Japanese Society
What are the four main islands of Japan?
Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku
This is the ancient form of Japanese poetry.
What is Haiku?
People in Japan were probably the first people to grow this type of fungi for food.
What are mushrooms?
What Great Lake is to the north of Ohio?
Erie
How many people live in Japan?
127 million
Haiku poems are usually made up of (#) how many lines?
What is three?
The Japanese love to use this condiment.
What is soy sauce?
How many U.S. Presidents have come from Ohio?
(remember Trump is number 45)
8
Approximately how many earthquakes does Japan experience each day? (your guess must be within 5)
2-3
How many kanji do you generally need to know to be able to read a Japanese newspaper or be determined to be literate in Japanese?
2,000
In the winter, this is a table that keeps you warm.
Kotatsu
Which famous astronaut is from Ohio?
Neil Armstrong
The period from 1868 to 1912, in which the Western world and Western ideals were popularized and praised in Japan was called...
The Meiji period
This is the type of Japanese theater.
What is kabuki?
Name one famous inventor from Ohio.
Edison, Wright Brothers
List 7 Japanese car brands
Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Subaru, Mitsubishi, Lexus, Acura, Infiniti, etc.
What does the word "Ohio" mean in an indigenous people's language?
Beautiful river