Denmark VS. Japan
Which has more islands?
Japan has 14.125, Denmark has 1400.
Which language has more letters Danish or Japanese?
Danish - 29
Japanese - 46 Hiragana, 46 Katakana
2136 general use kanji.
863 additional approved for use in names.
6789 used in JIS X 0208 and tested for in the highest level of Kanji Kentei.
50.000+ in the Daikanwa Jiten.
Both Japan and Denmark have long running monarchies, but which is older?
Japan - 660 BCE, Emperor Jimmu
Denmark - 10th century, Gorm den Gamle
When in traffic, one large difference between Denmark and Japan is important to keep in mind, what is it?
Which has better train infrastructure Japan or Denmark?
You serious?
Which is older, Denmark or Japans constitution?
Denmark - 1849
Japan - 1947
Danish belongs to a large language family shared with English and German. What is it called?
Germanic.
What is the name of Japan's roughly 220-year policy of national isolation?
鎖国 Sakoku
Since a 1974 marketing campaign, one fast-food chain has become a bona fide Christmas Eve tradition in Japan, with people ordering weeks in advance. Which chain?
Kentucky Friend Chicken.
What is the most common surname in Japan? How about Denmark?
佐藤 Satou
Nielsen
Which country has won more Nobel prizes?
Japan - 33
Denmark - 14
Linguistically, what is the sentence structure of Danish? How about Japanese?
Object, Subject, Verb
Danish - S V O
Japanese - S O V
Arrange these chronologically from their starting year.
Showa, Viking Age, Jomon, Kamakura, Modern Denmark
Jomon 14.000 BCE - 300 BCE
Viking Age 500 BCE - 1066 CE
Kamakura 1185 CE - 1333 CE
Modern Denmark 1849 CE - Present CE
Showa 1928 CE - 1989 CE
The "Great Dane" is one of the most famous dog breeds, what country does it come from?
Germany.
Japan and Denmark have actually met at a FIFA World Cup. In their 2010 group-stage match, who won, and what was the score?
Japan 3-1.
Which is older, LEGO or Nintendo?
Lego - 1932
H. C. Andersen is known in Japan as?
アンデルセン (anderusen)
Before it made video games, Nintendo made something very different. What did Nintendo manufacture when it was founded?
Hanafuda playing cards.
"Hygge" and "wabi-sabi" are both famous "untranslatable" lifestyle words that get thrown around by interior design blogs everywhere. One's Danish, one's Japanese, what do each actually mean?
Hygge is cozy contentment, candles, blankets, togetherness.
Wabi-sabi is finding beauty in imperfection, impermanence and simplicity, central to tea ceremony.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
About 40 km/h
What is the difference in height between Mount Fuji and Himmelbjerget?
3629
Himmelbjerget - 147m
Mount Fuji - 3776m
Japanese belongs to a small language family. What is it called?
Japonic.
In what year did Japan and Denmark sign the treaty establishing official diplomatic relations, and why was it historically significant for Japan?
1867 - the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation. It was the very last treaty the Tokugawa Shogunate ever signed before it fell the following year.
Denmark's "Law of Jante" discourages standing out or claiming to be better than others. Japan has a strikingly similar-in-spirit proverb about a piece of hardware that gets punished for sticking out. What's the Japanese proverb, and what does it mean?
"Deru kugi wa utareru", "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down," meaning those who stand out or draw attention risk criticism. It echoes the same conformity-over-individuality ethos as Denmark's 10-rule Law of Jante (from Aksel Sandemose's 1933 novel).
Copenhagen and Tokyo are about as far apart as two major world capitals get. Roughly how far apart are they in kilometers?
8700km