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Hello My Friends !!

....I am Junji TANAKA, living in Vasant Vihar, New Delhi. My father is working with a Japanese company. I am studying in 6th standard in Japanese school. It has been 2 years since I am in India yet.
Today I shall introduce Japan-a far off country.

Two Countries

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.... Japans land area is 378,000 square kilometers, it is 1/9th of India(3,287,263km2). The population is 120 million even that is almost 1/9th of India:1,027,020,000（National Census 2001), thus the population density (people/population) is almost the same.

....All you who have started learning Japanese would want to know more about Japan. I would like to introduce some books and websites to you. Apart of myself, there are about 800 Japanese people living in Delhi alone. Please see the home page of Japanese association, off course we have the website of Japanese school,
http://www.ndjs.org/index.html
please tell me the home page of your school also.

The highest mountain

India- Mt. Kanchenjunga 8585m

Japan-Mt Fuji 3776m
Fujisan

Time zone

Indian Standard Time		Japan is 3h30m ahead		Japanese Standard Time

Location

It takes more than eight hours by plane from Tokyo to Delhi	Delhi	Latitude 28° 35' N Longitude 77°12' E	Tokyo	Latitude 35°41' N Longitude 139° 46' E

The Largest city (by population)

India-Mumbai
Mumbai-Gateway of India

Japan-Tokyo
The largest city in the world
Tokyo-Shinjuku

Seasons

Delhi -5 seasons

Spring (Feb.mid -Mar.)
Summer(Apr.-Jul.mid)
Rainy (Jul.mid-Sep)
Autamn(Sep.mid-Oct)
Winter(Oct.end- Feb. mid)

Temperature

max. 45 C
min. 4 C

Tokyo -4 seasons

Spring (Mar.-May.)
Summer(Jun.-Aug.)
Autamn(Sep.-Nov.)
Winter(Dec.-Feb.)

Temperature

max. 35 C
min. -3 C

Let's get more !!

kids web
http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/japan.html

Statistics Bureau
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan
http://www.stat.go.jp/ （click "english"in the upper-right corner)