japan

toc  にほん. JAPAN. 日本国.  = =
 * Disease and Health **
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According to the figure on the left, Japan compared to its surrounding countries is far better off. With a low IM of 2.5 per 1000 and a high life expectancy rate of 83, Japan ends up being the top second Asian country in IM (Singapore being the first Asian country) and first in Life Expectancy. Compared to its surrounding countries i.e. North Korea (IM:42 and LE:67) Japan is almost doubles the World Average LE: 67.2 when North Korea barely reaches the line.

Infant Mortality
Japan is in the shade of light yellow, indicating its IM being <10. Japan is surrounded by the Asian Countries: China, North Korea, South Korea, Russian Federation and etc. In the graph above, it is shown that Japan is the odd one out. Where China is 30-50 IM rate, Russian Federation: 10-30, and North Korea: 30-50, only South Korea is in trend with Japan. If we put the Graph on colour separation, as shown below:  We can see that the surrounding countries are all in colourless, indicating that they are not <10. Therefore Japan is anomaly.
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Life Expectancy:
-Current Life Expectancy for Men: 76  -Current Life Expectancy for Women: 82

Japan has started with a high Life Expectancy Rate: 79, very much above the average 67.2, in 1990. As years passed, for the next decade, it has steady increased by 2 years, at 81 in 2000. Then the Life Expectancy rate continues to increase at a steady rate, though at a slightly larger angle. After 6 years, now at 2006, the Life Expectancy Rate is at 83, a difference of 2 compared to the previous number.

Leading Causes of Death

 * Disease || Number of total deaths by disease || % of total Deaths || Cause (may fit more than one category)

Nutrition, degenerative, water/vector borne, accidental ||
 * Stroke || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">131,960 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">16.13 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Accidental ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Influenza and Pneumonia || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">99,353 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">12.14 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Water/Vector Borne ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Coronary Heart Disease || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">94,663 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">11.57 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Lung Cancers || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">50,171 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">7.35 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerate, Vector Borne ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Stomach Cancer || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">60,171 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">7.35 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Colon-Rectum Cancer || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">41.736 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">5.10 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Liver Cancer || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">34,741 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">4.25 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Suicide || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">31.747 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">3.88 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">- ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Pancreas Cancer || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">22,494 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">2.75 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Kidney Disease || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">22,420 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">2.74 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Other injuries || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">16,612 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">2.03 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Accidental ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Lung Disease || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">14.291 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">1.75 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Vector Borne, Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Liver Disease || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">13.045 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">1.59 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Diabetes Mellitus || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">12,834 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">1.57 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Nutrition, Degenerative ||
 * <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Lymphomas || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">12,749 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">1.56 || <span style="color: #ad36ba; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%;">Degenerative ||

** Conclusion: **
<span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> Japan is a country with a very high Life expectancy: 82-83, and a low infant mortality rate( <10). Japan is on the 'better' side of the average line. <span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> The most common disease that affect Japan would be Stroke and Influenza and Pneumonia. Stroke is accidental while Influenza and Pneumonia are Water/Vector borne disease. Though the tops aren't from the supposedly 'more developed areas disease' more than half the list are. Japan's top affecting diseases are mostly all Degenerative diseases. Japan is one of the world's leading technology countries and have the world's more efficient and safe medical care. <span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> Being in a country like this would require brain work from many people and produce stress. The more stressed you are, the more likely to get stroke. Also people become under pressure and commit suicide, one of the 15 top life taking 'diseases'. Maybe the people shouldn't be so stressed, and take sometime and go around for a walk. <span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> Japan is a very small place, with limited areas. When you live in a small place and see nothing but walls, we all get stressed. Perhaps the government should build some parks for the people in the city to relax. <span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> Another remarkable subject on Japan is that, the Japanese have a very good eating habit. Most families prefer the old type of family dinner menu - i.e. raw fish, rice, miso soup, cooked vegetables. Fish is very healthy, as it contains many minerals we need daily and have lots of protein. Their eating habit is also a great part of their long living because their menus don't usually contain fried or oily food. They eat light meals unlike western cultures and Chinese cultures. <span style="color: #16bb16; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 110%; margin-right: 21pt;"> Therefore Japan is a developed country with a good level of health, on the exception of Degenerative diseases and a great menu.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">[phew. finally done. >:] by. phoebeeeeeee]