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International Student Association
JAPAN
Japan, twice the size of California (with half the U.S. population),
is made up of four main island - Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu
- plus hundreds of small ones extending 3,000 kilometers northeast to
southwest. More than 75 percent of the country is mountainous. To fly
from the city of Sapporo in the north to Fukuoka in the south would
take less than four hours.
Japan's archipelago lies across longitude 140 degrees and stretches
between latitudes 20 degrees and 45 degrees north. Tokyo is situated
roughly midway, about equal to Raleigh, North Carolina.
Tokyo is located on the largest island, Honshu, which has the most
arable land and about 80 percent of the nation's population. The
Tokyo-Osaka corridor has long been the center of agriculture,
government, culture and business.
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