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Japan

#1 of 18 by healthy life years

Current employee: Sanae Takaichi

Official government site โ†—
โš”๏ธ Military : ๐Ÿงช Trials Ratio
164.2:1

For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Japan spends $164 on military.

๐ŸŽฎ Game Metrics

โค๏ธ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
74.1
Global avg: ยท Target:
Needs +10.9 years to hit treaty target
๐Ÿ’ฐ GDP Per Capita
$34.0K
Median income: $16.1K
World Bank 2023

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military vs ๐Ÿงช Medicine

๐Ÿ’ฃ Military Spending$55B/yr
๐Ÿงช Clinical Trials$335M/yr

Scaled to the same axis as military โ€” the bar is 0.61% of military spending

๐Ÿงฌ Total Medical Research$5B/yr
๐Ÿฅ Health Spending / Capita$4.7K

๐Ÿ“Š Spending Profile

๐Ÿ’ฃ
Military Spending/yr
$55B
1.2% of GDP
SIPRI 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿฅ
Health Spending/capita
$4.7K
OECD 2023
โณ
Life Expectancy
84.5 yrs
WHO 2023
โš–๏ธ
Military : Trials Ratio
164:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
๐Ÿ”ฌ
Military : Research Ratio
11.0:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
๐Ÿงฌ
Gov Medical Research/yr
$5B
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
~$5B medical research; AMED + MHLW + university grants โ†—
๐Ÿงช
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$335M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $5B medical research budget โ†—
๐Ÿ”ซ
Arms Exports/yr
$3B
SIPRI Arms Transfers 2023 โ†—
๐Ÿ’ณ
Debt
264% of GDP
IMF 2024
๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ
Fossil Fuel Subsidies/yr
$21B
IMF 2023 โ†—

๐Ÿ’€ Body Count

๐Ÿ’€
Body Count
5,964,000
1936โ€“1945
Summed from 1 sourced government death ledger entry โ†—
โ˜ข๏ธ
Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS

๐Ÿ“œ Death Ledger

Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.

Imperial Japan war crimes and occupation murders
Rummel midpoint estimate for Imperial Japan; excludes battle deaths.
Period
1936โ€“1945
Deaths
5,964,000
rummel-midpoint

โš–๏ธ Justice & Domestic

๐Ÿ”ช
Homicide Rate /100K
0.2
UNODC 2023
โ›“๏ธ
Incarceration /100K
38
World Prison Brief 2024 โ†—
๐Ÿ”
Murders Solved
98%
NPA Japan 2023
๐Ÿšจ
Police Killings/yr
2
NPA Japan 2023

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Japan Politician Alignment

Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.

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๐ŸŽฏ Fix Japan's Score

Japan spends $55B/yr on military and $335M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.

Japan Government Scorecard | The Earth Optimization Game