Japan: Interesting Statistics and Facts

**Geography and history:** The total area of ​​Japan is 377,835 km² (62nd in the world). This is about 45 times smaller than the territory of Russia (17.1 million km²), with an almost equal number of people. Compared to Cambodia (181,035 km²), Japan is twice as large. The coastline is 29 751 km² (6th place in the world). But this characteristic of the Japanese are obliged to the insular nature of their country. The highest point of 3776 meters (Mount Fuji) is a sacred place for every Japanese, privately owned by a Shinto temple, which houses a gift from the shogun, dated 1609. https://d.radikal.ru/d22/1811/65/afd66eedbed4.jpg Japan is a country in East Asia, which is located in the Pacific Ocean and consists of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands: Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku make up 97% of the total area. Forests cover 66% of the territory, commercial logging is prohibited. There are more than 200 volcanoes in the country, 70% of which consist of highlands. https://c.radikal.ru/c28/1811/18/5472748917f7.jpg Japan experiences up to 1,500 earthquakes per year. Almost all of them are just weak earthquakes, but strong earthquakes are not uncommon. The reason for this is the location of the island group at the junction of three massive tectonic plates at once. When the plates start moving, an earthquake occurs. In 2011, the plates moved very actively, which led to a large-scale disaster. That earthquake was the strongest in the entire history of observations - its magnitude was 9.0 points. But due to the fact that Japanese engineers and builders learned to resist the elements, great sacrifices and destruction were avoided. But in 1923, the Kanto earthquake (here it is customary to give proper names to significant natural disasters) with a magnitude of "only" 7.9 points, claimed the lives of 143 thousand inhabitants. https://d.radikal.ru/d01/1811/26/470d61e58805.jpg Japan is still a monarchy, only now constitutional. Formally, this is the last and only empire on the planet. The emperor performs the symbolic function of the unity of the people and the state, and all laws are adopted by a bicameral parliament. The imperial dynasty in Japan has never been interrupted. The current emperor Akihito (pictured with his wife) is a direct descendant of Jimmu, who founded Japan in 711 BC. Japan is forbidden to have a regular army and take part in armed conflicts (according to the results of the Second World War). https://b.radikal.ru/b25/1811/c9/1012730ee37a.jpg **Tradition and mentality:** 98.4% of the population is ethnic Japanese. According to statistics, the capital of Japan is the safest metropolis of the world, and the local policemen are incorruptible. At the same time, the country has the highest suicide rate: 24.4 people out of 100 thousand Japanese are expected to end up in suicide. It happens that suicides are committed "for the company" or by the decision of the head of the family. https://d.radikal.ru/d03/1811/3f/0e37d75d1f9f.jpg Coming to work on time - moveton. You should be at the place at least half an hour before it starts. It is not very customary to take annual leave, but often they stay for a long time at work. The Japanese do not know how to rest, 3-4 days without work in a row - rested for the whole year. In Japanese, there is a word that translates as "death from overwork." Doctors register this cause of death every year for more than 10 thousand people. The Japanese have very low social benefits by age. Benefits for needy old people often do not exceed $ 300. It is understood that every Japanese should take care of their old age in advance. The concept of "pensioner" does not exist. By law, a contract of employment is concluded with a person for life and an employee can hold a position as long as his health allows him to perform his duties. https://d.radikal.ru/d18/1811/b4/217151a323dc.jpg There are no guest workers in the country, except for foreign specialists (expats) under a short contract. The recipe is simple: the minimum wage for which it is allowed to hire a foreign worker in Japan is much higher than the average salary for a Japanese person. It is not profitable for employers to hire foreigners. Thus, for highly paid specialists, the way to the country remains open, and unskilled labor from among migrant workers does not dump the salaries of local residents. Many Japanese perfectly draw and sing well. Partly, the school education system is having an effect - children are first taught to sing and draw, and only then to writing and arithmetic. https://d.radikal.ru/d26/1811/a2/11409cd69964.jpg In Japan, there are no landfills: all the garbage is recycled. There are no garbage cans on the streets. Instead of the signature in this country put a personal seal - hanko (pictured). Almost everyone has his own seal and it is used everywhere, many times during the day. https://c.radikal.ru/c18/1811/e6/b13c4060b9ba.jpg The Japanese look down on the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Japanese youth parties and subcultures are extremely extravagant - “acidic” colors in clothes and shoes, outlandish hairstyles and eye-catching accessories. https://b.radikal.ru/b14/1811/d2/0a08d8809e74.jpg If the Japanese laughed - this is the first sign that he is nervous. A smile here is accepted to meet negative and sad news, and a long silence testifies to respect. When they meet, the Japanese intend their own welcome corner for each category of interlocutors. The boss should bow at a 45-degree angle, clients should be 30, and colleagues should be 15. https://b.radikal.ru/b09/1811/28/31d6444d4cda.jpg To apologize or repent, it is customary in Japan to shave their heads. In Japan, there is a central heating system only in Hokkaido Prefecture - the northernmost of the large islands. In other regions, residents solve the problem of heating themselves, with the help of electric air conditioners and heaters - electric, oil or gas. With the arrival of the cold, almost every Japanese house gets a “kotatsu” - a hybrid of a table, an electric stove and a blanket (in the photo below). Modern "kotatsu" are mobile, stylish and multifunctional pieces of furniture that are widely used in the housing stock (especially in poorly insulated houses) and in other areas of public life, for example, in trains. Having gathered for “kotatsu”, the Japanese eat and drink tea, chat, watch TV, play, spend their free time and even sleep under them. https://c.radikal.ru/c15/1811/72/7ceffe15689b.jpg The hospitals do not have floors and wards number four. This is because the hieroglyph “4” is very similar to the hieroglyph “death”. Fours are avoided in house and car rooms. "Tipping" is not in principle, which is unusual. It is believed that as long as the customer pays the price for the service, he remains on equal terms with the seller. If the buyer tries to leave the extra money, he thereby devalues ​​the service or product provided to him, which offends the seller, reducing the equal exchange before the handout. The only Japanese to survive the Titanic shipwreck was Masabumi Hosono. After returning to the land of the rising sun, he was branded a coward due to the fact that he had dishonored himself without remaining on the sinking ship. https://b.radikal.ru/b04/1811/9f/81f795ff7e1a.jpg **Economy:** GDP is $ 5,867 trillion per year (4th place in the world, after the United States, the EU and China). The GDP per person is $ 45,903 per year (25th place in the world). GDP growth -0.7% per year. Inflation -0.28% per year. Yes, yes, deflation. Unemployment is 5% (133 place in the world from the highest). The labor force is 66.7 million people (52.33% of the population) (8th place in the world). The peak of the rise of the Japanese economy happened 30 years ago: in the global index, the share of shares of Japanese companies was 44%, in the ranking of the top 10 largest world banks 7 were Japanese, and of the 271 billionaires, 40 were Japanese. Subsequently, due to intensive development, aggressive exports and overproduction, the growth rate of the economy slowed down. Now the Japanese economy is the fourth in the world. Japan is a member of the Group of Seven (“G7”), an international club uniting countries with the largest economies of the world: Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Canada, the United States and France. In terms of GDP, the country is in 4th place in the world and 2 among Asian countries. This is a serious achievement, however, before the country's position were even more significant. https://a.radikal.ru/a25/1811/93/d958e142e860.jpg Since 1960, GDP per capita has increased 75 times (from $ 610 to $ 45,903). The population of the country over the same period increased by only 40%. Japan's exports grew 155 times, in the 1960-1980s. annual growth averaged 17%. In the last third of the twentieth century, the main advantage of Japanese exports was low price, so around the world used Japanese subcompact cars, precision optics, electronics, televisions and photographic equipment. Thirty years later, the Chinese choose the same path of development, taking advantage of cheap labor. The Japanese are living longer, but for the country it has become a problem, because the elderly in the country have increased, and the birth rate is low. If in the 1960s, each family had an average of 2 children, now it is 1.3. In 1995, there were 87.3 million people in Japan from 15 to 64 years old, and in 2015 there were 78.9 million of such people of working age, while the number of people over 65 years old increased from 18.3 to 31 million. https://d.radikal.ru/d43/1811/2a/4780116048bb.jpg Coffee is especially popular in Japan; the country imports more than 85% of Jamaica’s annual coffee production. Also very popular are fish and seafood. Own catch is not enough to meet demand, so Japan imports half the catch of China, whose share in world production of seafood is 35%. Well, the most popular food is rice. As a rule, it is eaten in the composition of various dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. https://b.radikal.ru/b13/1811/da/f96131e874d4.jpg 40% of exports are cars. Since the 1980s, Japan has consistently ranked among the top 10 global auto manufacturers. Only recently, she lost the championship, giving way to China. Economic policy is aimed at selling high-quality and complex products to the world. The export of industry is dominated by technological and expensive goods: optics, robots, electronic products. Now the production of mass and inexpensive goods is transferred to the Chinese branches and other countries of Southeast Asia, but Japan traditionally carries out technically complex assembly and production independently. The photo shows a traditional Japanese rock garden. https://d.radikal.ru/d27/1811/03/8981f47aaa42.jpg Demography: The population of 127 million people (10 place in the world). The population density is 339 people / km² (36th place in the world). Population growth of -0.08% per year (222 place in the world). A negative increase with a tendency to increase is a serious "bell". Average life expectancy is 82.1 years (3rd place in the world). The median age is 44.2 years (2nd place in the world). Annually, 1.01 million people are born in Japan (23rd in the world). https://a.radikal.ru/a04/1811/f3/12ced6d5c185.jpg Tokyo with the suburbs is the largest urban agglomeration in the world. Its population is nearly 30 million people. 8.5 million people live in Tokyo itself. Attitude to marriage in Japan is very balanced. It rarely marries before 30 years, and the average age of childbirth in Japanese women is 34 years. 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