Population Case Study - Japan
Sasha Zouev Geography IB, 13/09/05 IB Case Study: Japan (MEDC) Population, Distribution, Density Introduction: Japan is a great example of an MEDC with a particular population pattern and distribution. The country, located on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean lies to the east of Asia and is made up of about 3,000 smaller islands. There are several large main islands including, from top to bottom, Hokkaido, Honshu (the biggest), Shikoku and Kyushu. Japan is also interestingly rated 10th in the world by population count and has an area of about 377,835 km². The aim of this case study is to examine, section by section, the different factors that affect Brazilian population growth and distribution by looking at areas such as geographical positioning, politics, history, and generate some sort of conclusion Distribution: Japan's population is mostly concentrated alongside the south and west coast (figure 1). Japan's population density is ranked 18th in the world, and has assisted in advertising very expensive land prices. From the years 1980 to 1987, prices of land in the six largest cities nearly doubled. This prevents many poorer families from ever purchasing or renting housing in the central cities. Because of this, daily transportation for many workers became a real lengthy hassle. For example some daily commuters had to travel up to four hours total to reach
The Aging Population of Japan
The Aging Population of Japan Japan is the "oldest" Nation in the world. The percentage of the population above 65 years is 19.7%, which is 25.2 million Japanese. This is higher than most of the other aging countries such as Italy 19.6%, Germany 18.6%, and France 16.3%. This percentage has increased drastically since 1950 when it was 4.9% and it is expected to reach 36.5% by 2050. This obviously have a huge impact on the over all dependency ratio.1 The average life expectancy in Japan is 81.6 (77.9 for males and for 85.1 for females). In 2002 Japan was recorded to have the highest life expectancy compared to other developed countries such as USA, 77.1 and Switzerland 79.1. Japan, a country which had a life expectancy below most developed countries in the 1950, 63.9, (partly due to World War II) has made advances in medical technology and improvements in sanitation. The increase in recent years is also due the fact that there haven't been any major outbreaks of flu or other infectious diseases. Japan's life expectancy is expected to increase to 88.1 by the year 2050. Japan is becoming older and is losing its youth. The percentage of children aged 0-14 will be 14% of the entire population in 2005. This figure is slowly is slowly decreasing and has been for 50 years (1950's percentage was 35.4%). This is because of the reduced fertility; people are too busy and decide to have
The Population of Japan and Swaziland
The Population of Japan and Swaziland Type 2 Portfolio Rachel Timmons Lee's Summit West High School IB Mathematics SL 5/18/2009 Population models are formulas that one can use to calculate the future population of a country based on past growth. These growths can sometimes be shown exponentially. In this portfolio, I will be finding population models for the countries of Swaziland and Japan. I will begin with Swaziland. Using the data in the following table, I will find an exponential function algebraically to describe the population based on the year. A possible format for this function is, and this is the one I'll be basing my model on. The following data was taken from www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/afica/swazilac.htm . The populations shown are estimates. Year Population (thousand) Year Population (thousand) 911 00.0 960 330.0 921 12.8 970 422.0 927 22.0 980 565.0 936 56.7 990 751.0 944 71.3 2000 083.3 950 264.0 2005 317.0 In order to make the data easier to work with, I'm going simplify the years according to 1911 being year 1.Therefore, year 1921 will be represented as year 11, 1927 as 17, 1936 as 26, etc. These new expressive values will be used as my x values and the population as my y values. I placed these values in the table below. X Y X Y 00.0 50 330.0 1 12.8 60 422.0 7 22.0 70 565.0 26 56.7 80
Kanto, Japan
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Discussing Japan.
This is my essay on Japan. The following paragraphs will outline what I am going to talk about. Japan is located off the shore of Asia by Russia and South Korea. It is made up of four major islands and is located in the Sea Of Japan and the North Pacific Ocean. Japan is very mountainous and crowded with a mountainous relief. The country's climate is very, very warm but when the weather turns nasty, it turns nasty. The country suffers from at least thirty major storms a year. These range from Typhoons to Tsunamis. The Japanese still live their lives with regards to tradition. They still play their big drums for long periods of time and everything is simplistic and minimal. The Japanese religion is mainly Buddhism and they sit for hours preying to their god. They feel that it is an important part of life. Japans job structure has lots of things to offer. The recent figures show that people are turning away from family businesses and farms and going into the new hi-tech age. These figures are as follows: Only 7.4% of Japans employment structure is Primary (Raw materials). Secondary is bigger with 33.5% (Manufacturing). Now the Japanese are going towards sales with Tertiary jobs having a massive 59.1% chunk of Japans employment structure. The Japanese like to live very simplistic lives and don't like lots of clutter. It is called minimalist living. They have wooden floors and
Japan: Facing the cultural challenges of Japan and their keiretsu
Japan: Facing the cultural challenges of Japan and their keiretsu . Introduction The aim of this report is to provide an in-depth analysis on Japan's macro environment and to assist a company, such as Experian, in evaluating whether or not to enter the Japanese market. When exploring the possibility of entering a foreign market, country risk analysis is usually carried out. This "examines the chances of non-market events (political, social, and economic) causing financial, strategic, or personnel losses to a firm" following investment. (Rugman, A. and Collinson, S. 2006, p.373) One of the common tools used in evaluating a particular environment is the PESTLE framework. This incorporates political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental factors to assess the environment. One can understand that these factors can be inter-linked, for example, the political and economic issues, however, it is a convenient tool for analysts. I believe that the most important factors for a firm to consider when entering Japan in particular are the social and cultural elements. As a result, I will investigate these factors further in this report, for example, by looking at the works of Geert Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars. I will also examine the role of keiretsu in Japan and the possible impacts that they could have on foreign investors. 2. Does the Japanese culture
Population Essay
"The new threat to the planet is not too many people but too few." Was once written by Michael Mayer. He claimed that the global population will rise to a peak and then sharply decrease. As we know at the moment it seems like there are already too many people on the world, leading to starvation, scarce natural resources, poverty, war and global competition for jobs. And it seems like the amount of people are continually increasing, but will it really last and will it be a problem? In Japan in fact the population is already starting to decrease, where the total fertility rate is only 1.2. That means that a woman in Japan will have an average of 1.2 kids in her life. One of the problems in Japan is that it is difficult to live there as an immigrant. This is due to the hard language and very few Japanese people speak English well. So it's not really attractive to migrate to Japan. And the women see kids the result for Japan is what's called an 'ageing population', where there will be older people, than younger people in the future. The picture beneath shows the current populations pyramid of Japan. As you can see, the life expectancy in Japan is high, as there are quite some people in their 85's-89's. What we can conclude from this pyramid is by the trend in it. [Source: http://www.nurse.or.jp/jna/english/nursing/images/pyramid.jpg] The number of kids in the groups of 0-15
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Content Executive Summary . Introduction 1 2. The origin of Japan 1 2.1 About of Japan 2.2 Japanese Behavior and Trend 2.3 Political economy of Japan 3. Japanese Business Culture 2 3.1 Japanese communication Style 2 3.1.1 Face to Face 3.1.2 Nonverbal communication 3.2 Japanese negotiation Style 3 3.2.1 Group decision making 3.2.2 Emphasis on the relationship 3.3 Japanese timing 4 4. Marketing in Japan 4 5. Consequence of Japanese Partner 4 6. Conclusion 5 7. References 6 Executive Summary The information of Japanese business culture will be provided to Australian manufacturing woodworking tools Company. It is an overview of the geography, religion, economic and culture of Japan. Moreover, Japan is located in Eastern Asia which has Tokyo as the capital city. There are more than 127 million people living in this country. Japanese people are living with modern lifestyle and they are concern about health in order to reduce stress. Furthermore, they are late of getting married because they love freedom and also high in divorce rate. Therefore, there are only 1-2 people per house. In addition, Japan's second largest in world economy since the Second World War which expert in technological development. Therefore, we can see the Japan's products everywhere in the
Why was Malthus wrong about Japan?
Japan Essay Why was Malthus wrong about Japan? Today Japan is a highly developed first world country with a vast population and a booming economy. The demographic history of Japan and how it reached this renowned economic status has been the focus of much theorising and has engaged the minds of many demographers, economists and historians for centuries. Japan is unique in the way its population has changed and its economy has developed without the stimulus of overseas markets. It does not boast the best physical landscape, being 85 percent mountainous, and it is not well endowed in terms of resources. Despite these negative attributes however, Japan has developed, and to such an extent it can now boast one of the worlds leading economies. Indeed Japan was the only country outside the western world to have developed at a similar rate. In the 18th century a Swedish doctor, P. Thunberg commented on Japan, 'Of all the countries that inhabit the three largest parts of the globe, the Japanese deserved to be ranked first, and to be compared with the Europeans.' (Modern Japan, P. Duus.) It stands to reason therefore that Japan's history merits such a wealth of discussion amongst academics. Part of Japan's success as a country has to be attributed to its longstanding political regime. For centuries Japan was an empire ruled by an emperor based at Kyoto. From the 12th
Japan 2011 Earthquake Case Study
Japan earthquake and tsunami - 2011 ________________ Japan is an island nation located in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia. Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, together comprising about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan is a major economic power and has the 3rd largest nominal GDP Its GDP per capita is $34,739 or the 25th highest in the world in 2011 Population is approximately 127 million people, which is the 10th largest population in the world. One of the world’s highest life expectancy at 81.25 years of age. Ageing population with people 23% of the population are over 60 years old fertility rate below replacement level at 1.39 children per woman while the uk’s fertility rate is 1.9 Occurred at 2:46pm Tokyo time on the 11th of March 2011. It was a Magnitude 9 earthquake its amplitude was 100x that of Haiti’s 7.0 Lasted for 3-6 minuets but there were strong aftershocks. The epicentre was 24 km deep, was 72 KM off the coast of sendai. A 400 to 500 km long segment of the north american plate which was being subducted Japan lies at a major triple junction of three major plates which interact in a complex and unpredictable way. The leading edge of the Pacific plate subducts
