Fukushima Prefecture

Challenge 2: Land Use Planning Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (≅13,800 km). Before GEFE, Fukushima had a population of almost 2 million people, many of whom lived in the capital, Fukushima City. As a result of a diverse geography (high peaked mountains, forests, and over 150km of coastline), Fukushima was a major food production source for Japan. In fact, Nakadori region was the fourth largest agricultural region in Japan, yielding rice, peaches, apples, pears, tomatoes, and cucumbers

Businesses are expanding to all corners of the global; many depend on the global supply chain to successfully produce goods that are need in our everyday lives. Some countries impacts the global supply chain that others, and Japan is a major part. Japan is well known for producing electronic part and automobile manufacturing. One of the world largest automobile makers Toyota is located in Japan. In 2011 a major underwater earthquake with a magnitude 9.0, caused a great tsunami to hit Japan. A natural

with an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude, followed by a tsunami shortly afterward. This earthquake and subsequent tsunami is known today as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The epicenter was located 80 miles east of Sendai, the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, and 231 miles northeast of Tokyo.” This is how most stories of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami are started. This intro is short, professional, to the point, and really speaks to how those who responded during operation Tomodachi carried out their

Cultural Differences in The Regions of Japan Japan is a country made from four major islands. Though its area is small, each region has different tastes. The country has the population of 123.6 millions according to the 1990 census, or 2.5 % of the world total, and it is the seventh most populated nation according to The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Japan.(5, p.25). Japanese political and economical world power has been one of the success stories of the twentieth century. Though small in geographic

In a language, there are usually variants that emerge from it—variants such as dialects or different colloquial phrases. This usually happens when the language is split across different parts of the country or world. Different living situations call for different phrases or different ways of expressing that idea. In Japanese, these different dialects are known as hougen. There are several different Japanese hougen comprising that of the Tokyo area, the Tohoku region, the Kansai region, and even

There are many laity use of the word culture that gets thrown around in day-to-day conversation amongst our peers. Culture is used to define certain aspects of our lives and how we live on a daily basis. There are some that believe that they do not possess a culture. There are others who feel that we all live our own individual unique culture in our lives. However, being that culture is such a broad subject, the only way to define it is to operationalize its context and attempt to try and understand

Operation Iceberg The attack at Okinawa was the last major battle of WWII and also one of the bloodiest. On April 1st, 1945, Easter Sunday, more than 180,000 Marine Corps and the U.S. Army troops descended on the Pacific Coast of Okinawa for a final threat towards Japan (“Battle of Okinawa”). The Battle of Okinawa was also known as Operation Iceberg. Operation iceberg is a codename of the major battle fought on the Pacific island of Okinawa by the United States Marine and Army forces against the

Liana Arnot Professor Dominguez English 101 4 December 2015 Imagine stepping outside and there was a foreign military in control on the street that you live on. Having one 's home invaded by an unfamiliar person is a scary and traumatizing experience. It encourages a person to take more precautionary measures to ensure that their home is safe, but being watchful is not always a guarantee of safety. This concept reflects what the people of Okinawa experienced in the nineteen forties and still struggle

Prefecture oriented decentralization system in Japan: Feudal clan oriented decentralization had been employed in Japan earlier. Local Culture and prefecture system are heavily dependent on the feudal clan system. But the Comprehensive Local Autonomy Law was adopted as the first volley of decentralization reform in 2000. The main provisions of the law are as outlined below. 1. Elimination of the system of delegated functions The backbone of a decentralized system is to eliminate 561 “agency-delegated

History of Okinawa (沖縄県) Okinawa or formally known as the Ryukyu kingdom is the most southern prefecture of Japan. Its capital Naha is located in the southern end of a chain of island that spans over 1000km including hundreds of small islands between Kyushu and Taiwan. The climates of the islands range from humid subtropical towards the northern end to tropical rainforest climates in the south. Of the hundreds of island, less than half are inhabited while much of the other island are coral reefs