Thursday, October 10, 2013

Tweet Repeat: Harry Styles Posts Adorable Throwback Thurday Pic, DJ Pauly D Rocks A Mustache and More



By Jillian Kirby

University of Florida grad turned Assistant Editor — loves shoes, baked goods and all things Bravo.




Welcome to Tweet Repeat, your daily dose of the best celeb anecdotes found on Twitter. We’ve scoured the site looking for the funniest, weirdest, goofiest, deepest, craziest, sweetest, most intriguing thoughts of the day, from the most intriguing people on the internet. See what Khloe Kardashian, Jonah Hill, Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Mahone and more were up to in the Twittersphere today.













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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

BlackBerry Q5 launching in Canada August 13th, likely coming to AT&T in U.S.

BlackBerry officially announced the release date for its new Q5 handset in its homeland of Canada; and, according to famous leaker @evleaks, the device will be coming to AT&T in the U.S., but no release date is yet known for the U.S. launch. According to the official announcement, the BlackBerry Q5 will launch in Canada on August 13th.According to reports, the BlackBerry Q5 will be widely released in Canada, and will be available through?Bell, Fido, Koodo, Sasktel, TELUS, and Virgin Mobile Canada, as well as retail stores Best Buy Canada, Future Shop, Target, TBooth Wireless, The Mobile Shop, The Source, Walmart, and WIRELESSWAVE, across the country. It should be noted that while that list makes up the majority of carriers in Canada, it does not include the largest carrier in the country: Rogers.

Additionally, @evleaks has said that the device will be coming to AT&T, but no release date info is known yet.?

The BlackBerry Q5 will be a new handset designed for the enterprise crowd which wants a physical keyboard rather than a full touchscreen device. The device features?a 3.1-inch touchscreen display with a 720x720 resolution, a full QWERTY keyboard, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor,?2GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, a 5MP rear camera, a 2MP front camera, and a?2,180 mAh battery. And, the device will come in either black, white, or red.

Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/BlackBerry-Q5-launching-in-Canada-August-13th-likely-coming-to-AT-T-in-U.S._id45865

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Monday, July 29, 2013

Study: Only 28 percent of millionaires think they're rich

If you had investments worth a million dollars, would you consider yourself rich? How about $5 million? Well, hold on to your wallet because a new study has found that the majority of millionaires don't consider themselves rich.

According to a study from investment bank UBS, entitled "What is Wealthy?," 40 percent of those with $5 million in investable assets said they didn't feel they were rich. And only 28 percent of investors who had between $1 and $5 million in investable assets viewed themselves as rich.

"To us, the surprise was that that many people with $1 million or more did not consider themselves wealthy," said Emily Pachuta, head of investor insights at UBS Wealth Management Americas. "We think it shows a very interesting mindset shift. People have certainly experienced a shock from the volatility of the market, and they are very aware that it takes a significant amount of money to have that dual feeling of having enough money and no financial constraints."

According to the opt-in, online survey of 4,450 Americans ages 25 plus with a minimum of at least $250,000 in investable assets (half with at least $1 million in investable assets), 50 percent of investors define wealth as "having no financial constraints on what they do." However, although the $5 million-plus investors are twice as likely to feel wealthy as investors with $1 million to $5 million in assets, only 64 percent of the former and 62 percent of the latter felt confident that they would achieve their goals.

If this outlook seems a little odd?especially when you consider that the median household income for May 2013 was $51,500 and the average 401(k) account has about $80,000?experts are not especially surprised.

"It's shocking to those of us who are not personally in that range, but it's not surprising when you take into the account the costs and expenses that are associated with people at that level of wealth," said Cliff Goldstein, a personal finance associate at Nerd Wallet, a cost comparison website.

Indeed, of those who have adult children, 80 percent said they are providing financial support for adult children, grandchildren or aging parents. "Unemployment, the economy and aging parents cause concern about the financial situation," he said.

David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of books including The Fine Print and Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich?and Cheat Everybody Else, said he wasn't surprised by the Poor-Me-Millionaires.

For starters, research has shown that many rich people are afraid they will lose it all. Secondly, wealth is relative, especially in a world that is trying to keep up with the Jones's (whoever they are).

"In New York City, being wealthy enough to own upright a property worth $5 million doesn't make you feel rich, because you're surrounded by people who can buy and sell you in a two hours income," he told ABC News. "There are always some people around you who have more. Also, having $5 million in Keokuk, Iowa, is a lot different than having $5 million in New York or Silicon Valley or Seattle."

What's more, he says, most people don't understand money. "Handling assets and understanding what they are is a skill very few people have," he said. "To most people money is a stream and not a pool of assets."

One thing that does make investors feel confident is holding a significant amount of cash. According to UBS, despite significant market gains over the past year, investors keep an average of around 20 percent of their assets in cash, as they have for the past three years. Sixty-four percent feel they have the right amount of cash, and 56 percent expect to keep the same level of cash for the next 12 months.

Wealthy investors' two top personal finance concerns are long-term care and the finances of their children and grandchildren. While most feel highly prepared in their retirement planning (62 percent), 36 percent said they were not prepared at all.

"These people have a lot of money," said Goldstein. "But the reason they don't feel wealthy is because they don't feel like they have a comprehensive financial plan in place to take care of all of these longer-term costs."

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Japan win East Asian Cup

State of Japan

???
Nippon-koku
Nihon-koku

Anthem:?
Kimigayo
(???)
Government Seal of Japan
Seal of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Government of Japan
??? (Go-Shichi no Kiri?)
Capital
(and largest city)
Tokyo (de facto)
35?41?N 139?46?E? / ?35.683?N 139.767?E? / 35.683; 139.767
Official language(s) None[1]
Recognised regional?languages Aynu itak, Ryukyuan languages, Eastern Japanese, Western Japanese, and several other Japanese dialects
National language Japanese
Ethnic groups? 98.5%?Japanese, 0.5%?Korean, 0.4%?Chinese, 0.6%?other[2]
Demonym Japanese
Government Unitary parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
?-? Emperor Akihito
?-? Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
Legislature Diet
?-? Upper house House of Councillors
?-? Lower house House of Representatives
Formation
?-? National Foundation Day 11 February 660?BC[3]?
?-? Meiji Constitution 29 November 1890?
?-? Current constitution 3 May 1947?
?-? Treaty of
San Francisco

28 April 1952?
Area
?-? Total 377,944?km2?[4](62nd)
145,925?sq?mi?
?-? Water?(%) 0.8
Population
?-? 2011?estimate 127,799,000[5]?(10th)
?-? 2010?census 128,056,026[6]?
?-? Density 337.1/km2?(36th)
873.1/sq?mi
GDP?(PPP) 2011?estimate
?-? Total $4.440 trillion[7]?(4th)
?-? Per capita $34,739[7]?(25th)
GDP (nominal) 2011?estimate
?-? Total $5.869 trillion[7]?(3rd)
?-? Per capita $45,920[7]?(18th)
Gini? 37.6 (2008)[8]?
HDI?(2011) increase 0.901[9]?(very high)?(12th)
Currency Yen (?)?/ En (??or??) (JPY)
Time zone JST (UTC+9)
?-? Summer?(DST) not observed?(UTC+9)
Date formats yyyy-mm-dd
yyyy?m?d?
Era?yy?m?d? (CE?1988)
Drives on the left
ISO?3166?code JP
Internet TLD .jp
Calling code 81

Japan Listeni/d???p?n/ (Japanese: ?? Nihon or Nippon; formally ??? About this sound?Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, literally the State of Japan) is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands. The four largest islands are Honsh?, Hokkaid?, Ky?sh? and Shikoku, together accounting for ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population, with over 127?million people. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with over 30 million residents.

Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the Upper Paleolithic period. The first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century?AD. Influence from other nations followed by long periods of isolation has characterized Japan's history. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and World War I allowed Japan to expand its empire during a period of increasing militarism. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since adopting its revised constitution in 1947, Japan has maintained a unitary constitutional monarchy with an emperor and an elected parliament called the Diet.

A major economic power,[2] Japan has the world's third-largest economy by nominal GDP and fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military force in self-defense and peacekeeping roles. After Singapore, Japan has the lowest homicide rate (including attempted homicide) in the world.[10] According to both UN and WHO estimates, Japan has the longest life expectancy of any country in the world. According to the UN, it has the third lowest infant mortality rate.[11][12]

Main article: Names of Japan

The English word Japan is an exonym. The Japanese names for Japan are Nippon (?????) About this sound?listen and Nihon (????) About this sound?listen ; both names are written using the kanji ??. The Japanese name Nippon is used for most official purposes, including on Japanese yen, postage stamps, and for many international sporting events. Nihon is a more casual term and is used in contemporary speech.

Japanese people refer to themselves as Nihonjin (????) and to their language as Nihongo (????). Both Nippon and Nihon mean "sun-origin" and are often translated as Land of the Rising Sun. This nomenclature comes from Japanese missions to Imperial China and refers to Japan's eastward position relative to China. Before Nihon came into official use, Japan was known as Wa (??) or Wakoku (???).[13]

The English word for Japan came to the West via early trade routes. The early Mandarin or possibly Wu Chinese (??) word for Japan was recorded by Marco Polo as Cipangu. In modern Shanghainese, a Wu dialect, the pronunciation of characters ?? 'Japan' is Zeppen [z??p?n]. The old Malay word for Japan, Jepang, was borrowed from a Chinese language ? Jih'pen'kuo[14]?, and this Malay word was encountered by Portuguese traders in Malacca in the 16th century. Portuguese traders were the first to bring the word to Europe.[15] It was first recorded in English in a 1565 letter, spelled Giapan.[16]

Prehistory and ancient history[link]

A Paleolithic culture around 30,000?BC constitutes the first known habitation of the Japanese archipelago. This was followed from around 14,000?BC (the start of the J?mon period) by a Mesolithic to Neolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherer culture, who include ancestors of both the contemporary Ainu people and Yamato people,[17][18] characterized by pit dwelling and rudimentary agriculture.[19] Decorated clay vessels from this period are some of the oldest surviving examples of pottery in the world. Around 300 BC, the Yayoi people began to enter the Japanese islands, intermingling with the J?mon.[20] The Yayoi period, starting around 500?BC, saw the introduction of practices like wet-rice farming,[21] a new style of pottery,[22] and metallurgy, introduced from China and Korea.[23]

Japan first appears in written history in the Chinese Book of Han.[24] According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, the most powerful kingdom on the archipelago during the 3rd century was called Yamataikoku. Buddhism was first introduced to Japan from Baekje of Korea, but the subsequent development of Japanese Buddhism was primarily influenced by China.[25] Despite early resistance, Buddhism was promoted by the ruling class and gained widespread acceptance beginning in the Asuka period (592?710).[26]

The Nara period (710?784) of the 8th century marked the emergence of a strong Japanese state, centered on an imperial court in Heij?-ky? (modern Nara). The Nara period is characterized by the appearance of a nascent literature as well as the development of Buddhist-inspired art and architecture.[27] The smallpox epidemic of 735?737 is believed to have killed as much as one-third of Japan's population.[28] In 784, Emperor Kammu moved the capital from Nara to Nagaoka-ky? before relocating it to Heian-ky? (modern Kyoto) in 794.

This marked the beginning of the Heian period (794?1185), during which a distinctly indigenous Japanese culture emerged, noted for its art, poetry and prose. Lady Murasaki's The Tale of Genji and the lyrics of Japan's national anthem Kimigayo were written during this time.[29]

Buddhism began to spread during the Heian era chiefly through two major sects, Tendai by Saich?, and Shingon by K?kai. Pure Land Buddhism greatly becomes popular in the latter half of the 11th century.

Feudal era[link]

Japan's feudal era was characterized by the emergence and dominance of a ruling class of warriors, the samurai. In 1185, following the defeat of the Taira clan, sung in the epic Tale of Heike, samurai Minamoto no Yoritomo was appointed shogun and established a base of power in Kamakura. After his death, the H?j? clan came to power as regents for the shoguns. The Zen school of Buddhism was introduced from China in the Kamakura period (1185?1333) and became popular among the samurai class.[30] The Kamakura shogunate repelled Mongol invasions in 1274 and 1281, but was eventually overthrown by Emperor Go-Daigo. Go-Daigo was himself defeated by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336.

Ashikaga Takauji establishes the shogunate in Muromachi, Kyoto. It is a start of Muromachi Period (1336?1573). The Ashikaga shogunate receives glory in the age of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the culture based on Zen Buddhism (art of Miyabi) has prospered. It evolves to Higashiyama Culture, and has prospered until the 16th century. On the other hand, the succeeding Ashikaga shogunate failed to control the feudal warlords (daimyo), and a civil war (the ?nin War) began in 1467, opening the century-long Sengoku period ("Warring States").[31]

During the 16th century, traders and Jesuit missionaries from Portugal reached Japan for the first time, initiating direct commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West. Oda Nobunaga conquered many other daimyo using European technology and firearms; after he was assassinated in 1582, his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the nation in 1590. Hideyoshi invaded Korea twice, but following defeats by Korean and Ming Chinese forces and Hideyoshi's death, Japanese troops were withdrawn in 1598.[32] This age is called Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1573?1603).

Tokugawa Ieyasu served as regent for Hideyoshi's son and used his position to gain political and military support. When open war broke out, he defeated rival clans in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Ieyasu was appointed shogun in 1603 and established the Tokugawa shogunate at Edo (modern Tokyo).[33] The Tokugawa shogunate enacted measures including buke shohatto, as a code of conduct to control the autonomous daimyo;[34] and in 1639, the isolationist sakoku ("closed country") policy that spanned the two and a half centuries of tenuous political unity known as the Edo period (1603?1868).[35] The study of Western sciences, known as rangaku, continued through contact with the Dutch enclave at Dejima in Nagasaki. The Edo period also gave rise to kokugaku ("national studies"), the study of Japan by the Japanese.[36]

Modern era[link]

On 31 March 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry and the "Black Ships" of the United States Navy forced the opening of Japan to the outside world with the Convention of Kanagawa. Subsequent similar treaties with Western countries in the Bakumatsu period brought economic and political crises. The resignation of the shogun led to the Boshin War and the establishment of a centralized state nominally unified under the Emperor (the Meiji Restoration).[37]

Adopting Western political, judicial and military institutions, the Cabinet organized the Privy Council, introduced the Meiji Constitution, and assembled the Imperial Diet. The Meiji Restoration transformed the Empire of Japan into an industrialized world power that pursued military conflict to expand its sphere of influence. After victories in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894?1895) and the Russo-Japanese War (1904?1905), Japan gained control of Taiwan, Korea, and the southern half of Sakhalin.[38] Japan's population grew from 35 million in 1873 to 70 million in 1935.[39]

The early 20th century saw a brief period of "Taish? democracy" overshadowed by increasing expansionism and militarization. World War?I enabled Japan, on the side of the victorious Allies, to widen its influence and territorial holdings. It continued its expansionist policy by occupying Manchuria in 1931; as a result of international condemnation of this occupation, Japan resigned from the League of Nations two years later. In 1936, Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Nazi Germany, and the 1940 Tripartite Pact made it one of the Axis Powers.[40] In 1941, Japan negotiated the Soviet?Japanese Neutrality Pact.[41]

The Empire of Japan invaded other parts of China in 1937, precipitating the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937?1945). In 1940, the Empire then invaded French Indochina, after which the United States placed an oil embargo on Japan.[42] On December?7, 1941, Japan attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor and declared war, bringing the US into World War II.[43][44] After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on 15 August.[45] The war cost Japan and the rest of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the nation's industry and infrastructure destroyed. The Allies (led by the US) repatriated millions of ethnic Japanese from colonies and military camps throughout Asia, largely eliminating the Japanese empire and restoring the independence of its conquered territories.[46] The Allies also convened the International Military Tribunal for the Far East on May?3, 1946 to prosecute some Japanese leaders for war crimes. However, the bacteriological research units and members of the imperial family involved in the war were exonerated from criminal prosecutions by the Supreme Allied Commander despite calls for trials for both groups.[47]

In 1947, Japan adopted a new constitution emphasizing liberal democratic practices. The Allied occupation ended with the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952[48] and Japan was granted membership in the United Nations in 1956. Japan later achieved rapid growth to become the second-largest economy in the world, until surpassed by China in 2010. This ended in the mid-1990s when Japan suffered a major recession. In the beginning of the 21st century, positive growth has signaled a gradual economic recovery.[49] On 11 March 2011, Japan suffered the strongest earthquake in its recorded history; this triggered the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, one of the worst disasters in the history of nuclear power.[50]

Japan is a constitutional monarchy where the power of the Emperor is very limited. As a ceremonial figurehead, he is defined by the constitution as "the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people". Power is held chiefly by the Prime Minister of Japan and other elected members of the Diet, while sovereignty is vested in the Japanese people.[51]Akihito is the current Emperor of Japan; Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, stands as next in line to the throne.

Japan's legislative organ is the National Diet, a bicameral parliament. The Diet consists of a House of Representatives with 480 seats, elected by popular vote every four years or when dissolved, and a House of Councillors of 242 seats, whose popularly elected members serve six-year terms. There is universal suffrage for adults over 20 years of age,[2] with a secret ballot for all elected offices.[51] In 2009, the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan took power after 54 years of the liberal conservative Liberal Democratic Party's rule.[52]

The Prime Minister of Japan is the head of government and is appointed by the Emperor after being designated by the Diet from among its members. The Prime Minister is the head of the Cabinet and appoints and dismisses the Ministers of State. Naoto Kan was designated by the Diet to replace Yukio Hatoyama as the Prime Minister of Japan on June 2, 2010.[53] Although the Prime Minister is formally appointed by the Emperor, the Constitution of Japan explicitly requires the Emperor to appoint whoever is designated by the Diet. Emperor Akihito formally appointed Kan as the country's 94th Prime Minister on 8 June.[54]

Historically influenced by Chinese law, the Japanese legal system developed independently during the Edo period through texts such as Kujikata Osadamegaki.[55] However, since the late 19th century the judicial system has been largely based on the civil law of Europe, notably Germany. For example, in 1896, the Japanese government established a civil code based on a draft of the German B?rgerliches Gesetzbuch; with post?World War II modifications, the code remains in effect.[56] Statutory law originates in Japan's legislature and has the rubber stamp of the Emperor. The Constitution requires that the Emperor promulgate legislation passed by the Diet, without specifically giving him the power to oppose legislation.[51] Japan's court system is divided into four basic tiers: the Supreme Court and three levels of lower courts.[57] The main body of Japanese statutory law is called the Six Codes.[58]

Japan is a member of the G8, APEC, and "ASEAN Plus Three", and is a participant in the East Asia Summit. Japan signed a security pact with Australia in March 2007[59] and with India in October 2008.[60] It is the world's third largest donor of official development assistance after the United States and France, donating US$9.48 billion in 2009.[61]

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.[62] A member state of the United Nations since 1956, Japan has served as a non-permanent Security Council member for a total of 19 years, most recently for 2009 and 2010. It is one of the G4 nations seeking permanent membership in the Security Council.[63]

Japan is engaged in several territorial disputes with its neighbors: with Russia over the South Kuril Islands, with South Korea over the Liancourt Rocks, with China and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands, and with China over the EEZ around Okinotorishima.[64] Japan also faces an ongoing dispute with North Korea over the latter's abduction of Japanese citizens and its nuclear weapons and missile program (see also Six-party talks).[65]

Japan maintains one of the largest military budgets of any country in the world.[66] Japan contributed non-combatant troops to the Iraq War but subsequently withdrew its forces.[67] The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a regular participant in RIMPAC maritime exercises.[68]

Japan's military is restricted by Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes. Japan's military is governed by the Ministry of Defense, and primarily consists of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). The forces have been recently used in peacekeeping operations; the deployment of troops to Iraq marked the first overseas use of Japan's military since World War II.[67]Nippon Keidanren has called on the government to lift the ban on arms exports so that Japan can join multinational projects such as the Joint Strike Fighter.[69]

Japan consists of forty-seven prefectures, each overseen by an elected governor, legislature and administrative bureaucracy. Each prefecture is further divided into cities, towns and villages.[70] The nation is currently undergoing administrative reorganization by merging many of the cities, towns and villages with each other. This process will reduce the number of sub-prefecture administrative regions and is expected to cut administrative costs.[71]

Japan has a total of 6,852 islands extending along the Pacific coast of East Asia.[72][73] The country, including all of the islands it controls, lies between latitudes 24? and 46?N, and longitudes 122? and 146?E. The main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaid?, Honsh?, Shikoku and Ky?sh?. The Ry?ky? Islands, including Okinawa, are a chain to the south of Ky?sh?. Together they are often known as the Japanese Archipelago.[74]

About 73 percent of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use.[2][75] As a result, the habitable zones, mainly located in coastal areas, have extremely high population densities. Japan is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.[76]

The islands of Japan are located in a volcanic zone on the Pacific Ring of Fire. They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north. Japan was originally attached to the eastern coast of the Eurasian continent. The subducting plates pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago.[77]

Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century.[78] The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people.[79] More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 T?hoku earthquake, a 9.0-magnitude[80] quake which hit Japan on 11 March 2011, and triggered a large tsunami.[50] On 24 May 2012, 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northearstern Japan.No tsunami is expected though.[81]

Climate[link]

The climate of Japan is predominantly temperate, but varies greatly from north to south. Japan's geographical features divide it into six principal climatic zones: Hokkaid?, Sea of Japan, Central Highland, Seto Inland Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Ry?ky? Islands. The northernmost zone, Hokkaido, has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters and very warm to cool summers. Precipitation is not heavy, but the islands usually develop deep snowbanks in the winter.[82]

In the Sea of Japan zone on Honsh?'s west coast, northwest winter winds bring heavy snowfall. In the summer, the region is cooler than the Pacific area, though it sometimes experiences extremely hot temperatures because of the foehn wind. The Central Highland has a typical inland humid continental climate, with large temperature differences between summer and winter, and between day and night; precipitation is light, though winters are usually snowy. The mountains of the Ch?goku and Shikoku regions shelter the Seto Inland Sea from seasonal winds, bringing mild weather year-round.[83]

The Pacific coast features a humid subtropical climate that experiences milder winters with occasional snowfall and hot, humid summers because of the southeast seasonal wind. The Ryukyu Islands have a subtropical climate, with warm winters and hot summers. Precipitation is very heavy, especially during the rainy season. The generally humid, temperate climate exhibits marked seasonal variation such as the blooming of the spring cherry blossoms, the calls of the summer cicada and fall foliage colors that are celebrated in art and literature.[84]

The average winter temperature in Japan is 5.1 ?C (41.2??F) and the average summer temperature is 25.2 ?C (77.4??F).[85] The highest temperature ever measured in Japan?40.9 ?C (105.6??F)?was recorded on 16 August 2007.[86] The main rainy season begins in early May in Okinawa, and the rain front gradually moves north until reaching Hokkaid? in late July. In most of Honsh?, the rainy season begins before the middle of June and lasts about six weeks. In late summer and early autumn, typhoons often bring heavy rain.[87]

Biodiversity[link]

Japan has nine forest ecoregions which reflect the climate and geography of the islands. They range from subtropical moist broadleaf forests in the Ry?ky? and Bonin Islands, to temperate broadleaf and mixed forests in the mild climate regions of the main islands, to temperate coniferous forests in the cold, winter portions of the northern islands.[88] Japan has over 90,000 species of wildlife, including the brown bear, the Japanese macaque, the Japanese raccoon dog, and the Japanese giant salamander.[89] A large network of national parks has been established to protect important areas of flora and fauna as well as thirty-seven Ramsar wetland sites.[90][91]

Environment[link]

In the period of rapid economic growth after World War II, environmental policies were downplayed by the government and industrial corporations; as a result, environmental pollution was widespread in the 1950s and 1960s. Responding to rising concern about the problem, the government introduced several environmental protection laws in 1970.[92] The oil crisis in 1973 also encouraged the efficient use of energy due to Japan's lack of natural resources.[93] Current environmental issues include urban air pollution (NOx, suspended particulate matter, and toxics), waste management, water eutrophication, nature conservation, climate change, chemical management and international co-operation for conservation.[94]

Japan is one of the world's leaders in the development of new environment-friendly technologies, and is ranked 20th best in the world in the 2010 Environmental Performance Index.[95] As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, and host of the 1997 conference which created it, Japan is under treaty obligation to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions and to take other steps to curb climate change.[96]

Some of the structural features for Japan's economic growth developed in the Edo period, such as the network of transport routes, by road and water, and the futures contracts, banking and insurance of the Osaka rice brokers.[98] During the Meiji period from 1868, Japan expanded economically with the embrace of the market economy.[99] Many of today's enterprises were founded at the time, and Japan emerged as the most developed nation in Asia.[100] The period of overall real economic growth from the 1960s to the 1980s has been called the Japanese post-war economic miracle: it averaged 7.5 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, and 3.2 percent in the 1980s and early 1990s.[101]

Growth slowed markedly in the 1990s during what the Japanese call the Lost Decade, largely because of the after-effects of the Japanese asset price bubble and domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets. Government efforts to revive economic growth met with little success and were further hampered by the global slowdown in 2000.[2] The economy showed strong signs of recovery after 2005; GDP growth for that year was 2.8 percent, surpassing the growth rates of the US and European Union during the same period.[102]

As of 2011[update], Japan is the third largest national economy in the world, after the United States and China, in terms of nominal GDP,[103] and the fourth largest national economy in the world, after the United States, China and India in terms of purchasing power parity.[7] As of January 2011[update], Japan's public debt was more than 200 percent of its annual gross domestic product, the largest of any nation in the world. In August 2011, Moody's rating has cut Japan's long-term sovereign debt rating one notch from Aa3 to Aa2 inline with the size of the country's deficit and borrowing level. The large budget deficits and government debt since the 2009 global recession and followed by earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 made the rating downgrade.[104] The service sector accounts for three quarters of the gross domestic product.[105]

Japan has a large industrial capacity, and is home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronics, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemical substances, textiles, and processed foods. Agricultural businesses in Japan cultivate 13 percent of Japan's land, and Japan accounts for nearly 15 percent of the global fish catch, second only to China.[2] As of 2010, Japan's labor force consisted of some 65.9 million workers.[106] Japan has a low unemployment rate of around four percent. Almost one in six Japanese, or 20 million people, lived in poverty in 2007.[107]Housing in Japan is characterized by limited land supply in urban areas.[108]

Japan's exports amounted to US$4,210 per capita in 2005. Japan's main export markets are China (18.88 percent), the United States (16.42 percent), South Korea (8.13 percent), Taiwan (6.27 percent) and Hong Kong (5.49 percent) as of 2009. Its main exports are transportation equipment, motor vehicles, electronics, electrical machinery and chemicals.[2] Japan's main import markets as of 2009 are China (22.2 percent), the US (10.96 percent), Australia (6.29 percent), Saudi Arabia (5.29 percent), United Arab Emirates (4.12 percent), South Korea (3.98 percent) and Indonesia (3.95 percent).[110]

Japan's main imports are machinery and equipment, fossil fuels, foodstuffs (in particular beef), chemicals, textiles and raw materials for its industries.[111] By market share measures, domestic markets are the least open of any OECD country.[112]Junichiro Koizumi's administration began some pro-competition reforms, and foreign investment in Japan has soared.[113]

Japan ranks 12th of 178 countries in the 2008 Ease of Doing Business Index and has one of the smallest tax revenues of the developed world. The Japanese variant of capitalism has many distinct features: keiretsu enterprises are influential, and lifetime employment and seniority-based career advancement are relatively common in the Japanese work environment.[112][114] Japanese companies are known for management methods like "The Toyota Way", and shareholder activism is rare.[115]

Some of the largest enterprises in Japan include Toyota, Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo, Canon, Honda, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp, Nippon Steel, Nippon Oil, and Seven & I Holdings Co.[116] It has some of the world's largest banks, and the Tokyo Stock Exchange (known for its Nikkei 225 and Topix indices) stands as the second largest in the world by market capitalization.[117] Japan is home to 326 companies from the Forbes Global 2000 or 16.3 percent (as of 2006).[118]

Science and technology[link]

Japan is a leading nation in scientific research, particularly technology, machinery and biomedical research. Nearly 700,000 researchers share a US$130 billion research and development budget, the third largest in the world.[119] Japan is a world leader in fundamental scientific research, having produced fifteen Nobel laureates in either physics, chemistry or medicine,[120] three Fields medalists,[121] and one Gauss Prize laureate.[122] Some of Japan's more prominent technological contributions are in the fields of electronics, automobiles, machinery, earthquake engineering, industrial robotics, optics, chemicals, semiconductors and metals. Japan leads the world in robotics production and use, possessing more than half (402,200 of 742,500) of the world's industrial robots.[123]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is Japan's space agency; it conducts space, planetary, and aviation research, and leads development of rockets and satellites. It is a participant in the International Space Station: the Japanese Experiment Module (Kibo) was added to the station during Space Shuttle assembly flights in 2008.[124] Japan's plans in space exploration include: launching a space probe to Venus, Akatsuki;[125][126] developing the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter to be launched in 2013;[127][128] and building a moon base by 2030.[129]

On 14 September 2007, it launched lunar explorer "SELENE" (Selenological and Engineering Explorer) on an H-IIA (Model H2A2022) carrier rocket from Tanegashima Space Center. SELENE is also known as Kaguya, after the lunar princess of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.[130]Kaguya is the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program. Its purpose is to gather data on the moon's origin and evolution. It entered a lunar orbit on 4 October,[131][132] flying at an altitude of about 100?km (62?mi).[133] The probe's mission was ended when it was deliberately crashed by JAXA into the Moon on 11 June 2009.[134]

Infrastructure[link]

As of 2008, 46.4 percent of energy in Japan is produced from petroleum, 21.4 percent from coal, 16.7 percent from natural gas, 9.7 percent from nuclear power, and 2.9 percent from hydro power. Nuclear power produced 25.1 percent of Japan's electricity, as of 2009.[136] However, as of May 5, 2012, all of the countries nuclear power plants had been taken offline due to ongoing public opposition following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, though government officials have been continuing to try to sway public opinion in favor of returning at least some of Japan's 50 nuclear reactors to service.[137] Given its heavy dependence on imported energy,[138] Japan has aimed to diversify its sources and maintain high levels of energy efficiency.[139]

Japan's road spending has been extensive.[140] Its 1.2 million kilometers of paved road are the main means of transportation.[141] A single network of high-speed, divided, limited-access toll roads connects major cities and is operated by toll-collecting enterprises. New and used cars are inexpensive; car ownership fees and fuel levies are used to promote energy efficiency. However, at just 50 percent of all distance traveled, car usage is the lowest of all G8 countries.[142]

Dozens of Japanese railway companies compete in regional and local passenger transportation markets; major companies include seven JR enterprises, Kintetsu Corporation, Seibu Railway and Keio Corporation. Some 250 high-speed Shinkansen trains connect major cities and Japanese trains are known for their safety and punctuality.[143][144] Proposals for a new Maglev route between Tokyo and Osaka are at an advanced stage.[145] There are 173 airports in Japan; the largest domestic airport, Haneda Airport, is Asia's second-busiest airport.[146] The largest international gateways are Narita International Airport, Kansai International Airport and Ch?bu Centrair International Airport.[147]Nagoya Port is the country's largest and busiest port, accounting for 10 percent of Japan's trade value.[148]

Japan's population is estimated at around 127.3 million.[2] Japanese society is linguistically and culturally homogeneous,[149] composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese,[150] with small populations of foreign workers.[149]Zainichi Koreans,[151]Zainichi Chinese, Filipinos, Brazilians mostly of Japanese descent,[152] and Peruvians mostly of Japanese descent are among the small minority groups in Japan.[153] In 2003, there were about 134,700 non-Latin American Western and 345,500 Latin American expatriates, 274,700 of whom were Brazilians (said to be primarily Japanese descendants, or nikkeijin, along with their spouses),[152] the largest community of Westerners.[154]

The most dominant native ethnic group is the Yamato people; primary minority groups include the indigenous Ainu[155] and Ryukyuan peoples, as well as social minority groups like the burakumin.[156] There are persons of mixed ancestry incorporated among the 'ethnic Japanese' or Yamato, such as those from Ogasawara Archipelago where roughly one-tenth of the Japanese population can have European, American, Micronesian and/or Polynesian backgrounds, with some families going back up to seven generations.[157] In spite of the widespread belief that Japan is ethnically homogeneous (in 2009, foreign-born non-naturalized workers made up only 1.7% of the total population),[158] also due to the absence of ethnicity and/or race statistics for Japanese nationals, at least one analysis describes Japan as a multiethnic society, for example, John Lie.[159]

Japan has the longest overall life expectancy at birth of any country in the world: 83.5 years for persons born in the period 2010?2015.[11][12] The Japanese population is rapidly aging as a result of a post?World War II baby boom followed by a decrease in birth rates. In 2009, about 22.7 percent of the population was over 65, by 2050 almost 40 percent of the population will be aged 65 and over, as projected in December 2006.[160]

The changes in demographic structure have created a number of social issues, particularly a potential decline in workforce population and increase in the cost of social security benefits like the public pension plan. A growing number of younger Japanese are preferring not to marry or have families.[161] In 2011, Japan's population dropped for a fifth year, falling by 204,000 people to 126.24 million people. This is the greatest decline since at least 1947, the first year for which government data is available. The 1.26 million deaths included 15,844 people killed and 3,451 left missing by the tsunami.[162]

Japan's population is expected to drop to 95 million by 2050,[160][163] demographers and government planners are currently in a heated debate over how to cope with this problem.[161] Immigration and birth incentives are sometimes suggested as a solution to provide younger workers to support the nation's aging population.[164][165] Japan accepts a steady flow of 15,000 new Japanese citizens by naturalization (??) per year.[166] According to the UNHCR, in 2007 Japan accepted just 41 refugees for resettlement, while the US took in 50,000.[167]

Japan suffers from a high suicide rate.[168][169] In 2009, the number of suicides exceeded 30,000 for the twelfth straight year.[170] Suicide is the leading cause of death for people under 30.[171]

Largest cities or towns of Japan
2010 Census[172]
Rank City name Prefecture Pop. Rank City name Prefecture Pop.
Tokyo
Tokyo

Yokohama
Yokohama

1 Tokyo Tokyo 8,949,447 11 Hiroshima Hiroshima 1,174,209 Osaka
Osaka

Nagoya
Nagoya

2 Yokohama Kanagawa 3,689,603 12 Sendai Miyagi 1,045,903
3 Osaka Osaka 2,666,371 13 Kitaky?sh? Fukuoka 977,288
4 Nagoya Aichi 2,263,907 14 Chiba Chiba 962,130
5 Sapporo Hokkaid? 1,914,434 15 Sakai Osaka 842,134
6 K?be Hy?go 1,544,873 16 Niigata Niigata 812,192
7 Ky?to Ky?to 1,474,473 17 Hamamatsu Shizuoka 800,912
8 Fukuoka Fukuoka 1,463,826 18 Kumamoto Kumamoto 734,294
9 Kawasaki Kanagawa 1,425,678 19 Sagamihara Kanagawa 717,561
10 Saitama Saitama 1,222,910 20 Shizuoka Shizuoka 716,328

Religion[link]

Upper estimates suggest that 84?96 percent of the Japanese population subscribe to Buddhism or Shinto, including a large number of followers of a syncretism of both religions.[2][173] However, these estimates are based on people affiliated with a temple, rather than the number of true believers. Other studies have suggested that only 30 percent of the population identify themselves as belonging to a religion.[174]

Nevertheless the level of participation remains high, especially during festivals and occasions such as the first shrine visit of the New Year. Taoism and Confucianism from China have also influenced Japanese beliefs and customs.[175] Fewer than one percent of Japanese are Christian.[176] In addition, since the mid-19th century numerous new religious movements have emerged in Japan.[177]

Languages[link]

More than 99 percent of the population speaks Japanese as their first language.[2] It is an agglutinative language distinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener. Japanese writing uses kanji (Chinese characters) and two sets of kana (syllabaries based on simplified Chinese characters), as well as the Latin alphabet and Arabic numerals.[178]

Besides Japanese, the Ryukyuan languages, also part of the Japonic language family, are spoken in Okinawa; however, few chil

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'It's all about the money': Heading to oil jobs in North Dakota

Time profiles people who have migrated to North Dakota looking for work.

"The car business beat me around a lot and I got laid off and knew someone out here so I gave him a call and he was looking for some help," says Craig Bitter in the video documentary.

"It's all about the money. It's the only reason people come out here, I am pretty sure. I think if they say something else they are lying."

North Dakota has America's lowest unemployment rate. ABout 30,000 workers are employed in the oil and gas fields, a six-fold increase over eight years.

Source: http://www.mining.com/its-all-about-the-money-heading-for-oil-jobs-in-north-dakota-54295/

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  • "'Vjay' Goes FREE On iPhone (and iPad)"?RazorianFly?7/26
  • "Shutterfly For iPad 2.0 Features Product Ordering And Photo Filtering"?AppAdvice?7/26
  • "Sky takes on Apple and Netflix with super-cheap Now TV streaming box"?The Verge?7/26
  • "Channel 4 brings offline viewing to 4oD for Android and iOS"?Engadget?7/26
  • "Google Kills Google+ Local For iOS, App Now Pulled From iTunes App Store"?TechCrunch?7/26
  • "Google+ Local for iOS will be pulled on August 7th after being integrated into Google Maps"?The Next Web?7/26
  • "Google+ Local for iOS has one foot in the grave, will rest in peace August 7th"?Engadget?7/26
  • "4OD for iOS and Android gets offline viewing"?The Inquirer?7/26
  • "Gravity Evolved iOS App Release"?prMac?7/26
  • "Biber and Red Boots HD released for iOS - Interactive Children's App"?prMac?7/26
  • "BA Financial Calculator Pro 3.0 Emulates TI BA II Plus Professional Now"?prMac?7/26
  • "Awem launches Golden Trails 2 HD for iPad"?prMac?7/26
  • "Information of iPhone/iPad app Backyard - Release Info"?prMac?7/26
  • "Blast Virus - An Exciting Mobile Gaming App"?prMac?7/26
  • "Western Bar - Retro Classic LCD Game is now out"?prMac?7/26
  • "Mr Tiger the House Spider - Animoolz Interactive Children's Book"?prMac?7/26
  • "Memorability - Visual Storytelling App for iPad Released on App Store"?prMac?7/26
  • "Free Bible Trivia Word Game Now Available for iPad"?prMac?7/26
  • "Famous Movies for iPad: 20 Pixel-Art Puzzles for Every Cinema Fan"?prMac?7/26
  • "Dragons Rage 2 Hits The China App Store With A Fiery Chinese Edition"?prMac?7/26
  • "Available Now - Update your Facebook status with a PicUpdate picture"?prMac?7/26
  • "David Einhorn refers to Microsoft as sinking ship, dumps stake"?Neowin?7:19 AM
  • "How Microsoft's Steve Ballmer Will Spend His Summer Vacation"?24/7 Wall Street?3:45 PM
  • "Going a bit (Micro)soft: Microsoft's glory days are behind it, and its days of making investors into millionaires are long gone, writes Alistair Fairweather"?My Broadband?7:43 AM
  • "Windows 8 Still Facing Strong Headwinds, Analyst Reveals"?Softpedia?7:44 AM
  • "Microsoft turns to solar-power and white space for South Africa's cheapest broadband"?ZDNet?7:45 AM
  • "Microsoft updates IE11, & the dev tools are amazing"?TG Daily?1:25 PM
  • "Dell's Project Ophelia now shipping to testers, everyone else this fall"?Engadget?7:12 AM
  • "Five things Microsoft is doing right"?BetaNews?5:32 PM
  • "Haswell microcode update will block overclocking on non-Z87 chipsets"?TechSpot?9:21 PM
  • "Intel restricts overclocking on H81, B85 and H87-chipsets"?Hardware.Info?9:21 PM
  • "Intel dabbles in contract manufacturing, weighing tradeoffs"?The Oregonian?3:42 PM
  • "Intel announces extremely efficient SSD 530 Series"?Hardware.Info?7:42 AM
  • "AMD Carizo APU To Feature Excavator Core ? Arrives in 2015 With Next Gen Radeon Core and 65W TDP"?WCCF Tech?7:40 AM
  • "AMD Richland processor sets 8.2GHz record"?GSMArena Blog?7:41 AM
  • "Cisco: End user devices proliferation to boost tech financing uptake"?IndiaTimes?7:41 AM
  • "IBM Judge Oks Foreign Bribe Settlement Two Years Later"?Bloomberg Law?7/26
  • "IBM beefs up QRadar Security Intelligence portfolio"?IT PRO?7/26
  • "IBM announces launch of vulnerability scanner and manager"?SC Magazine?7/26
  • "IBM and DCU join forces for big data, analytics and smarter cities MSc programme"?Business & Leadership?7/26
  • "IBM, Pivotal Collaborate to Develop Open Cloud Foundry Platform"?Talkin' Cloud?7/26
  • "HP will launch a $99 tablet in time for back to school shopping"?MInd of the Geek?7/26
  • "NEC tag teams with HP on high-end x86 servers: Taking an Odyssey to fill a Kraken"?The Register?7/26
  • "CMS Awards A Contract To Hewlett-Packard Company"?Avauncer?7/26
  • "Slovenian Post teams with HP to develop cloud computing services"?Post & Parcel?7/26
  • "Windows device sales aren't meeting Microsoft's expectations, Ballmer admits"?PCWorld?7/26
  • "Ballmer Reportedly Admits Surface Was A Flop, Says Windows 8 Sales Are Disappointing"?BGR?7/26
  • "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: I'm Not Happy About Windows Sales"?Business Insider?7/26
  • "Microsoft CEO Sees Hybrid Devices as the Next Big Thing"?Mad Mobile News?7/26
  • "Microsoft Moving Faster than Hackers to Patch Vulnerabilities"?Softpedia?7/26
  • "Ballmer confirms next-gen Surface on the way"?GeekWire?7/26
  • "FBI, Microsoft takedown program blunts most Citadel botnets"?Computerworld?7/26
  • "Almost 90 percent of Citadel botnets in the world disrupted in June"?PCWorld?7/26
  • "Ballmer admits Microsoft built too many Surface RTs, disappointed with Windows sales"?The Verge?7/26
  • "OMG! They're using Windows RT!"?ZDNet?7/26
  • "Microsoft's Windows NT turns 20"?ZDNet?7/26
  • "Oracle Weekly Roundup: Big Data's Big Summer Roadshow"?Forbes?7/26
  • "Intel Hits Refresh on Datacenter Vision"?HPC Wire?7/26
  • "Intel And Toshiba Are Launching A Web Series About Evil Mustaches And Unibrows"?Business Insider?7/26
  • "Intel: 20% Upside In Next Year If Mobile Grows"?Seeking Alpha?7/26
  • "INTC Named 'Top Dividend Stock of the Dow' at Dividend Channel With 3.9% Yield"?Forbes?7/26
  • "AMD overclocker breaks world record: Gets 8.2 GHz out of a A10 6800K"?TechEye?7/26
  • "Updates and Technical Insights on Advanced Micro Devices, Inc."?SBWire?7/26
  • "VAR Charged With Selling $37m in Stolen Cisco Gear"?Channelnomics?7/26
  • "Fortinet Value Detected After Pricey Cisco Deal: Real M&A"?Bloomberg?7/26
  • "Cisco products reseller arrested after indictment on fraud charges"?San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required]?7/26
  • "DoJ Alleges Cisco Reseller Made $37 Million Selling Counterfeit Equipment"?Slashdot?7/26
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