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"Just the Facts"

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                                                                    "Just the Facts"

 

 

 

                                                                            

 

 

 

National name: Nippon

Emperor: Akihito (1989)

Prime Minister: Yasuo Fukuda (2007)

 

 

Land area: 152,411 sq mi (394,744 sq km);

Total area: 145,882 sq mi (377,835 sq km)

Population (2007 est.): 127,467,972 (growth rate: 0.0%);

                                                                   birth rate: 9.2/1000;

                                                                   infant mortality rate: 3.2/1000;

                                                                   life expectancy: 81.4;

                                                                   density per sq mi: 836

Capital and largest city: Tokyo, 35,327,000 (metro. area), 8,483,050 (city proper)

Other large cities: Yokohama, 3,494,900 (part of Tokyo metro. area);

                                  Osaka, 11,286,000 (metro. area), 2,597,000 (city proper);

                                  Nagoya, 2,189,700;

                                  Sapporo, 1,848,000;

                                  Kobe, 1,529,900 (part of Osaka metro. area);

                                  Kyoto, 1,470,600 (part of Osaka metro. area);

                                  Fukuoka, 1,368,900;

                                  Kawasaki, 1,276,200 (part of Tokyo metro. area);

                                  Hiroshima, 1,132,700

Monetary unit: Yen

Language: Japanese

Ethnicity/Race: Japanese 99%; Korean, Chinese, Brazillian, Filipino, other 1% (2004)

Religions:  Shintoist and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%)

Literacy rate: 99% (1995 est.)

 

 

                    

 

 

 

Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2005 est.): $3.914 trillion; per capita $30,700.

                        Unemployment: 4.3%.

                        Arable land: 12%.

                        Agriculture: rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish.

                        Industries: among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals,

 

                                    ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods.

                        Natural Resources: negligible mineral resources, fish.

                        Exports: $550.5 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals.

                        Imports: $451.1 billion f.o.b. (2005 est.): machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials (2001).

                        Major trading partners: U.S., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE (2004). negligible mineral resources, fish.

 

 

Communications:

                        Telephones: main lines in use: 71.149 million (2002); mobile cellular: 86,658,600 (2003).

                        Radio broadcast stations: AM 215 plus 370 repeaters, FM 89 plus 485 repeaters, shortwave 21 (2001).

                        Television broadcast stations: 211 plus 7,341 repeaters; note: in addition, U.S. Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2 TV cable services (1999).

                        Internet hosts: 12,962,065 (2003).

                        Internet users: 57.2 million (2002). 12,962,065 (2003).

 

 

Transportation:

                        Railways: total: 23,577 km (16,519 km electrified) (2004).

                        Highways: total: 1,171,647 km; paved: 903,340 km (including 6,851 km of expressways); unpaved: 268,307 km (2001).

                        Waterways: 1,770 km (seagoing vessels use inland seas) (2004).

                        Ports and harbors: Chiba, Kawasaki, Kiire, Kisarazu, Kobe, Mizushima, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Yohohama.

                        Airports: 174 (2004 est.).

 

 

International disputes: the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, and Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands", occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Japan and South Korea claim Liancourt Rocks (Take-shima/Tok-do), occupied by South Korea since 1954; China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to the uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and Japan's unilaterally declared exclusive economic zone in the East China Sea, the site of intensive hydrocarbon prospecting.

 

 

 

InfoPlease

 

Wikipedia

 

Little Known Facts

 

Japan Fact Sheet

 

 

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