MIT Sloan Japan Club - About Japan

About Japan

Country Name	Japan
Capital	Tokyo
Land area	377,880.25 km² (similar in size to California)
Population	127,291,000
GDP	$ 4,841,600 million
Government Type	Constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government

(Source: Japan Almanac 2003)

Representative Companies

Top 10 companies in terms of the total market value (as of Jan '04):

Name	Total Market Value ($ million)
NTT DoCoMo, Inc.	108,635
Toyota Motor Corporation	102,782
NTT	71,159
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.	50,662
Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group	44,785
Canon Inc.	42,544
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.	38,468
Nomura Holdings, Inc.	33,762
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.	32,332
Sony Corporation	32,179

(Source: Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.)

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