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I. Context A. Geography Japan consists of many mountainous islands with active and inactive volcanoes. About 75 percent of Japan's area is mountainous, and scattered plains cover the other 25 percent. Tokyo is set on the Kanto plain, which is only 13,000 square kilometer. The total land area of Japan is 374,744 square kilometers. Japan has four main islands. The islands include Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. All of these islands are prone to earthquakes. The highest point of …

…There have been three main elements in Japanese industrial development. There was the manufacturing sector, the knowledge intensive industries, and the domestic and international business strategy. After World War II the industries that policy makers and public felt Japan should have were iron and steel, shipbuilding, merchant marine, machine industries, heavy electrical equipment, and chemicals. Later automobile industry, petrochemicals, and nuclear power were added. Then in the 1980s the computer and semiconductor industries were added.