Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 22,234,663 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 683,147 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$45.841 billion (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1% (2004)
Transnational Issues Japan
Disputes - international:
the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, and
Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern
Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kuril Islands", occupied
by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia and claimed
by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace
treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Japan and South
Korea claim Liancourt Rocks (Take-shima/Tok-do), occupied by South
Korea since 1954; China and Taiwan dispute both Japan's claims to
the uninhabited islands of the Senkaku-shoto (Diaoyu Tai) and
Japan's unilaterally declared exclusive economic zone in the East
China Sea, the site of intensive hydrocarbon prospecting
This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005
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