Fun Facts
Raw horse meat is a popular meal in Japan. Sliced thinly and eaten raw it is called basashi.
Over 70% of Japan consists of mountains. The country also has over 200 volcanoes.
A musk melon (similar to a cantaloupe) can sell for over 31,473 yen ($300.00).
The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100%.
There are vending machines in Japan that dispense beer!
Japanese people have an average life-expectancy that is 4 years longer than Americans.
Japan has the second lowest homicide rate in the world, but is also home to the extremely spooky suicide forest, aokigahara.
Japan has produced 15 Nobel laureates (in chemistry, medicine and physics), 3 Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize laureate.
Younger sumo-wrestlers are traditionally required to clean and bathe the veteran sumo-wrestlers at their wrestling “stables”…including all the hard-to-reach places.
Japan consists of over 6,800 islands.
Japans unemployment in under 4%.
21% of the Japanese population is elderly, the highest proportion in the world.
In the past, the Japanese court system has had a conviction rate as high as 99%!
The capital of Japan is Tokyo.
The current japanese Prime Minister is Shinzō Abe.
Over 70% of Japan consists of mountains. The country also has over 200 volcanoes.
A musk melon (similar to a cantaloupe) can sell for over 31,473 yen ($300.00).
The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100%.
There are vending machines in Japan that dispense beer!
Japanese people have an average life-expectancy that is 4 years longer than Americans.
Japan has the second lowest homicide rate in the world, but is also home to the extremely spooky suicide forest, aokigahara.
Japan has produced 15 Nobel laureates (in chemistry, medicine and physics), 3 Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize laureate.
Younger sumo-wrestlers are traditionally required to clean and bathe the veteran sumo-wrestlers at their wrestling “stables”…including all the hard-to-reach places.
Japan consists of over 6,800 islands.
Japans unemployment in under 4%.
21% of the Japanese population is elderly, the highest proportion in the world.
In the past, the Japanese court system has had a conviction rate as high as 99%!
The capital of Japan is Tokyo.
The current japanese Prime Minister is Shinzō Abe.