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- From: issa@cwis.unomaha.edu (Issa El-Hazin)
- Subject: Re: Politics of car buying(Buying a Japanese car)
- Message-ID: <issa.728187081@cwis>
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1993Jan20.221143.9065@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <CARL.93Jan26153758@atlantis.Cayman.COM> <1993Jan27.132913.7601@bnr.ca> <1993Jan27.192458.29980@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:11:21 GMT
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- rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan27.132913.7601@bnr.ca> dclayton@bnr.ca (Don Clayton) writes:
- >>In article <CARL.93Jan26153758@atlantis.Cayman.COM>, carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
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- >>|> >Everyone seems to be missing a few really basic points in this
- >>|> >discussion of our trade imbalance. First: population and
- >>|> >productivity. Japan has a comparatively small population and high
- >>|> >productivity. USA has a high population and lower productivity. So
- >>|>
- >>|> First, Japan has approximatly 50% the population of the US. I would
- >>|> NOT consider that small!!!
- >>
- >>Actually, I believe the population of Japan is about 80 million, while the
- >>population of the U.S. is about 260 million (re: 30%).
- >>
- >all right...someone look it up...we have quotes of 80-238 million....
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- Extracted from:
- "The SoftWare ToolWorks"
- World Atlas (on CD-ROM)
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- Total Area: 377,835 sq Km (vs. 9,372,610 for the US.)
- Comparative Area: slightly smaller than California.
- Population, year 1990: 123,638,000 (vs. 251,398,000 for the US.)
- Literacy rate: 99% (same as for the US)
- Economy overview: World's third largest industrial economy (only behind
- the US and USSR. (ex)).
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