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 ranks number 11 in the list of countries by population. 2  The population density in Japan is 347 per Km2 (897 people per mi2). 3  The total land area is 364,571 Km2 (140,761 sq. miles)  93.7 % of the population is urban (118,911,665 people in 2016)