How did geography most affect early japan?

proximity to china meant that chinese invaders frequently conquered parts of japan.

much of japan was too mountainous to farm, so people settled in river valleys and along the coast.

a cold climate made farming difficult, so most early japanese turned to fishing for food.

frequent tsunamis forced the early japanese to stay away from the sea.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference