... Japan's labour force totalled 67.35 million workers representing 61.5 percent of the whole population. The traditional low unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in 1996 rose to a post-war height of 4.8 percent by early 1999. In 2001 men comprised 58 percent of the labour force and women 42 percent. The services industries have gained in importance for Japan ... , communication equipment, office equipment (especially computers), and industrial machinery. Cotton is imported mainly from U.S. 3.1.4 Foreign exchange/currency; payment methods accepted The unit of currency in Canada is the Canadian ...

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... largely free of bureaucracy. The order of which country to chair the summit has already been fixed. Here are the future summits and their locations: The Canadian Chair in 2002 and the French Chair in 2003, American (2004), British (2005), Russian (2006 decision made at the Kananaskis Summit), German (2007), Japanese ... (2008), Italian (2009) and then Canadian again (2010). The financial weight of the G8 countries in the world economy (nearly 60% of global GDP) places a huge amount of responsibility on them ... of debt relief to some of the world's most needy countries in the Cologne S...

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