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100

This is the capital of Japan.

Tokyo

100
This is the name of the ocean that surrounds Japan's islands.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100

This is the ancient form of Japanese poetry.

What is Haiku?

100

People in Japan were probably the first people to grow this type of fungi for food.

mushrooms

100

This is the name of a Japanese dog.

Shiba 

200

This is the language of Japan.

 Japanese

200
Most Japanese people live in big (fill in the blank).
What are big cities?
200

Haiku poems usually are made up of (#) of lines.

What is three?

200

The Japanese love to sprinkle this delicious type of liquid on their food.

soy sauce

200

Japanese kids love to have cats as pets. One kind of cat from Japan has a very short tail.

Japanese bobtail

300
This is the major crop of Japan.
What is rice?
300
Many of Japan's mountains are called these.
What are volcanoes?
300

This is the ancient art of using a brush to paint alphabet characters.

What is calligraphy?

300

This is a meal of raw fish.

 sashimi

300

This is a type of a fish found in Japan. When this fish is in danger, it blows itself up like a balloon so that other animals won't be able to fit it into their mouths.

puffer fish

400
125 million refers to this fact.
What is population?
400
This is the name of Japan's most famous volcano.
What is Mount Fuji?
400

This is the type of Japanese theater.

What is kabuki?

400

This is a special kind of Japanese mustard.

wasabi

400

This is the nickname for the Japanese macaque, famous for being able to survive in very cold weather.

snow monkey

500
This is the name of the Japanese form of currency (money).
What is yen?
500
The Japanese call their nation Nippon, which means this.
What is Land of the Rising Sun?
500
This is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
What is Ikebana?
500

This type of food is made up of thin slices of meat, bean curd and vegetables cooked in soy sauce and sugar.

 sukiyaki?

500

This is a reptile found in many parts of Japan.

 Japanese giant salamander?

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