East Asia Ch 11 sect. 2

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East AsiaCh 11 sect. 2

• Agriculture
• And
• City Systems

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JAPANESE SETTLEMENT AGRICULTURAL PATTERNS

• Highly urbanized mountainous so Japans ag.
  Lands must share the same limited space as its
  cities suburbs resulting in extremely intensive
  farming practices (photo 466)
• Rice major crop (self-sufficient) vegetables
  fruit are also produced in large quantities
• The 3 largest metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Osaka
  Nagoya) sit near the ctrs. of the 3 largest
  plains.
• Overall pop. density is very high its one of
  the most crowded places in the world urban
  density is extremely high real estate is very
  pricey food prices too.

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Chinas settlement agricultural patterns

• Southern Central China Pop. Is mostly
  concentrated in well watered lowland areas where
  crops grow year round. Crops include rice,
  winter barely, vegetables, even tropical
  subtropical crops

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North China Plain

• Anthropogenic Landscapes The North China Plain
  is one of the worlds most heavily transformed
  landscapes (by human activity). Densely
  populated almost entire area is used for
  agriculture, housing, factories , roads, bridges,
  etc.

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Settlement Agriculture in Korea Taiwan

• Korea pop. Of 70 million (22 million North 48
  million in South) in a very small land area. Pop
  Density in South Korea is about 1,150 per square
  mile S.K. is much more arable than N.K.
• Taiwan most densely populated nation in the
  region. Total pop 22 million pop density
  1500 per square mile. Because of its geography,
  most of the people live in the narrow lowland
  belt in the north west where cities farms
  share the available land.

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Resource Dependence (q2)

• Japan Self sufficient in rice, but import more
  food than almost any other nation in the world.
  Rising income has made their diet more diverse
  increased the amount of imported food. Even the
  volume of fish caught off Japans coasts is not
  enough to support their demand for fish which
  is the major source of protein in their diets.
• Taiwan Like Japan (strong economy little
  arable land) they import food other resources.

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Resource dependence

• China Self sufficient at one point, China now
  imports large amts. Of grain converting to more
  modern ag. Techniques would solve this, but if
  the economy keeps growing importing food wont be
  problematic.
• S. Korea with a strong economy, S. K. is the
  worlds 5th leading importer of wheat 2nd of
  corn.
• N. Korea strictly self-sufficient lacking
  arable land N.K. has endured widespread famine
  for many years. Undernutrition is also a
  problem.

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Urban Primacydefinitions (q3)

• URBAN PRIMACY the concentration of urban
  population in a single city (Taiwan South
  Korea)
• MEGALOPOLIS large urban region formed as
  multiple cities grow merge with each other (its
  like a string of cities in a row).
• SUPERCONURBATION a huge zone of coalesced
  metropolitan areas (Japan).

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Primary Cities and Urban Primacy

• Chinas Primary Cities Beijing, Shanghai,
  Tianjin Hong Kong.
• Beijing Shanghai historically important
  cities for trade govt Beijing is Chinas
  capital is home to the former Emperors palace,
  now the seat of Chinese government Tienanmen
  Square (largest open square in the world)
• Tianjin an important port city
• Hong Kong returned to Chinese control in 1997.
• All these cities have their own metropolitan
  governments. Hong Kong is a special
  administrative region done to protect the
  wealth freedom of its economic system that
  developed under British rule.

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URBAN PRIMATE CITIES

• Urban Primacy a city that dominates the urban
  system of the nation in which it is located by
  dominating economically, politically
  culturally.
• Examples Seoul, South Korea Taipei, Taiwan.
  Both cities contain a high of the total
  population and are the political cultural
  centers of those nations.

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Japans Urban Structure

• Major cities include Tokyo, Kobe, Osaka Nagoya.
  The greater Tokyo metropolitan area is Japans
  major population center, followed by the
  Osaka-Kobe center. Most Japanese cities are
  densely populated, but none rival Tokyo.
• Japans cities lack historical significance
  because of the fire bombing during WWII the
  earthquakes that led to rebuilding. Many city
  scapes have changed dramatically since the 1980s
  when Japan experienced an economic boom.

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Major urban centers in a seismic zone

• Kobe EQ 1995
• Recent Earthquakes in Japan
• top ten Japanese earthquakes
• Chinas Earthquakes
• quake table
• East Asia is one of the most seismically active
  regions in the world. Combined with the numbers
  of people living in their major urban areas, it
  is a recipe for disaster.

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Section 3 Unifying cultural characteristics of
East Asia

• Philosophies political ideology are the most
  important unifying cultural characteristics in
  the region
• Their unique writing system has some common
  characteristics that become unique upon further
  examination..
• COMMON FEATURE East Asian writing systems are
  not ALPHABETIC rather they are IDEOGRAPHIC
  where symbols represent ideas rather than sounds.

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East Asian Writing Systems

• Because the writing systems are ideographic, they
  require a large number of distinct symbols.
• CHINESE SYSTEM Major disadvantage its hard
  to learn b/c to be literate you have to memorize
  thousands of characters Major advantage 2
  literate people dont have to speak the same
  language to be able to communicate since the
  written symbols they use may be the same.

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E. Asian writing systems contd.

• KOREAN MODIFICATIONS Adopted Chinese characters
  but in 1400s created their own alphabet to
  promote literacy distinguish themselves from
  Chinese writing system (scholars still use
• Chinese characters.
• JAPANESE MODIFICATIONS complex system the
  borrowed Chinese characters are called KANJI but
  major grammatical differences led to the
  development of HIRAGANA (for words not easily
  represented in Chinese) there is another
  parallel system called KATAKANA which is used
  only for spelling words of foreign origin and
  ROMANJI is Japanese written with the Roman
  alphabet which is commonly used in advertising
  for computer use.