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OFFICIAL NAME		Japan (Nihon)
GEOGRAPHY		Four main islands and 3,000 small islands; only 13% of all land can be cultivated
AREA		377,835 sq km / 145,882 sq miles
COMPARATIVE		Approximately the same size as California
POPULATION		127,435,000
CAPITAL		Tokyo (12.275 million)
LITERACY		100% (age 15+ and can read and write)
LANGUAGE		Japanese
RELIGION		Buddhist/Shinto - 70% New Religions - 25% Non-religious - 4% Christians - 1%
POLITICS		Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy
INCOME		Per capita income = US$ 38,160 per year
CURRENCY		Yen (¥)
CHURCHES		7,765 Protestant churches
TIME ZONE		GMT/UTC +9
CHURCH RATIO		1 Protestant church for every 16,288 people
MISSIONS		2,362 missionaries
MISSIONS RATIO		1 missionary for every 53,285 people
SOURCES		Statistics provided by a variety of sources, but mostly the U.S. State Department, the U.N. Statistics Division, and BBC News.

The Need in Japan

Japan has been, and remains, one of the most orderly and admirable societies in the world. However, Japan is also at a point in its history where it is experiencing unprecedented social upheaval, which creates anxiety and uncertainty throughout the culture. Every segment of the population is impacted.

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