Tokyo
Group of Islands
Archipelago
– Leaves on trees
Foliage
When countries rely on each other for goods and other materials
Inter dependent
Major river on the Korean Peninsula
Yalu River
Huge urban areas that are made up of several large and smaller cities
Megalopolis
Kanto Plain
Large plain in eastern Japan
Capital city of japan
Tokyo
Shogun
Powerful leaders of Japan’s past
– When the power of the emperor was restored in Japan
Meiji Restoration
Warrior lords who supported Shoguns
Samurai
Powerful leaders of Japan’s past
Shogun
Traditional Japanese religion
Shinto
Japan’s four large main islands
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu
growing crops in very available piece of land
Intensive Cultivation
The ability to make and produce goods at a lower cost than competitors
Comparative Advantage
Large destructive ocean waves that are created by distant earthquakes. Most frequent in the Pacific Ocean
Tsunami
Yalu River
Major river on the Korea Peninsula
Archipelago
Group of Islands
Large plain in eastern Japan
Kanto Plain
Yokohama
Japan's chief port city
Groups of related families in which many Japanese tract their ancestry
Clan
Japan’s chief port city
Yokohama
Shortage in a particular area
Scarcity
– Began when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, histories longest war
Korean War
Two Japanese cities that the first atomic bombs were dropped on to end World War II
Hiroshima and Nagasaki