I wonder if Dr. Pipes knows these things about Japan...
Reader comment on item: Japan Invents the Future

Submitted by Al Dionne (Canada), Mar 14, 2008 at 14:17

About Japanese influence on the outside world...

Per capita # of nobel prizes for nations that have won more than 3 prizes (prizes / population * 1 000 000)... this value represents the number of nobel prizes that a nation has won per 1 000 000 residents.

1. Sweden: 32.7 (30 prizes / 9 183 000 * 1 000 000)

2. Switzerland: 29.3

3. Denmark: 23.8

4. UK: 16.7...

7. Germany: 9.2...

9. U.S.: 8.9...

11. Israel: 6.9...

20. Japan: 0.9

Dead last...

21. India (with a population of 1 130 000 000): 0.1

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