Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 31: Organ for Young Latter Day Saints, January 1, 1896Naturally the climate varies greatly in different parts of the empire on account of the length of the chain of islands. In the northern regions it is extremely cold and the mountains are always covered with snow, while in the southern islands the climate is almost tropical.Slight earthquakes are frequent, and some very severe ones have occurred in the past by which great damage has been done.Japan is not a very rich country, but copper and silver are found in greater abundance than any other metals. Gold, lead, tin, and iron are found in small quantities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.