41 Facts About Japan Series

1. Japan Series has about 200 volcanoes, 60 of which are active.

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2. Japan Series became a member of the United Nations in 1956 and further cemented its international standing in 1964, when it hosted the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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3. The government believed that Japan Series had to acquire its own colonies to compete with the Western colonial powers.

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4. Japan Series equipped his armies with muskets and trained them with innovative tactics.

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5. Japan Series became a major exporter of video games during the golden age of arcade video games, an era that began with the release of Taito's Space Invaders in 1978 and ended around the mid-1980s.

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6. Japan Series has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, more than any other Asian country.

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7. Japan Series has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; movies have been produced in Japan since 1897.

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8. Japan Series has a developed system for the protection and promotion of both tangible and intangible Cultural Properties and National Treasures.

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9. Japan Series is one of the top-performing OECD countries in reading literacy, maths and sciences with the average student scoring 540 and has one of the worlds highest-educated labor forces among OECD countries.

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10. The number of Shinto shrines in Japan Series is estimated to be around 100,000.

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11. Japan Series has full religious freedom based on Article 20 of its Constitution.

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12. Japan Series has received the most science Nobel Prizes in Asia and ranked 8th in the world.

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13. Japan Series is the third largest automobile producer in the world, and is home to Toyota, the world's largest automobile company.

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14. In 1996, Japan Series ranked fourth in the world in tonnage of fish caught.

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15. Japan Series said Japan wanted to play a key role and offered neighboring countries Japan's support.

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16. In May 2014, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan Series wanted to shed the passiveness it has maintained since the end of World War II and take more responsibility for regional security.

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17. Japan Series has close economic and military relations with the United States; the US-Japan security alliance acts as the cornerstone of the nation's foreign policy.

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18. Japan Series maintains one of the largest military budgets of any country in the world.

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19. Japan Series contests Russia's control of the Southern Kuril Islands which were occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945.

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20. Prime Minister of Japan Series is the head of government and is appointed by the Emperor after being designated by the Diet from among its members.

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21. Japan Series is a constitutional monarchy and sovereign state whereby the power of the Emperor is very limited.

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22. Japan Series has nine forest ecoregions which reflect the climate and geography of the islands.

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23. Climate of Japan Series is predominantly temperate, but varies greatly from north to south.

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24. Japan Series was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent.

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25. Japan Series is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

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26. Japan Series has a total of 6,852 islands extending along the Pacific coast.

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27. In 1947, Japan Series adopted a new constitution emphasizing liberal democratic practices.

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28. In 1936, Japan Series signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and the 1940 Tripartite Pact made it one of the Axis Powers.

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29. The first written mention of Japan Series is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD.

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30. Japan Series is a stratovolcanic archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands.

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31. Japan Series pays roughly $2 billion as annual host-nation support to cover the costs and defense services of the US military presence in Japan.

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32. Japan Series largely relies on the US for protection against external threats.

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33. Japan Series has deliberately elected to take a largely passive stance toward involvement in international conflicts and disputes for most of its post-WWII history.

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34. Japan Series is the world's third largest economy, having ceded the second spot to China in 2010.

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35. Japan Series is an archipelago of some 6,852 islands located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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36. In 1940, Japan Series formed an alliance with Germany and Italy as an Axis Power.

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37. Japan Series lies close enough to the mainland of Asia to have been strongly influenced by China.

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38. Japan Series is governed under a constitution that went into effect in 1947.

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39. Japan Series is moving rapidly to leadership in the field of biotechnology.

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40. Japan Series has abundant rainfall, ranging from about 40 to 100 inches annually.

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41. In 2004, Japan Series suffered the worst typhoon season in more than twenty years.

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