Monday, September 24, 2007

Interesting facts about Japan

Interesting facts about Japan
Japan has an interesting tea culture worth exploring, and tea worth trying

Japan is divided into nine large regions and further divided into 47 smaller prefectures
Japan has the seventh largest population in the world
You can catch a train to and from Nagoya every 15 minutes

You can catch a subway train every three minutes in Nagoya
The Shinkansen (bullet train) passes Kris and Jessica’s house every fifteen minutes

The Japanese know more about American politics than Americans do

The life expectancy of the Japanese is the longest in the world.

Japan has an incredibly high rate of smokers (about 60%), and cigarettes can be bought in venidng machines which can be found all over the place.
Japan has 53 working nuclear reactors and is planning to build another 12 ...

Japan has about 1500 earthquakes each year

Did you know that it is considered quite rude to blow your nose in public?