Death toll rises in Japan. Why does the country experience so many large earthquakes?

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A 7.1‑magnitude earthquake hit southern Japan's Kumamoto area, collapsing a shopping mall and a paper factory. Rescue teams are still searching for survivors as the death toll rises to 28, with many people missing.
중도 성향:Economic fallout — the quake has halted factories and disrupted transport, threatening regional economy.
Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan – an island nation that sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates, the constantly-shifting slabs of the Earth’s crust. It also lies on the “Ring of Fire,” a 25,000-mile arc that stretches around the Pacific, where the …
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