JAPAN

         Hello everyone my name is Ulanbek welcome to the my first podcust topic.It is about one of the amazing country in the world and also very popular about alot of good thinks.The name of the topic is JAPON.I think almost everyone knows about this country about this nation it is amazing becouse in the world map sametimes you couldn t find where is located this counry.It is very small but very big population and big power economy education and also alot of  good thinks.Do you want to learn a lot about Japan lets continue to listen  me.Becouse im going to tell you about JAPAN  today.               

         Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia.Stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea  and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin", which is why the country is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun". Japan is an archipelago of 6,852 islands the four largest being Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku. Together, these four islands hold about 97 percent of the country's land area. Japan has the world's  tenth-largest population, with more than 126 million people. Honshū's Greater Tokyo Area includes the capital city of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures. It is the largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 30 million residents.Archaeological research indicates that people lived in Japan as early as the upper paleolithic  period. The first written mention of Japan is found in Chinese texts from the 1st century.

     Economy A major economic power, Japan has the world's third largest economy  by nominal GDP and the world's fourth largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the world's fourth largest exporter and fourth largest importer. Although Japan has officially renounced it is right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the fifth largest military budget used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. According to Japan's health  ministry, Japanese women  have the second highest life expactency of any country in the world. According to the United Nations Japan also has the third lowest infant mortality rate.

  Culture  More than 99 percent of the population speaks Japanese as their first language.The two top-ranking universities in Japan are the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University. The Programme for international student assesement coordinated by the OECD currently ranks the overall knowledge and skills of Japanese 15-year-olds as sixth best in the world.

        Sports Traditionally, sumo is considered Japan's national sport.Japanese martial arts such as judo, karate and kendo are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. After the Meiji Restoration, many Western sports were introduced in Japan and began to spread through the education system.Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964. Japan has hosted the Winter Olympics twice: Sapporo in 1967 and Nagano in 1998. Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making Tokyo the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice. Japan is the most successful Asian Rugby union country, winning the Asian Five Nations a record 6 times and winning the newly formed IRB Pacific Nations Cup in 2011. Japan will host the 2019 IRB Rugby World Cup.