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December 08, 2006

 Found some interesting data about Tokyo
(from Tokyo Metropolitan Government web-site)

Average numbers per day in 2004:

* 274 babies were born
* 233 people died
* 232 couples got married
* 79 couples divorced
* 14,172 tones of garbage were disposed
* 4,550,000 CBM of water were used
* 2,852.3  '119' (fire & amburance) calles were made
* 18.4 cases of fire / killed 3.7 people / burned 115.3sqm
   damaged total amount of 27,275,000 yen
* 1,852.9 ambulances were called out
* 5,066  '110' (police) calls
* 774.1 crimes (as recognized)
* 230.9 car accidents (84,513 per year)
    killed 0.82 people /injured 262.6 people
* 5,347.4 reports of things were found
* 1,640.8 reports of things were lost

Population in Tokyo (from 2000 census data)

12,064,101 people: 6,028,562 male / 6,035,539 female,
5,423,551 households

Registered foreigners in major part of Japan 
(as of December 2005)

Tokyo 342,437
Osaka 211,491
Aichi 167,270
Fukuoka 44,049
Hiroshima 33,814
Hokkaido 17,852
Miyagi 16,608


DIAL THREE DIGITS
(Small charges may apply except Police, Fire & Amburance)

* Police - 110 (FOC)
* Fire & Amburance   - 119 (FOC)
* Check someone's phone number - 104
   (Japanese only, you must know at least the name & address)
* Time tone - 117 (Japanese Only)
* Weather forecast - 177 (Japanese Only)


 Disaster Message Dial / Dengon Dial (guidance in Japanese only)
This is worth memorizing when the big earthquake or
other disasters strike Japan, everybody starts calling everyone
at the same time and sometimes the phone lines go dead.

1. Dial 171 (listen to the guidance) 
2. Press '1' for leaving a message.
   (or press '2' to listen to the message) 
3. Punch in the phone number (incl. area code) of
    whom you wish to contact.
4. Listen to the guidance, then press 1#. 
    Listen to the guidance again and leave a message
    after the beep.  (message can be recorded up to 30 seconds)
5. Hang up the phone.



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