Quirky Japan Stats

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http://www3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~edjacob/qjindex.htm

*Percentage of accused suspects who are convicted by Japanese courts: 99.98
*Number of days that a criminal suspect can be held without being charged: 23
*Percentage of lawsuits against the Japanese government which are overturned: 95
*Number of Foreign Ministry Bureaucrats who were found to have used "improperly pooled funds" for business-related, social and personal purposes between 1996 and 2001: 2000
*Proportion of diet members in Japan who have inherited their seat after the death or retirement of an incumbant relative: 1/3
*Estimated number of Yakuza in 1964: 184,000
*Estimated number of Yakuza in 2000: 83,600
*Number of unidentified dead bodies found in Shinjuku's Kabukicho district every year: 300
*Estimated number of Yakuza active in Kabukicho: 20,000

*Percentage of the world's cartoons which are produced in Japan: 60
*Average number of frames in an American cartoon: 12,000
*Average number of frames in a Japanese anime: 3,500 (That's why you feel like you're watching a slide show)
*Percentage of box office gross in Japan accounted for by anime: 55

*Average cost of a Japanese wedding (including the honeymoon) in yen: 4,200,000 (about US$40,000)
*Minimum cost, in yen, of a "Rent-a-Guest" from an agency that provides actors who pretend to be co-workers or friends from prestigious companies at weddings: 30,000
*Number of love hotels in Japan: 20,000
*Average number of visitors to love hotels per day: 2,000,000

*Percentage of Japanese elementary schools that teach their students to ride unicycles: 90

*Number of syllables in the word 'ice cream' when it is rendered into Japanese: 7 (a-ee-su-ku-re-ee-mu)
*Number of keys on a Japanese typewriter: 2400

*Prize money on the Television show 'Millionaire', the Japanese version of the British show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?": $108,000 (A million yen is only $10 000)
*Amount of money you would have to spend to get a 1000 yen CD discount coupon from Tower Records using their point club: 20,000 yen ("Buy 20, Get One Free!")
*Rank of Japan among the world's largest creditor nations in 1990: 1
*Rank of Japan among the world's largest debtor nations in 2001: 1

*Average amount charged by JR to the families of people who commit suicide by jumping in front of a train for clean up and lost revenues: 100 000 000 yen
*Number of passengers who pass through Shinjuku station every day: 2,000,000
*Number of waiting rooms in Shinjuku station: 0
*Average number of seats per platform in Shinjuku station: 6
*Cost of a return train fare from Hokkaido to Tokyo on Japan Railways: 45 000 yen
*Cost of a return flight from Hokkaido to Tokyo on Japan Airlines: 32 000 yen
*Japan Railways total debt: 28,000,000,000,000 (about $US 250 billion)
*Number of JR workers it takes to screw in a light bulb: 6 (Observed in Shinjuku station: One employee screwing in the bulb, two employees holding the ladder, three employees "supervising")

*Number of 10 female students who came to my English school's halloween party dressed as a witch: 9
*Estimated number of positions for females in Japan's sex trade, according to Spa Magazine: 255 730 (Click here for more details)
*Percentage of female representatives in the Japanese diet as of 2001: 7.3
*Rank of Japan in terms of number of female members of parliament: 85
*Year in which Japan's first successful sexual harrassment lawsuit was settled: 1995
*Year in which the birth control pill became legal in Japan: 1999
*Percentage of Japanese gynecologists who refuse to prescribe it: 78
*Average number of hours of housework done by a Japanese male every week: 4
*Average number of hours of housework done by a Japanese female every week: 29
*Average number of hours of housework done by an American male every week: 16
*Average number of hours of housework done by a Swedish male every week: 24

*Average number of weeks before a product is replaced at a convenience store, in order to keep people coming back by constantly varying the product mix: 8
*Number of people who have been killed since 1887 by eating Fugu (puffer fish), a Japanese delicacy that is poisonous if not prepared properly: 7900
*Approximate number of Okonomiyaki shops in Osaka: 4600
*Amount paid (in yen) by Japan Tobacco to aquire rights to potential lung cancer vaccines from the American companies Cell Genesys and Corixa, allowing them to market products that cause, treat, and prevent the same disease: 270 000 000 (Click here for more details)

*Average monthly income of a Pachipro or professional Pachinko player, in yen: 500,000
*Minimum price of a Yakuza's full body tattoo, in yen: 3,000,000