when the capital used to be moved with the reign of each new emperor, Naniwa was once Japan's capital city, the first one ever known. Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan. With 2.665 million population Osaka is a large port city and commercial

or military service. Article 11. The right of every Japanese citizen, of eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by Japan on account of age. Article 12. No person shall be subject to cruel or unusual punishment. (U.S. Const. amend. VIII. 1791.) Article 13. Every

criminology scholars and practitioners either for the purpose of broadening their knowledge or to emulate its criminal justice system (Ebbe, 2000). The interest is based on statistical data that indicate low levels of criminality in the developed nation of Japan in comparison to others. From these statistics, it would imply that Japan’s way of dealing with crime is more effective in its prevention. While the statistic might be solid, the texts on the criminal system may

Despite the hundreds of castles built in the time period of Medieval Japan only twelve survive to this very day. Over time, castles have served as a significant role when it came to defending against enemies and over the years the castles took on new roles. In the time period of Medieval Japan, castles have played important role in the country. The history of Medieval Japanese castles are still evident in today’s society through structures, buildings or documents. After much research I came to

Alien species have been a huge issue in Japan, and not only Japan but the whole world. Alien species are animals, plants or any living thing that are not originally in that country, but people bring them over. Alien species can damage other animals, plants or any living thing that originally was there. They can break ecosystem and can affect the environment. There are many alien species in Japan that are causing trouble. Alien species can harm the ecosystem, but how do they get there? We are the

Physical Geography Japan is an asian country that is comprised of 6,852 islands off of the eastern coast of the asian mainland. This accumulation of islands is known as a stratovolcanic archipelago. An archipelago is a cluster of islands that are usually volcanic and occurs in subduction zones. Japan is in the crossroads of four different tectonic plates - the Pacific plate, the Philippine plate, the Eurasian plate and the North American, and due to the plate movement and subduction of all these

In How Yuji Hyakutake Found His Comet, he would go from his birthplace of Nagasaki Prefecture to Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan later in his life (Aguirre). Hyakutake unfortunately died on April 10, 2002 when he was at the age of fifty-one years old (“Yuji”). His death was due to internal bleeding, from a condition known as an aortic aneurysm (Aguirre). The