Japanese+Economy

Japanese culture in the early years were mostly a farming society. The people who lived there knew they were allowed a certain amount of land for farming so they made it useful. Also having lots of rain helped them a lot with growing wet rice. Families took care of their land. During The Kamakura period people began trading and manufacturing. In the bigger towns they had markets. Also industries including paper, iron casting, and porcelain emerged. Trading grew when time past especially with Kora and China. Manufactured items such as raw materials, painting, and swords were shipped from Japan but in return they wanted silk, porcelain, books, and copper coins. In the Japan people believed that spirits from their ancestors were not far but near. The Japanese would honor the spirits. Kemi is a spirit who the Japanese believe owned the trees, rivers, streams, and mountains. A religion called Shinto which means "The Sacred Way" or "Way Of The Gods", `still used their beliefs about spirits today.
 * Japanese Early Culture**

In japan 400 BC – AD 250 there was a period called the Yayoi Period named after the area of Tokyo where pottery from the period was discovered in 1884, and during that period the drying out of their lands forced large waves of immigrants to leave Northern China in search of a more hospitable climate. Some of the immigrants settled in korea but
 * Yayoi Period**