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 also the highest and most venerated mountain in Japan, standing at 3776 meters tall (2). Mount Fuji is also perhaps the worlds most well known mountain. From the beginnings of recorded history in Japan, Mt. Fuji has been important to Japanese culture, tradition, myth and legend (2) .The mountain was considered a sacred place for the people of Japan, until the Meiji Restoration, which occurred in 1868 (2).here are many folk tales surrounding Mt. Fuji, known popularly as Fuji-san in Japan (san meaning mountain, not to be confused with the male honorific San) (2) . Mt. Fuji is a stratovolcano located in Honshu, Japan's largest island.