Asia, Japan

     

   

ECONOMY OF                      JAPAN

INTRODUCTION

The economy of Japan is the third largest in the world, after the United States and China.

After 40 years of steady economic growth, the Japanese economy grew significantly during the 1990s , opposite situation since 2003, from which the economy has begun to grow significantly . It can be said that the Japanese economy was undoubtedly the economic phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. This success was the result of a total control of imports, heavily invested in the interior and an aggressive export policy led by the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry . The result is a gross domestic product of more than 5 billion U.S. dollars and a positive trade balance of more than 100 billion dollars. The main trade partners of Japan are the United States , China, Malaysia, Thailand , South Korea , Germany and other member states of the European Union. Japan is the second highest per capita income equity.

THE YEN              

The Japanese yen is the currency used in Japan. It is the third most popular currency in the foreign exchange market after the U.S. dollar and the euro. It is also used as a reserve currency alongside the dollar, euro and sterling. As is common in the Japanese numbering large quantities of yen are counted in multiples of 10,000 in the same way as in Western countries is counted by thousands.

CAPITALISM IN JAPAN

Japan is a capitalist country ( free market and private property importance of government in Japan:

• The central government: Japan is a constitutional monarchy , in which people over 20 can vote on universal suffrage. In practice , it is a parliamentary democracy , MPs will vote for the president and these, in turn , vote for a Prime Minister from one of them. The time a prime minister remains in office depends on how long you can keep the support of the majority of parliament, can last many years or just months . Unlike other democracies where there are two strong parties that alternate in power, Japan has until the 2009 elections a dominant party ( the Liberal Democratic Party that coexisted with other minor parties with no real options to propose a first minister himself . This situation seems to have changed since the last vote in 2009 , in which the Democratic Party has won enough seats to cause an alternation of power.

• Local government: The governors of each province are elected by the people, but their independence is limited by the annual central government budget allocated to each province.

NATURAL RESOURCES

It is considered that Japan does not have own natural resources, but has several areas but scarce. You can highlight copper, sulfur, manganese, lead and zinc. Coal is located in deposits like those of Kyushu, Hokkaido and Honshu. In the northwestern part of Hosso's oil wells. In the region of Matsizano, iron Kamaysho, Gumma and Beshi. While gold, tin, uranium and tungsten which are located in the region located Itomka.

AGRICULTURE

Japan has little land devoted to agriculture, but has one of the world's major productions by area. This is possible thanks to the high technology used in agriculture. Wheat, potatoes and sweet potatoes are important for meeting local food needs. A valuable product is tea, with production on the southern slopes of the country. Citrus is the most cultivated fruit.

FRUITS WITH RARE FORMS

Japan started making square watermelons with ways to save money on transportation, but from there, began to produce fruits in different ways, not to save money.

 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Livestock is not a most important sector in the economy of the country has just 1.5% of the surface. The meat has been consumed in relatively large quantities in Japan only since the mid-nineteenth century. Improving the quality of life between the 60s and 70s to increased demand for meat, eggs and dairy products. The largest consumer products include pork, beef and white meat. Japan is the recipient of the world's largest meat. Horses and goats, meanwhile, are in rapid decline and the number of sheep is very small.

SILVICULTURE

Almost 67% of the area of Japan is forested, representing 25,198,000 ha. This is obviously a very large portion, which means an enormous consumption of wood. Most of the production is for own coniferous species that occupies 98% of the area of recruitment, whereas in natural broadleaved forests represent 82% of the area thereof. Of indigenous trees is noteworthy cedar, and Japanese cypress, red and black pine, beech and red and white firs. Hokkaido and the northern half of Honshu are dense forest areas.

FISHING

Japan has historically consumed few livestock products, this was offset by a high fish productivity. That's why it's in the first post of global fish production, especially sardines, mackerel and salmon. On the southern coast of Shikoku and Kyushu, where farming pearl oysters develops. However deepsea presents a problem since the 60s, countries with rich waters have extended their fishing sovereignty to a limit of 200 miles. Therefore Japan performs on fishing-boat with large factories.

JAPAN

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INTRODUCTION

Japan
Flag: white with a red circle in the midle.
Anthem:  ·         "Kimigayo" ·         "君が代"
Government Seal of Japan ·         ·         五七桐 (Go-Shichi no Kiri?)
Capital	Tokyo 35°41′N 139°46′E
National language	Japanese
Population -  2012 estimate 126,659,683[5] (10th)  -  2010 census 128,056,026[6]  -  Density 337.1/km2 (36th) 873.1/sq mi

HUMID SUBTROPICAL CLIMATE

The first thing to know to discuss a climate whatever, we know where to place it, this climate occurs in subtropical areas between 20 ° and 35 ° latitude, both north and south, and the eastern front of the continents as indicated on the map below:

Once we know where it occurs, we must ask what conditions must be fulfilled to be talking about a humid subtropical climate:

• Temperatures: Temperatures are warm all year. Summer is usually warm, exceeding 25 ° C, while winter becomes cool, to be placed in these months average between 5 and 10 º C. They are so because the incidence of the sun's rays is not perpendicular, but neither is at a latitude near the poles.

• Rainfall: Rainfall is abundant, between 800 and 2000 mm per year and is heavily concentrated in the summer, when moist air masses arrive. Rains are convective type.

• Rivers: They are plentiful and irregular. Flowing due to heavy rain throughout the year, and irregular by alternating wet and dry seasons.

• Animallife: As in the equatorial climate , there is great variety of species and types of animals , but differ because they are larger and less cold-blooded animals . Larger because there is more space and less cold-blooded animals because there are more temperature difference.

HUMID CONTINENTAL CLIMATE

The humid continental climate is between 30 º and 35 º north latitude in both the east and west of the continent, although in Europe is between 45 ° and 55 ° north latitude, can be seen in the map below:

Conditions necessary for you to call humid continental climate:

• Temperatures: Temperatures are cool or cold all year. The annual temperature range are between 20 and 35 º C. They are so because of the distance of the tropics.

• Rainfall: We are facing a humid climate, with more than 800 mm per year, and usually more than 1 000 mm. The maximum is reached in summer, the wettest period.

• Rivers: They are plentiful and regular. Because they are so much rain and throughout the year.

• animallife: animals are varied, typically animals with a lot of skin and hair, and during the difficult winter often migrate or hibernate. So are because winter is very hard.

• Plantlife: The typical vegetation of this climate is a mixed forest of conifers and planifolias, a transitional forest between the taiga and deciduous forest.

MOUNTAINS OF JAPAN

In Japan, as there are two types of mountains in all countries:

• Ancient mountains: those mountains are worn and rounded summit because of erosion and do not exceed 2500 meters. Examples: Miune and Lo-zan.

• Youth Mountains: mountains are less worn and have more pointed top and beyond 2500 meters. Examples: Mount Fuji and Kitadake Mountain.

MOUNTAINS OVER 3000 METERS

MOUNTAIN	PREFECTURE	HIGH
Monte Fuji	Shizuoka / Yamanashi	3776 m.
Montaña Kitadake	Yamanashi	3193 m.
Oku-hotaka-dake	Gifu / Nagano	3190 m.
Aino-dake	Shizuoka / Yamanashi	3189 m.
Yari-ga-take	Gifu / Nagano	3180 m.
Warusawa-dake	Shizuoka	3141 m.
Akaishi-dake	Nagano / Shizuoka	3120 m.
Karasawa-dake	Nagano	3110 m.
Kita-hotaka-dake	Gifu / Nagano	3106 m.
Mae-hotaka-dake	Nagano	3090 m.
Ontake-san	Nagano	3067 m.
Nōtoridake	Shizuoka / Yamanashi	3026 m.
Tate-yamaa	Toyama	3015 m.

MOUNTAINS OVER 2000 METERS

MOUNTAIN	PREFECTURE	HIGH
Kiso-komaga-take	Nagano	2956 m.
Shirouma-dake	Nagano / Toyama	2932 m.
Myojin-dake	Gifu / Nagano	2931 m.
Aka-dake	Nagano / Yamanashi	2899 m.
Kashima-yari-ga-dake	Nagano	2889 m.
Jonen-dake	Nagano	2857 m.
Korenge-san	Nagano / Niigata	2769 m.
Tsubakuro-dake	Nagano	2763 m.
Haku-san	Ishikawa / Gifu	2702 m.
Monte Nikkō-Shirane	Gunma / Tochigi	2578 m.
Asama-yama	Gunma / Nagano	2568 m.
Tateshina-san	Nagano	2533 m.
Nantai-san	Tochigi	2484 m.
Sanpo-yama	Saitama	2483 m.
Hiuchi-yama	Niigata	2462 m.
Monte Myōkō	Niigata	2454 m.
Hiuchi-ga-take	Fukushima	2356 m.
Asahi-dake (Daisetsuzan)	Hokkaidō	2290 m.
Hokuchin-dake	Hokkaidō	2244 m.
Chōkai-san	Akita / Yamagata	2236 m.
Pippu-dake	Hokkaidō	2197 m.
Kusatsu-shirane-san	Toyama	2171 m.
Naeba-san	Niigata	2145 m.
Tomuraushi-san	Hokkaidō	2142 m.
Dainichi-dake	Toyama	2128 m.
Aibetsu-dake	Hokkaidō	2112 m.
Sannomine	Fukui / Gifu	2095 m.
Aka-dake	Hokkaidō	2078 m.
Tokachi-dake	Hokkaidō	2077 m.
Biei-dake	Hokkaidō	2052 m.
Poroshiri-dake	Hokkaidō	2052 m.
Iwate-san	Iwate	2038 m.
Kumotori-yama	Tokyo	2017 m.
Oputakeshike-yama	Hokkaidō	2012 m.
Nipesotsu-yama	Hokkaidō	2013 m.

 MOUNTAINS OVER 1000 METERS

MOUNTAIN	PREFECTURE	HIGH
Tengu-dake (Ishizuchi-san)	Ehime	1982 m.
Tsurugi-san	Tokushima	1955 m.
Keigetsu-dake	Hokkaidō	1938 m.
Miyanoura-dake	Kagoshima	1936 m.
Monte Kirigamine (Kirigamine)	Nagano	1925 m.
Hakken-zan (Bukkyō-ga-take)	Nara	1915 m.
Furano-dake	Hokkaidō	1912 m.
Yotei-zan	Hokkaidō	1898 m.
Miune	Kochi	1893 m.
Chiroro-dake	Hokkaidō	1880 m.
Zao-zan	Yamagata	1841 m.
Akagi-san	Gunma	1828 m.
Bandai-san	Fukushima	1819 m.
Fushimi-dake	Hokkaidō	1792 m.
Kuju-san	Oita	1791 m.
Chōkai-zan	Akita	1757 m.
Sobo-san	Miyazaki	1756 m.
Kunimi-dake	Kumamoto	1739 m.
Monte Daisen	Tottori	1729 m.
Asibetsu-dake	Hokkaidō	1726 m.
Rishiri-zan	Hokkaidō	1721 m.
Monte Azuma	Fukushima	1705 m.
Ōdaigahara-san	Mie	1695 m.
Tanzawa-san	Kanagawa	1673 m.
Rausu-dake	Hokkaidō	1660 m.
Iwaki-san	Aomori	1625 m.
Kamui-dake	Hokkaidō	1601 m.
Aso-san	Kumamoto	1592 m.
Io-zan	Hokkaidō	1563 m.
Kasatori-yama	Ehime	1562 m.
Shari-dake	Hokkaidō	1545 m.
Hyono-sen	Hyōgo	1510 m.
Meakan-dake	Hokkaidō	1499 m.
Unzen-dake	Nagasaki	1486 m.
Haruna-san	Gunma	1449 m.
Chausu-yama	Aichi	1415 m.
Amagi-san	Shizuoka	1406 m.
Ibuki-san	Gifu / Shiga	1377 m.
Gomadan-zan	Wakayama	1372 m.
Koma-ga-take (Hakone)	Kanagawa	1357 m.
Osorakan-zan	Hiroshima / Shimane	1346 m.
Ushiroyama	Hyōgo / Okayama	1345 m.
Jakuchi-san	Yamaguchi	1337 m.
Beppirigai-san	Hokkaidō	1308 m.
Harubetsu-dake	Hokkaidō	1293 m.
Ōyama	Kanagawa	1252 m.
Shaka-ga-take	Fukuoka	1230 m.
Monte Bunagatake	Shiga	1214 m.
Onigajo-yama	Ehime / Kochi	1142 m.
Sakurajima	Kagoshima	1117 m.
Tara-dake	Saga	1076 m.
Ryuo-zan	Kagawa / Tokushima	1060 m.
Kongō-zan	Nara / Osaka	1056 m.
Yamizo-san	Ibaraki	1022 m.

SMALLER MOUNTAINS AT 1000 METERS

Montaña	Prefectura	Altura
Minako-yama	Kyoto	972 m.
Hokotate-yama (Seppiko-san)	Hyōgo	950 m.
Rokko-san	Hyōgo	931 m.
Tsukuba-san	Ibaraki	877 m.
Hachijo-fuji	Tokyo (Ogasawara Islands)	854 m.
Hiei-zan	Kyoto	848 m.
Apoi-dake	Hokkaidō	811 m.
Mitake	Hyōgo	793 m.
Mihara-yama	Tokyo (Ogasawara Islands)	758 m.
Nishigatake	Hyōgo	727 m.
Shirakamidake	Hyōgo	721 m.
Yuwan-dake	Kagoshima	694 m.
Yatate-yama	Nagasaki	649 m.
Ikoma-yama	Nara / Osaka	642 m.
Iwahara-yama	Hyōgo	573 m.
Omoto-dake	Okinawa	526 m.
Hakusan (Hyogo)	Hyōgo	511 m.
Yonaha-dake	Okinawa	498 m.
Iwakura-yama	Hyōgo	488 m.
Naka-yama	Hyōgo	478 m.
Miwa-yama	Nara	467 m.
Yae-dake	Okinawa	453 m.
Atago-yama	Chiba	408 m.
Wakakusa-yama	Nara	342 m.
Hakodate-yama	Hokkaidō	334 m.
Mount Kinka	Gifu	329 m.
Kabuto-yama	Hyōgo	309 m.
Suribachi-yama	Tokyo (Ogasawara Islands)	166 m (546 ft)

RIVERS OF JAPAN

 The four side have the same characteristics, are plentiful, and short regulare. The strands are:

• Shed East China Sea

• Shed the Sea of ​​Japan

• Ocean Pacific Rim

• Shed Indian Ocean

River	Length
Ishikari	268 kilometres (167 mi)
Teshio	256 kilometres (159 mi)
Tokachi	156 kilometres (97 mi)
Kushiro	154 kilometres (96 mi)
Yūbari	136 kilometres (85 mi)
Mu	135 kilometres (84 mi)
Shiribetsu	126 kilometres (78 mi)
Tokoro	120 kilometres (75 mi)
Abashiri	115 kilometres (71 mi)
Chitose	108 kilometres (67 mi)
Saru	104 kilometres (65 mi)
Akan	98 kilometres (61 mi)
Yūbetsu	87 kilometres (54 mi)
Shokotsu	84 kilometres (52 mi)
Niikappu	80 kilometres (50 mi)
Shiribeshi-Toshibetsu	80 kilometres (50 mi)
Shibetsu	78 kilometres (48 mi)
Toyohira	72.5 kilometres (45.0 mi)
Shizunai (	69.9 kilometres (43.4 mi)
Rumoi	44 kilometres (27 mi)
Koetoi	41.9 kilometres (26.0 mi)
Mitsuishi	31.6 kilometres (19.6 mi)
Makomanai	21 kilometres (13 mi)
Anano (	9.4 kilometres (5.8 mi)
Zenibako
Bifue
Okotanpe
Ninaru
Omakatu

                        

GULFS

·       Sagami-nada.

·       Tokyo Bay.

·       Gulf of Leyte

       CABES

·       Sata Cabe

·       Soya Cabe

                      JAPANESE DISH

Ingredients

• 1/2 TEASPOON SESAME OIL
• 1 TABLESPOON CANOLA OIL
• 2 TABLESPOONS CHILE PASTE
• 2 CLOVES GARLIC, CHOPPED
• 4 SKINLESS, BONELESS CHICKEN BREAST HALVESCUT INTO 1 INCH CUBES
• 1/2 CUP SOY SAUCE
• 1 ONION, SLICED LENGTHWISE INTO EIGHTHS
• 1/2 MEDIUM HEAD CABBAGE COARSELY CHOPPED
• 2 CARROTS, COARSELY CHOPPED
• 8 OUNCES SOBA NOODLES, COOKED AND DRAINED

     Directions

1. In a large skillet combine sesame oil, canola oil and chili paste; stir-fry 30 seconds. Add garlic and stir fry an additional 30 seconds. Add chicken and 1/4 cup of the soy sauce and stir fry until chicken is no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Remove mixture from pan, set aside, and keep warm.
2. In the emptied pan combine the onion, cabbage, and carrots. Stir-fry until cabbage begins to wilt, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the remaining soy sauce, cooked noodles, and the chicken mixture to pan and mix to blend. Serve and enjoy!