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20 facts about Japan
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1. Raw horse meat - a popular dish in Japan. Thinly sliced meat called basashi.
2. More than 70% of the territory of Japan is mountainous. There are about twenty volcanoes.
3. Japanese Melons sell for $ 300.
4. Literacy in Japan almost 100%.
5. Here you can find vending machines, pour beer!
6. The Japanese average life expectancy four years longer than Americans. Perhaps the Americans should eat more basashi!
7. Some Japanese shaved his head in apology.
8. In Japan, the lowest suicide rate.
9. The Japanese are proud of the 15 Nobel laureates in chemistry, medicine and physics.
10. There is a tradition - a young sumo wrestlers wash veterans, including all the hard to reach places.
11. Unemployment in Japan is only 4%.
12. Japan consists of a huge number of islands.
13. In Japan, the popular film «Tetsuo: The Iron Man" in the cyberpunk style, in which the high technological development is adjacent to a deep social stratification, poverty, injustice, lawlessness street in urban slums.
14. The Paleolithic culture existed about 30 000 years BC. e. It was the first mention of the people of Japan.
15. Japanese filmmaker Takahi Miike in a decade at the peak of glory took about fifty movies.
16. Japanese anime is about 60% of the world of animation. And so popular in the country, that there are up to 130 training and production centers anime voiceover.
17. Residents venerable age in the country of 21% is the highest proportion in the world. In the recent years it was found that many of the "oldest old" are actually long dead, but the number of caring relatives among the living, regularly receiving a pension.
18. In the past, the judicial system has very high degree of conviction, up to 99%. In our time, this index decreased slightly.
19. According to Japanese prison in 2003 were running at 117%!
20. Raised floors at different levels help to determine when to take off his shoes, put on or take off slippers. At the entrance to the house floor is usually raised by about 15 cm, which means that you need to take off his shoes and put on slippers. If there is a room with tatami floor there are raised by 2 cm - 5 cm, which indicates that you need to remove the slippers.
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