Bodies of Water
China, Korea, and Japan all share borders with which Ocean?
Pacific Ocean
Who was the leader of Japan during World War 2?
Hirohito
What was the name of the policy used by the Chinese government to try to stop population growth in the latter half of the 20th century?
One-child policy
Powerful military leaders who controlled Japanese government who were similar to European nobles were called...
Shoguns
What is the largest city in Asia by population (2024)?
Tokyo
What is the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze
Which Japanese cities are the only cities in history to have experienced nuclear blasts at the end of World War II?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The series of trade routes across Asia where people became rich for trade was called...
Warrior lords who studied poetry, the arts, and served the emperor were known as...
Samurai
What is the newest (and tallest) mountain range of planet Earth?
Himalayas (Himalayan Mountains)
Which sea separates Korea from China?
Yellow Sea
Which region in the far northeast of China was taken over by Japan in 1932 and in still scarred by many of the horrors of that time today?
Manchuria
Dong Zhuo was famously assassinated during the War of the 3 Kingdoms by this famous individual over their desires to marry the same woman.
Lu Bu
What city was the only open port in all of Japan from 1639 to 1853 during Japanese isolationism?
Nagasaki
What is the largest desert in Asia?
What is the name of the body of water that separates the Korean Peninsula from the main islands of Japan?
Sea of Japan
What country did Japan surrender to at the end of World War II, which led to the creation of the Constitutional Monarchy system today?
The United States
What was the name of the last Chinese dynasty?
Qing
The traditional Japanese religion that is a type of Buddhism is known as...
Shinto (Shintoism)
What is the tallest Mountain in Japan (hint: Super Volcano)?
Mt. Fuji
What river is considered to be the border between Manchuria and classical "China?"
The Yellow River
This individual fought against the Japanese and later became the first ruler of the state of North Korea.
Kim Il Sung
From 1839-1860 The British and Chinese fought a series of wars over which plant that could be used as a medicine (drug)?
What was the name of the Shogun who finally united all of Japan after coming to power in 1603?
Tokugawa
What is the name of the largest island in the Japanese Archipelago?
Honshu