Fast Facts
This is the capital of Japan.
Tokyo
This is the name of the ocean that surrounds Japan's islands.
The Pacific Ocean
This is the ancient form of Japanese poetry.
Haiku
People in Japan were probably the first people to grow this type of fungi for food.
mushrooms
This is the name of a Japanese dog.
Akita
supo-tsu
sports
This is the language of Japan.
Japanese
Most Japanese people live in big (fill in the blank).
big cities
Haiku poems usually are made up of (#) of lines.
three
The Japanese love to sprinkle this delicious type of liquid on their food.
soy sauce
Japanese kids love to have cats as pets. One kind of cat from Japan has a very short tail.
Japanese bobtail
tabemono
food
This is the major crop of Japan.
rice
Many of Japan's mountains are called these.
Volcanoes
This is the ancient art of using a brush to paint alphabet characters.
calligraphy
This is a meal of raw fish.
sashimi
This is a type of a fish found in Japan. When this fish is in danger, it blows itself up like a balloon so that other animals won't be able to fit it into their mouths.
puffer fish
ge-mu
game
Approximately 125 million refers to this fact.
The population of Japan
This is the name of Japan's most famous volcano.
Mount Fuji
This is the type of Japanese theater.
What is kabuki?
This is a special kind of Japanese mustard.
wasabi
This is the nickname for the Japanese macaque, famous for being able to survive in very cold weather.
snow monkey
shikata
way of doing
This is the name of the Japanese form of currency (money).
yen
The Japanese call their nation Nippon, which means this.
Land of the Rising Sun
This is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
Ikebana
This type of food is made up of thin slices of meat, bean curd and vegetables cooked in soy sauce and sugar.
sukiyaki
This is a reptile found in many parts of Japan.
Japanese giant salamander
ninki
popular
The royal figurehead of Japan
Japan is prone to natural disasters as it sits on the (?)
Ring of Fire
The national sport of Japan
Sumo
The dish called takoyaki loosely translates to what in English.
Octopus balls
This creature causes more approximately 30-50 deaths in Japan each year
Giant hornet
setsumei shimasu
to explain