By Winnie & Gwyneth Trillium Learning Global 21st Century Schools Project Robert Fulton School, North Bergen, New Jersey, USA Diana Madrid, Nancy Baucke, Sharon Parsons

 Country  Capital  Language  Tourist Attractions  Industry  Religion  History  Geography and Climate  Currency  Population

 Japan is a group of islands of 6,852 islands. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127 million people.

 Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the center of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family.

 Japan’s language is Japanese. It is spoken by over 130 million people. The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called kanji and two syllabic scripts made up of modified Chinese characters, hiragana and katakana.

 Some of tourist attractions from Japan are Nara Park, Kyoto's Higashiyama area, Kin Osaki, and Takayama in Gifu.

 Japan makes one of the best technologies in the nation. Manufacturing is one of Japan’s best strength. But the country has few natural resources. One of the most best fields for future economic growth is robotics, in which Japanese technology leads the world.

 The religion in Japan are Shinto (106.8 million), Buddhism (89.2 million), Christianity (3.0 million), and others (9.8 million).

 Japanese military expansion in China after 1931 led to friction with Western powers and, faced with an oil blockade, Japan started the Pacific War.

 Japan is a chain of islands. The main ones are Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu and Hokkaido. Summer is hot and humid in general. During the winter, it snows a lot on the Sea of Japan side, and it is dry on the Pacific Ocean side.

 Japan’s money is called Yen. One U.S. dollar is equal to about Japanese Yen.

 The population of Japan is about 127,692,000.