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Japan
Japan (Japanese: 日本, Nippon [ɲippoꜜɴ] (listen) or Nihon [ɲihoꜜɴ] (listen)) is an island country in East Asia, located in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. Part of the Ring of Fire, Japan spans an archipelago of 6852 islands covering 377,975 square kilometers (145,937 sq mi); the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Tokyo is Japan's capital and largest city; other major cities include Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 June 2024 English
This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …
Bahrain 0.666 █ - -3 117 Nepal 0.664 █ +0.004 -1 118 Japan 0.663 █ +0.016 +7 119 Comoros 0.663 █ -0.001 -5 … 0.993 70 Mauritius 0.993 71 Madagascar 0.993 72 Japan 0.993 73 Cyprus 0.993 Rank Economy Score (0–1) 1 … 0.589 118 Ethiopia 0.587 119 Bahrain 0.573 120 Japan 0.568 121 Guatemala 0.562 122 Lebanon 0.558 123 … Rwanda 0.974 56 Cameroon 0.973 57 Panama 0.973 58 Japan 0.973 59 Costa Rica 0.973 60 Slovenia 0.973 61 Benin … Czechia 0.126 111 China 0.123 112 Pakistan 0.122 113 Japan 0.118 114 Türkiye 0.118 115 Jordan 0.117 116 Kazakhstan …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …
Turkey Taiwan Suriname Lithuania Canada Russia Spain Japan Panama Austria France Belgium Argentina USA Germany … Republic (9.8) 84. Brussels, Belgium (9.8) 85. Tokyo, Japan (9.7) 86. Ottawa, Canada (9.7) 87. Panama, Panama … territories. China, Macau SAR, Hong Kong SAR, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea all had increases in their annual … In 2023, two regional cities, Ibigawa, Japan and Godo, Japan, achieved the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline … least polluted city in the region is Ibigawa, Japan which posted an annual average concentration of …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Becoming a Young Farmer with the subtitle Young People’s Pathways into Farming: Canada, China, India and Indonesia is a collection of research papers published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024 and …
successor (see, for example, McGreevy et al. 2019 for Japan and Korzensky 2019 for Austria). These ideas support …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 November 2023 English
The Emissions Gap Report 2023 was published on November 20, 2023 by the United Nations Environment Programme. It is the 14th edition of the annual UNEP Emissions Gap Report (EGR), …
(Institute for Global Environmental Strategies [IGES], Japan) and Jorge Villarreal (ICM, Mexico) Data contributors: … National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan), Dan Tong (Tsinghua University, China), Marta … Australia Brazil Canada China EU27 India Indonesia Japan Mexico Republic of Korea Russian Federation Saudi … the G20 (Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the Republic of Korea, the United … are high-income countries: Australia, Israel, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important historical ideas, the series has been sponsored …
over India. Towards the very end of their rule, Japan occupied Burma during World War II (1939–45). The … Germany, Italy, and from Asia, Japan – they were on the same side. Japan began to eye the biggest British … Imphal in Mizoram were attacked. And then, in 1943, Japan bombed several places in Bengal, including 24 Parganas … Asia. It was once a colony of France and then of Japan. Although they became independent after World War … 1975. 56 2. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Two cities in Japan. In 1945, the USA dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English
how the culture of including tea in our routines here in India came from China, travelling through Japan, Korea and Vietnam. From these Asian countries, tea reached Europe via Dutch traders in 1607, where …
travel across the Great Wall of China. People in Japan and Korea began drinking tea in the sixth and seventh … plantations in, among other places, China (of course), Japan, Vietnam, and Turkey. Kenya on the African continent …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 October 2023 English
This case study on the analysis of heat stress in Delhi was written by Avikal Somvanshi and Sharanjeet Kaur. It was published by the Centre for Science and Environment, a …
a group of scientists from China, South Korea, Japan, Germany and the U.S., noted that the risk of death …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 July 2023 English
The report Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport: A Handbook for Policy Makers and Sports Practitioners was published by UNESCO and UN Women in 2023. It was authored …
Makers and Sports Practitioners Dr. Laura Misener44 Japan: ‘I was hit so many times I can’t count’ In … sexual and verbal abuse of child athletes in Japan, entitled ‘I was hit so many times I can’t count … in sport has value.’ Child abuse is illegal in Japan, with a total ban on corporal punishment. However …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 June 2023 English
This report was published by the World Economic Forum, Switzerland, on June 20, 2023. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006 and this 2023 edition is the …
the region. On the other hand, Fiji, Myanmar and Japan are at the bottom of the list, with Fiji, Myanmar … █ -0.027 -17 124 Maldives 0.649 █ +0.001 -7 125 Japan 0.647 █ -0.002 -9 126 Jordan 0.646 █ +0.007 -4 127 … States Costa Rica France Sweden United Arab Emirates Japan Health and Survival subindex 0.960 Educational Attainment … Darussalam 0.997 45 Paraguay 0.997 46 Fiji 0.997 47 Japan 0.997 48 North Macedonia 0.997 49 Panama 0.997 50 … Timor-Leste 0.574 121 Niger 0.570 122 Bahrain 0.564 123 Japan 0.561 124 Sri Lanka 0.555 125 Jordan 0.542 126 Chad …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 June 2023 English
The Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published this report on June 12, 2023. This is the second report in the series; the first was …
in Germany, Uruguay, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan, in that order (figure 10).67 The largest declines … States Netherlands Hong Kong, China (SAR) Australia Japan Singapore New Zealand Uruguay Germany Percentage … 2017–2022 98.98 93.03 1.02 84.09 31.58 87.32 87.42 Japan 2017–2022 58.82 34.54 41.18 39.07 14.49 37.03 24 …