アメリカさんの情報集収集機能＆能力は、けっして悪くない。
ご存知の米国情報収集？機関ＣＩＡ資料から、ファクトブックを開き、CIA Fact Book（ＣＩＡファクトブック！こちらから入れます）＜飛びにくい場合はhttp://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.htmlで、直接入力されたし＞
日本の指標を参照すれば、なな、何と！
Independence: 660 BC (traditional founding by Emperor JIMMU)
上記、日本国の独立年月日は（月日こそ明記はないが）紀元前６６０年、神武天皇の御世にて・・・
という公言がなされているではないか。しかもあのアメリカさんがそうおっしゃっている。一度も学校で習ったことのない我輩、あらためて上記の日本の独立年度を記憶したい。
本日、我輩、自分のための資料確認記事にて、以下、２００４年度の我国経済指標・・・
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「いや、そうでもない。こうしてみれば、良い内容なんだよなあ～」
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「政治とお役所の構造が制度疲労を来たしたまま、企業の制度疲労は刻一刻回復しているド！」
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「日本の将来？いや、問題ない。世界一の都市国家を目指すのだ。我国の将来の目標とコンセプトを整理し、国民が皆で協力し一致団結？し、創意工夫と努力さえすれば、まだまだいけますよ・・・」
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人気blogランキングへ Economic Oveview:
Government-industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation (1% of GDP) helped Japan advance with extraordinary rapidity to the rank of second most technologically-powerful economy in the world after the US and third-largest economy after the US and China, measured on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis. (Using market exhange rates rather than PPP rates, Japan's economy is larger than China's.) One notable characteristic of the economy is the working together of manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors in closely-knit groups called keiretsu. A second basic feature has been the guarantee of lifetime employment for a substantial portion of the urban labor force. Both features are now eroding. Industry, the most important sector of the economy, is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels. The tiny agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with crop yields among the highest in the world. Usually self sufficient in rice, Japan must import about 50% of its requirements of other grain and fodder crops. Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch. For three decades overall real economic growth had been spectacular: a 10% average in the 1960s, a 5% average in the 1970s, and a 4% average in the 1980s. Growth slowed markedly in the 1990s, averaging just 1.7%, largely because of the after effects of overinvestment during the late 1980s and contractionary domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets. From 2000 to 2003, government efforts to revive economic growth met with little success and were further hampered by the slowing of the US, European, and Asian economies. In 2004, growth improved and the lingering fears of deflation in prices and economic activity lessened. Japan's huge government debt, which totals more than 160% of GDP, and the aging of the population are two major long-run problems. A rise in taxes could be viewed as endangering the revival of growth. Robotics constitutes a key long-term economic strength with Japan possessing 410,000 of the world's 720,000 "working robots." Internal conflict over the proper way to reform the ailing banking system continues.
GDP (purchasing power parity): $3.745 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP-Real Growth Rate: 2.9/(2004 est.)
GDP-per Capita: purchasing power parity - $29,400 (2004 est.)
GDP-composition by sector: agriculture: 1.3%
industry: 24.7%
services: 74.1% (2004 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 5%, industry 25%, services 70% (2002 est.)
Unemployment rate: 4.7% (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities: transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals
Exports - partners: US 22.7%, China 13.1%, South Korea 7.8%, Taiwan 7.4%, Hong Kong 6.3% (2004)
Imports: $401.8 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, fuels, foodstuffs, chemicals, textiles, raw materials (2001)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $664.6 billion (2003)
Debt - external: NA (2002 est.)
Economic aid - donor: ODA, $7.9 billion (FY03/04)
ということで、我国の２００４年度の経済指標を米国情報機関ＣＩＡの資料から拝借！
近年５～６年にわたり、国外での会議資料セミナー資料講義資料などに、当ファクトブックから多くを引用させてもらった恩義がある。本日、あらためて白状する。
尚、英文？資料を引抜していたら無性に隣国コリアの女優の顔が頭に浮かぶ。
浮かんだから、これまたＮＨＫ・ＢＳ放送ＵＲＬから「大長今」のお姉さまのご尊顔を拝借、貼り付けた。
あまり好きでない隣国Koreaさん、しかし芸術と文化を評価するのは別。良いものは良い。チョングムのドラマは大好きで、一度記事に取り上げようと思っています。
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