JAPAN - AGAINST ALL ODDS?

apan - now the most developed country in the world. A skyline of high modern
buildings, the latest, sleekest inventions and the country where the are of a telephone
box costs a whopping ! However how did a country torn apart and blown up by
WW2 with no landscape, with all the odds against it manage surely the greatest
transformation we know of? Well in this essay that is exactly what you are going to
find out.
When in the introduction I mentioned Japan had all the odds against it I was not
exaggerating. For a start it has a very mountainous relief, full of active volcanoes and
prone to horrendous typhoons. Japan is made up of four main islands - the only way in
which to converse between them all is by boat.Als o due to its mountainous relief
building roads is a very costly task requiring plenty of hard work as tunnels must be
made through the rocks or twisting and turning roads built around the mountainous
relief. However the Japanese are defiantly used to the conc...