Japan has supplanted the UK as Canada's second most important trading partner, although it is not nearly as important as the US, accounting for only 4% of exports and 3% of imports. Almost all imports from Japan are highly manufactured commodities, such as automobiles and electronic equipment, whereas exports to Japan are almost entirely raw and semiprocessed materials, such as lumber, metals, coal and farm products.
The first pandemic occurred in 1817 hitting India, China, Japan, parts of Southeast Asia, much of the Middle East, and Madagascar and the East African Coast opposite Zanzibar; however, it died down in 1823 in Anatolia and the Caucuses before it reached Europe.sia suffered immensely from a large outbreak from 1899-1923 and currently many developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia suffer in the seventh pandemic of cholera. This current pandemic began in South Asia in 1961, touched Africa in 1971 and then the Americas in 1991.
Smallpox was thought to originate in Africa and spread to India and China. The first recorded epidemic of smallpox was in 1350 B.C., and the first reports of smallpox in Europ â¦ e occurred between the 5th and 7th century.