No non-trivial action has literally zero effect on anything in the universe. How Not to Cherry-Pick the Results of the Oregon Study (Ultrawonkish) Megan McArdle May 12, 2013. We fire when we have to, take a life to save a life, but essentially we're more of a deterrent than anything else.
COUNTRY OVERVIEW. LOCATION AND SIZE. Japan, an island nation in east Asia, is an archipelago (large group of islands) located east of the Korean peninsula. It has an area of 377,835 square kilometers (145,882 square miles), which makes it slightly smaller than the state of California.
The last set of official figures pertaining to Japanâs population were released at the time of the 2010 census and the final statistics showed there were 128,056,026 people there, which would make Japan the tenth largest country in the world.