Mention the most important geographical condition which makes Japan one of the leading fishing nations of the world.
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Japan is an island country comprising a stratovolcanic archipelago over 3,000 km (1,900 mi) along East Asia's Pacific coast.[7] It consists of 6,852 islands.[8] The 5 main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Okinawa. There are 6,847 remote islands.[9] The Ryukyu Islands and Nanpō Islands are south and east of the main islandsThe territory covers 377,975.24 km2 (145,937.06 sq mi).[1] It is the 4th largest island country in the world and the largest island country in East Asia.[10] The country has the 6th longest coastline at 29,751 km (18,486 mi) and the 8th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 4,470,000 km2 (1,730,000 sq mi) in the world.[11]
The terrain is mostly rugged and mountainous with 66% forest.[12] The population is clustered in urban areas on the coast, plains and valleys.[13] Japan is located in the northwestern Ring of Fire on multiple tectonic plates.[14] East of the Japanese archipelago are three oceanic trenches. The Japan Trench is created as the oceanic Pacific Plate subducts beneath the continental Okhotsk Plate.[15] The continuous subduction process causes frequent earthquakes, tsunami and stratovolcanoes.[16] The islands are also affected by typhoons. The subduction plates have pulled the Japanese archipelago eastward, created the Sea of Japan and separated it from the Asian continent by back-arc spreading 15 million years ago.[14]
The climate varies from humid continental in the north to humid subtropical and tropical rainforest in the south. These differences in climate and landscape have allowed the development of a diverse flora and fauna, with some rare endemic species, especially in the Ogasawara Islands.
Japan extends from 20° to 45° north latitude (Okinotorishima to Benten-jima) and from 122° to 153° east longitude (Yonaguni to Minami Torishima).[17] Japan is surrounded by seas. To the north the Sea of Okhotsk separates it from the Russian Far East, to the west the Sea of Japan separates it from the Korean Peninsula, to the southwest the East China Sea separates the Ryukyu Islands from China and Taiwan, to the east is the Pacific Ocean.
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The terrain is mountainous, which means there is not a lot of good land for farming. Because of the geography, the Japanese relied on the sea for many aspects of daily life. Trade with China and Korea became important to get the resources they needed.
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the Russian mainland. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific Ocean.
Japan is one of the world's leading fish- ing nations. Operating a fishing fleet of 1.2 inil- lion gross register tons (GRT), the Japanese lead the world in the amount of fish caught. Much of this catch is marketed in Japan, where more than one-half of the animal protein consumed is provided by fish and fish products.
The Japanese fishing industry, both domestic and overseas, has long been centered on the Tsukiji fish market, in Tokyo, which is one of the world's largest wholesale markets for fresh, frozen, and processed seafood. Japan also has greatly advanced the techniques of aquaculture or sea farming.