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• Ages 6 to 15 do three years of kindergarten, 6 years of elementary school, and 3 years of lower secondary school.

• Most students take afterschool classes.

• Some school uniform codes require boys to shave their heads.

• The schools start in April and end in March, and they have short breaks in between.







• School is important to Japanese people.

• Japanese people want to get good grades.

• Japanese people work hard to get into good high schools.

• School is so important that the government pays for school.



• To get better grades they take Juku (Private class).

• 8th and 9th graders do 6 to 7 hours of Juku.

• Practice characters (words) a lot.

• Have more classes (origami class).







• tatami mats : made of straw

• television and telephone

• low tables and sliding panels

• tokonoma : altar showing the beauty of nature




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• take off their shoes by the door

• sleep on futons and eat at low tables

• on farms the whole family works together

• The father goes to work the mother can too or stay home to care for young



• In cities people are more likely to live in apartments

• In the country people are more likely to live in houses

• Farms in the country

• In cities they have no farms







• They are very colorful and have lots of patterns

• A traditional kimono is held in place by a belt called an obi

• Men usually wear plain kimonos.





• Japanese people wear kimonos for festivals

• Children wear uniforms to school

• For everyday they wear modern clothes





• Kids usually have one or two siblings

• Japanese kids usually work way harder than kids in the

U.S.

• Japanese love video games and T.V.







• By age of 10,children are expected to start acting like adults

• children do chores at home and school

• often both parents work



• Traffic Jams

• Subways, cars, walk, airplanes

• 72 million cars and trucks on the road

• 400 planes come and go from Tokyo each day







- Bullet train.

- People get shoved cause there’s not enough room for everyone.

- The bullet train is the fastest train in the world.

- It goes through underwater tunnels.







- Yen is money.

- Japan is very expensive.

- You should save your money if you live in Japan.

- A 5 yen dollar looks like a donut.


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• Japanese banks are very large

• They have the largest stock exchange on earth

• Securities are very successful

• Motor vehicles include Toyota and Hyundai



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• Electronics for motor vehicles, semi conductors

• Foods: rice, sugar, beets, vegetables, fruits

• Minerals: zinc, copper, limestone, manganese, tin, silver

• Major manufactures: Telecommunication equipment

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• Natural resources don’t meet the country’s needs, therefore fishing is important

• Fish and rice are main foods

• Farming is big in the economy

• Rice farms are all over Japan

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• Rice in every meal

• Rice with vegetables, fish, meat

• Onigiri rice balls wrapped in seaweed

• Type of sushi has egg on top







• food is often fried,boiled or broiled

• also eat a lot of raw food

• fish,chicken and pork are good together

• cooked with vegetables in soy sauce



• grown by farmers

• in flooded places

• on island of Honshu

• grown in fields



• People hang fish steamers everywhere

• People celebrate health and happiness for kids

• It is on May 5th


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• Bean throwing day: Throw beans outside the house

• Girl’s Day: Doll festival

• Obon: Celebrates the dead







• It is called Sho Gatsu

• It is the most important holiday

• Ring temple bells

• Exchange gifts


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• Drink tea

• Observe nature in garden

• People feel peaceful







• Shinto means the way of gods

• People who follow Shinto believe that the gods watch over nature

• Shinto is one of the main religions in Japan

• Shinto was the original religion in Japan







• Zen Buddhism is a big group.

• People study the teachings of the holy man Buddha.

• People drink tea in a quiet garden to become more peaceful and respectful.

• The most important three ideas of Buddhism are the Buddha, the Dahmma and the Sangha.These are called the three jewels





• There is a Shinto shrine in most peoples’ homes

• People walk by statues of the Buddha every day

• Children say the names of the three jewels, and at the same time they make offerings.

• Most people are baptized and married in a Shinto shrine and buried in a Buddhist temple






• Ikebana is flower arranging

• It means “living flowers”

• Floral art was reserved for men

• Rock gardens are rocks that are decorated and symbolize things.

• In the Japanese language there are 1,850 written characters.

• Pop music is a big part of Japan culture.







• Bunraka puppets are beautiful

• It takes three puppeteers to work each bunraka puppet

• Shows are mostly in parks, markets, and theaters


• The tokonoma is a beautiful spot in a house

• The tokonoma contains a painting and flowers

• The tokonoma is to show nature





• Japanese like swimming, boating,and hiking

• the most popular team sport is baseball

• shogi is a popular board game

• in the winter they go skiing

• pachinko is a favorite game: is like pinball with thousands of balls

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• Judo you try to defend your self

• karate

• kendo is a type of fencing






• Wrestlers weigh more than 300 pounds

• Sumo can do the splits

• There are six matches per year

• Wrestling has been around for 1500 years







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