Japan

= = JAPAN

Capital: Tokyo

Total Area: 377,915 sq km

Language: Japanese

Population: 126,475,664



= = =Task 2 : Location and Climate :=

Google Earth Image of Japan

=TASK3: ECONOMIC PRODUCTION=

What is the GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)? $4.31 trillion (2010 est.)

How does this compare with the rest of the world? Japan has the 4th largest economy based on the on GDP.

What is the GDP per capita? $34,000 (2010 est.)

How does this compare with the rest of the world? Japan ranks 38th.

What is the unemployment rate? 5% (2010 est.)

What is the percentage of People below the poverty line? 15.7% (2007)

What are this country's main agricultural products? rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, diary products, eggs; fish.

What are this country's main 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.

Export partners? China 19.4%, US 15.7%, South Korea 8.1%, Hong Kong 5.5%, Thailand 4.4% (2010)

Imports partners? China 22.1%, US 9.9%, Australia 6.5%, Saudi Arabia 5.2%, UAE 4.2%, South Korea 4.1%, Indonesia 4.1% (2010)

TASK 4 - POPULATION SIZE, SHAPE AND LIFE EXPECTANCY
127,579,000 83
 * What is the total population of this country?
 * What is the average life expectancy?

1.4 total: 25.92 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the world:  [| 79] male: 29.6 deaths/1,000 live births female: 21.97 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)
 * How many children is a woman expected to have in this country? (This is the Total Fertility Rate.)





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**__NEWS EVENT__** - A big news in Japan is about the **low-level of radiation detected in the Fukushima students**. Another news is that when another **nuclear plant like Fukushima heard that there might be a tsunami they tried to make the walls higher so the water wouldn't get in**. =====

Here is an extract from the news website, [|http://ajw.asahi.com/] "Traces of radioactive cesium have been discovered in schoolchildren in Fukushima Prefecture, according to the Minami-Soma municipal general hospital. Half of the elementary and junior high school students in Minami-Soma who underwent radiation checks since late September were found with low levels of radioactive cesium-137, the hospital reported. "We will offer periodic checks to students to keep records of their health conditions," said a hospital worker in charge.The hospital is uncertain whether the students inhaled airborne radiation or ingested it through radiation-contaminated foodstuffs after the March 11 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant accident." See full article: []

According to the article, "Tsunami steps saved Tokai from meltdown", A nuclear plant in Ibaraki Prefecture run Japan Atomic Co. managed to avoid a total power loss during March 11 earthquake and tsunami thanks to the sea wall it was in the process of building higher. Japan Atomic Power assume that the wave level was going to be 5.7 meters high, though by the time it hit they hadn't yet built the wall to the height they wanted (6.1 meters), and the tsunami managed to knock out one of its three seawater pumps. Fortunately, its reactors succeeded in achieving a shutdown because the plant's emergency generator was being cooled by the two seawater pumps that survived. So unlike Fukushima nuclear plant, they tried to protect themselves and it actually helped them.

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__** Terrorism and Safety **__ - Global Incident Map - According to globalincidentmap.com, Japan is free of Terrorism. Although because of the radiation caused by the nuclear plant break-down, that side of japan, Sendai (the place where Fukushima is situated), is very dangerous. People are advised that if the want to got to Japan, then they shouldn't go to the side affected by radiation, but to the side that is better and brighter. But apart from all that, Japan is one of the safest places to live in. =====

Although Japan just had an earthquake and a case of radiation, I would still love to go to japan because it is a developed country; it has technology, good companies, straight and flat roads, beautiful buildings and very little/not much violence. =TASK 6 : ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES =

1- Agricultural Subsidies 2- marine protection 3- ecosystem ozone 4- co2 emissions for per generation 5-nuclear issues

__**Task 7: Education**__
URL:https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html

What percentage of the GDP is spent on education?

How does this compare with the rest of the world? What percentage of the population is literate? Is there a major difference in rates of literacy between male and female? How many years is a person expected to attend school? Is there a difference between males and females attending schools?
 * 3.5% (2007)
 * comparison 117
 * 99%
 * No, there is no difference.
 * 15 years
 * No, there is no difference.

__**NationMaster EXTENSION: Compared to USA**__

Find 3 statistics about Education that you believe provide insight into your country.

Class size( age 13) Education spending(% of GDP) Reading literacy
 * Japan: 35.5
 * USA: 18.3
 * Japan 34%
 * USA: 37%
 * Japan: 522
 * USA: 504

//**__Task 8, Gender Equality__**// Data is Missing for Japan. __Over all score: 0.6524__ __Economic Participation and Opportunity: 0.5718__ __Educational Attainment:0.9860__ __Health and Survival:0.9796__ __Political Empowerment:0.0722__
 * The Gender Equality Index from Social Watch.**
 * The Global Gender Gap.**
 * Part 5: Maternal Mortality Rates:**