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Capital of Japan
Tokyo, the capital since 1868 (Edo was renamed in the Meiji Restoration).
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Four main islands
Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku.
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Number of prefectures
47.
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Highest mountain
Mount Fuji, 3,776 m, on the border of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.
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Longest river and largest lake
The Shinano River (about 367 km) and Lake Biwa in Shiga.
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Why Japan has many earthquakes
It lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire where several tectonic plates meet.
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Tsuyu
The early summer rainy season, from about June to mid-July.
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Time zone
UTC+9, with no daylight saving time.
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Heian-kyo
Kyoto, the imperial capital from 794 until 1868.
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Minamoto no Yoritomo
Founded the Kamakura shogunate and was named shogun in 1192.
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Sekigahara
1600 battle that gave Tokugawa Ieyasu control of Japan; he became shogun in 1603.
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Sakoku (seclusion)
Edo policy of the 1630s limiting foreign contact; the Dutch kept a post on Dejima at Nagasaki.
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Perry's black ships
1853 arrival of US Commodore Perry; the 1854 treaty opened Shimoda and Hakodate.
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Meiji Restoration
1868 return of imperial rule, followed by rapid modernisation.
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Meiji Constitution
Issued in 1889, drafted by Ito Hirobumi on Prussian lines.
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Treaty of San Francisco
Signed in 1951; ended the occupation in April 1952.
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Constitution of 1947
Gives sovereignty to the people; the emperor is a symbol; Article 9 renounces war.
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The Diet
Parliament of two chambers: House of Representatives and House of Councillors.
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Three Non-Nuclear Principles
Not to possess, produce or allow the introduction of nuclear weapons (Sato, 1967).
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Currency
The yen, introduced in 1871.
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Tokaido Shinkansen
World's first high-speed railway, opened in October 1964 between Tokyo and Osaka.
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Kabuki, Noh, Bunraku
Traditional theatre: kabuki with painted makeup, noh with masks, bunraku with puppets.
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Haiku
Poem of seventeen sound units in 5-7-5 lines; Matsuo Basho perfected it.
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Kanji, hiragana, katakana
The three scripts mixed together in written Japanese.
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Washoku
Traditional Japanese food culture, on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2013.

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