Today in class we went over presentations. Parker and John began with Germany.One thing that I found very interesting was the berlin wall. It was made of concrete that split east and west Germany so that they could not have communication with each other. The two were reunited October 3 1990 as a Federal Republic. joachim is the president of germany, but he is not the most powerful person in the nation. He has been president since 2012, and his first term ends in 2017. He is allowed to run for re election for one more five year term. Angela Merkel is the person more powerful than Joachim Gauck. She has been the chancellor of Germany since 2012. The citizens can overthrow there leaders with impeachment.
Next, Kendall and Adam presented Japan. I was surprised by how similar their government was to ours. The have the same 3 branches of government that America has. What I found interesting was that Japan is the oldest continuing Monarchy in the world. Japan is also like England, they have a symbolic had of state. Japan has an emperor, like England has a queen. Japan also has a prime minister, Shizno Abe, and he is the primary leader of the country. The prime minister has no limit to how many terms he can serve, just as long he continues to be re elected. to change leadership, the people can make a Peaceful petition,.There are some other interesting facts. In Japan the minimum voting age is 20 years old.
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