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Japan has one of the largest economies in the world and is at the leading edge of new technological development. The people of Japan have a good standard of living and life expectancy is among the highest in the world. Not only is it a small country with few resources, it was also heavily defeated in the Second World War. Japans’ economic success has been described as against all the odds for many reasons. Here are some problems that it has come across. Japan has a massive lack of land, with only 15% of it suitable to build on. This is because the country is very mountainous, with high peaks and steep slopes. The lack of land causes major problems for businesses, as they cannot find space to expand or relocate. As you would expect, the price of land is very high, and in Tokyo one square metre of land would cost $93,000. Due to this, homes are small and many families (grandparents, parents and children) live together. Farmers find it hard to cope with the lack of land as they have little space to farm on and in general, most farms in Japan are smaller than they are in the UK. This means that farmers have to farm using terraces on the mountainside. The land is less fertile here so it is harder to earn a living. Japan has a lack of raw materials, such as coal and oil, and they have to import nearly all of them from other countries. Japan does have plenty of wood but a lot of it is in hard-to-reach places and there is not technology that is capable of extracting it.
Approximate Word count = 1060
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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