Use the information you gather to answer the focus questions related to geography and history. After selecting the correct answer, write a rationale supporting your selection and for not choosing the other choices. Although your Japanese host family has a beautiful, expensive, new home, your room is extremely small as are the other rooms. You have noticed that all living spaces in Japan are much smaller than those in the United States. 130,000,000 people live in Japan, a country of four islands.
All Japanese people are very small.
It is necessary to have smaller buildings because larger buildings are toppled by the frequent earthquakes. Two You were astonished to discover that Japan had changed from a feudal society to a modern, industrial society in only thirty years from 1868 to 1900. All the post-world war II financial aid from the United States made this feat possible. The Japanese did not want to be helped by western barbarians. The Japanese see themselves historically as having the mandate to be number one in the world because of their divine origin.