Japan 
Facts
Population: 127,433,494 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 13.8% (male 9,024,344/female 8,553,700)
15-64 years: 65.2% (male 41,841,760/female 41,253,968)
65 years and over: 21% (male 11,312,492/female 15,447,230) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: -0.088% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 8.1 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 8.98 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.055 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.014 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.732 male(s)/female
total population: 0.953 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 2.8 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 3 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 2.59 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 82.02 years
male: 78.67 years
female: 85.56 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.23 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 12,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Japanese (singular and plural)
adjective: Japanese.
Ethnic groups: Japanese 98.5%, Koreans 0.5%, Chinese 0.4%, other 0.7%
note: up to 230,000 Brazilians of Japanese origin migrated to Japan in the 1990s to work in industries; some have returned to Brazil (2004).
Religions: observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%).
Languages: Japanese.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2002).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $4.218 trillion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $33,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.6%
industry: 25.3%
services: 73.1% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 66.44 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 4.6%
industry: 27.8%
services: 67.7% (2004).
Population below poverty line: NA%.
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 4.8%
highest 10%: 21.7% (1993).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 0.3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 4.1% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $1.411 trillion
expenditures: $1.639 trillion; including capital expenditures (public works only) of about $71 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: 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.
Industrial production growth rate: 3.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 996 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - consumption: 946.3 billion kWh (2005).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2005).
Exports: $590.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals.
Exports - partners: US 22.9%, China 13.4%, South Korea 7.8%, Taiwan 7.3%, Hong Kong 6.1% (2005).
Imports: $524.1 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials.
Imports - partners: China 21%, US 12.7%, Saudi Arabia 5.5%, UAE 4.9%, Australia 4.7%, South Korea 4.7%, Indonesia 4% (2005).
Debt - external: $1.547 trillion (30 June 2006).
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $8.9 billion (2004).
Currency (code): yen (JPY).
Exchange rates: yen per US dollar - 116.18 (2006), 110.22 (2005), 108.19 (2004), 115.93 (2003), 125.39 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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(Weekly magazine), Tokyo
http://www3.asahi.com/opendoors/span/aera/
(Left wing, Communist Party), Tokyo
http://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/
(Center-Left), Tokyo
http://www.asahi.com/english/
(Weekly magazine of the Asahi Shimbun), Tokyo
http://www.asahi.com/english/
(Public affairs monthly), Tokyo
http://bunshun.topica.ne.jp/
(Independent), Hiroshima
http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/
(Regional), Nagano City
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/
Japan in the News
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In a highly charged yet carefully orchestrated media campaign, Koizumi captured the imagination of the voting public by handpicking celebrity candidates to stand against the ex-L.D.P. rebels who voted with the Opposition against the government’s postal reforms.
By calling a surprise early election last week, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has challenged elements within his party opposed to his economic reforms and in doing so, placed both his and his party’s political future on the line.
Following weeks of bitter protests by Chinese demonstrators remonstrating against Japanese wartime atrocities, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has moved to heal the rift between the two nations by apologizing for Japan’s World War II record in a speech at the Asia-Africa leaders summit held last week in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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