Hōei eruption
1707 eruption of Mount Fuji
Not a drop of lava but some 800 million m³ of ash. The volcano spread it over whole provinces as far as Edo, nearly 100 km away, where the layer reached several centimetres.
Photo: 内閣府 防災担当 (Public domain)
The archipelago has over 6,800 islands and mountains cover most of the land. From 1639 to about 1853 the country stayed almost closed to the outside world. It then modernised at great speed from the Meiji era onward, starting in 1868. Mount Fuji remains its symbol.
A few cards of the album
The start of their anecdote. The album's other cards are for you to discover in the game.
Japan Tobacco
Cigarette manufacturing company
Outside the United States, the Camel and Winston brands belong to a Japanese group. In 1999 it bought R.J. Reynolds' international arm for about 8 billion dollars. Five years earlier the Japanese state had begun to privatise it.
Photo: Sakura Torch (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kuroda Yoshitaka
Japanese daimyo (1546 – 1604)
Chief strategist to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he was known as a very ambitious man. Won over by the thriving Christians of Kyūshū, he was baptised Dom Simeão. When the religion was banned he gave it up and put on a monk's robe. In 1600 he even tried to conquer Kyūshū, without success.
Photo: Unknown author (Public domain)
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