Intriguing Facts
- The islands of Japan are really just the tops of volcanic mountains sticking out of the ocean
- those mountains cover most of Japan
- homes close to sea, there for the people of Japan turned to sea food as a key part of their diet
- Japan is only about 100 miles from Korea and 400 miles from China
- Korea and China played a great part in Japan's development
- The traditional religion of Japan was Shinto
- Most of the Japanese literature was written by women
- visual arts, such as plays were quite popular in Japan
- the nobles of Japan carred greatly about the look of Japan
- In 1100 Zen buddhism became a famous religion in Japan
- Japan's daimyo hired samurai to protect them and their families
- If the samurai were to disobey their master they would have to kill themselves
- The samurai followed the Bushido, or the code of the samurai
- Two times Japan was invaded by the Mongols but both times the weather served in Japan's favor, so they were unharmed