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100

In this anime full of powerful and quirky friends and enemies, the main main character is powerless.

What is My Hero Academia?

100

This Island is the largest of the Japanese Island Chain and contains just over 80% of Japan's population.

What is Honshu?

100

When reading kanji, there is on-yomi, which is known as the Chinese reading, and this, the Japanese reading.

What is kun-yomi?

100

Before the Reiwa era, this was the Japanese era

What is Heisei?
100

This city in Japan is home to the most Michelin-starred restaurants in the world, with 230. 

What is Tokyo?

200

The new series of this anime is coming out on TV in Japan this April.

What is Demon Slayer?

200

This plain, the largest in Japan, contains Japan's largest city and Capital.

What is Kanto?

200

This is the term used for the hiragana that expresses the sound of the kanji.

What is furigana?

200

On this day in 2011, Japan was hit with several huge earthquakes and tsunamis in the Tohoku region.

What is March 11th?
200

There are five different tastes that create our profile of flavor: sour, sweet, salty, bitter, and this, created in 1908 by Kikunae Ikeda, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University. 

What is umami?

300

This character said "Tawake!" a lot in this anime. (Answer includes both the character and the anime)

Who is Kuchiki Rukia of Bleach?
300

This body of water, is located to Japan's Northeast and is the site for many of North Korea's missile tests.

What is the Sea of Japan?
300

Kanji originates from this Chinese dynasty, where its namesake also originates.

What is the Han dynasty?

300

This guy is one of the three most famous Samurai, aside from Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideoyoshi

Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?

300

All ramen falls into four categories, dependent on the flavor of its broth: shio, shoyu, miso, and tonkatsu. Shio ramen is named for this ingredient.

What is salt?

400

This person is an author of the best selling manga in the world. (Answer includes both the author and the manga title)

Who is Eiichirou Oda, author of One Piece?

400

This island is the location of a popular video game, and is the site of the defeat of the Russian Baltic Navy in the Russo-Japanese War.

What is Tsushima?

400

This is the most difficult kanji on record, with 84 strokes.

What is γŸγ„γ¨γ€or Taito

400

In 1879, the country of Ryuku was added to Japan. Nowadays, it is known as this prefecture.

What is Okinawa?

400

Fugu, or Japanese pufferfish, is an incredibly toxic winter delicacy. Chefs must be trained and licensed to carefully remove the organs that are home to this toxin.

What is tetrodotoxin?
500

This voice actor played Sho-chan in a shape of voice, Haku in Spirited away, and Sugawara Koshi in Haikyuu!!

Who is Miyu Irino?

500

This Prefecture borders the most prefectures in Japan and is landlocked.

What is Nagano?

500

The Japanese government maintains a list of kanji that is necessary for students to know by the time they graduate from high school. This list, the Joyo Kanji, is comprised of this many characters.

What is 2136?

500

Hiragana was invented in this century

What is the 9th century?

500
Traditionally served with sushi and sashimi, wasabi, pickled ginger, shisho, and myoga are defined by this term, where they were used for detox purposes to kill bacteria on raw fish before the invention of refrigeration.

What is yakumi?

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