Japan: Peaceful country (after Norway)

According to an interesting study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the UK think tank, Japan ranks 5th in the world as a peaceful country.

Polling behind Norway, New Zealand, Denmark and Ireland, Japan is the only Group of Eight country to fall in the top 10 of the Global Peace Index — the first study of its kind to compare peace on a worldwide level.

The ranking uses 24 indicators, including the number of external and internal wars fought, the level of respect for human rights and the import and export of major conventional weapons, in attempt to provide a quantitative measure of peace that is comparable over time.

"Japan is politically stable and measures of societal safety and security such as the level of violent crime, the likelihood of violent demonstrations and the number of homicides receive very low scores," the report states accounting for the positioning of the country.


The United States ranks at 96th place out of the 121 countries, just ahead of Iran...

Source: Japan Today

Update: NHK World had this news too today, but it is no longer on their website. And strangely enough, EIU has no mention at all of this study.

Comments

Pandabonium said…
The USA can proudly say "we're number one!" - when it comes to exporting weapons, training armies, waging wars.

If I'm not mistaken, Norway is also one of the top providers of foreign aid relative to their economy. Now if they'd only clean up their act with regarding to whaling and their fishing industry...

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