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 2015 census showed a reduction in Japanâs population of almost 1 million people â from 128,057,352 in 2010 to 127,110,000 in 2015. The population fell by a further 150,000 to 126,960,000 in 2016. To put that in perspective, thatâs a decrease of 0.7% in the five years from 2010 to 2015.