Japan

=Task 1 - COUNTRY FACTFILE=

Capital: Tokyo

Total Area: 377,915 sq km

Population: 126,475,664 ( July 2011 est.)

Languages: Japanese



=Task 2 - LOCATION AND CLIMATE ZONE=



=**Task 3 - Economic Production**=

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

How does this compare with the rest of the world? country comparison to the world: 4 $ 4.146 trillion (2009 est.) $4.424 trillion (2008 est.) //note:// data are in 2010 US dollars

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

How does this compare with the rest of the world? country comparison to the world: 38

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, dairy 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 =

Total Population: 127,579,000 (2010)

Average Life Expectancy: 83 (2010)

Total Fertility Rate: 1.4 (2010)

Infant Mortality Rate 2.78 deaths /1,000 live births



=TASK 5 - WHAT IS IT LIKE TO LIVE HERE?=

Akagawa belies years as Swallows advance The youngest player on the team had the ball in his hands for the most important game of the year for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. Pitching in just his 26th professional game, Akagawa threw 6⅔ innings of shutout ball, and the Swallows provided just enough offense in a 3-1 win over the Yomiuri Giants in Game 3 of the Central League Climax Series first stage on Monday night at Jingu Stadium. The win gives the Swallows a 2-1 victory in the series. The Swallows were 10-11-3 against the Dragons this season, including an 2-1-9 record at Nagoya Dome. Yakult was 0-5 in the Dragons' home park in October. Swallows reliever Takehiko Oshimoto took over with two outs in the seventh and Game 1 winner Kyohei Muranaka worked the final two frames. The loss gives the Giants an entire offseason to rue their missed opportunities. Yomiuri went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position, managing only a single by Gonzalez. Hayato Sakamoto, a .361 hitter with runners in scoring position during the regular season, was 0-for-3 with a runner on either second or third. With the exception of a mistake slider to Aikawa in the third, Gonzalez gave the Giants all they could ask for on the mound.

=Task 7- Education=

What percentage of the GDP is spent on education? 3.5 How does this compare with the rest of the world? Japan is 117th in the world.

What percentage of the population is literate? 99% Is there a major difference in rates of literacy between male and female? No, there both the same.

How many years is a person expected to attend school? 15 years. Is there a difference between between males and females? Not in Japan.

=**TASK 8 - GENDER EQUALITY**=

The Gender Equality Index from Social Watch. Data is missing for Japan.

The Global Gender Gap
 * Overall Score: .6524
 * Economic Participation and Opportunity: .5718
 * Educational Attainment: .9860
 * Health and Survival: .9796
 * Political Empowerment: .0722



The Maternal Mortality Rate in Japan 6 deaths out of 100,000 live births (2008) Japan is ranked 161 in the world.