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51Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
52Scotland in the modern era — History of Scotland This article is part of a series Chronologicy …
53New Zealand — New Zealander. /zee leuhnd/ a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 3,587,275; 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Cap.: Wellington …
54Peru — Peruvian /peuh rooh vee euhn/, adj., n. /peuh rooh /, n. 1. Spanish, Perú /pe rddooh /. a republic in W South America. 24,949,512; 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Cap.: Lima. 2. a city in N central Indiana. 13,764. 3. a city in N Illinois. 10 …
55Sudetenland — (Czech and Polish: Sudety ) is the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts… …
56Credit risk — Categories of financial risk Credit risk Concentration risk Market risk Interest rate risk Currency risk Equity risk Commodity risk Liquidity risk Refinancing risk …
57consumer advocacy — Introduction also called consumerism movement or policies aimed at regulating the products, services, methods, and standards of manufacturers, sellers, and advertisers in the interests of the buyer. Such regulation may be institutional,… …
58industrial development — Broadly speaking, it is possible to divide Spain s industrial development into two phases: one slow, partial and lengthy, that took place during most of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth centuries; another, short and intense, that… …
59Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area — ▪ Japan Introduction Tokyo formerly (until 1868) Edo metropolitan complex commonly called Greater Tokyo along the northern and western shores of Tokyo Bay, on the Pacific coast of the island of Honshu, central Japan. At its centre is the… …
60Collectivism — • The term is sometimes employed as a substitute for socialism Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Collectivism Collectivism …
