Across
- 4. The merging of regional economies in which nations become dependent on each other for goods and services.
- 5. A giant ocean wave, caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption, with great destructive power.
- 6. A workplace where people work long hours for low pay under poor conditions to enrich manufacturers.
- 8. An earthquake in 1923 in Japan that killed an estimated 140,000 people and left the city of Tokyo in ruins.
- 9. A zone where a oceanic plate slides under a continental plate; the Japanese islands were created by this when the Pacific Plate slide under the Eurasia Plate.
Down
- 1. The chain of volcanoes that lines the Pacific Rim.
- 2. United Nations Children’s Fund; an international watchdog and relief organization for children.
- 3. A zone of prosperity during the 1980s and early 1990s; Japan, (South) Korea, Taiwan.
- 7. An extended period of decline in general business activity.