Japan has the following type of government: a constitutional monarchy. In the constitutional monrachy the power of the Emperor is limited (ceremonial duties). The branches of the Government are: Executive, Legislative and Judical. The rest of the government's power have these branches. In this type of monarchy a monarch acts as head of state within written parameters.
So first you do distributive property. Multiply everything inside by 3. So you will get 3*x = 3x and 3*4 = 12. Now that you did that you got rid of the parenthesis and you are left with
y=3x+12
The step that the United Nations took to stop the rebels
from financing their war in Sierra Leone is the sale of diamonds.
To add, The Sierra Leone Civil War began on 23
March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF),
with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).