Russia, in many measures the poorest nation in Europe at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, now industrialized at a phenomenal rate, far surpassing Germany's pace of industrialization in the 19th century and Japan's earlier in the 20th century.
NASA Earth Observatory. acquired April 8, 2009 download large image (599 KB, JPEG, 1440x960). The 3,776-meter-high (12,388 feet) Mount Fuji Volcano, located on the island of Honshu in Japan, is one of the worldâs classic examples of a stratovolcano.ount Fuji, or Fuji-san in Japanese, is actually comprised of several overlapping volcanoes that began erupting in the Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to approximately 10,000 years ago).
Mt. Fuji is the tallest mountain in Japan (3,776.24 m) and is known widely for it's very symetricaly shaped cone. It is also an active volcano, having erupted last in 1707-8. Fuji-san has also been the subject of much art in Japan, most notably Hokusai's 36 views of Mt. Fuji.t is actually an active volcano, and is the most important peak symbolically in Japan. (People also call it Fuji-san to mean Mr. Fuji in a sense, because it's so familiar.). Some reasons for its importance: 1.