Random Japan Facts

In Japan, slurping loudly while eating noodles shows that the food is delicious. It's actually considered rude not to slurp!

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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."

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Japan has a network of "melody roads" that play music as you drive over them at the correct speed.

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Japan's Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.

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In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.

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Most Japanese schools don't have dedicated janitors. Instead, children do the daily cleaning, which originated from the Buddhist traditions that associate cleaning with morality.

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Japanese engineers were asked to redesign the front end of the Bullet Train because it carried enough speed to create a sonic boom whenever it exited a tunnel. Residents could feel the blast from miles away.

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According to a Japanese poll in the year 2000, the Japanese believe that their best invention of the twentieth century was instant noodles.

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