location

http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/PGES/instruction/kid-pages/islands/japan/location.html


Japan lies off the east coast of Asia and has four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. It has a total land area of 143,818 miles. On its west boundary is the Sea of Japan; and on its east and south boundary is the Pacific Ocean.

hotel capsules

http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/capsule/

Buttons on the left control and set the alarm clock.
Left switch turns on the TV. Right turns on the light. Knob is dimmer.
Bottom knob is volume, black button beside it changes the channel.

economy question answer

For three decades, Japan's overall real economic growth had been high: a 10% average in the 1960s, a 5% average in the 1970s and a 4% average in the 1980s.[4] Sliding stock and real estate prices marked the end of the "Japanese asset price bubble" of the late 1980s, and ushered in a decade of stagnant economic growth. These problems may have been exacerbated by domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets. Real GDP in Japan grew at an average of roughly 1.5% yearly between 1991-1999, compared to growth in the 1980s of about 4% per year. Growth in Japan throughout the 1990s was slower than growth in other major industrial nations, and the same as in France and Germany. Government efforts to revive economic growth have met with little success and were further hampered in 2000 to 2001 by the slowing of the global economy.[5] However, GDP per worker has increased steadily even through the nineties, growing at 2.0% per year in 2003 and 2004, and 2.8 percent in 2005. In 2008, due to the global financial crisis, the economy of Japan was strongly hit and shrank 0.7% and is expected to shrink some 5% in 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Japan

picture

http://images.forbestraveler.com/media/photos/inspirations/2007/04/Asian-Malls-03-g.jpg

picture

http://www.photopassjapan.com/tokyo_scenes_2/image110.html

map

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/flood_risk/flood_atlas/countries/images/japan.gif

pictures

http://inventorspot.com/articles/six_startling_scenes_overcrowded_6802

shopping

Shopping in Tokyo is a fun thing to do. You can easily find Japanese traditional items and the latest goods in Tokyo. The cost of living in Tokyo can be expensive, but there are many places you can shop inexpensively. Stop by a 100yen shop near you. Daiso is a popular 100 shop chain.

Shopping hours in Japan is usually from 10 or 11 a.m. to 7 or 8 p.m. Most stores are open weekends and holidays except some specialty stores. In Japan, you need to pay 5% consumption tax in addition to the price. Japanese department stores are fun places to shop. They carry many kinds of traditional Japanese goods as well as the latest fashions. Check out the store sales, which are usually held in July, August, December, and January. Food floors in department stores are called "depachika" and are filled with world gourmet food and Japanese regional specialties. Also visiting flea markets in Tokyo might be fun.

http://gojapan.about.com/cs/tokyoshopping/a/shoppingintokyo.htm

yen compared to a dollar

95.6 yen is American Dollars.

To make it easier, you just round to 100 so 5 american dollars is like 500 yen.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081111173606AAIfsYm

clothing

This article is about traditional clothing in Japan. Although this traditional clothing described below is still seen at traditional festivals and ceremonies, western-style clothing is more commonly worn in daily life by both men and women. Japanese clothing is styled to fit the seasons; for instance in autumn people will wear clothes with fall colors and fall patterns. In the spring, stand-out colors and spring floral patterned Japanese clothing is worn. During the winter, those wearing kimono tend to wear darker colors and may wear up to 10 layers of clothing. Especially at festivals and parades, people wear clothing like kimonos in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clothing

jobs and work

As of 2001, Japan's shrinking labor force consisted of some 67 million workers.^[72] Japan has a low unemployment rate, around 4%. Japan's GDP per hour worked is the world's 19th highest as of 2007.^[73] Big Mac Index shows that Japanese workers get the highest salary per hour in the world. Some of the largest enterprises in Japan include Toyota, Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo, Canon, Honda, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Sony, Nippon Steel, Tepco, Mitsubishi and 711.^[74] It is home to some of the world's largest banks, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (known for its Nikkei 225 and Topix indices) stands as the second largest in the world by market capitalization.^[75] Japan is home to 326 companies from the Forbes Global 2000 or 16.3% (as of 2006).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan#Demographics

waste in japan good info.

As for the burnables: the trucks dump their loads of trash into chutes that lead to one of three gigantic concrete waste pits (15,000m3). An equally gigantic claw then grabs about six truck's worth of trash and drops it into the incinerator. The resulting ash goes through a process that converts it into a non-toxic sand-like material then used for paving city roads. The incinerator heat is used to create enough electricity to run the entire plant's operation, with the leftover sold back to the city (32,000kw). Finally, the smoke seems to be treated pretty thoroughly, using such things as a bagfilter, heated dechlorination system, wet gas scrubber, gas reheater, and a selective catalyst reactor before they let it out the smoke stack. As I said, a lot of "meaningless" facts to the uneducated waster, but since I was told that Japan has some of the strictest pollution regulations in the world, I was happy to learn that this plant exceeded all of them.
All garbage smell is kept inside the waste pits and dumping docks, with virtually no smell leaking to the outside. All other areas inside the building are more or less air tight, a fact I found just amazing. But as I look back at the picture of the spotless control room I now notice that the workers there were all wearing slippers (!) so that the carpeted floors would stay free from dirt and grime that would be tracked in by their shoes

1. Decrease the amount of waste as far as possible (Reduce)
2. Use over and over as far as possible (Reuse)
3. When items cannot be reused, use them as raw material (Recycle)
4. Even when waste materials are incinerated, use the heat generated by incineration for power generation (thermal recycling)
5. In case none of the above is possible, dispose of waste material in an appropriate manner

http://www.newcolonist.com/osaka_waste.html

trash and waste in japan

In Japan, garbage is basically separated into burnable, non burnable and recyclable items. At least two kinds of liter boxes can, therefore, be found in most households and in public places. The exact definition of what is burnable, non burnable and recyclable depends on the municipality.

Garbage collection days and hours depend on the area you live in. Signs in the neighborhood inform residents about the weekdays on which what type of garbage is collected. Burnable garbage is usually collected on two or three days during the week, while non burnable garbage is usually collected once a week.

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2222.html