Late-night dancing was illegal in Japan until 2015.
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The World's
Oldest Company
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Oldest Company
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Japan consists of
over 6,800 islands.
over 6,800 islands.
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Japanese Trains are among the world's most punctual: their average delay is just 18 seconds.
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Square Watermelons are grown by japanese farmers for easier stack and store.
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Japan's birth rate is so low adult diapers are sold more than baby diapers.
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98% of all adoptions in Japan are of male adults so that family businesses can remain within the family.
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The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
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In Japan, 90% of mobile phones are waterproof because youngsters use them even in the shower.
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In Korea and Japan, there is a Cat Cafe where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
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Japan has 5.52 million vending machines.
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Sleeping on the job is acceptable in Japan, as it's viewed as exhaustion from working hard.
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During WW2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.
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Japan and Russia still
haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the
Kuril Islands dispute.
haven't signed a peace treaty to end World War II due to the
Kuril Islands dispute.
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In Japan, teachers and students come together to clean the classrooms and cafeteria.
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The number of Chinese killed by the Japanese during WW2 is greater than the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.
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In Japan, 685 kids were rushed to hospitals in 1997 after an intense Pokemon episode that caused dizziness, vomiting and seizures.
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Around 24 billion pairs of chopsticks are used in Japan each year.
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In Japan, there's a building with a highway passing through it.
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In Japan, there's a festival that is a celebration of the penis and fertility.
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Black cats are considered to bring
good luck in Japan.
good luck in Japan.
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In Japan, Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald due to a lack of a clear "r" sound in Japanese.
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In Japan, KFC is a typical feast of Christmas Eve.
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Many Hot springs and public bathhouses in Japan ban customers with tattoos from entering.
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In Japan, they use more paper for comics than for toilet paper.
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There's an island in Japan that's full of rabbits.
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During WW2, Japan received Jewish refugees and rejected the resulting Nazi German protests.
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In Japan, there's a train that "floats" above the tracks by magnetism, reaching 500 km/h (311 mph).
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The biggest Japanese community outside of Japan is in Brazil.
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If you commit suicide in Japan by jumping in front of a train, the family of the deceased will be charged a disruption fee.
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There's a town in Spain where 700 people share the surname "Japon" as they are descendants of 17th-century samurais who stayed there after an embassy returned to Japan.
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Argentina has the world's second-highest rate of anorexia, after Japan.
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Norway introduced Salmon Sushi to the Japanese in the 80s.
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countries have abolished the death penalty. Notable exceptions include the U.S., Japan and China.
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Declawing cats is legal in most U.S. states but banned in at least 22 countries including Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
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Most streets in Japan have no name.
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In Japan, there's a 'Crying Sumo' contest, where wrestlers compete to see who can make a baby bawl first.
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In Japan, Burger King has an all-black burger.
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Godzilla is an official Citizen of Japan.
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The Japanese authorities constructed a fence around a volcano at Mount Mihara to stop a trend of over 2000 people committing suicide by jumping in.
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Japan has over 70 flavors of Fanta including 'The Mystery Fruit', 'Genius Energy' and 'Hip Hop' flavor.
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During WW2, a Japanese Consul saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocaust by writing them all Visas to Japan even after the government told him not to.
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About 1 million Japanese men are estimated to be locking themselves in their bedrooms for years, creating social and health problems, a condition called "Hikikomori."
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The 2011 earthquake near Japan increased the Earth's rotation speed, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds.
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In Japanese, there are at least 20 different ways to say "sorry."
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There were ancient stone tablets in Japan's 2011 tsunami struck areas with inscriptions "Do not build your homes below this point!".
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In Japan, the leading cause of death for men aged 20 to 44 is suicide.
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The first Frenchman known to visit Japan was imprisoned, tortured and killed because he tried to promote Christianity.
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A Snoopy Museum opened in 2016 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Descendants of Japan's samurai –140 years after the end of the order– remain elites in Japan, research has found.
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In Japan, homosexual relations among Buddhist samurai and clergy were actually quite common.
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During WW2, the Japanese killed more Chinese than the Nazis killed Jews.
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Life-sized dolls outnumber people in the village of Nagoro, Japan.
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In Japan, tipping a server is considered rude.
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Over a quarter of unmarried Japanese males aged 30-40 are virgins.
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In Japan, the likelihood of being killed by a gun is about the same as an American's chance of being killed by lightning.
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The homeless of Tokyo, Japan, sleep in 24-hour Internet cafes, since it's cheaper than paying rent.
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During WW2, Hajimi Fuji volunteered for the kamikaze but was refused because he had a wife and two children. His wife then drowned her two young girls and herself.
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People who cannot afford to live in a house in Hong Kong and Japan take advantage of McDonalds' "doors are always open" policy and live in their restaurants. They are known as "McRefugees."
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Only 4 modern countries were never colonized by Europe: Japan, Korea, Thailand and Liberia.
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The world's oldest fish hooks were found in a cave in Japan, dating from about 23,000 years ago.
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The first time the Japanese people heard their Emperor's voice was when he announced Japan's surrender on the radio during WW2.
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"Kodokushi", meaning "lonely death", is a common Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time.
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In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or "Festival of the Steel Phallus," celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.
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"Death from overwork" is so common in Japan there's even a word for it: Karoshi.
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You can buy eel flavored ice cream in Japan.
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In Japan, there's a museum of rocks that look like faces.
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Japanese Death Row inmates are not told their date of execution. They wake up each day wondering if it might be their last.
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A white American became a Japanese citizen, and successfully sued a business that refused entry to non-Japanese for racial discrimination in 2001, winning US$25,000 in damages.
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The city of Edo formally changed its name to Tokyo, meaning "eastern capital", in 1868.
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There are 80,000 ramen shops throughout Japan.
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There's a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. The check-in desk is an animatronic velociraptor.
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The average height of Japanese men between 1602 and 1867 is estimated at only 5 feet 1 inch (1.54 m).
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The radiation levels at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are so high that the robots sent to remove the plant's melted fuel rods have died.
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Beer cans in Japan have braille on them so blind people don't confuse alcoholic drinks with soft drinks.
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Japan officially recognizes Bitcoin as a method of payment but not as currency.
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Japan's Parasitological Museum is the world's only museum fully dedicated to parasites, hosting a collection of over 45,000 items.
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The average age of Japanese farmers is 70.
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There is a "white man" café in Tokyo, where Japanese ladies ring a bell to summon tuxedo-wearing caucasians who respond with “yes, princess?” and serve them cake.
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Feudal Japan lords purposely built homes with squeaky floors as a defensive measure against ninjas.
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Japan's criminal courts have a 99% conviction rate.
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In 2015, a tiny Tokyo restaurant with only 9 seats became the first ramen restaurant in the world to obtain a Michelin star.
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In Japan, people do not have signatures, they use stamps called Hanko, and every individual in Japan has one.
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In Japan, there are cafes where you can hang out with owls.
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Japan has blue traffic lights in some areas because historically the Japanese used the same word for green and blue.
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The Japanese stock index, Nikkei, hit a high of 38,915 in December 1989, after which it crashed and never recovered.
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Gamblers in Japan are only allowed to bet on horse, boat or cycle races.
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100,000 Japanese disappear without trace every year, many to save their honour after a divorce, job loss, failing an exam or debt.
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Tokyo has been destroyed from earthquakes and tsunamis from 1608 to 1945, on average, once every five years.
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More than half of U.S. troops overseas are stationed in just 4 countries: Japan, Germany, South Korea, and Italy.
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2016 was the first year since 1990 that none of Japan's 4,000 public companies went bankrupt.
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Only 11% of Japanese people are willing to fight for their country, the lowest in the world. In Morocco and Fiji it's 94%.
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Prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.
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On average, the Japanese sleep two hours a night less than the Chinese.
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