General / Demography Flashcards
(34 cards)
How many prefectures are there in Japan?
47
Population of Japan? What rank is that in the world? What percent of the worlds total?
127 million
(10th in the world)
1.7% worlds total
Period that lasted 250 years before the Meiji?
Edo period
Size of Japan? What percent of the global land mass ?
Approximately 380,000 km^2.
0.3% global land mass
Largest /Smallest Prefecture
Hokkaido / Kagawa
Largest profit making company in Japan?
1- Toyota
2- SoftBank
What are the islands of Japan?
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa, and more than 6000 smaller islands
What is Japan’a current unemployment rate ? (2003)
About 5%?
How many babies born in 2015?
1 million
What is the average life expectancy at birth of Japanese person?
84 years
What occupation is most popular amongst elementary school children boys and girls? High school?
Baseball - Chef
National Bureaucrat - Cabin Crew
What perfect of 5th graders attend juku?
33.3%!
How many Waseda students ?
43,440 undergraduate
8,636 graduate
What is Japan’s 3 largest universities?
#1 Nihon University (70) #2 Waseda University (44) #3 Ritsumeikan University (36)
Which company is most popular amount Japanese university students?
Dentsu
How many hours do Japanese people sleep?
7 hours 50 min
What percentage of Japanese people believe in G*d?
16.4%
Average age to marry for Japanese men and women?
Men - 31
Women - 29
What percentage of Japanese people get married via arranged marriage?
1%
How much money is spent on wedding ceremony?
4 million yen
Birth rate?
1.4
How many cats and dogs are there?
- 9 million cats
10. 4 million dogs
What percent of employees recurve annual salary of 10 million yen or more?
3.8%
How many consecutive days for holiday do Japanese people take a year?
9.2
