This is quite an amazing feat seeing as how it had to rise up after the end of World War II when it found itself almost destroyed. The Japanese commonly refer to their country as Nihon Koku, Nippon Koku or Nihon or Nippon. The islands of Japan are actually the exposed tops of huge undersea ridges. These ridges rise up out of the Pacific Ocean. Because of this, more than eighty percent of the land is rugged mountains and hills.
Japan has numerous volcanoes, about two hundred, and many earthquakes.
In fact, Japan has about three minor earthquakes every day of the year. Japan does have severe earthquakes too, such as the Great Kanto Earthquake that shook the country in 1923. This historic disaster demolished the cities of Tokyo and Yokohama and more than one hundred and twenty thousand lives were lost at that time. Japan is home to ten percent of the world's active volcanoes. There is no need to send invitations to weddings, funerals, and the like as they are community events which are shared by all in Japanese villages.