Talk:Economy of Japan

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Contents 1 Significant Transcription Error 2 Oil numbers don't add up 3 Fish Catch 4 asean direct ripoff 5 Second in GDP 6 Please do sign to the note. 7 Defense spending myth

[edit] Significant Transcription Error

Someone must have messed with the statistics in the column at the right of the page, because some of them reflect the US economy, not the japanese. For example, it has the GDP per capita as $42,000, which is that of the US, wheras the Japanese one is $30,700, according to the fbiĶ world factbook. I'm changing those that I see. lol

[edit] Oil numbers don't add up

Can somebody verify these numbers? It reads as though they export more oil than they produce. Or do they export their excess imported oil?

production: 17,330 barrel/day (2001 est.) consumption: 5.29 million barrel/day (2001 est.) exports: 93,360 barrel/day (2001) imports: 5.449 million barrel/day (2001) net imports: 5.3 million barrel/day (2004 est.) proved reserves: 29.29 million barrels (1 January 2002)

[edit] Fish Catch

Japan ranked second in the world behind China in tonnage of fish caught—11.9 million tons in 1989, down slightly from 11.1 million tons in 1980.

Am I missing something? It doesn't make sense...

[edit] asean direct ripoff

http://www.asean3.net/partners/japan/index.jsp —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.151.32.169 (talk) 05:07, 20 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Second in GDP

It is wrong to put Japan as the country with the third largest GDP. If you look at all other books, they put Japan in the place where it belongs: Second. PPP should be listed just as a complementary information, not as the main one. Also, why is the EU cited as if it were a country? If that's the case, then NAFTA, APEC, ASEAN should also be classified as such, in which case the APEC would be the "country" with the largest GDP in the world. Can anyone correct these mistakes please? These information are distorted, which make them dangerous and ridiculous. Davi

[edit] Please do sign to the note.

IP user, Please do sign to the note.--Tyangarin (talk) 14:05, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Defense spending myth

This article peddles a commonly repeated myth that a "comparatively small defense allocation has helped Japan advance with extraordinary speed to become one of the largest economies in the world." But Irish journalist Eamonn Fingleton (among other Japan specialists) has pointed out that this is simply untrue. He notes that other nations such as Taiwan and South Korea spend vastly more on defense (as a percentage of GDP) than does the U.S.---and yet Taiwan and South Korea have also boomed spectacularly since World War II, using Japanese-style economic policies.