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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan

The history of Kazakhstan consists of that humans lived around the Stone Age. And the very state was the Turkic Kaganate in the 6th century. About part of the region became under Arab rule in the 8th and the 9th century, and then Islam was introduced to them. But the Kazakhs formed in the 15th century. The Russian traders and the military came around the 17th century. In 1863 the conquest of Central Asia began with Russia. In the 1890s settlers began to move up north and eastern Kazakhstan to grow their crops. In 1917, it was the year when the Russian revolution began. The Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Republic was in 1920. All the Russian industry moved to Kazakhstan around World War II. Kazakhstan had its independence on December 16, 1991. 349 passengers died in 1996 because of a Kazakhstan Airlines jet crashed with another airline over India. Kazakhstan offered its military bases to the U.S. after the September 11th attacks. The thing is that after 9/11, all of the Islam countries are linked with terrorist attacks. Kazakhstan is located 48°N and 60°E. It’s between Russia and Uzbekistan. The area is 1,049,155 miles². The shoreline is 1,841 miles because there is the Aral and the Caspian Sea. The capital (Astana) is on the north part of Kazakhstan. The land use of Kazakhstan is 8% Arable land, there are no permanent crops, and 5% are Forests, and 87% is other. The air pollution is affecting the environment because of the acid rain. The pollution from the industries is infecting their water supply, which has lead to problems in the Caspian Sea. Also the wildlife is dying from the pollution also. The population is about 15.4 million people. 53% are Russians, 4% are Ukrainian, 3% Uzbeks, 2% Germans, 1% are Uighur, 7% are other. In the 1990s, almost 500,000 people were on the waiting list for homes. 99% had access to improved sanitation systems. Kazakhstan’s size ranking 9 of 193. In Israel, the size ranking is 149 of 193. When it comes to media, the U.S. has more technology than Kazakhstan. Like in the other paragraph, we don’t really have a waiting list for housing like Kazakhstan. Also, when it comes to life expectancy, the U.S. can live up to 75-80 years old but in Kazakhstan, they can only live from 57-67 years old. The thing that we lack unlike Kazakhstan is our literacy rate, it’s 98.4% in Kazakhstan and in the U.S. is 97% The labor forces in Kazakhstan are 8.4 million people in 1999. About 70% of the land is permanent pastureland. Fisheries are around the Caspian Sea. Forestry is of little commercial importance. The leading mineral industries in Kazakhstan in 2002 were oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, lead, zinc, copper, gold, and silver. Exports are petroleum products. The imports are machinery and oil and gas products. Kazakhstan is richly full of energy reserves. About 11,092 miles railroad tracks. The highways are totaled of 117,445 miles and only 67,173 miles are paved. In 2003 there were 488 airports but only 60 had paved runways. In 1999, about 35,000 refugees and asylum were in Kazakhstan. In 2003 the estimated migration rate was –5.89 migrants per 1,000 populations.

Japan
I. History In 1192, Yorimoto, the military leader of the Minamoto clan, established a military form of the government that resulted in a feudal system that lasted for nearly seven hundred years. The Tokugawa shogunate, established in 1603 by Ieyasu Tokugawa, ruled Japan until the imperial resolution in 1868. The Restoration leaders established a modern navy and army and universal compulsory education. Japan withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, which was the start of World War II. With Economic aid from the U.S., and the determination of the Japanese people to rebuild their country. Emperor Hirohito died of cancer on January 7, 1989, at the age of 87.

II. Location Japan is located at 122°56’ to 153°59’ E, 20°25’ to 45°33’N. The islands of Japan are located off the eastern edge of the Asian continent, surrounded by the Sea of Okhotsk, the Pacific Ocean, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan. The coastline is about 18,483 miles. The size ranking is 60 of 193. The territorial sea limit is about 12 miles.

III. Place Mountains cover over 75% of the land’s surface. Landforms are steep and rugged. Their land use is: 12% Arable land; 1% Permanent crops; 66% Forests, and 21% other. Rivers are short and fast. The plains of Japan are few and small and cover only about 29% of the total land area. The highest point is 12,388 feet. The lowest point is –13 feet.

IV. Region Compared to South Korea, there are more arable land, permanent crops and forests. In Japan on the other hand has a higher highest point. Also Japan has the lowest low point. Japan has high humidity and South Korea isn’t all that humid.

V. Human-Environment Interaction Since 11952, the number of farmers fell because of high industry environment. Services have over powered their agriculture. In 2001, Japan’s 11,692 sawmills processed 17 million tons of logs. Japan imported $13.3 billion cutting down the forests. As of 2002, Japan was the second-largest energy consumer in the world.

VI. Movement Japan has a highly developed transportation system. Roads have become an important thing for everyday transportation. Japan is one of the world’s great shipping nations. Japan Air Lines is the nation’s major everyday and international airline.

VII. Current Event One thing that’s bad for us is in Japan. The weakness of the banking sector has become an increasingly serious problem in the stock market. The United States and Japan urge North Korea not to test-fire a missile that could reach the U.S. mainland, a launch would be dangerous. Bibliography ·	Green, Jen. Japan. Austin TX: Raintree SteckVaughn, 2001 ·	Kallen, Stuart A. Life in Tokyo. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001 ·	Lansford, Lewis Japan. Austin TX: Raintree SteckVaughn 2003 ·	Shelly, Rex Japan. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2002