Syllabus Winter 91 1. SCAP Occupation Administrations and issues 6. Reischauer, The Japanese. While Japan's population is among the densest in the world, the rural areas are actually quite depopulated. Four fifths of Japan's area is mountainous.
Japan has virtually no recoverable industrial raw materials.
Japan's need for raw materals is the reason for its current militant attitude towards its neighbors. The prime minister of Japan is one of the most powerful men in the industrial world. Japan continues to refuse imports of U.S. beef and other food products. Japan is the world's largest donor of foreign aid. The contending factions render the LDP ineffective as a political force in Japan.