JAPAN 101

1. McDonalds employees will run outside to give you your drive-thru order.
2. The Japanese visit shrines and give eachother money for New Year's.
3. It is impolite to tear the wrapping paper off of a gift.
4. Japanese junior high school students do not need to pass any of their classes to graduate. Education only through junior high school is compulsory.
5. Young women will hand you toilet paper outside of train stations.
6. There is almost no vandalism in Japan.
7. Gas station attendants will bow as the car pulls out of the station.
8. It is socially acceptable to pick your nose in public and urinate at the side of the road, but you cannot blow your nose in public.
9. Approximately 85% of Japanese people have never tasted turkey.
10. Japan is about the size of California and has half the population of the entire United States.
11. Snowmen in Japan are made of two large snowballs instead of three.