Literature
These often serialized stories are the Japanese equivalent of "Young Adult" literature.
What are Light Novels?
This Japanese animator, director, producer, screenwriter, author and manga artist is the most credited person of Studio Ghibli's animations, and also their co-founder.
Who is Hayao Miyazaki?
This mountain is visible from Tokyo on a clear day.
What is Mt. Fuji?
Along with Hiroshima, this city is the only place to have been deliberately attacked with a nuclear weapon.
What is Nagasaki?
Since 2021, this person has been serving as the Prime Minister of Japan.
Who is Fumio Kishida?
This Japanese medieval form of Japanese drama uses masks instead of facial expressions.
What is Noh?
Written by Eiichiro Oda, this is the best-selling manga of all time.
What is One Piece?
This famous rock broke as recently as March 5, 2022 and was said to contain the spirit of Tamamo-no-Mae.
What is the Sessho-seki?
This famous United States Naval Commodore is said to have played a major role in the opening of Japan, or Bakumatsu between 1853 - 1867.
Who is Matthew C. Perry?
This is the current population of Japan as of 2020.
What is 125.8 million?
Written by Murasaki Shikibu, this piece of literature is said to be the world's first and therefore oldest 'novel'.
What is The Tale of Genji?
Written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure began serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump on this date.
What is January 1, 1987?
The longest underwater train tunnel in the world passes across this straight, separating Hokkaido and Honshu.
What is the Seikan Tunnel?
This revolution brought Japan into the modern era.
What is the Meiji Restoration?
This is the number of prefectures in Modern-day Japan.
What is 47?
He is the only Japanese author to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Oe Kenzaburo?
Known as the 'Godfather of Manga', this man died at the age of 60 and is said to have invented the distinctive "large eyes" style of Japanese animation.
Who is Osamu Tezuka?
Known in Japanese as the Seto Naikai, this body of water is connected to the Pacific and the Sea of Japan.
What is the Inland Sea?
Lasting from 785 - 1184, this was Japan's "classical" period.
What is the Heian Period?
This alternate writing system translates by name to "variant kana" and is referred to as a sister script to both Hiragana and Katakana.
What is Hentaigana?
This is thought to be the oldest piece of Japanese literature, including many stories of legends and oral traditions, written in 712 AD.
What is the Kojiki?
What is Spirited Away?
Along with Mt. Ibuki, this Japanese mountain was said to have been the resting place of the notorious oni, Shuten-doji
What is Mt. Ooe?
This Japanese emperor is said to have been the first emperor of Japan and founder of the imperial dynasty.
Who is Jimmu Tenno/ Kow-yamato-iware-hiko No Mikoto?
This is the number of Special Wards in Tokyo.
What is 23?