Geography
These are destructive waves caused by underwater earthquakes.
What are tsunamis?
The largest influence on Korea and Japan during their early histories came from this country.
What is China?
This is the name of the elected legislature in Japan.
What is the Diet?
What is a market economy?
This began when North Korea invaded the South.
What is the Korean War?
This is the border (line of latitude) that divides North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This religion was brought to Korea and later carried to Japan by Chinese missionaries.
What is Buddhism?
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is actually this form of government.
What is communism?
The type of economic system found in North Korea.
What is a command economy?
This president decided to use the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII as quickly as possible and save American lives.
Who is President Truman?
This is an empty buffer zone between the Koreas, to prevent the two countries from fighting.
What is the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)?
North Koreans are discouraged from practicing any type of this.
What is religion?
Shoguns ruled feudal Japan with the help of these.
What are Samurai?
Japan must import these since very few are available on its islands.
What are raw materials/mineral resources.
The United States entered World War II after Japan bombed this location.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
This native Japanese religion is polytheistic, since it emphasizes nature spirits called kami.
What is Shinto?
This type of government is found in South Korea.
What is a republic/representative democracy?
Japan's economic dominance in East Asia has recently been challenged by these two nations.
What is China and South Korea?
Technically, the Korean War has never ended, as one of these was never signed.
What is a peace treaty?
The capital of North Korea.
What is Pyongyang?
Due to this, Japan has had to make the most of their land for farming, and has developed bullet trains and capsule hotels.
What is urbanization?
The Kim family has formed this, after having three generations of dictators in North Korea.
What is a dynasty?
This country is rich in mineral resources, however its factories use out-of-date technology.
What is North Korea?
Kim Jong-Un has continued to defy the world by testing and being in possession of these.
What are nuclear weapons?