Background Stats: compare key data on Hong Kong & Japan

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Overview	<p>Once home to fishermen and farmers, modern Hong Kong is a teeming, commercially-vibrant metropolis where Chinese and Western influences fuse. </p> <p>The former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997, when Britain&#039;s 99-year lease of the New Territories, north of Hong Kong island, expired.</p> <p>Hong Kong is governed under the principle of &quot;one country, two systems&quot;, under which China has agreed to give the region a high degree of autonomy and to preserve its economic and social systems for 50 years from the date of the handover. </p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-16517764">Full Article</a>	<p>Japan has the world&#039;s third-largest economy, having achieved remarkable growth in the second half of the 20th Century after the devastation of World War II.</p> <p>Its role in the international community is considerable. It is a major aid donor and a source of global capital and credit.</p> <p>More than three quarters of the population live in sprawling cities on the coastal fringes of Japan&#039;s four mountainous, heavily-wooded islands.</p><br> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14918801">Full Article</a>

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