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JAPAN

CONTINGENT: The Shumei Taiko Ensemble
                        Hoga Gun Shiga, NY

Japan is one of the world's leading industrial and trading nations and the first Asian nation to develop a technologically advanced industrial economy. It is a small country compared with such nations as the United States but is larger than the United Kingdom, Germany, and all other major European nations except Sweden, France, and Spain.