World of Plate Tectonics Volume 1, Issue 1
Daily Life in Honshu, Japan
January 18, 2012
by Zachary Peters Life in Japan today is different, but similar to life in the US. There are about 125 million people living in Japan. Many live in high rise apartment buildings. The villagers usually live in houses with grandparents or sons and their family. Most families life with the parents and one or two children. Japanese people also live in western style houses. Japan is a literate country. Just about everyone can read and write. People who live in Japan start school in April at age 6. They can stop at age 15, but most continue to get a higher education. Many go to “cram” or Juku school to prepare for college. They go Monday through Fri-
day and a half day on Saturdays. Most Japanese meals include curry, noodles, and almost all include sticky rice. The Japanese eat red meats now, too. Children enjoy eating steak and hamburgers. They also eat traditional sushi and sashimi. All children, even two years olds, eat with chopsticks. People in Japan do many of the same things for fun that we do in the U.S. They play soccer, basketball, baseball, and video games. They also enjoy reading. Adults like to play a game like pinball called pachinko. They also like to go to karaoke bars to sing.
Types of Plate Tectonic Activity A tectonic plate also called a lithosphere is a solid irregular shape of rock that covers the earth they are different sizes and thicknesses. Even no there so heavy they float over the earths surface and overtime they slowly bump into each other and create a earthquake. Honshu Japan sits
Economics of Japan
near the edge of two plate tectonic plates. The plates of Honshu move very slow. Each of these plates are 50 miles thick. Japan is located on the edge of several oceanic and continental plates. These plates are the causes of many earthquakes and volcanoes. If an earthquake occurs underwater or near the ocean, it can cause a tsunami or a title wave.
Japan is the third wealthiest country in the world following US and China. They do not have a lot of natural resources besides forest. 70% of Japan is forest. Much of their econom y is supported by factories.
Cultural Facts
Historical Geological Information
• Showing affection in public is a nono. No Kissing, hugging, or hand holding is allowed in Japan on the streets!
Japan is located in Eastern Asia between • People often wear doctors masks on the North Pacific Ocean the streets to protect themselves from and the Sea of Japan. getting germs. Japan is 377,833 sq km. • If a student is absent from school, It is slightly smaller than their mother will go to school to get California. The land here all the information they missed. is very rugged and moun• Saying no is uncomfortable for Japatainous. There are many nese people because they try to please dormant and active volas part of the codes of life in Japanese canoes. Culture. Each year there are about 1,500 seismic occurrences most are just Disaster Preparedness tremors. A seismic occur1 Every household should keep a rence measures earthsurvival kit with a flashlight. quakes and movements of the earth. There are 2 They should have a first aid kit, also many tsunamis and food and water to last for a few typhoons. In Japan each days. year. On march 11, 2011 these two plates created a massive earthquake and a massive tsunami followed. Millions of people died and much of Japan was destroyed! It was one of the worst recorded earthquakes in history!
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Avoid placing heavy objects on walls they may fall and block exits or cause injury.
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Keep a fire extinguisher and have a plan of where to go in your neighbor hood if a earthquake
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During an earthquake hide under a doorway or a table.
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Do not run outside and remain calm.
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If you are outside protect yourself from falling glass and any objects.