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