the setting. what’s your image of the japanese landscape? one of these?
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The Setting
What’s your image of the Japanese landscape?
One of these?
Something like these?
Or something like these?
Or maybe
even
something
like this?
Japan is all those landscapes;
A long and varied chain of islands.
Where do the Japanese live?
How many people can this land support?
How has Japan’s: natural environment,natural resources,and isolation influenced the development of its :
Culture, Economy, Politics Balance of group orientation, individual
expression, and universal values Processes of change and continuity
The Land Physical landscape Climate Vegetation and wildlife Natural Hazards The Japanese and Nature
Physical Landscape
Islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku and thousands more
Mountains: 70% Plains: coastal, floodplain,
mountain valleys
Kinki Region: Osaka plain and Kyoto Basin
Chubu Region: Nagoya in the Nobi plain
Climate Sub-arctic to sub-tropical
temperatures Snow on the back, sunshine
on the front Monsoons based
precipitation The typhoons that miss Hong
Kong
Vegetation
Mixed natural forests Monoculture of artificial forests
Natural Hazards
Floods and Landslides Earthquakes and Tsunamis Volcanoes Cold and Snow
The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923
The Japanese and Nature
Religious inspiration Aesthetic appreciation Economic and political
consequences Environmental destruction and
rehabilitation
Religious Inspiration
Aesthetic Appreciation
Environmental Destruction
EnvironmentalRehabilitation
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Agriculture Natural Resources Space
Why do people form groups?
Agriculture Rice
A basis of the diet A basis of cooperative organization A symbol of identity and self-understanding
Other traditional crops Diversification
A Basis of the Diet
An Agricultural Product
A Form of Organization
Sharing Land & Cooperating on its Maintenance
Cooperative Organization
Built over Centuries
Soil Preparation Mar-Apr.
Seedling Preparation Mar-Apr.
Edo Period 1700’s 1960’s Now
Planting Apr-May
Irrigation, weed and pest control
May-Sept.
Harvesting
Other Traditional Crops& Diversification
Natural Resources Water and beauty in quantity Enough minerals and fuels for
beginnings of industry Wood and stone in sufficient
supply The new recreational resources
The new recreational resources
Space
Centralized political and administrative control of space
Government controlled transport and communication
Industrial concentration Urban congestion
Government Administered Space
Government controlled transport and communication
Symbols of Continuity and Change Food Villages in the country
and the city
Continuity and Change in Food
Old Villages
And New
Isolation Homogenization: a mix of several
peoples Exclusion
Ainu, Burakumin, Koreans, Okinawans, New Immigrants
Reaching out
Japan’s Geographic Isolation
Summing up Landscape restrictions on where and how the Japanese
could live Development of strong bonds with natural environment Development of cooperative groups to make best out of
environment Concentration in plains increased by transportation,
economic and political factors Isolation led to strong, and somewhat exclusive identity,
but also need to reach out