79 Interesting Japan Facts

Japan is the 11th most populous country in the world. Tokyo is the capital and the largest city of Japan. Japan is know as "the land of rising sun". It has an area of 377,975 kilometer's. The "Green Pheasant" is the national bird of Japan, while the "Japanese Macaque" is the national animal. The "Carp" is the national fish of Japan while "Curry Rice" is the national dish.

Interesting Japan Facts 

79 Interesting Japan Facts

1. Japan consists of 6,852 islands.

2. Japan features a ‘suicide forest’ called ‘the perfect place to die’, the Aokigahara forest has the unfortunate distinction of the world’s second hottest place to require one’s life. (The first is that the Golden Gate Bridge)

3. In Japanese, the name “Japan” is Nihon or Nippon, which suggests “Land of the Rising Sun”. It had been once believed that Japan was the primary country to ascertain the sun rise within the East within the morning.

4. The islands were originally attached to the eastern coast of Asia, until tectonic activity caused them to separate off, creating the ocean of Japan around 15 million years ago.

5. Japan has the third longest anticipation within the world with men living to 81 years old and ladies living to almost 88 years old. The Japanese survive average four years longer than Americans.

6. Animated Japanese films and television shows (i.e.: Anime) account for 60% of the world’s animation-based entertainment. So successful is animation in Japan, that there are almost 130 voice-acting schools within the country.

7. Home to 33 million people, the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area is that the largest populated metropolitan region within the world.

8. The Japanese language orders words differently than we neutralize English. rather than ordering sentences by subject-verb-object (example: I write words), Japanese uses subject-object-verb (example: I words write).

9. Each spring, Japan features a festival that celebrates both the penis and feminine fertility called Kanamara Matsuri, or “Festival of the Steel Phallus.”

10. 21% of the Japanese population is elderly, the very best proportion within the world. Japan has quite 50,000 people that are over 100 years old.

11. Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s film The Hidden Fortress was the idea for George Lucas’ famous movie star Wars.

12. Raised floors help indicate when to require off slippers or shoes. At the doorway to a range in Japan, the ground will usually be raised about 6 inches (15.24 cm) indicating you ought to begin your shoes and placed on slippers. If the house features a tatami mat room, its floor could also be raised 1-2 inches (2.54-5.08 cm.) indicating you ought to begin your slippers.

13. Over two billion manga, Japanese comic books or graphic novels, are sold in Japan annually.

14. Over thousand tame sika deer roam the streets of Nara, Japan. Once considered heavenly creatures, the deer are now classified as a national treasure (though some are being culled for destroying plant life), and may be seen bowing to tourists in exchange for crackers that are sold on site.

15. Japan has just 2 gun-related homicides per year on the average. Japan feels very safe generally, they assert you'll leave your wallet on the ground of the busiest metro station and are available back an hour later to still find it there, untouched. I didn’t test that though…

16. Sushi has been around since about the second century A.D. It started as how to preserve fish in China and eventually made its thanks to Japan. The tactic of eating raw fish and rice began within the early 17th century. Sushi doesn't mean raw fish in Japanese. It actually means rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar, and salt. Raw fish sliced and served alone without rice is named sashimi.

17. Japanese Kobe beef is legendary worldwide for its succulence and taste.

18. Japanese trains are among the world’s most punctual: their average delay is simply 18 seconds!

19. From the 12th century to the demise of feudalism within the 19th century, the samurai were a strong warrior class in Japan. A samurai essentially had a license to kill, with the authority to strike down any commoner who compromised their honor. Ritual suicide (known as seppuku) was a respected practice for a samurai who brought dishonor to his lord.

20. Japan is legendary for its immaculate gardens, which are meticulously planned and maintained and are considered a high art. “Borrowed scenery” is a crucial element in garden design; it means the garden’s landscape includes elements from outside its boundaries, like mountains, to make a backdrop.

21. Japan has around 5.5 million vending machines with one on almost every corner . There are vending machines that sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, wine, condoms, comic books, hot dogs, light bulbs, bags of rice, toilet tissue , umbrellas, fish bait, fresh eggs, porn magazines, and even used women’s underwear.

22. In Japan there are more pets than children.

23. The Japanese survivor of the Titanic in 1914 Masabumi Hosono, was called a coward in his country for not dying with the opposite passengers.

24. Japan has the second lowest homicide rate within the world, but it also home to the spooky “suicide forest” Aokigahara at the bottom of Mt. Fuji. it's the second hottest place within the world for suicides after San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.

25. In Japan, it's considered rude to tear the paper off of a present.

26. The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.

27. In Japan, black cats are considered good luck charms or omens of excellent luck.

28. Square watermelons are grown by Japanese farmers for easier stack and store.

29. The bow is a crucial sort of greeting in Japan, and Japanese people exerting to perfect it. The depth of the bow is significant—lower bows indicate more respect.

30. Japan are going to be hosting its second summer Olympics, and its fourth overall, in Tokyo in 2021. The motto for the Games is “Discover Tokyo,” and therefore the mascot—chosen by Japanese schoolchildren—is a blue and white superhero who has the facility to teleport.

31. Japan’s birth rate is so low that adult diapers are sold quite baby diapers.

32. In Japan, there's a ‘crying sumo’ contest where wrestlers compete to ascertain who can make a baby cry first.

33. Cherry blossoms (sakura) are Japan's national flower.

34. Coffee is so popular in Japan that Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica’s annual coffee production.

35. The world’s shortest escalator is within the basement of More’s emporium in Kawasaki, Japan; it's only 5 steps and is 32.8 inches (83.3 cm) high.

36. Norway introduced salmon sushi to the japanese within the ’80s.

37. Ovens aren't nearly as commonplace as rice cookers in Japanese households.

38. The kimono may be a traditional Japanese garment worn by both men and ladies . It consists of an extended robe-like dress that's wrapped round the body, with the left side always covering the proper. The obi is that the belt that keeps the kimono secure. one kimono can cost over $10,000.

39. The cookie dates back to the 19th century and was first made in Kyoto, Japan.

40. Sushi wont to be eaten as street food.

41. The greater Tokyo area is that the largest metropolitan area within the world, with over 35 million people.

42. Yaeba, or crooked teeth, are considered attractive in Japan—so much in order that girls attend the dentist to possess their teeth purposefully unstraightened.

43. Haiku poetry, which was invented in Japan, consists of only three lines and is that the world’s shortest poetic form.

44. Geisha means “person of the arts” and therefore the first geisha were actually men.

45. Geisha, known for his or her elaborate hairstyles and white makeup, are entertaining in Japan, since the 18th century. The white powder covers most of the geisha’s face and neck, though unpainted spaces creating a W shape is typically left on the neck, which is taken into account alluring.

46. Women in ancient Japan blackened their teeth with dye as white teeth were considered ugly. This practice, called ohaguro, continued until the late 1800s.

47. Shinjuku station, Tokyo’s main railway station, is that the busiest within the world with over 2 million people passing through it a day.

48. Japanese sake is formed from fermented rice.

49. If you kill in Japan by jumping ahead of a train, the family of the deceased are going to be charged an interruption fee.

50. They use more paper for comics than for bathroom paper in Japan.

51. Traditional Japanese rooms are tiled with Tatami, or mats made with rice straw. A mat’s length is usually twice its width, and its size is standardized counting on the region. For that reason, room size is usually indicated by the amount of mats needed to hide the space.

52. Anime, or animated Japanese films and television shows, account for 60% of the world’s animation-based entertainment. Animation is so successful in Japan that there are almost 130 voice-acting schools within the country.

53. Ninety percent of all mobile phones sold in Japan are waterproof because youth wish to use them even while showering.

54. In Japan, it's acceptable to require a nap, called inemuri, on the job—it is viewed as evidence of exhaustion from working very hard.

55. In Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken may be a typical Christmas Eve feast.

56. Around 24 billion pairs of chopsticks are utilized in Japan annually.

57. Japan is home to the japanese macaque, or snow monkey, which lives in colder climates than other primates. The Nagano Prefecture is understood for its macaques, who bathe in hot springs within the winter.

58. 685 kids were rushed to hospitals in Japan in 1997 after an intense Pokemon episode that caused dizziness, vomiting, and seizures.

59. Many hot springs and onsen (public bathhouses) in Japan ban customers with tattoos from entering because the tattoos remind the general public of the yakuza, or Japanese mafia, whose members sport full-body tattooing.

60. Cartooning in Japan began within the 12th century, and today more paper is employed for comics than for bathroom paper therein country.

61. The world’s largest seafood market is that the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The market employs over 60,000 people and opens at 3:00 am most mornings, with its famous wholesale tuna auctions beginning at five.

62. In Japan, there's an island filled with rabbits called Ōkunoshima. They were brought there during war II to check the consequences of gas.

63. Raw horse meat is taken into account a delicacy in Japan. It's called basashi and is sliced thinly and eaten raw.

64. Many hot springs and public bathhouses in Japan ban customers with tattoos from entering because they see it as possible affiliation with gangs.

65. Most toilets in Japan have a built-in bidet system for spraying your backside. These are referred to as wash-lets and are now the norm in homes and nicer restrooms.

66. Sometimes the trains in Japan are so crowded railway staff are employed to cram passengers inside.

67. In Japan there's a train that “floats” above the tracks by magnetism, reaching 550km/h (311 mph)

68. The green traffic signal in Japan is named ao shingō, or “blue.”

69. Ninety-eight percent of adoptions that happen in Japan are of male adults, so family businesses can stay within those families.

70. Once you use the remainder room in someone’s home you'll get to place on designated bathroom slippers so as to not contaminate the rest of the house.

71. Baseball is the hottest sport in Japan, referred to as yakyū. It had been introduced to Japan by an American teacher named Horace Wilson. The primary game was played in Japan in 1873 at Tokyo University. Japan has two baseball leagues, the Pacific and Central. The sport is so popular that even high-school games are broadcast on national TV.

72. In Japan, it’s considered inappropriate to blow your nose publicly.

73. Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.

74. Japan has quite 3,000 McDonald’s restaurants, the most important number in any country outside the U.S.

75. Widespread inbreeding of dogs in Japan has resulted in one among the very best rates of genetic defects for canines within the world.

76. There's almost no immigration in Japan. The population is 98% ethnic Japanese.

77. In April 2020 however, Tokyo was the primary city in Japan to, finally, implement a smoking ban.

78. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped somewhat loudly when eaten. It's been said slurping indicates the food is delicious. The slurping also serves to chill down the recent noodles for eating.

79. During a Sumo training “stable” the junior rikishi Sumo wrestlers must wash and bathe their senior sumo wrestlers and confirm their hard to succeed in places are clean.

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