Interesting Facts About Japan
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| Interesting Facts About Japan |
* English is the only foreign language taught in Japanese schools.
* In addition to fish and rice in Japan, horse meat also comes in another popular food.
* Japan has only 12.5% cultivable land.
* Death rate in Japan is 10.2% per thousand.
* 18 Nobel Prize winners have come from Japan.
* There are mainly 2 religions in Japan, first Buddhism and second Shinto religion.
* Late night partying is illegal in Japan.
* There are about 1500 earthquakes in Japan every year.
* The number of people who live for more than 100 years in Japan is about 50,000.
* There are about 6700 islands in Japan.
* Trains in Japan are late by an average of 18 seconds.
* In Japan, diapers of the elderly are sold more than the diapers of children.
* There is also an island in Japan where it is illegal to keep dogs because only 100 people live on this island, but the number of cats here is 4 times more than these.
* People in Japan first go to the temple and ring the bells 108 times in the happiness of the new year.
* Sumo wrestling is a famous sport played by Japanese people.
* Japan comes first in terms of cleanliness because teachers and students of Japanese schools together clean the class room.
* People of Japan use more than 20 ways to apologize.
* About 20% of the books published in Japan are comics books, which is the favorite book of the people of Japan.
* Japan is the only country in the world that had not one but two nuclear attacks and this attack was done by America on August 6 and 9 in 1945 on two big cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
* For committing suicide in Japan, that person's family has to pay a fine to the government.
* People of Japan consider black cat as auspicious and most of the Japanese like to keep black cat.
* Japan ranks first in the world in the field of research technology.
* Japanese people cultivate square watermelon which is grown only in Japan in the whole world.
* Despite being surrounded by sea, Japan still imports 27% of its fish from other countries.
* Only 13% of the total area of Japan is cultivated.
* Small children of Japan do not have to give any exam till the age of 10 years.
* The stress of work on the people of Japan is so much that most of the suicides in Japan are due to this.
* Fuku is a popular dish of the people of Japan. It is made by a poisonous fish. Before making this dish, the chef has to take training to make this dish and it is considered very tasty.
* People of Japan also call their country by the name of 'Nippon'. Nippon means the abode of the sun.
* The streets of Japan do not have any names.
* People of Japan like to go to KFC on Christmas day and eat food there.
* People of Japan make sure to make a separate room for guests in their homes.
* In most of the houses of Japan, shoes are bought separately for the guests.
* People of Japan consider four words or four numbers as inauspicious, people here do not use the word four anywhere. Even in the buildings built here, after the third floor, the fourth floor is considered as the fifth floor.
* Yaeba or crooked teeth are considered attractive in Japan. For this, girls go to the dentist and get their teeth crooked.
* There are Cat Cafes in Japan. In these cafes, you can drink coffee and go for a walk with Cats.
* The number of people who die from Gun every year in Japan is 2.
* Japan is the largest buyer of Amazon rainforest wood.
* 24 million chopsticks are used each year in Japan.
* Japan imports about 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.
* Japan and Russia have not yet signed the peace proposal of World War 2.
