Geography of Japan
Early Japan
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Trivia
100

What is an archipelago?

This is the geographic term for a chain of islands:

100

What were the earliest Japanese called?

Jomon

100

The name of the person who gave Japan its first constitution

Shotoku

100

The earliest ninja's were.....

Farmers or peasants


100

Most popular meal in Japan?

Sushi

200

 This body of water separated Japan from mainland Asia.

What is the sea of Japan

200

The native religion of Japan

What is Shinto?
200

How many articles in Japan's Constitution?

17

200

What weapon was used by ninjas and also used for cutting grain?

What is a kama?
200

The national flower of Japan

Cherry Blossom

300

What is the Ring of Fire?

It is a ring of volcanic activity that circles in the Pacific Ocean and Japan is in the path

300


What is kami?

Spirits-Early Japanese clans honored powers they considered supernatural or divine.

300

Who is the ceremonial head of state in Japan today?

The Emperor

300

The two cities bombed during WWII

What is Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

300

Today, Japan consumes ____% (9, 12, 26, 65) of the world's fish 

What is 12%

400

What country is closest to Japan?

What is Korea?

400

Who is Amaterasu?

The Sun Goddess
400

Who ordered the daimyo's to destroy their Castles and live in Edo?

Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?

400

The Japanese word for "Land of the Rising Sun"

Nippon

400

The Japanese phrase for "thank you"

What is Arigatō?

500

The largest island

What is Honshu?
500

What did Japan get from  Korea?

Buddhism

500

Who became the first shogun?

Who is Minamoto Yoritomo

500

A type of home where the gable (the top of the roof point) was made to look like praying hands?

What is Gassho style home?

500
In what month does the new school year begin?

What is April?