The Land of the Rising Sun
Place where Japan borrowed/adapted a culture to their own (ex. kanji to kana)
What is China?
Aspects that led to the isolation of Japan
What is, had no reason, too dangerous and for and lack of navigational tools
Resource and Climate
What is good for farming and temperate climate and dependable rainfall?
Reason of why it is called the land of the rising sun.
What is the Chinese people saw the sun rises on Japan first?
Only 18% of land is habitable (mostly coastline)
What is land is mostly has steep forests and mountains?
Food
What is rice is staple food and social ranked based on rice?
Creators of Japanese mythology
Who is Izanagi (male) and Izanami (female) and daughter is Amaterasu (sun goddess and has most kami)?
Japan's Islands
What is Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, Hokkaido (main islands) and a thousand others (archipelago)?
Sea food
What is main source of protein and staple food and way of life
Shintoism
What is Shinto, Japan's ancient religion, emphasizes love for nature and believes sacred spirits (kami) inhabit natural objects. Matsuri festivals honor and appease these spirits?
Why Japan has earthquakes and tsunamis commonly.
What is Japan located on the The Ring of Fire (where many tectonic plates meet)?
A homogenous society
What is people unified and have the same way of life (live along coast)?
Comparison of Shinto and Catholicism
What is, Shinto doesn't have written doctrine, has many gods, and honoured gods through festivals. While Catholics has the Bible, believe in one God and honoured God through prayer and mass?
Someone that people thought how earthquakes were very common.
Who is Namazu, giant catfish that lives underground?
The Ainu
Who are people live in northern Japan for years and began to be assimilated, in 2008, they were reconised as indigenous but still faced challenges?