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100
This is the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo(東京)?
100
Who is the current Prime Minister of Japan?
現在の日本の首相は誰ですか？
Who is Sanae Takaichi?
高市早苗は誰ですか？
100
This is the type of Japanese theater.
What is kabuki(歌舞伎)?
100
This is a meal of JUST raw fish and soy sauce.
What is sashimi?
100
This is the Japanese term for Chinese characters.
What is Kanji?
200
This is the national currency of Japan.
What is the yen (¥/円)?
200
This author is best known for his book, No Longer Human(人間失格).
Who is Osamu Dazai(太宰治)?
200
This traditional Japanese garment is often worn on special occasions such as tea ceremonies and festivals.
What is a kimono(着物)?
200
This type of food is made up of thin slices of meat, bean curd and vegetables cooked in soy sauce and sugar.
What is sukiyaki?
200
Who are the three Japanese language professors here at UCR?
Who are Sato-sensei, Miura-sensei, and Sagawa-sensei?
佐藤先生、三浦先生、佐川先生は誰ですか？
300
This is the major crop of Japan.
What is rice?
300
The first recorded female ruler of Japan, she reigned during the Asuka period and helped promote Buddhism in the country.
Who is Empress Suiko?
300
These are supernatural creatures that appear in Japanese folklore.
What are youkai(妖怪)?
300
These coated biscuit sticks were invented in Japan in 1966.
What is Pocky (ポッキー)?
300
What language family is Japanese a part of?
What is the Japonic language family?
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400
This is Japan's most populated island.
What is Honshu (本州)?
400
This Japanese monk founded the school of Shingon Buddhism.
Who is Kuukai(空海)?
400
This is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
What is Ikebana(生け花)?
400
People in Japan were probably the first people to grow this type of fungi for food.
What are mushrooms?
400
Japanese is often described as a “subject–object–verb” language, meaning the verb usually appears in this position in a sentence.
What is at the end (final position)?
500
The kanji for “Japan” (日本) literally means this when translated character by character.
What is “origin of the sun” or “sun’s origin”?
500
Who is the current Prime Minister of Japan?
現在の日本の首相は誰ですか？
Who is Sanae Takaichi?
高市早苗は誰ですか？
500
This Indian writing system spread to Japan via Buddhism where it has continued to be used as a sacred script.
このインドの文字体系は仏教とともに日本に伝わり、そこで神聖な文字として使われ続けてきました。
What is Siddhaṃ script (𑖭𑖰𑖟𑖿𑖠𑖽 )?
梵字とは?
1
500
What is the largest gyudon chain in Japan?
What is Sukiya?
500
How to you pronounce this name?
天津日高日子波限建鵜葺草葺不合命
What is...
Amatsuhiko-Hiko-Nagisatake-Ugayafukiaezu-no-Mikoto