Question

Japan is an industrial power, but it's paucity of natural resources forces the nation to...

Answer 1

Suffer

Step-by-step explanation:

In this example, the word "paucity" means scarcity, or "lack of." Therefore, what this means is that Japan does not have a lot of resources. This is true, and due to the lack of resources to sustain its huge population, Japan has had to adopt various strategies. The most obvious thing that Japan does to alleviate this problem is trade with other nations.

Answer 2

Japan since World War 1 become a predominantly industrial nation from a country of primitive agriculture in 1913. By 1937, capital goods, including mining represented about 60 percent of the total industrial output. It is also an industrial power, but its paucity of natural resources forces that nation to suffer.