Quick Facts
This is the capital of Japan.
Bonus (+200): The capital is home to this many people.
What is Tokyo?
Bonus: 12 million
What is an archipelago?
This is the name given to the top military leader in historic Japan.
What is shogun?
Hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan is called this.
Bonus (+100): This is an example of it.
What is anime?
Bonus: What is Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Death Note, Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Sailor Moon, Bleach, Pokémon, A Silent Voice, Spirited Away, Demon Slayer, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc.?
This is the name of the fictional monster who has been terrorizing Japan since 1954.
Who is Godzilla?
Japan has this type of government
Bonus (+100): This country is the only other place we find this government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Bonus: What is Great Britain (UK or England)?
Around 4/5 (or 80%) of Japan is covered in these.
What are mountains?
This is an ancient warrior from Japan.
What is a samurai?
This is the national sport of Japan.
Bonus (+100): Despite it not being the national sport, this sport is the most popular in Japan.
What is sumo wrestling?
Bonus: What is baseball?
He is the fictional karate master from Okinawa, Japan.
Bonus (+100): This is the name of the film he is from.
Who is Mr. Miyagi?
Bonus: What is Karate Kid?
Though Japan has an emperor, it is technically ruled by this person.
What is the prime minister?
This region is where earth's plates often move, causing earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions.
Bonus (+200): Apart from Japan, this is one of the other countries that falls in this region.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Bonus: What are Chile, Mexico, US, Antarctica, Russia, Philippines, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Indonesia, Canada, Peru, Taiwan, and Guatemala
These are the names of the two Japanese cities that were bombed by the US during WWII.
Bonus (+100): This was the year those cities were bombed.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Bonus: What is 1945?
When in Japan, you say this to greet someone.
Bonus (+200): This is how you say thank you.
What is konnichiwa?
Bonus: What is arigato?
Gaming found its start in Japan. This was the first ever gaming system, invented by Nintendo in Tokyo.
Bonus (+200): This was the first ever game made for the system.
What is the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)?
Bonus: What is Super Mario Brothers?
Japan is this many hours ahead of US Central Time (Oklahoma's time zone).
Bonus (+100): This is how long a flight would take from OKC to Japan.
What is 14 hours?
Bonus: What is 15-17 hours?
Bonus (+100): Japan is located on this many plates.
What are tectonic plates?
Bonus: What is 3?
This era was considered an time of industrialization and saw the end of the shogunate of the start of the Japanese Empire.
What is the Meiji Restoration period?
This is the name given to the Japanese alphabet.
Bonus (+200): The Japanese alphabet has this many characters/symbols.
What is kanji?
Bonus: What is 46?
This type of poem, which was invented in Japan, consists of only three lines and is the world’s shortest poetic form.
What is a haiku?
These are the two most popular religions in Japan.
Bonus (+300): This is where each of these religions began.
What are Buddhism and Shintoism?
Bonus: What are India and Japan?
This is the main island of Japan and is where the capital city can be found.
Bonus: (+100): Japan has this many main islands.
What is Honshu?
Bonus: What is 4?
This period was the in Japanese history that saw the creation of a class system, as well as the capital being moved to modern-day Tokyo.
What is the Edo Period?
The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), which literally translates to this.
Bonus (+100): This is one of the most popular music genres in Japan.
What is "the sound of enjoyment?"
Bonus: What is rock or heavy metal?
Japan is home to what is acknowledged to be the world’s first one of these, dated from the early 11th century (1000s) and titled "The Tale of Genji."
What is a novel/book?