ANTH 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nihon Shoki, Emperor Jimmu, List Of Islands Of Japan
30 Sep 2016
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Japanese society: 9/13/16, professor kawano, vital statistics, historical perspectives (i) We will cover the basic statistics related to: land area, major islands and cities, population, economy, and races , see the map file (courselink) map is important! names of islands, etc will be, historical perspectives (i) We will cover the following transitions that occurred in japan: on rst midterm: foraging >rice cultivation > intensive agricultural society. Land know approx. centuries, not exact dates who was in power, etc: total land area: 370,000 square kilometers, 3800 kilometers long, land use: agricultural 13%, forests & fields 67%, dwelling area 5, mountainous area: approx. 55% tells us: dwelling area is small, limited know these on the map! Japan was the 3rd largest economy in the world (2015: unemployment(cid:1) 3. 4(cid:2) (2015) Political system: house of representatives (lower, house of councilors (upper) have been decreasing, youth unemployment rates still pretty high.
