Japan-Garth+Williams

__**DEVELOPMENT**__

HDI Rank- 0.953, which gives the country a rank of 8th out of 177

GDP- $33,800 (2007 est.)

Primary Sector Jobs- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, live stock ranching

Secondary Sector Jobs- Factory work, construction, road workers, steel workers, government labor workers

Tertiary Sector Jobs- Game design, car design, engineering, architecture, robotics

Raw Materials- negligible mineral resources, fish, oil, rice, cattle

Consumer Goods- Cars, electronics, shoes, anime,

Education- Education in Japan is known for well-maintained educational system and excellent achievement. Japanese children consistently rank at or near the top in successive international tests of most mathematics

Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 99% male: 99% female: 99% (2002)

Life Expectancy total population: 82.02 years male: 78.67 years female: 85.56 years (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.)

Natural increase rate- -0.088% (2007 est.)

Crude birth rate- 8.1 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)

GDI rank- 0.942. Japan has had a strict social system for most of its history in which women stayed at home. After World War 2, most legal barriers to women were repealed. However, the culture of gender roles did not totally fade. Today, there is a popular understanding that women should work in the office until they are married and begin to take care of children.

Women have total access to a public education and rising numbers are entering college, although this number still remains lower than men at a ratio of about thirty-seven percent to men's forty-two percent. Almost exactly half of all adult women participate in the workforce. Modern trends concerning smaller families and longer life spans are altering common marriage relationships and many women are starting to work into their old age. This remarkable life expectancy is also a major factor in improving the GDI score in itself.


 * __INDUSTRY__**

Types of industry- Japan's major export industries include automobiles, consumer electronics, computers, semiconductors, and iron and steel.

Site factors- Due to the geography limits they don’t have a lot of land, have skilled labor, many workers, have many buyers, high profit

Situational factors- They have to import resources in, export finished products out, expensive products, high quality products that are in demand, have to send products very far to reach the good markets

__**RESOURCES**__

Types of energy used- As Japan is a small island with not much land or resources available they are forced to be big on nuclear power and hydropower. The Japanese have to buy any other resources, such as oil, that they want they want from other countries

Problems associated with energy- Japan, along with china has had problems since he 70’s with energy. Japan has a three-part program for the use of energy. Economic growth, energy security, and environmental protection are on their list to be able to be as efficient as they can. As they are about the environment now they are going all out with nuclear power along with researching new resources and using natural gases.

Pollution issues- As they are a highly industrial country Japan has a very high air pollution rate that they are currently working on. They also have a fair amount of water pollution. There isn’t that much land pollution thought as there isn’t that much land to pollute.

What Japan is doing to stave off pollution-