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100

This is the capital of Japan.

What is 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.
What are mushrooms?
100
This is the name of a Japanese dog.
What is an AKita?
200

This is the language of Japan.

What is 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.
What is soy sauce?
200
Japanese kids love to have cats as pets. One kind of cat from Japan has a very short tail.
What is a 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.
What is 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.
What is a 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

Members of this Japanese group often dressed in black and were assassins.

What is Ninja?

400

This is a special kind of Japanese mustard.

What is wasabi?

400
This is the nickname for the Japanese macaque, famous for being able to survive in very cold weather.
What is the 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

People wear this on special occasions, like weddings, ceremonies, or festivals.

What is a Kimono?

500

Sushi

What is the most common meal in Japan?

500
This is a reptile found in many parts of Japan.
What is the Japanese giant salamander?
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