(42.0 km or 26 miles to the sea... 42 kilomètres vers la mer ou au compartiment de Tokyo)Gini Coefficient: Japan 24.9; the U.S. 40.8
(Coefficient de Gini : Le Japon 24.9 ; les États-Unis 40.8)
To know the state of the world, you can access a World Bank Group's site:
http://devdata.worldbank.org/wdi2005/Section2.htm
Now, in Table 2.7, you can find data on Gini index which shows a gap between the poor and the rich within a country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
If a value of a Gini coefficient is high, a gap between the poor and the rich in a country is large.
If a value of a Gini coefficient is low, a gap between the poor and the rich in a country is small.
A Japanese researcher checked the data to rearrange the order of countries in terms of the value of the Gini coefficient.
http://www.h-yamaguchi.net/2006/01/post_d7b3.html
Rank......Country.......Gini Index
1......Namibia................70.7
2......Lesotho.................63.2
3......Botswana..............62.9
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8.....Brazil.....................59.3
9......South Africa.........57.8
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16.....Mexico.................54.6
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34....The Philippines.....46.1
35.....China...................44.7
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41.....Hong Kong............43.4
42.....Thai......................43.2
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44.....Iran.......................43.0
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49.....USA......................40.8
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52.....Cambodia...............40.4
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62.....Jamaica..................37.9
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73.....Italy........................36.0
73.....UK..........................36.0
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76.....Israel......................35.5
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79.....Australia................35.2
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81.....Egypt......................34.4
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87.....Canada...................33.1
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90.....France....................32.7
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92.....India.......................32.5
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98.....Korea.......................31.6
99.....Russia......................31.0
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110....Germany.................28.3
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117....Norway....................25.8
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120....Belgium...................25.0
120....Sweden....................25.0
122....Japan.....................24.9
123....Denmark..................24.7
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As is usual, you have to carefully check the size, the population, and the historical context of each country.
But, the U.S. is internally more split between the rich and the poor than Cambodia, Jamaica, Egypt, India, and Russia.
Neglecting North European countries because of their biased advantage, Japan is overwhelmingly and honorably the best country where economic justice has been realized most honestly according to the will of God or Allah.
Some sinful Israelite Americans in New York and Washington D.C. should not work out a plot to steal wealth in Japan, though they have been always trying hard to.
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But, how many times have you ever heard Japanese opinions delivered, though very difficult to understand the mode of delivery itself, directly by Japanese people in your life?
Nonetheless, it is a big surprise that if EEE Reporter is your first reading of Japanese opinions directly expressed.
Indeed God is great and God or Allah is the only god for us!
(I heard, this noon, that snow has fallen in Poland; terrorists are being arrested in Germany; a daughter of the former French President is being investigated for some fraud; and women are rather leaving Western manners in the bathing beach in Morocco.
Truly, you had better learn Japan if you are in Africa or America, though most of Japanese fluently speak or write neither English nor French...)
"...If one of you wants to be great, he must become the servant of others..."
(the most well-known but so neglected instruction by Jesus Christ)