Culture
The Japanese art of pruning the roots and branches trees in order for them to remain growing in a small tray is known as what?
Bonsai
What is the Japanese word for the raw seafood often found at sushi restaurants?
sashimi
Typically round and curvy is which script in the Japanese language?
Hiragana
What landmark is 3,776m tall in Japan?
Mt Fuji
What is this kanji character?
森
woods
This is tree 木
This is forest 林
The Japanese traditional garment is known by what general word?
kimono
With it's original meaning of "empty" "hand", what Japanese word is now commonly known in English?
karate
What type of character can be used to represent a whole word (verb, adjective, noun, adverb) in Japanese?
kanji
Tokyo is Japan's capital now but which city was considered to be Japan's previous capital?
Kyoto
These two characters were on the Year 1 Kanji list. They are adjectives and the opposites of each other. What are they?
大 小
big and small
When greeting someone in Japanese culture the physical gesture accompanying the greeting is usually what?
Bowing
Name two Japanese words that have been borrowed by the English language to describe weather events.
tsunami and typhoon
True or false? The correct spelling of the word for "thank you" in Japanese is おりがとう
False it's ありがとう
What is the name of the sea to the west of Japan between the mainland and Korea?
The Japan Sea
Each of these kanji have the same radical. What does the radical mean?
花 flower
菊 chrysanthemum
茶 tea
plant, vegetation
Starting with "H" what is one of the underlining principles of Japanese culture?
Harmony
Which popular puzzle played by people around the word has its name derived from the Japanese phrase "suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru "
Sudoku
In a typical sentence written in Japanese what doesn't appear in the sentence that MUST appear in an English sentence.
spaces between words
In the movie, The Karate Kid, which island in Japan did the teenage boy Daniel-san go?
Okinawa
Each of these kanji have the same radical. What does the radical mean?
焼 cook
灰 ash
爆 explosion
fire
Which of the following is NOT a Japanese company?
Honda, Nokia, Nintendo, Toyota
Nokia is from Finland
Can you name a type of mushroom that is originally Japanese?
Possible answers: shitake, enoki
If writing the words tv and radio in Japanese which script would you use?
Katakana - they're words that have been borrowed from English.
True or False
Japan is the country that records the most earthquakes in the world every year.
True. An average of more than 1,500 earthquakes of magnitude 4 and above occur in the country annually.
What symptom would you have if you had 鼻水 (hanamizu)?
It's a compound word.
鼻 means "nose" and 水 means "water"
A runny nose.