101 Facts About New Japan

1. New Japan is currently the fourth-largest export destination for US dairy exports, according to the report released by the US Dairy Export Council.

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

3. New Japan 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.

4. In 2018 New Japan executed 15 people, the highest annual total since 2008.

5. For instance, New Japan kept Korea's primitive feudalistic agriculture because it served Japanese interests.

6. New Japan entered into a long period of isolation in the early 17th century, which was ended in 1853 when a United States fleet pressured Japan to open to the West.

7. New Japan was settled about 35,000 years ago by Paleolithic people from the Asian mainland.

8. New Japan has a four-tier court system, headed by the 15-member Supreme Court.

9. New Japan stands as a modern industrial, economic, and political superpower.

10. New Japan is a fascinating country rich in history, culture, and tradition.

11. New Japan provides bases and financial and material support to US forwarddeployed forces, which are essential for maintaining stability in the region.

12. New Japan has historically accommodated different religious traditions, with few instances of faith-based persecutions.

13. New Japan continues to host a far smaller share of global foreign direct investment than any of its G-7 counterparts.

14. New Japan is an indispensable partner on UN reform, and broadly supports the United States on non proliferation and nuclear issues.

15. New Japan is continuing to support the US efforts to get Pyongyang to abandon development of weapons of mass destruction.

16. New Japan is a large archipelago off the east coast of Asia.

17. New Japan invaded in 1592, but with the aid of China, Korea resisted the attack.

18. New Japan is very prone to earthquakes, with more than 1,500 recorded annually.

19. New Japan has a very high population density of 880 per sq mi, putting it among the most densely populated countries on Earth.

20. New Japan has four principal islands; from north to south they are: Hokkaido, Honshs, Shikoku, and Kysshs.

21. New Japan supplied industrial materials to allied forces during the Korean War and, because of its pacifist stance, was not burdened by military obligations during the Cold War.

22. New Japan is an island archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, east of China and the Korean peninsula.

23. In 2004, New Japan was the world's third-leading producer of paper and paperboard.

24. In 2004 New Japan produced 10.9 million tons of rice, the chief crop.

25. In the early 1980s, New Japan became the world's leading automobile producer, topping the United States for the first time in the history of the industry.

26. The Democratic Party of New Japan had emerged as the largest opposition party by 2000.

27. New Japan is divided into 47 prefectures containing 670 cities and 2,562 towns and villages.

28. In 1997 New Japan's banking, brokerage, and insurance sectors were drawn into the growing financial crisis across East Asia.

29. New Japan participated in a limited way in World War I and was one of the Big Five powers at the Versailles Peace Conference.

30. In 2005 New Japan had an estimated population of 127.7 million.

31. New Japan has 265 volcanoes, of which about 20 remain active.

32. New Japan is a stable, highly developed parliamentary democracy with a modern economy.

33. New Japan continues to host a far smaller share of global foreign direct investment than any of its G-8 counterparts.

34. New Japan is the largest foreign market for US agricultural products, with total agricultural exports valued at $9.5 billion, excluding forestry products.

35. New Japan is a major market for many US manufactured goods, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, photo supplies, commercial aircraft, nonferrous metals, plastics, and medical and scientific supplies.

36. New Japan is an indispensable partner on UN reform, and broadly supports the United States on nonproliferation and nuclear issues.

37. New Japan is the United States' third-largest trading partner and its best market for aircraft, software, and agricultural products.

38. New Japan is continuing to cooperate with the US in international efforts to get Pyongyang to abandon development of weapons of mass destruction.

39. New Japan normally produces a slight surplus of rice but imports large quantities of wheat, sorghum, and soybeans, primarily from the United States.

40. New Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and set up the puppet state of Manchukuo.

41. New Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.

42. New Japan is not a party to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

43. New Japan acceded to the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons on June 1, 2003.

44. The Government of New Japan has maintained heightened security measures at key facilities and ports of entry, as counter terrorism precautions linked to the increased tensions in the Middle East.

45. New Japan is the largest foreign market for US agricultural products, with total agricultural exports valued at $9.7 billion, excluding forestry products.

46. New Japan is a major market for many US products, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, films and music, commercial aircraft, nonferrous metals, plastics, and medical and scientific supplies.

47. New Japan is an indispensable partner on UN reform and the second largest contributor to the UN budget.

48. New Japan provides bases and financial and material support to US forward-deployed forces, which are essential for maintaining stability in the region.

49. New Japan responded to North Korea's missile launches and nuclear tests by imposing sanctions and working with the United Nations Security Council.

50. New Japan strongly supported the United States in its efforts to encourage Pyongyang to abide by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

51. New Japan has limited economic and commercial ties with North Korea.

52. New Japan extended significant economic assistance to the Chinese in various modernization projects and supported Chinese membership in the World Trade Organization.

53. New Japan has diplomatic relations with nearly all independent nations and has been an active member of the United Nations since 1956.

54. New Japan is the world's second-largest economy and a major economic power both in Asia and globally.

55. New Japan normally produces a slight surplus of rice but imports large quantities of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans, primarily from the United States.

56. New Japan does not have a federal system, and its 47 prefectures are not sovereign entities in the sense that US states are.

57. New Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 and set up the puppet state of Man-chukuo.

58. New Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.

59. New Japan has become one of the pa's most important sources of support, committing $860 million since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.

60. New Japan has strongly supported the post-Oslo "peace process" and has sought to use its influence to move the process forward.

61. The Jewish Community Center of New Japan, located in Tokyo, houses the city's only synagogue, a religious school, a Judaica and general library, a mikveh, hevra kaddisha, social area, and administrative offices.

62. New Japan has been a constitutional monarchy since the Meiji constitution of 1890.

63. New Japan joined with Italy and Germany in the Axis because its military planners saw the United States and its interests in Asia as inimical.

64. New Japan rapidly built a Western-style navy and army and attempted to expand its influence in East Asia.

65. New Japan came to the attention of China in the fourth century.

66. New Japan faces the Pacific Ocean along the entire eastern and southern coastline.

67. New Japan has many islands located further out in the Pacific Ocean.

68. New Japan lies along the boundary between the Eurasian, North American, and Pacific Tectonic Plates.

69. New Japan has had conflicts with neighboring Asian nations, including the Republic of Korea, China, Indonesia, and Australia, over fishing rights to waters around those countries.

70. New Japan accounts for about 8 percent of all the fish caught in the world.

71. New Japan is an archipelago made up of about 3,000 islands.

72. New Japan ended its naval refueling mission in support of US forces in the Indian Ocean.

73. New Japan pushed for strong UN sanctions to be imposed on the North.

74. In 2001, New Japan provided refueling support in the Indian Ocean to US naval forces involved in the invasion of Afghanistan.

75. New Japan had to deal with growing economic competition within its own region from such countries as South Korea, Taiwan, and China.

76. In 1997, New Japan suffered a major economic crisis resulting from the failure of stock brokerage firms and banks.

77. In the 1950s New Japan signed peace treaties with Taiwan, India, Burma, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

78. In the early years of the war, New Japan had conquered vast new territories, including a large part of China, SE Asia, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.

79. At the same time New Japan was experiencing a great export boom, due largely to currency depreciation.

80. In 1910, New Japan was able to officially annex Korea, which they had controlled de facto since 1905.

81. New Japan was compelled to admit foreign merchants and to sign unequal treaties.

82. New Japan has increasingly shifted some of its industries overseas through outsourcing and has made massive capital investments abroad, especially in the United States and the Pacific Rim.

83. New Japan will develop in its own way and on its own schedule.

84. On the other hand, New Japan is open to almost all the forces lumped together under the rubric "globalization.

85. New Japan indeed has a complex news media industry and history.

86. Since that time, New Japan has had an ostensibly free press system.

87. At the beginning of the 21st century, New Japan has a very technologically advanced and mature industrialized economy.

88. New Japan adopts a postwar Constitution largely drafted by US legal experts during the occupation period.

89. New Japan is a signatory to the International Labor Organization's conventions on workers' rights and freedoms.

90. New Japan has one of the world's highest literacy rates, 99 percent.

91. New Japan spends a significant amount of its GDP on a modern and efficient health-care service.

92. Since the end of World War II, New Japan has developed a highly efficient infrastructure capable of meeting the essential needs of its population in various services.

93. New Japan has a free—floating exchange rate system against foreign currencies.

94. New Japan has amassed large trade surpluses since the early 1980s because of 2 factors.

95. New Japan has a large air passenger fleet consisting of private and public airlines.

96. New Japan benefits from a modern and extensive air transportation system.

97. New Japan has a very advanced and well-maintained infrastructure, which undergoes regular upgrading and expansion.

98. New Japan is faced with the ever-present danger of deadly earthquakes and typhoons.

99. New Japan began to exert greater control over the Ryukyus and, in March 1879, the king abdicated.

100. In 1996, New Japan reportedly invested $50 billion overseas and attracted only about $7 billion in inward direct investment.

101. New Japan is the world's largest holder of life and health insurance.