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This is the capital of Japan.

What is Tokyo?

100
This is the name of the ocean that surrounds Japan's islands.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100

This is the ancient form of Japanese poetry.

What is Haiku?

100

lines running parallel to the equator

latitude

100

Continued extended thought; reflection

meditation

200

This is the language of Japan.

What is Japanese?

200
Most Japanese people live in big (fill in the blank).
What are big cities?
200

Haiku poems usually are made up of (#) of lines.

What is three?

200
The Japanese love to sprinkle this delicious type of liquid on their food.
What is soy sauce?
200

A tower shaped structure with several stories

Pagoda

300
This is the major crop of Japan.
What is rice?
300
Many of Japan's mountains are called these.
What are volcanoes?
300

This is the ancient art of using a brush to paint alphabet characters.

What is calligraphy?

300

lines running perpendicular  to the equator, starting at the prime meridian

Longitude

300

a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.

Samurai


400
125 million refers to this fact.
What is population?
400
This is the name of Japan's most famous volcano.
What is Mount Fuji?
400

This is the type of Japanese theater.

What is kabuki?

400
This is a special kind of Japanese mustard.
What is wasabi?
400

any of the traditional forms of Asian self-defense or combat that utilize physical skill and coordination without weapons, as karate, aikido, judo, or kung fu, often practiced as sport.

martial arts

500
This is the name of the Japanese form of currency (money).
What is yen?
500
The Japanese call their nation Nippon, which means this.
What is Land of the Rising Sun?
500
This is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.
What is Ikebana?
500

Japan religion that expresses love for nature

Shinto

500

A leader that ruled during Empress Suiko rule.  He cultural diffusion from countries on the Asian mainland.

Prince Shotoku