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).
Mount Fuji is the tallest among Japanâs three great mountains and all other mountains in Japan, towering at 12.388 feet above the ground. The thing to do on Mount Fuji is, of course, to climb it. But you need to be careful around what time of the year you climb it, as the climate is very cold around Mount Fuji.easuring 9892 feet above the ground, Mount Tate is located in the Toyama area and is one of Japanâs tallest mountains. The months to climb this mountain is from April until November. Japanâs deepest gorge, Kurobe Gorge, is just east of Mount Tate.