Japan
The maintenance of stability in the Indo-Pacific region. Japan opened its ports after signing the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1854 and began to intensively modernize and industrialize. Okawachiyama A Historic Ceramics Village In The Mountains Pen Magazine International Japanese Countryside Japan Countryside Japan Village Japan is an East Asian country comprising a chain of islands between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan at the eastern coast off the Asian Korean Peninsula. . It consists of a great string of islands in a northeast-southwest arc that stretches for approximately 1500 miles 2400 km through the western North Pacific Ocean. Human habitation in Japan is thought to date to at least 30000 years ago. Set inside a spacious 100-year old park the Meiji Jingu shrine includes a small cluster of buildings around a. This building has been here since 1589 and the entire shrine itself predates back to 711 f...