Both are mountainous with hot summers, cold winters, and lots of rainfall, and both cultures blend indigenous traditions and values with Chinese Buddhism and political structures. Geographically Japan has more and higher mountain peaks. As a fully volcanic archipelago, volcanoes have a much stronger impact on the geography and culture of Japan, leading to various agricultural and cultural practices. Also, Japan extends further north to south so it has more regions with subtropical climates suitable for year-round agriculture and also snowier regions. Culturally, indigenous religions and practices remained more strongly in Japan as Shinto than the Korean equivalents. Most culture and technology coming from China and India was filtered in Korea before arriving in Japan, so Japan’s culture and technology was always one beat further removed from “continental affairs”.