The country of japan consists of a few islands that were formed millions of years ago by volcanic activity many small islands that are the peaks of an underwater mountain range three large islands that lie off the coast of east asia a peninsula that extends along the rim of the pacific ocean

a few islands that were formed millions of years ago by volcanic activity

Japan is an island nation, it is a stratovolcanic archipelago composed of about 1,042 islands, and more than 2,000 islets that extend along the east Asian coast of the Pacific Ocean.

 This country is located in one of the geologically most unstable and complex areas of the Earth: the Pacific Ring of Fire, therefore it is a highly seismic zone.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.