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General Profile
Location: Eastern Asia, in the North Pacific Ocean
Area: total: 377,835 sq km
land: 374,744 sq km
water: 3,091 sq km
Climate: varies from tropical in south to cool temperate in north
Terrian: mostly rugged and mountainous
Capital: Tokyo
Administrative divisions: 47 prefectures; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gumma, Hiroshima, Hokkaido, Hyogo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kochi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Oita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
Population: 127,417,244 (2005 est.)
Ethnic groups: Japanese 99%, other 1%
Nationality: noun: Japanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Japanese
Languages: Japanese
Religions: Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16%
Literacy: 99.0%
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Political Profile
Government type: constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
Executive branch:
• chief of state: Emperor AKIHITO (since January 1989)
• head of government: Prime Minister Junichiro KOIZUMI (since April 2001)
• cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the prime minister
National Holiday: birthday of Emperor AKIHITO, 23 December (1933)
ACD Member: ACD Member since 2002
Prime Mover (PM) on Working Group: Environmental Education , Strengthening Legal Infrastructure
Co-Prime Mover on Working Group: None
Japan government official web site : www.kentei.go.jp
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Economical Profile
Currency (code): yen (JPY)
GDP: $3.867 trillion (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $30,400 (2005 est.)
Exports - commodities: transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals
Exports - partners: US , China , South Korea , Taiwan , Hong Kong
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials
Imports - partners: China , US , South Korea , Australia , Indonesia , Saudi Arabia , UAE
Agriculture - products: rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit, pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs, fish
Industries: among world’s largest and technologically advanced producers of motorvihicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ship, chemicals, textile, processed food
Source : The World Fact Book 2005 (www.cia.gov) |
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