'Goth subculture'

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the united kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post_punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify. Its imagery and cultural proclivities indicate influences from nineteenth century Gothic litereature along with horror movie and to a lesser extent the culture.The goth subculture has associated tastes in music, aesthetics, and fashion, whether or not all individuals who share those tastes are in fact members of the goth subculture. Gothic music encompasses a number of different styles. Common to all is a tendency towards a lugubrius mystical sound and outlook. Styles of dress within the subculture range from deathrock, punk, ,victorian , some Renaissenence and Medievel style attire, or combinations of the above, most often with black attire, makeup and hair.

'Origins and develop'

By the late 1970s, there were a few post-punk bands labeled "gothic." However, it was not until the early 1980s that gothic rock became its own subgenre within post-punk and that followers of these bands started to come together as a distinctly recognizable movement. The scene appears to have taken its name from an article published in UK rock weekly Sounds: "The face of Punk Gothique", written by Steve Keaton and published on February 21, 1981. The opening of theBatcave in London's Soho in July 1982 provided a prominent meeting point for the emerging scene, which had briefly been labeled positive punk by theNew3 Musical Express. The term "Batcaver" was later used to describe old-school goths.
Independent from the British scene, the late 1970s and early 1980s saw death rock branch off from American punk. In 1980s and early 1990s, members of an emerging subculture in Germany were called Grufti[e]s (English "vault creatures" or "tomb creatures"); they generally followed a fusion of the gothic and new wave with an influence of new romantic, and formed the early stages of the "dark culture" (formerly called "dark wave culture").

'The goth scene'

The bands that began the gothic rock and death rock scene were limited in number.By the mid-1990s, styles of music that were heard in venues that goths attended ranged from , death rock, industrial music, Gothabilly, EBM,ambient, experimental, shoegazing, punl rock, 1970s glam rock, indie rock,, to 1980s dance music. This variety was a result of the eclectic playlists of the Independent/Alternative music clubs.Today, the goth music scene thrives in Western-euorope in Germany large festivals such asWave-Gothic-Treffen, m'era luna and others drawing tens of thousands of fans from all over the world.HoweverNorth Americastill sees large scale events, most recently, Chamber's Dark Art & Music Festival

'Fashion'

Demographics of Japan
This article is about the demographic features of the population ofJapan, including po[pulation density, etchnity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950
As of June 2008, Japan's Population is around 127.7 million.Making it the world's tenth most populatedcountry. Its size can be attributed to fast growth rates experienced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
However more recently Japan has been experiencing net population loss, due to falling birth rates and almost no net immigration, despite having one of the highest life expentaciesin the world, at 81.25 years of age as of 2006
Japan is also noted for its ethnicallyand linguistically homogeneous population and strict laws regarding immigration.

Birth rate
In February 2007, demographers and the Japanese government announced the first significant rise in the national birth rate in 40 years took place in 2006. The nation had an estimated 33, 500 new births that year, a sign of a small but suitable rise in the Japanese population.

Factors affecting birth rate
>Pro-natalist policies and Antinatalist policies from government
>Existing age-sex sturcture>Availability of family planning services
>Social and religious beliefs - especially in relation to contraception and abortion >Female literacy levels
>Economic prosperity (although in theory when the economy is doing well families can afford to have more children, in practice the higher the economic prosperity the lower the birth rate).
>Poverty levels – Children can be seen as an economic resource in developing countries as they can earn money.
>Infant MortalityRate – A family may have more children if a country's IMR is high as it is likely some of those children will die.
>Urbanization
>Typical age of marriage
>Pension availability
>Conflict

Factors affecting a given death rate
>Age of country's population
>Nutrition levels
>Standards of diet and housing
>Access to clean drinking water
>Hygiene levels
>Levels of infectious diseases
>Social factors such as conflicts and levels of violent crime
>Amount and quality of health care available