JAPAN

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JAPAN

• OUTLINE
• Background Information
• Development History (by Naoto)
• Educational system
• Educational Issues (by Hiro)

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Background Information(1)
Area Size 377,887 sq km
Population (density) 127million (341.8 per sq km)
Ethnic groups Japanese (99), others(Aynu23000, Ryukyu, Korean, Chinese)
Language Japanese (???)
Literacy Rate 99
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Background Information(2)
Life Expectancy Rate (2003) 78.07(male) / 84.93(female)
Infant Mortality Rate (2003) 3.1 per 1000 live births (2003)
GDP 3.651 trillion (PPP 2002)
GDP per capita 28,700 (PPP 2002)
GDP growth rate 0.2
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Background Information(3)
Exports 383.8 billion (2002)
Imports 292.1 billion (2002)
ODA 9.3 billion (2002)
Defence Expenditure 6 of Total Government Expenditure (1 of GDP)
Unemployment Rate 5.3 (2003)
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Development History (1)

• Edo (Tokugawa) Period 1603-1868
• National Isolation Policy
• Primary enrolment rate (male 79,
• female 21) estimated Literacy rate
• (male 40-50, female 15)
• Domestic Industry

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Development History (2)

• Pre-War period 1868-1945
• Meiji Restoration - open the country
• Modernisation
• Basic education Moral Education
• (Confucian)
• primary school enrolment was over
• 90 in 1902
• Slogans Japanese Spirits, Western Skills
  
• Western Science, Eastern
  Morals

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Development History (3)

• Post-war period 1945-
• Devastation of the Nation - Restructuring
• every social systems (Centralised
• governance structure)
• Rapid economic growth (1960s-70s)
• - Strong back up of USA (Cold War), WB
• Environmental Problems
• - four major environmental
  deteriorations(1960s)