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Japan is a country in Eastern Asia that first started out as people who were hunters and gatherers. Then came into rice cultivation during the Yayoi Period. Later, Prince Shotoku founded the constitution of Japan in 1889 during the Meiji Era. During the Kamakura Period Japan was ruled by the Samurais, or the warrior class. Then became the center of an empire that included Taiwan, Korea, Manchuria, most of eastern China, southern Sakhalin, and the Marshall and Mariana Islands in the Pacific. Then in 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which started the Pacific War. To take revenge the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan in the city of Hiroshima and then dropped another one in Nagasaki. In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States. Japan’s flag is white with a red circle in the middle. The flag’s meaning is that it symbolizes the special relationship between the Japanese and the Goddess of the Sun, Amaterasu. Japan got the name “ Land of the Rising Sun” because the Japanese thought that there weren’t other people who lived near them. So they thought that Japan was the land where the sun first sheds it’s light. Japan is an archipelago nation between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. It is slightly smaller than the state of California. The total land area is 378,000 square kilometers.
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