Show japan mountainous japan is mountainous and not more than one sixth is available for cultivation but it is very productive rice tea tobacco potatoes barley and wheat are the principal crops and in the southern part of japan two crops are often reaped annually the flora is rich and fruits are abundant but for the most part of inferior quality oranges are grown in the sheltered valleys of also the sugar cane silkworms are cultivated to a large t extent among the vegetable productions I 1 duct ions are the camphor tree paper mulberry vegetable wax tree and a lacquer tree wh which 1 ch furnishes the celebrated lacquer of japan the tobacco plant tea shrub potato rice wheat and other cereals are all cultivated agriculture upon which the japanese bestow great care is their chief occupation |