Global Network Japan
GN Code: GNJPN
Website: http://astdjapan.huruike.com/index.htm
Secretary General: Masashi Urayama, urayama@ipii.co.jp
Steering Committee Members:
Kevin Oakes, kevin.oakes@i4cp.com
Kaoru Kobayashi, maurie@mrd.biglobe.ne.jp
Hiroshi Shimoyama, h.shimoyama@jinzai-lab.com
Hideaki Inoue, h8inoue@triton.ocn.ne.jp
Kunio Takama, takama@humanvalue.co.jp
Kouko Nakahara, koko@instructionaldesign.jp
Jun Nakahara, jun@nakahara-lab.net
Ryuji Ohta, fulb@fulbright.or.jp
Masaki Okada, okada@human.tsukuba.ac.jp
Sadao Sato, SSato@sumtotalsystems.com
Yasutaka Shimizu, lotus9133@yahoo.co.jp
Yasushi Kobayashi, kobamaks@tkcnf.or.jp
About Japan
National name: Nippon
Language: Japanese
Capital: Tokyo
Government type: Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
National holiday: Birthday of Emperor AKIHITO, 23 December (1933)
Currency: yen
Area: 377,835 sq. km
Population: (2007 est.) 127,433,494
Age structure:
0-14 years:13.8%
15-64 years: 65.2%
65 years and over: 21%
Median age:
total: 43.5 years
male: 41.7 years
female: 45.3 years
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2007 est.): $4.346 trillion; per capita $33,800
Labor force: 66.07 million; services 67.7%, industry 27.8%, agriculture 4.6%
Natural resources: negligible mineral resources, fish
Industries: motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods
Exports: $665.7 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports commodities: transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals
Imports: $571.1 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials
