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Japan
Language: Japanese
Ethnicity/race: Japanese
99%; Korean, Chinese, Brazillian, Filipino, other 1%
(2004)
Religions: Shintoist and
Buddhist 84%, other 16% (including Christian 0.7%)
National Holiday:
Birthday of Emperor Akihito, December 23
Literacy
rate:
99% (2002 est.)
Economic
summary:
GDP/PPP (2009 est.): $4.13 trillion; per capita
$32,600. Real growth rate: –5.3%. Inflation:
–1.3%. Unemployment: 5.6%. Arable land:
12%. Agriculture: rice, sugar beets, vegetables,
fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish.
Labor force: 66.07 million; agriculture 4.6%,
industry 27.8%, services 67.7% (2004). 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. Natural
resources: negligible mineral resources, fish.
Exports: $516.3 billion (2009 est.): transport
equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical
machinery, chemicals. Imports: $490.6 billion
(2009 est.): machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs,
chemicals, textiles, raw materials. Major trading
partners: U.S., China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, UAE (2006).
Communications: Telephones:
main lines in use: 55.155 million (2006); mobile
cellular: 101.7 million (2006). Radio broadcast
stations: AM 215 plus 370 repeaters, FM 89 plus 485
repeaters, shortwave 21 (2001). Television broadcast
stations: 211 plus 7,341 repeaters; note: in
addition, U.S. Forces are served by 3 TV stations and 2
TV cable services (1999). Internet hosts: 33.333
million (2007). Internet users: 87.54 (2006).
Transportation: Railways:
total: 23,474 km (16,519 km electrified) (2006).
Highways: total: 1,183 million km; paved: 925,000 km
(including 6,946 km of expressways); unpaved: 258,000 km
(2003). Waterways: 1,770 km (seagoing vessels use
inland seas) (2007). Ports and harbors: Chiba,
Kawasaki, Kiire, Kisarazu, Kobe, Mizushima, Nagoya,
Osaka, Tokyo, Yohohama. Airports: 176 (2007).
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