Thursday, May 15, 2008

Facts about Japan: Quick Facts about Japanese culture video

Quick Japanese culture video:

Facts about Japan:Zen Garden

Transport to Japan to experience some beautiful Japanese meditation melody acompanied by traditional Japanese scenery. The music is acompanied by inspirational quotes, many of which are Japanese proverbs.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Facts about Japan:Japan traditional food

Over the centuries the Japanese have evolved a refined and tasteful cuisine extremely sensitive to the times of year.Nowadays Japanese enjoy a mixture of traditional Japanese food, including the basics of rice and miso soup, also equally a lot of seafood (sushi and sashimi for example)
sushi
Japanese culinary art personifies its environment and populate. The easiness of getting fresh components led to sushi, high temperature and humidness led to assortments of preserved food like umeboshi,natto, tsukemono and soja sauce.A few good example of traditionalistic Japanese food are Sushi, Soba and ‘Modern’ is specified as specifically Japanese, but converted or influenced by western civilization. A couple of good examples of moderne Japanese fast food restaurant are Mos Burger,and Yoshinoya.
MOS Burger
Japanese food is often adverted in connection with a healthy diet because of the large quantity of fish and vegetables and it become a popular type of health food n the U.S. and Europe.


Cooking method of Japanese Traditional food Kansai Style OKONOMI-YAKI:

Friday, May 9, 2008

Facts about Japan:Map of Japan

Individual Placements

Facts about Japan:Funny Japan videos

Funny Japan videos
Japanese bear the repute of being a serious ethnic society that honours traditional values and has a serious, moderate approach to living. Japanese would surely profit in if they could loosen a little more, accept life little less seriously and make fun of themselves like they do in this funny videos:

Funny Japan Commercial:


A collection of hilarious pranks from Japanese TV:


Japanese crazy taxi extreme prank:


Funny Japanese game show - marshmallow eating:


MAtrix Ping Pong:

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Facts about japan:Capsule hotel

Capsule's Hotels in Japan
Capsule Hotel

A Brand-new trend in Japan are extremely small hotel rooms, configured for Japanese business people. The capsules in these "tube hotels" measure just two square meters and one meter tall.

Nearly all of the capsules are for men, and just few for women.
Each capsule unit has a television, radio set, alarm clock and adaptable lighting and each of these devices may be controlled while laying down, as if you were in a spacecraft.

Inside view of the capsule:

capsule hotel

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Facts about earthquakes in Japan

Japan earthquake facts

• Japan,is located along the “circle of fire” arc of volcanoes and sea ditches that partly surrounds the Pacific Basin, accounts for almost twenty pct of the earths quakes of magnitude six or bigger.
• A earth tremor happens in Japan at the least every five minutes, and every year there are up to 2,000 earthquakes that can be sensed by inhabit.
• The Great Kanto earthquake of September 1, 1923, which had a order of magnitude of 7.9, killed more than one hundred forty,000 people in the Japanese capital area. Seismologists have told another such earthquake could smash the city at any time.
• Jan 16, 1995, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 smash central Japanese Islands, crushing the western port urban center of Kobe. It was the most intense quake to strike Japanese Islands in fifty years, killing more than 6,400 and causing an estimated $100 billion in damage.
• Oct twenty-three, 2004, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake affected the Niigata area, about 250 km in the north of Japanese capital, killing sixty-five citizenry and hurting 3,000.
• March 25, 2007, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake affected the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, approximately three hundred km west of Japanese capital, killing one-man, wounding additional 200 and destructing hundreds of houses.
•The Tokio metropolitan authorities stated in March 2006 that a magnitude 7.3 quake below Tokyo would likely kill more than 5,600 citizenry and injure nearly 160,000. Official estimations of economical damage suffer more than $1 trillion.
• The Tokyo-Yokohama area, with a population of 35 million, bears the highest evaluation by earthy disasters such as quakes of any of the world’s 30 “megacities”, the report stated.

Earthquake in Niigata and Nagano in Japan 2007 July 16 video:

Friday, September 28, 2007

Facts bout the Japan imperial house

The imperial house

Japan has the royal family preceded by Emperor, but along the current constitution he carries out only the festive duty and there he has no power,not even in emergencies. Japaneses of emperor defines like the symbol of state and national unity. Akihito is current and 125. emperor of Japan. Has taken over the power after deaths his father Hirohita 7. January 1989. and officially become 125. ruler of Japan 12. November 1990. His son apparent heir to the throne Prince Naruhito has married Masako Owada and have got the girl, Princess Aiko.

Facts about climate in Japan

Facts about climate in Japan

Japan has the moderate climate and 4 marked seasons, but because of the endlessness from the north south wobbles varies from the region to the region final north has hibernated chilly, while the final south has the subtropical climate. On the climate aside from this influence season winds which blow with the continent towards the ocean hibernates and in the reverse direction during the summer. The late June and early July are the rainy period (besides in Hokkaido), when above the Japan finds the season rainy front (baiu zensen). In the late summer and early autumn from tropical troughs above the equator develop typhoons and often pass from the southwest northeast, bearing abundant rain. The geographical diversity of Japan he divides in 6 main climatic areas: * Hokkaido: Has the moderate climate with long, cold winters and fresh summers. Precipitation are not abundant, but hibernates on islands usually amasses enough the snow. * the Japanese sea: North-westerner hibernates brings full of snow. During the summer is the region colder from Pacific areas, but sometimes are temperatures extremely high because of the phenomenon of hair dryer, warm wind. * Central highground (Chuo-Kochi): The typical continental climate, with large temperature differences between the summer and hibernates these between are given and spends the night. There is no full downfalls. * the Seto of internal nightmare (the Seto-naikai): Mountains in Chugoku and Shikoku to the regions stop season winds, this coming into being the fine weather through the whole year. * the Pacific Ocean: Has the cold winter with the small snow and hot, damp summer because of the south-east season wind. * Nausei-shoto (Ryu Kyu) or South-west islands: Has the subtropical climate with warm winters and hot summers. Precipitation are abundant, especially in the rainy season.
Frequent is typhoons; in 2004. year to the island has come the record 10 typhoon.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Facts about Japan population

Facts about Japan population
Japaneses.-Nation is settled in the Japan on north-Pacific islands Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu,
Shikoku, and Okinawa. On islands lives across 120,000,000 the member this Etna-linguistic isolated nation, but they have been listed in more the 38 state. Most they have out the Japan in: United States (1,340,000), South Korea (952,000), Brazil (403,000), Peru (129,000), and in other states along a few tens of thousands; on Falkland to the islands (the 20 member). Japaneses are himself and all language through the history develops without some influences sideways, what they along the culture, customs and language do different from other groups. Along the faith they are mainly the mahayana-Buddhists (54 %), some they have christened and around 11 % irreligious.

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?


Facts about Tokyo Japan

Facts about Tokyo Japan

Tokyo,harbor and capital of Japan, narrower area 8 021 500, expand the 26 950 000 inhabitant (the populous town on the world). 10 % Japaneses lives in him, and 20 % in areas around cares. Tokyo is the centre of the Japanese and Asian trades and industry.
Lies in Tokijskom to the bay, on the middle part of east coast of island Honshu, on the mouth of a river Sumida.
Tokyo on Japanese means the " East capital ". Becomes the capital of Japan in the middle of 19. centuries, when him name have been changed from " Edo " in the " Tokyo ". Before this, capital of Japan has been Kyoto.
After the disastrous earthquake 1923. has started the building of modern Tokyo along the American model with spacial streets and skyscrapers. Tokyo divides on Lower (Chitamachi) and Uptown (Yamahote). Between these two parts finds does not take care town essences. Americans have bombed the Tokyo in the World War II, but again modern has been built.
Tokyo has been the host of Olympics 1964.


Facts about the population of Japan

Facts about the population of Japan

Population of Japan is about 125,000,000, has included approximately two million foreign residents. More than the half of Japanese population is not the Korean lowering.

0-14 years: 14.5% (male 9,465,282; female 8,999,888)
15-64 years: 67.5% (male 43,027,320; female 42,586,112)
65 years and over: 18% (male 9,664,112; female 13,231,914) (2002 est.)


10 facts about Japan

10 facts about Japan

fact no.1. Japanese names their country “the Nippon”, which means “the source suns”.
fact no.2. Japan is the island nation with yearns the 3400 km from the north south beside the east part of Asian continent. It has taken 4 large islands (Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku), and about 900 smaller islands and has the total area 372.6 the thousand sq the km.
fact no.3. Japan has volcanoes and destructive earthquake. Earthquake has been the huge wave, tsunami that has imposed in seasides.
fact no.4. In the meaning of the number of populations are 125 million men, country is sixth largest around the world. By one sq the km area in the Japan is on the aisle 340 men.
fact no.5. In the Japan, exist eighth towns with the population overflow one million men. It is, first of all, capital countries which is one largest towns around the world, Tokyo, which is 8,323 the thousand and suburbans 11373 thousandth men.
fact no.6. Japan is the country from “the economic miracle”. One such books are the method Agricultures: in spite of the very small area cultivable country, Japan collects high discounts rices, tea, potatoes, fruit, seeds and tobacco.
fact no.7. Japan is world largest automotive and color television sets.
fact no.8. The Japanese life for many centuries have been the rice production. Generally has believed that the Japanese family and rural community with his origin co-operative has formed as required has been driven from the culture of rice cultivation.
fact no.9. Sakura is the national pride of Japan. This tree blossoms in the late March or the early April. She has adored, those groves, tear, like any other flowers around the world. In a holiday mood the well-off contest are one oldest Japanese rites.
fact no.10. Most and most glorious mountain by the Japan is Fujiyama (elevation 3,776 measures).

Fast facts about Japan

Fast facts about Japan

Japan (??, Nippon/Nihon, literal " Earth where comes out the sun " or the " Earth of rising sun " i.e. the shortened " source suns ") the country in the east Asia has been placed on the chain of island east from the Asian continent, on the west edge of Pacific ocean. Largest islands with the north south are: Hokkaido, Honshu, (the largest island), Shikoku and Kyushu. Preponderance of smaller islands surround this four, as well as groups of distant islands Okinawa.
The Japanese word for the Japan is Nippon or Nihon, and the full name is Nihon but the Hen and literally means the " Earth where comes out the sun ".
The alone word comes from the Chinese language and word Jih Pen. The Japanese name Nippon uses in official purposes, including: money, small stamps and international sport events. Nihon periodically uses in the Japan.
The early mandarin Chinese word for the Japan has registered Marco Polo like Cipangu. Nevertheless, Cantonese name for the Japan, from which probably is born the word Japan, is Jatbun. In Malay Cantonese word becomes Japang and with this word are meet Portuguese tradesmen in Malacci in the 16 century Considers that are Portuguese tradesmen bring this word in the Europe. This word first time has been registered in the England 1577. annual ring. in the grammatical orthography like Giapan. In the England official name is the " Japan ". Before whole titles utters a sound the " Japanese empire ". The official Japanese name is Nihonkoku ???), " State Japan ". The state name does comprise from signs "?" (the pronunciation " Neither ", does what mean is given or the sun) and "?" (the pronunciation " Hon " what means the source or the root). The Japanese flag officially is called Hello but the Diligence i.e. the sun disc.