The popular culture of Japan is known to reflect the issues of the current period as well as creating a linkage to the issues that happened in the past. For instance, some of its cultures like videos, television series, comics, and songs are originated from their past themes and styles. Their culture does not only create entertainment to the people, but it is also a source of education to create solutions of their challenges that they face on daily basis (Wittner, 2007).
The government of Japan is considered to be a constitutional kingdom, although some of the Japanese scholars have been defining Japan as a republic. The parliament of Japan consists of two systems such as, Kokkai and Diet. From the beginning, Japan consists of a royal family with an emperor acting as the head, but the rules in the current constitution removed all the powers of the emperor. All ministry heads are members of the Diet together with the prime minister.
The prime minister has the power to hire or fire ministers without consulting the president. There are two administrative systems of legislature in this country as follows, representatives and councilors houses with a life span of four and six years respectively. The entire elective houses practice secret ballot during their elections, to ensure the elections are free and fair (Kalman, 2008).
The 1947 constitution of Japan states clearly about its religion being full of freedom. The government of Japan does not favor any religion. There is no religious group allowed by the constitution to take the responsibilities of the political authority. The government of japan has been trying to separate the religion from the state, an exercise which has proofed to be challenging. The constitution declares that different religious groups should respect the views and opinions of their counter parts.
In the past, the views of scientific fields were combined with those of religious groups whereby, any of them could perform rituals (Wittner, 2007). Later, these two were separated having the religious groups being used only by the administration for political reasons. The Japan government had requested citizens to join Buddhists as a way of having social control. The major challenge of the Japanese religion is to separate it from the state activities, especially after considering the vague responsibilities of the empire.
Japans economy is considered to be second best after that of United States. Its economy is highly boosted by the international trade. On the other hand, its productivity in Agriculture is below average, although it receives assistance from the well doing sectors. From 1961 to 1981 the Japanese economy was marked as the highest, although it drastically flopped in the early 1990s. Japan uses the income from its technological industries to boost the agricultural sectors, through buying raw materials that are not readily available in the country (Klemens, 2010).
The country’s system of education is segmented into four subdivisions namely, primary school, middle school, high school, and university; 6-3-3-4 respectively (Kalman, 2008). In the year 2005, the government tried to make some efforts of emerging the middle school and the high school to utilize the resources fully. Japanese school calendar year commences in April until March of the preceding year, and it’s marked by three terms and a holiday after every term. Both the middle school education and that of elementary school is compulsory.
Japan is a high tech nation because after the Second World War, the United States prohibited it from investing in militaries. On the other hand, Japan decided to invest much of their resources in science and technology. This has made Japan to be the second largest in technology after United States in the world. Japan has an advanced cell phone technology (Polishuk, 2007). Cell phones were first used in Japan in early 1950s. Throughout the history of Japan, cell phones have been referred to as keitai meaning mobile. From the beginning of the mobile phones usage, to date their core purpose is to provide users with a reliable social links. The mobile phones feature that has changed over time is the size.
Through the assistance of mobile industry in Japan, banking systems have become more efficient through online banking, and electronically cash transactions. The mobile industry has boosted the banking industry of Japan a great deal through both domestic and international transactions (Klemens, 2010). The Japan population has benefitted from the mobile industry through employment creation both directly and indirectly. That is the reason why Japan is among the nations with high employment levels, where the youth are actively involved in jobs provided by this industry that include mobile repairs and phone selling among others.
The mobile industry has led to the modernized infrastructure in Japan which has stimulated the overall economic development of the country. The telecommunication networks which are the co-host of mobile industry have expanded a lot hence promoting growth of services to the nation as a whole. The level of security in Japan has been improved through mobile industry due to the availability of quick communication through mobile phones. Moreover, recording of conversations from a central communication centre has made it easier for the security team in coordination with mobile service providers to track criminals (Klemens, 2010).
The mobile technology in Japan is considered to fuel the engine for growth through cell phone internet where the citizens have more fast and appropriate access to information. This has made it convenience for people to get knowledge on different issues relating to there fields.The well informed society of Japan is considered to be more powerful in terms of skills which acts as a pre-requisite of economic growth (Kalman, 2008). Mobile phones are considered to save lives during emergencies, for example, during the recent earth quake in Japan the gadgets provided quick notifications which made response crews to act immediately and save those who were within reach.
Mobile phones in Japan are fitted with videos and sports clips where various online shops have been put in place to cater for this increasing market. This provides leisure to the Japanese as well revenue used to boost economy. In the contrary, mobile phone have been found to affect Japan negatively through road accidents which result when people drive while using there mobiles especially for communication (Wittner, 2007). This results to loss of life or body injuries where the government of Japan spends it revenue for medication. From this, the Japan insurance industry has suffered greatly from the high compensations of damaged motor vehicles as well as to those with life policy or other medical covers. The radiation from cell phones has also some negative impact to the human beings as it affects their healthy. This type of radiation has been proofed to cause cancerous cells.
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