An East Asian island nation located between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, Japan has a population of about 126 million people.
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日本は北太平洋と日本海に挟まれた東アジアの島国で、日本の人口は約1億2600万人です。
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Geography
（ ）, Japan’s capital, feels like a city powered by the young. Sophisticated （洗練している）and sprawling, （不規則に広がる）with half a dozen city centers that long ago grew together, it combines the life force of a national capital of everything — politics, finance, culture, style — with a talent for change and renewal it earned the hard way,（苦労して～を得る） bouncing back after repeated flattening（徹底的に破壊される） by earthquakes, fires and war over its 400 years of existence.
The Japanese megalopolis has no discernible (識別できる）center, and clusters （集団）of skyscrapers miles apartdefy（くつがえす） the idea of a downtown core. The busiest areas — from Shibuya in the west to Ginza in the east — are electrifying （びっくりさせるような）hives（巣） of activity.
Koyasan is one of the premier destinations for （ ）pilgrims（巡礼者） in Japan, and is considered one of the holiest sites in the country.
Buddhist
Christian
Daoist
Hindu
正解 Buddhist
宗教
高野山は日本有数の（ ）の巡礼地であり、日本で最も神聖な場所のひとつとされています。
仏教 キリスト教 道教 ヒンドゥー教
ここから解説です。
A bridge in peaceful Koyasan, a mountain of （多くの）temples increasingly popular with travelers. Andrew Faulk for The New York Times
It was chosen 1,200 years ago by the monk Kobo-Daishi （弘法大師）for its lotus-like geography （蓮のような地形）— a shallow valley nestled into a mountain — to bethe headquarters（総本山） of Esoteric Shingon Buddhism（真言密教）. The religion, which dates to （～にさかのぼる）the Tang dynasty, （唐の時代）places an emphasis on daily ritual （儀礼）as a means of reaching enlightenment（悟り） in an immediate, practicable（実践可能な） way, developing what several monks described as a “Buddha nature.”
（ ）is Japan’s most recognizable natural landmark（天然記念物）, a conical（円錐状の） volcano immortalized（不朽の名声を得た） by artists like Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige.
Mount Ararat
Mount Everest
Mount Fuji
Mount Kilimanjaro
正解 Mount Fuji
地理
（ ）は、最も有名な天然記念物で、葛飾北斎や歌川広重によって不朽の名声を得た円錐形の火山です。
アララト山 エベレスト 富士山 キリマンジャロ
次から解説の英文です。
A view of Mount Fuji from Kawaguchiko. Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press
These days, the mountain, less than two hours from Tokyo, is a playground for rich and poor. Climbing the mountain is on many hikers’ bucket lists.
（ ）was once synonymous with winter, thanks to its annual snow festival, its famed snow crab and the white powder that reliably （確実に）blankets（覆う） the surrounding mountains. But much has changed since the city hosted the 1972 Winter Olympics.
Today the capital of Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, is proving itself to be fertile ground for homegrown creativity, with basements and passageways and crumbling （壊れかけた）old houses being transformed into galleries and shops and exciting new restaurants.
ムラゴン ホーム
