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.
Press
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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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The suicide of one Japanese high-school principal and murder of another during controversies over whether to raise the hinomaru (rising-sun flag) and sing the Kimigayo (national anthem) have "reanimated a passionate debate, up and down the length of Japan, between the left and the right over the nation's identity," writes Luis Prados in Madrid's liberal El Pais.
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