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.
1 Japan's population is equivalent to 1.75% of the total world population. 2  Japan ranks number 10 in the list of countries by population. 3  The population density in Japan is 336 people per Km2. 4  93% of the population is urban (117,995,650 people in 2014). 5  The median age in Japan is 46.2 years.