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JAPAN
The Economy, Population and Natural
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Introduction
Geography
Natural resources
Population
Economy
Conclusion
COUNTRY
DESCRIPTION
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Government type -a parliamentary government
with a constitutional monarchy.
Capital –TOKYO
Independence -660 B.C
More facts
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Administrative divisions ,has 47
prefectures.
Japan is a constitutional monarchy
where the power of the Emperor is very
limited. As a ceremonial figurehead, he
is defined by the constitution as "the
symbol of the state and of the unity of
the people". Power is held chiefly by the
Prime Minister of Japan and other
elected members of the Diet, while
sovereignty is vested in the Japanese
people.
Prime minister -Taro
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Geography
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Japan is a country of over three thousand islands extending
along the Pacific coast of Asia
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Location: Eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean
and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula
36 00 N, 138 00 E
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Geography - note: coordinates:
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Land boundaries: total: 0 km
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Coastline: 29,751 km
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Elevation extremes: lowest point: Hachiro-gata -4 m
highest point: Mount Fuji 3,776 m
Japan
Natural resources:
negligible mineral resources, fish
with virtually no energy natural
resources, Japan is the world's
largest importer of coal and
liquefied natural gas as well as the
second largest importer of oil .
arable land: 11.64%
permanent crops: 0.9%
other: 87.46%
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Population: 127,078,679
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Japan has one of the highest life
expectancy rates in the world, at 81.25
years of age.
he highest estimates for the amount of
Buddhists and Shintoists in Japan is 8496%
. Birth rate: 7.64 births/1,000 population
. Death rate ; 9.26 deaths/1,000 population
. Urbanization: urban population: 66% of
total population
Economy
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free market economy and adopted British and North
American forms of free enterprise capitalism.
Japan's main exports are transportation equipment,
motor vehicles, electronics, electrical machinery and
chemicals.
Japan's main import markets are China 20.5%,
U.S.12.0%, the European Union 10.3%, Saudi Arabia
6.4%, UAE 5.5%, Australia 4.8%, South Korea 4.7% and
Indonesia 4.2% (machinery and equipment, fossil fuels,
foodstuffs beef, chemicals, textiles and raw materials for
its industries.
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GDP---$4,354 billion
GDP per capital-----$38,559
Currency---------------YEN
Unemployment--4.2%
GDP - composition by
sector:griculture: 1.4%
industry: 26.4%
services: 72.1%
Growth
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Japan is the third-largest economy in the world
after the US and China. government-industry
cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high
technology, and a comparatively small defense
allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan advance
with extraordinary speed to the rank of second
most technologically powerful economy in the
world after the US
Industries
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among world's largest and technologically
advanced producers of motor vehicles,
electronic equipment, machine tools, steel
and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals,
textiles, processed foods
Science and technology
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Japan is one of the leading nations in the fields
of scientific research, particularly technology,
machinery and biomedical research. Nearly
700,000 researchers share a US$130 billion
research and development budget, the third
largest in the world .
Japan leads the world in robotics production
Conclusion
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Today Japan is one of the world's leaders in the
development of new environment-friendly
technologies
REFERENCES
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CIA
Christopher, Robert C., The Japanese Mind: the
Goliath Explained, Linden Press/Simon and
Schuster, 1983 (ISBN 0330284193)
De Mente, The Japanese Have a Word For It,
McGraw-Hill, 1997 (ISBN 0-8442-8316-9)
Flath, The Japanese Economy, Oxford University
Press, 2000 (ISBN 0198775032)
Free, Early Japanese Railways 1853–1914:
Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meijiera Japan, Tuttle Publishing, 2008 (ISBN
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