Japan Natural Environment Landforms Japan is made up of around 4000 islands and islets off the east coast of Asia. Japan’s chain of islands extends over 3000 kilometres. There are four main islands, running from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Japan’s total land area is 377 708 square kilometres – about twice as big as Britain. About 70 per cent of Japan is mountainous and much of this high land is forested. There are few …showed first 75 words of 1326 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1326 total…less than 1 in 10 workers is involved in farming. Now well over half the working population is in service industries such as banking and communications. Other main industries are the heavy industry (iron, steel, etc), automobile industry (cars), electronics industry (vcrs, cameras, computers, etc) and agriculture (cattle, vegetables, fruits, etc). Bibliography World In View: Japan by Richard Walker. Published in 1992 by Heinemann Children’s Reference. www.altavista.com http://gojapan.about.com www.yomiuri.co.jp