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  2. National Cultural Festival - Wikipedia

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    Overall festival: includes an opening festival which indicates the direction of new trends in amateur cultural activities; Symposiums: keynote lectures, panel discussions, and other events which explore diverse topics related to trends in Japanese culture, including amateur and regional cultural activities

  3. Japan revises economic growth in 1Q downward, as latest data ...

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    Japan revised its earlier estimates to show that its economy contracted at a 2.9% annual pace in the first quarter of the year, as meanwhile a survey by the central bank released Monday showed ...

  4. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, Japanese literature developed into a separate style in its own right as Japanese writers began writing their own works about Japan. The Tale of Genji , written by Murasaki Shikibu during the Heian period , is known worldwide as a unique Japanese literature.

  5. 2021 in Japan - Wikipedia

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    New car sales in Japan slumped 11.5% in 2020 from a year earlier amid the pandemic, marking the largest fall in nine years, data from industry bodies showed Tuesday. While tuna gone cut price ¥20 million at Tokyo's Toyosu Market during New Year auction. [18] [19] [20] [21]

  6. Science and technology in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Since 1973, Japan has been looking to become less dependent on imported fuel and start to depend on nuclear energy. In 2008, after the opening of 7 brand new nuclear reactors in Japan (3 on Honshū, and 1 each on Hokkaidō, Kyūshū, Shikoku, and Tanegashima) [4] Japan became the third largest nuclear power user in the world with 55 nuclear ...

  7. Labor market of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Labor force participation rate (15-64 age) in Japan, by sex [2] Gender wage gap in OECD [7]. Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: a shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, [8] and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range [9] who are now around retirement age.

  8. Japanese street fashion - Wikipedia

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    Comme des Garçons garments on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although Japanese street fashion is known for its mix-match of different styles and genres, and there is no single sought-after brand that can consistently appeal to all fashion groups, the huge demand created by the fashion-conscious population is fed and supported by Japan's vibrant fashion industry.

  9. Demographics of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Japan dropped from the 5th most populous country in the world to 6th in 1964, 7th in 1978, 8th in 1990, to 9th in 1998, to 10th in the early 21st century, 11th in 2020, and to 12th in 2023. [12] [13] Over the period of 2010 to 2015, the population shrank by almost a million, [14] and Japan lost a half-million in 2022 alone. [15]