The Privy Council consisted of a president, a vice president (non-voting), twenty-four other privy councilors, a chief secretary, and three additional secretaries. All privy councilors (including the president and the vice president]] were appointed by the emperor on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet. In addition to the twenty-four voting privy counselors, the prime minister and the other ministers of state were ex-officio members of the council. The princes of the imperial household (both the shinnōand the ō) over the age of majority were permitted to attend meetings of the Privy Council and participate in its proceedings. The Prime Minister of Japan (内閣ç·ç†å¤§è‡£ Naikaku sÅri daijin) is the English political nomenclature of the head of government of Japan. ... A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ...
Japan has limited sources of traditional natural energy yet it sustains a rapidly expanding industrial sector and a large population with one of the highest standards of living in the world.
Japan is an industrialized urban society, and approximately 65 per cent of the population lives in metropolitan areas.
Japan was awarded the lease (to 1923, later extended to 1997) of the Liaodong Peninsula, including the Guangdong (Kwangtung) territory, and the southern half of Sakhalin, thereafter known as Karafuto.
Japan proper has four main islands, which are (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu (the largest island, where the capital and most major cities are located), Shikoku, and Kyushu.
Japan became one of the world’s leading producers of machinery, motor vehicles, ships, and steel, and by the 1980s it had become a leading exporter of high-technology goods, including electrical and electronic appliances.
Japan has also become a global leader in financial services, with some of the world’s largest banks, but since the collapse of the stock and real estate markets in the early 1990s many of Japan’s banks have been burdened with high numbers of nonperforming loans.
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