Tokyo is also the second-largest contributor to the U.N.'s budget.
The current Oude IJssel is the second-largest contributor to the flow of the river until today, after river Rhine.
By 1998, palm oil was the second-largest contributor towards Malaysia's GDP, second only to electronics products.
While Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts counts the industry as his second-largest contributor, at about $1 million through September, others have not done as well.
Britain, the second-largest contributor to the peacekeeping force - the United States has 7,800 troops - brought in special forces to reinforce its 5,300 peacekeepers.
It is the second-largest hydroelectric contributor to the power system in Iraq behind the Mosul Dam.
Campbell Taggart, the company's diversified food subsidiary and the second-largest contributor to corporate profits, also increased its earnings in the quarter.
He wants Japan to become the second-largest contributor and have the second-largest voice, ranking only behind the United States.
Japan is the second-largest financial contributor to the UN and is thought by many to be a candidate for a permanent Security Council seat.
The British were the second-largest contributor of foreign troops to Iraq, behind the United States.