Education
These are the two stages of compulsory education
What are elementary school and lower secondary school?
This is the Japanese style of comics and entertainment covering many topics
What is manga?
This company is the largest Japanese automaker
What is Toyota?
This famous Japanese monster, first seen in 1954, symbolizes nuclear destruction after WWII
What is Godzilla?
Founded Toyota, key to Japan’s industrial rise
Kiichiro Toyoda
This is the total number of years of compulsory education in Japan
What is 9 years?
Manga first started shifting to digital formats in this decade
What are the early 2000s?
Japan is known for focusing on this type of car technology
What are EVs and hybrid vehicles?
This long-running manga about pirates began in 1997 and is still ongoing today
What is One Piece?
Creator of One Piece, one of the best-selling manga ever
Eiichiro Oda
Japan’s dropout rate is extremely low, around this percentage
What is 2%?
During this global event, digital manga sales surged dramatically
What is the COVID-19 pandemic?
This type of vehicle, combining gas and electric power, was popularized globally by models like the Toyota Prius
What is a hybrid car?
This company created Mario and dominated early home gaming in the 1980s
What is Nintendo?
Created Pokémon in the 1990s
Satoshi Tajiri
About this percent of students attend vocational schools
What is 26%?
These two apps helped popularize digital manga in 2013
What are LINE Manga and Piccoma?
Japanese automakers like Honda are leaders in developing this type of technology that allows cars to assist with driving tasks or operate without human control
What is autonomous driving (self-driving technology)?
In the decades after World War II, this Japanese electronics company became famous for making transistor radios and helping lead Japan’s rise as a global technology power.
What is Sony?
Who is this group of people who grew in popularity in music in japan
What is K-pop
This type of education focuses on hands-on tech skills in lower secondary school
What is technology education (gijutsuka)?
In 2020, digital manga sales increased by about this percent
What is 32%?
This fully electric car from Japan became one of the world’s best-selling EVs
What is the Nissan Leaf?
Japan’s global influence through anime and manga is often called this kind of power
What is soft power?
“This prime minister focused on economic growth, helping expand Japan’s modern education system”
What is Hayato Ikeda?