60120 But the U.S. initiative so far only focused on developed nations, and its rush demands faced strong criticism from developing countries.
60121 Therefore, this Information Summit will be the first minister-level meeting to adjust the interests of developing countries and developed nations including the United States.
60122 The Information Summit was privately suggested by South Korean President Kim Young-sam at the unofficial APEC summit meeting in Indonesia in December 1994, but it was neither published nor contained in the Bogor declaration, which was released after the meeting ended.
60123 The ROK government is now preparing the agenda off-stage, and will present practical suggestions at the senior-official level APEC meeting in Fukuoka in the middle of February.
60124 According to Chinese astrology, 1995 is the year of boar.
60125 According to the Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency, an estimated 10,410,000 Japanese were born in years of the boar.
60126 Among them, 5,090,000 are male and 5,320,000 are female, 230,000 more than the male.
60127 Dividing them according to the boar year they were born, the largest population of 2,340,000 was born in 1947, followed by the 1,990,000 in 1971, clearly showing the influence of the first and second baby booms.
60128 The annual number of births over 1994 turned out to be 1,235,000, an increase of as many as 47,000 from the previous year, marking the first substantial increase in twenty-one years, according to the 1994 annual estimate of vital statistics issued by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on the 31st.
60129 The Total Fertility Rate is also expected to recover from 1.46 to 1.47 or 1.49, after the long decrease since 1985, finally showing a change in the seriously declining birth-rate.
60130 This annual estimation was calculated based on the data of births, deaths, marriages, etc. that were reported to municipal governments between January and November 1994.
60131 According to the estimation, the number of births reached 1,235,000, significantly increasing from 1,188,282 in the previous year.
60132 Although the year 1991 also marked an increase of 1,660 over the previous year, it was the first increase in the number of births by the "tens of thousands" since 1973, when 53,301 more births than the previous year were recorded due to the second baby boom.
60133 The number of deaths dropped by 6,000 from the previous year, and the natural increase of population, gained by subtracting the deaths from births, showed an increase of 52,000 over the previous year, for the first time in twenty-one years.
60134 Behind this rapid increase in the number of births is the wedding boom started around 1990.