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​​Location The Japanese Arc is located in the North-west Pacific Ocean. It is formed on the subduction zone where the North American and Phillipine Plates are subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate.

**__Economy__**

industry: 27.9% services: 66.4% (2005) expenditures: $1.997 trillion (2009 est.)
 * GDP:** $4.141 trillion
 * Labour Force:** agriculture: 4.4%
 * Population below poverty line:** None
 * Government Budget:** revenues: $1.614 trillion
 * Agriculture:** rice, sugar beets, vegetables, fruit; pork, poultry, dairy products, eggs; fish
 * Industries:** among world's largest and technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronic equipment, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemicals, textiles, processed foods

**__Population Structure__** 15-64 years: 64.3% (male 41,187,425/female 40,533,876) 65 years and over: 22.2% (male 11,964,694/female 16,243,419) __**Infrastructure**__
 * Population:** 127,078,679 (July 2009 est.)
 * Population Density:** 339 persons per square kilometre (2008, [|www.mapsofworld.com])
 * Age Structure:** 0-14 years: 13.5% (male 8,804,465/female 8,344,800)
 * Birth Rate:** 7.64 births/1,000 population
 * Death rate:** 9.54 deaths/1,000 population
 * Life Expectancy:** 82.12 years
 * Government type:** a parliamentary government with a constitutional monarchy, similar to UK.
 * Number of airports:** 179
 * Total amount of roads:** 1,203,777 km
 * Total amount of railways:** 26,435 km

__**Armed Forces**__ females age 16-49: 26,863,794 (2008 est.)
 * Manpower available for the armed forces:** males age 16-49: 27,819,804
 * Military Expenditure:** 0.8% of GDP

**__Tectonic Activity (__**[|**www.koreanhistoryproject.org**]**__)__**
 * Dormant Volcano Mt. Fuji emerged about 10,000 years ago and has grown over nearly 100 eruptions. The Last, and largest, of these was in 1707 with the Hoei Eruption.
 * Over 200 known volcanoes on Japan and more than 20 are still active
 * Geothermal hot springs used for medical and therapeutical purposes
 * The people of Japan live with more earthquakes than any other country on Earth.
 * Sensitive seismographs detect over 7,500 earthquakes a year, of these only 1,500 are felt by humans
 * In Tokyo alone, 40 to 50 earthquakes are felt a year
 * Japan holds annual "Earthquake Day" where mass evacuation of high rise buildings are practised and people prepare for an imminant earthquake.

**__The Great Kanto Earthquake__**
 * Date ||< September 1923 ||
 * Magnitude || 8.3 on Richter Scale ([|www.absoluteastronomy.com]) ||
 * Duration || Varied accounts suggest between 4-10 minutes ([|www.absoluteastronomy.com]) ||
 * Fatalities || 99,331 dead, 43,476 missing ||
 * Damage to buildings || 8,226 completely collapsed, 126,233 patially collapsed, 447,128 destroyed by fire from Yokohama to Tokyo ||
 * Damage to landscape || Caused landslide on Mt. Tanzawa, more damage to landscape than any other earthquake in recorded history ||
 * Human responses || * Absolute panic
 * many false rumours spread like the annihilation of Tokyo and the Japanese cabinet and the entire Kanto Region sinking into the sea ||