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sometimes referred to as the Land of the
Rising Sun this country also consists of
many islands hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be continuing our travel series with a
look at Japan Japan is an island country
in East Asia lying to the east of China
Korea and Russia Japan has the world’s
10th largest population with about 128
million people Japanese is the first
language of about 99 percent of the
population of the country English is
also widely spoken particularly in big
cities signs and announcements often
include English as well as Japanese
however the Japanese people as a whole
are more comfortable dealing in written
English than spoken the life expectancy
rate in Japan is one of the highest in
the world at approximately eighty one
and a quarter years the greater Tokyo
area is the most populous metropolitan
area in the world with over thirty
million residents and included in this
area is Japan’s capital city Tokyo of
its over 3000 Islands many are volcanic
and most are mountainous in fact about
73 percent of Japan is mountain covered
Japan’s territory is 146 thousand square
miles a small percentage of which is
water Japan’s total area is slightly
smaller than the u.s. state of Montana
and bigger than Germany Malaysia New
Zealand and Britain although Japan
belongs to the temperate zone and enjoys
four distinct seasons these effects on
the country vary from north to south in
general Japan is a country with high
humidity and rain warm summers are
characteristic in the north but winter
brings heavy snow and cold temperatures
the highest mountain in Japan is the
dormant volcano Mount Fuji sleeping
since the early 1700s the volcanoes peak
is at 12,000 388 feet Mount Fuji is a
well known symbol of Japan and is often
depicted in Japanese art and visited by
sightseers roughly two hundred thousand
people climbed Mount Fuji annually
thirty percent of whom are foreigners
including Mount Fuji
there are approximately 150 dormant
volcanoes in Japan Japan has a network
of high-speed railways that connect most
of the country’s major cities on the
islands of country
and Kyushu the Buddhist temple
auto-assign kiyomizu-dera is a unesco
world heritage site and one of the
best-known sites of the city of
kiyomizu-dera the temple is important
because of the wide verrano which is
supported by hundreds of pillars that
expands over the hillside and offers
fantastic views of the city because of
the country’s mild climate residential
homes in Japan have fairly thin walls
because of the significant rainfall in
the country the roofs of these homes are
overlapping slanted and slightly curved
sometimes referred to as the Land of the
Rising Sun this country also consists of
many islands hi I’m Rebecca Braden and
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be continuing our travel series with a
look at Japan Japan is an island country
in East Asia lying to the east of China
Korea and Russia Japan has the world’s
10th largest population with about 128
million people Japanese is the first
language of about 99 percent of the
population of the country English is
also widely spoken particularly in big
cities signs and announcements often
include English as well as Japanese
however the Japanese people as a whole
are more comfortable dealing in written
English than spoken the life expectancy
rate in Japan is one of the highest in
the world at approximately eighty one
and a quarter years the greater Tokyo
area is the most populous metropolitan
area in the world with over thirty
million residents and included in this
area is Japan’s capital city Tokyo of
its over 3000 Islands many are volcanic
and most are mountainous in fact about
73 percent of Japan is mountain covered
Japan’s territory is 146 thousand square
miles a small percentage of which is
water Japan’s total area is slightly
smaller than the u.s. state of Montana
and bigger than Germany Malaysia New
Zealand and Britain although Japan
belongs to the temperate zone and enjoys
four distinct seasons these effects on
the country vary from north to south in
general Japan is a country with high
humidity and rain warm summers are
characteristic in the north but winter
brings heavy snow and cold temperatures
the highest mountain in Japan is the
dormant volcano Mount Fuji sleeping
since the early 1700s the volcanoes peak
is at 12,000 388 feet Mount Fuji is a
well known symbol of Japan and is often
depicted in Japanese art and visited by
sightseers roughly two hundred thousand
people climbed Mount Fuji annually
thirty percent of whom are foreigners
including Mount Fuji
there are approximately 150 dormant
volcanoes in Japan Japan has a network
of high-speed railways that connect most
of the country’s major cities on the
islands of country
and Kyushu the Buddhist temple
auto-assign kiyomizu-dera is a unesco
world heritage site and one of the
best-known sites of the city of
kiyomizu-dera the temple is important
because of the wide verrano which is
supported by hundreds of pillars that
expands over the hillside and offers
fantastic views of the city because of
the country’s mild climate residential
homes in Japan have fairly thin walls
because of the significant rainfall in
the country the roofs of these homes are
overlapping slanted and slightly curved
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