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.
As of October 1, 2011, the population of Tokyo is estimated to be 13.189 million, or about 10% of Japan's total population, and it has the largest population among all the 47 prefectures. At 2,188 square kilometres, the area of Tokyo is 0.6% of the total area of Japan.