Japan

Japan

Popular food

Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.

Mountains

More than 70% of Japan consists of mountains, including more than 200 volcanoes.

Coffee

Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.

Literacy rate

Japan's literacy rate is almost 100%.

The largest automobile producer

Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world.

Geisha

Geisha means "person of the arts" and the first

geisha were actually men.

Sport

Sumo is Japan's national sport, although baseball is

also very popular.

•Vending machines in Japan sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, and other items.

•Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.

•There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.

•Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the world's largest fish market.•Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain

forest timber.

•It was customary in ancient Japan for women to blacken their teeth with dye as white teeth were considered ugly. This practice persisted until the late 1800's.