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JAPANSlide2
Where is Japan?Slide3
★
Australia
We’re here
Japan
The equator
The Southern Hemisphere
The Northern HemisphereSlide4
How far is it between Australia and Japan?Slide5
It takes about
9 hours
from
Sydney to Tokyo by plane.
The plane travels about
900 km per hour.
Let’s work out how many kilometers it is from Sydney to Tokyo.
(Japanese Culture Resources and Activities, Nelson Thomson Learning P
.2)
9
hours
X
900
km
=
8,100kmSlide6
How big do you think Japan is?Slide7
The area of Australia is 21 times
larger than the area of Japan. Look at the way the map of Japan fits into the map of Australia.
The area of Australia is
8,000,000
sq
km
The area of Japan is
380,000
sq km
(Japanese Culture Resources and Activities, Nelson Thomson Learning P.1)Slide8
How many people live in Japan? Slide9
(World Population Review:http://worldpopulationreview.com
/)
The population of Australia is
23million
(
2014:23,344,735)
The population of Japan is
127million
(2014:126,981,371)Slide10
About
5.5
times more people live in Japan than live in Australia!!! Slide11
Do you know?
Japan is an island group (archipelago) of
6,852 islands
.
(Japan Talk: Japan Travel and Culture Guide: http://
www.japan-talk.com
/jt/new/how-many-islands-are-there-in-Japan
)Slide12
There are four
main islands in Japan:
Honshu, Hokkaido
, Kyushu
and Shikoku.
Honshu
Hokkaido
Kyushu
Shikoku
Honshu
is the main island and the location of
the capital city of Japan, Tokyo.
Hokkaido
is Japan's second largest island. It is north of Honshu. Kyushu
and Shikoku are close to the south of Honshu.
Japan also has a chain of tropical islands to the south called the Ryukyu Islands. The biggest island here is called Okinawa
.
(Japan Talk: Japan Travel and Culture Guide: http://www.japan-talk.com/jt
/new/how-many-islands-are-there-in-Japan)
Okinawa
TokyoSlide13
How many states and territories does Australia have?
Australia has 6 states:
1
. Queensland (QLD
)2. New South Wales
(NSW)
3. Victoria (VIC)
4. South Australia (
SA) 5. Western Australia
(WA)
6. Tasmania (TAS)
There are two mainland territories:
1. Australian Capital Territory (
ACT)
2. Northern Territory (NT)
H
ow many states and territories do you think Japan has?Slide14
The
47
prefectures of Japan
Hokkaido
Hokkaido
Tohoku
2. Aomori
3. Iwate
4. Miyagi
5. Akita
6. Yamagata
7. Fukushima
Kanto
8. Ibaraki
9. Tochigi
10. Gunma
11. Saitama
12. Chiba
13. Tokyo
14. Kanagawa
Chubu
15. Niigata
16. Toyama
17. Ishikawa
18. Fukui
19. Yamanashi
20. Nagano
21. Gifu
22.Shizuoka
23. Aichi
Kansai
24. Mie
25. Shiga
26. Kyoto
27. Osaka
28. Hyogo
29. Nara
30. Wakayama
Chugoku
31. Tottori
32. Shimane
33. Okayama
34. Hiroshima
35. Yamaguchi
Shikoku
36. Tokushima
37. Kagawa
38. Ehime
39. Kochi
Kyushu
40. Fukuoka
41. Saga
42. Nagasaki
43. Kumamoto
44. Oita
45. Miyazaki
46. Kagoshima
Okinawa
47. Okinawa
The prefectures are also often grouped into
9 regions.
(http://
en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/
Prefectures_of_Japan
)Slide15
Let’s travel to Japan!Slide16
The Sapporo Snow
Festival
One of
Japan's largest winter
events
in February.
Every
winter, about 2
million people come to Sapporo to see a large number of splendid snow and ice
sculptures.
SapporoSlide17
Tokyo
The
capital of Japan
Aria:
2,188
sq
km
Population:
13.23 million
Tokyo Tower &
Tokyo
Skytree
Tokyo Tower: Built in 1958
Height 333mTokyo Skytree: Built in 2012
Height 634m
A
Pedestrian scramble in Shibuya
One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, at
Hachiko
Square
in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Slide18
Shizuoka
Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776.24m. Mt. Fuji was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on 22
nd
June 2013.
Slide19
Kyoto
Kyoto is formerly
the imperial
capital of Japan for more than 1,000 years.
KyotoSlide20
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
An atomic bombing
of Hiroshima
The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on 6
th
August 1945.
90,000
–
166,000 people were killed in Hiroshima.
The Atomic Bomb Dome is part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
An atomic bombing
of
Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9
th
August 1945. 60,000 to 80,000 people were killed in Nagasaki.
Slide21
Which part of Japan are you interested in travelling to?