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.

JAPAN 101

1. Many toilets in Japan have a built-in bidet system for spraying your backside.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.
5. Vending machines in Japan sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, and other items.
6. When moving into an apartment it is often required to give the landlord a "gift" of money equal to two months' rent.
7. There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.
8. It is not uncommon to eat rice at every meal, including breakfast.
9. Average life expectancy in Japan is one of the highest in the world. Japanese people live an average of 4 years longer than Americans.
10 Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world.
11. 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.
12. Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the world's largest fish market.

Japan 101

• The Japanese language has a word for 'death from overwork'. It's Karoshi.
• The crime rate in Japan is amongst the lowest in the world.
• Japan is an archipelago of more than 3000 islands, with the four main islands Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkiado comprising 97% of its total land area.
• The prefecture of Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the Japanese capital Tokyo, is the largest metropolitan area in the world.
• It has the highest life expectancy in the world and its literacy rate is almost 100%.
• Japan is the tenth largest country in terms of population, the second largest economy in the world after America, and the third largest purchasing power in the world.
• Japan is the most vulnerable nation to earthquakes amongst all the regions of the world. Each year about 1500 earthquakes are recorded in Japan.
• Japanese food is considered the most nutritious and healthy food in the world

JAPAN 101

1. On Respect for the Aged
Day, tobacco companies
will hand out free
cigarettes to the elderly
outside of train stations
and department stores.
2. The Japanese love corn,
sesame seeds, and
mayonnaise on their
pizza.
3. There are no 24 hour
ATMs in Japan (closed on
holidays and many only
open during normal bank
hours).
4. Many Japanese teachers
think that Japanese
parents are lazy.
5. The green traffic light is
called "blue".

JAPAN 101

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1. A can of Coca-Cola costs
more than one dollar US
from a vending machine.
2. Japanese people, in
general, can't drive very
well.
3. Restaurants in Japan
(including many fast-food
places) give you moist
towels or wipes before or
with your meal.
4. At many businesses in
Japan, they offer alcohol
to the employees after
six pm.
5. It is usually mandatory to
give a landlord a gift of
money of $1,000-$2000
when moving into his
apartment building.