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Rating: Red (FREE)        Slide Program Report  Japan is a very
small country, approximately 144,000 square miles (smaller than
California), and is inhabited by a considerably large population
of over 120 million people (half the United States!) This makes
Japan the seventh most populous nation in the world.  Japan is
located at the far west side of the north pacific ocean, and
consists of more than 4,000 islands! However, the Japanese
people live on less than 10 percent of this land mass due to
rough, mountainous, volcanic terrain, which make up a
substantial 70 percent. One of the most famous and symbolic
volcano’s is Mt. Fuji. Among these many islands, only four are
commonly known, including Hakkaido (northern-most, considered to
be Japan’s “frontier”), Shikoku (the smallest of the four),
Kyushu (most southern), and Honshu ( t