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Sunday, November 29, 2009

location

http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/PGES/instruction/kid-pages/islands/japan/location.html

Japan lies off the east coast of Asia and has four main islands: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. It has a total land area of 143,818 miles. On its west boundary is the Sea of Japan; and on its east and south boundary is the Pacific Ocean.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

hotel capsules

http://www.yesicanusechopsticks.com/capsule/

Buttons on the left control and set the alarm clock.
Left switch turns on the TV. Right turns on the light. Knob is dimmer.
Bottom knob is volume, black button beside it changes the channel.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

economy question answer

For three decades, Japan's overall real economic growth had been high: a 10% average in the 1960s, a 5% average in the 1970s and a 4% average in the 1980s.[4] Sliding stock and real estate prices marked the end of the "Japanese asset price bubble" of the late 1980s, and ushered in a decade of stagnant economic growth. These problems may have been exacerbated by domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets. Real GDP in Japan grew at an average of roughly 1.5% yearly between 1991-1999, compared to growth in the 1980s of about 4% per year. Growth in Japan throughout the 1990s was slower than growth in other major industrial nations, and the same as in France and Germany. Government efforts to revive economic growth have met with little success and were further hampered in 2000 to 2001 by the slowing of the global economy.[5] However, GDP per worker has increased steadily even through the nineties, growing at 2.0% per year in 2003 and 2004, and 2.8 percent in 2005. In 2008, due to the global financial crisis, the economy of Japan was strongly hit and shrank 0.7% and is expected to shrink some 5% in 2009.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Japan