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100
Two major landforms in Japan
What is are mountains and plains?
100
Japan leads the world in _______.
What is automobile production?
100
Groups of related families
What are clans?
100
A huge urban area made up of several large cities and communities near them
What is a megalopolis?
100
Military leaders
What are shoguns?
200
Japan lies on the...
What is the Ring of Fire.
200
Because of mountain, farmland in Japan is _______.
What is limited?
200
The Japanese modeled its society on _______ way of life.
What is China?
200

Two religions found in Japan

What are Shinto and Buddhism?

200
Group of islands
What is archipelago?
300
The most famous mountain peak in Japan
What is Mount Fuji?
300
The main crop of the Japanese diet.
What is rice?
300
Japan's democracy is in the form of a _______.
What is constitutional monarchy?
300
Women often quit their jobs to raise children and return to work _______.
What is when the children are grown?
300
Powerful land-owning warriors
What are Samurai's?
400
Huge sea waves caused by undersea earthquakes are very destructive along Japan's Pacific coast.
What are tsunamis?
400
Growing crops on every available piece of land is called?
What is intensive cultivation?
400
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor caused the United States to enter _______.
What is World War II?
400
A well-known type of Japanese poetry
What is a Haiku?
400
Huge sea waves caused by undersea earthquakes
What are tsunamis?
500
The largest islands in Japan
What are the Hokkaido, Honshu, and Shikoku islands?
500
Due to supplies of seafood dropping, Japan's government passed laws to _______.
What is limit the amount of fish that can be caught each year?
500
In 1853 the Japanese were forced to open trade privileges by _______.
What is the United States?
500
Twenty-two percent of Japan's people live here
What are rural areas?
500
The emperor is the official head of state, but elected officials run the government.
What is constitutional monarchy?
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