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Written By: guyjin on July 14, 2011 No Comment
Tokyo, Osaka Most Expensive Cities in Asia; Tokyo Still 2nd Most Expensive in World

The latest issue of the annual Mercer’s Cost of Living Survey has Tokyo and Osaka as the two most expensive cities to live in within Asia. Topping the 2011 list is the Angolan city of Luanda, which was also the most expensive last year, followed by Tokyo, which is again unchanged at number [...]

Written By: guyjin on March 18, 2011 No Comment
Some Thoughts on the M9.0 Earthquake & Tsunami in North-East Japan, and the Fukushima Nuclear Plant

It has been just on a week now since the massive M9.0 earthquake and companion tsunami thrashed the north-east coast of Japan. It’s taken this long for me to be able to sit down and write some of my own feelings about what happened. I wasn’t in the middle of the destruction by any extent, [...]

Written By: guyjin on January 1, 2010 No Comment

According to government estimates, the population of Japan fell by approximately 75,000 in 2009, based on births and deaths registered in Japan between January and October. During 2009, there was a decrease in births, down 22,000 to 1,069,000 and an increase in deaths, up 2,000 to 1,144,000 compared with 2008. These both continued trends [...]

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