Japan
Japan has a large industrial capacity, and is home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced producers of motor vehicles, electronics, machine tools, steel and nonferrous metals, ships, chemical substances, textiles, and processed foods. Agricultural businesses in Japan cultivate 13 percent of Japan's land, and Japan accounts for nearly 15 percent of the global fish catch, second only to China. , Japan's labor force consisted of some 65.9 million workers. Japan has a low unemployment rate of around four percent. Some 20 million people, around 17 per cent of the population, were below the poverty line in 2007. Housing in Japan is characterized by limited land supply in urban areas.
Organic farming by country
In 2007, more than 200,000 farms managed 7.8 million hectares in Europe organically. In the European Union, 7.2 million hectares were under organic management, with more than 180,000 organic farms. 1.9 percent of the European agricultural area and four percent of the agricultural area in the European Union is organic. As of 2007, twenty-four percent of the world's organic land was in Europe. The countries with the largest organic area were Italy (1,150,253 hectares), Spain (988,323 hectares) and Germany (865,336 hectares). The highest percentages were in Liechtenstein (29 percent), Austria (13 percent) and Switzerland (11 percent). 
The amount of hectares managed organically continues to increase. As of 2016, 27 percent, or 11.6 million hectares, of the total global organic agricultural land is in Europe (2016 Report – FiBL).