Question by John
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1. Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.
2. Sometimes the trains are so crowded railway staff are employed to cram passengers inside.
3. Japanese celebrate Christmas, but it is more like Valentine’s Day in the western world.
4. Poorly written English can be found everywhere, including T-shirts and other fashion items.
5. More than 70% of Japan consists of mountains, including more than 200 volcanoes.
6. Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano.
7. Many Japanese do not know the difference between Shintoism and Buddhism.
8. A nice musk melon, similar to a cantaloupe, may sell for over $ 300US.
9. There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.
10. Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica’s annual coffee production.
11. Japan’s literacy rate is almost 100%.
12. Sumo is Japan’s national sport, although baseball is also very popular.
13. Sumo wrestlers eat a stew called Chankonabe to fatten up. Many restaurants in the Ryogoku district of Tokyo serve this nabe (Japanese word for stew).
14. Many toilets in Japan have a built-in bidet system for spraying your backside.
15. When you use the restroom in some one’s home, you should put on special bathroom slippers so as not to contaminate the rest of the home.
16. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped very loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.
17. Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.
18. Vending machines in Japan sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, and other items.
19. When moving into an apartment it is often required to give the landlord a “gift” of money equal to two months’ rent.
20. There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.
21. It is not uncommon to eat rice at every meal, including breakfast.
22. Average life expectancy in Japan is one of the highest in the world. Japanese people live an average of 4 years longer than Americans.
23. Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world.
24. The Japanese language has thousands of foreign loan words, known as gairaigo. These words are often truncated, e.g. personal computer = paso kon. The number of foreign loan words is steadily increasing.
25. Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the world’s largest fish market.
26. Although whaling is banned by the IWC, Japan still hunts whales under the premise of “research”. The harvested whale meat ends up in restaurants and supermarkets.
27. Some men in Japan shave their heads to apologize.
28. Some women in Japan cut their hair after breaking up with a boyfriend.
29. Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.
30. The first novel, The Tale of Genji, was written in 1007 by a Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.
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Answer by Dreamer
number 19 isn’t correct, normally its the landlord that gives you the welcoming gift (normally its something cheap, like fruits and house products).
number 28, I doubt this.
number 27. in the oldern time they also used to hirakiri (slash their belly) when they bring disgrace or commit sins.
although some facts weren’t nice but over all it was interesting. and yeah it would be awesome if you do this again.
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