In Brazil, you are home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.
The Mariners had the inside track all along because of Seattle's large Japanese population and the fact that the club's principal owner was none other than Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo of Japan.
In a recent paper in The Lancet, Masashi Tanaka and his colleagues at the Gifu International Institute of Biotechnology, in Japan, reported that they had found a gene which is carried by a majority of Japanese centenarians, but by less than half of the rest of the Japanese population, suggesting that it could play an important role in a healthy old age.
Dietary patterns associated with fall-related fracture in elderly Japanese: a population based prospective study.
America interned its entire Japanese-American population a decision now seen to have been a cruel mistake.
Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
The Japanese auto market has already been declining steadily over many years due to its aging and shrinking population, rapid urbanization, leading to space constraints in many Japanese cities and high tax burden on car owners.
Japan's population may be shrinking, but the Japanese crave bigger homes like everyone else.
Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American.
Meanwhile, the sea-urchin population increased steeply until its discovery by the Japanese sushi industry led to heavy harvesting and a subsequent crash in the early 1990s.
But, if you want to be the best in your circle of friends or in the top five percent in the U.S. population at golf, swimming, Spanish, Japanese, whatever it might be, I firmly believe that you can accomplish that in most cases six months or less.
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In contrast with SNS usage in the U.S., Japanese users are more mobile-centric: in a population of 127 million, more than 100 million mobile phones in Japan belong to the 3G standard, about 30 million more than in the United States (with a population of 300 million).
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With the population both ageing and shrinking (the number of Japanese is due to fall by half by the end of the next century, according to the government), people are worrying about who is going to pay all of this money back.
Although the Japanese economy may continue to reap the benefits of productivity gains, population growth is not in the cards.
The population of the United States has more than doubled since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the number of licensed drinking establishments has shrunk by as much as two-thirds.
The importance of such an investment was highlighted last year when Foster's Asian unit increased sales after its Japanese competitor, Shizoka, reportedly lost about a quarter of its rodent population to a viral outbreak.
It's important to note that this study only looked at Japanese-American men, and these results may not be applicable to the wider population.
Even though Japanese lifespans continue to lengthen, the country simply will not have enough young people to maintain its population.
While Japanese alarmists blame a lack of competitiveness, the fact is that Japan's working-age population is declining, and within that population the proportion of workers willing to do manual jobs is also falling.
But today, thanks to an aging population and the accessibility of digital music, there has been a gradual decline in the number of Japanese jazz kissa, and the musical genre has found new life in live venues and bars throughout Tokyo.
The move has not gone unnoticed internationally, with Dunster (population: 860) featuring on French TV, in a leading German magazine and being visited by a Japanese news agency.
Yes, Japanese society fosters conformity, but it would take only a handful of entrepreneurs given free rein (out of a population of 126 million) to bring about the breakthroughs and growth necessary for progress.
While the hard right fretted over the rules of succession, however, many Japanese focused on some of the bigger worries facing the country, such as the economic slump, a rapidly ageing population and the perennial travails of Japan's working women.
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