80 is not too well-known facts about Japan
In Japan, Valentine's Day show sympathy and give gifts to the girl. Do not tell what is connected with
this tradition, but today it serves an important social function: allows girls to say "yes" without waiting for a Japanese man typed the courage to approach her.
2 In Japan, cheap fish and meat, but very expensive fruit. An apple costs two dollars, five bunches of bananas. The most expensive fruit melon cultivar such as our "torpedo" in Tokyo will cost hundreds of dollars.
3 In Japan, pornography is sold absolutely everywhere. Each combinations (grocery store), at the front with the press are bound to have a separate shelf with hentai. In small bookstores hentai is one third of the entire range, a large book under pornography is given 2-3 floors.
4 Hentai allowed to freely sell to minors.
5 Two of the most popular subgenre of hentai - the violence and sex with minors.
6 Wrap in cover, hentai quietly reading on the subway.
7 In Japan subway and JR have cars just for women. They are attached in the morning to rush hour, no one molested girls. Japanese voyeurs and feeling girls packed trains - something like a national sport.
8 In this case, in Japan one of the lowest percent rape world. Five times less than in Russia. I thought it important to note that after all I said above.
9 Most Japanese characters consist of 2-4 syllables, but there are amazing exceptions. For example character 砉 read as "hanetokavatogahanareruoto" is thirteen syllables! Describes the sound made by separating the flesh from the bone.
10 The question of honor continues to play a central role in Japan, even in politics. Last Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned after being unable to fulfill a campaign promise (sic!). Two of his predecessors, too.
11 Japan is a small country, but there are a lot of all the biggest. Here is the most expensive amusement park in the world of Disney Sea, four of the ten highest roller coaster. In Tokyo, the most advanced metro system in the world, is the largest railway hub and the largest Mixed pedestrian intersection.
12 In Japan, snowmen made sculpt strictly two balls instead of three, as in the rest of the world. And then the Japanese excelled.
13 Colonel Sanders is one of the main symbols of Christmas in Japan, as Coca-Cola in the United States. On Christmas Eve, the Japanese love the whole family to go to KFC and eat a large portion of chicken wings.
14 In Japan, still 30% of weddings occur as a result of organization of parents and matchmaking Smotrin お 見 合 い (Omya).
15 In all the northern cities of Japan, where it snows in winter, heated sidewalks and streets. Of ice does not happen, and to remove the snow is not necessary. Very convenient!
16 At the same time in Japan, there is no central heating. Each apartment warms as you can.
17 The Japanese language has a word 過 労 死 (Karoshi), meaning "death from pereutruzhdeniya."On average, each year with this diagnosis die ten thousand people. Directed studio "Ghibli" Ёsifumi Kondo, author of my favorite the whisper of the heart died with this diagnosis.
18 In Japan, one of the most liberal of tobacco laws. Smoking is allowed everywhere except in the railway platforms and airports.
19 Japan - the last country in the world, formally retained the title of the Empire.
20 The Japanese imperial dynasty has never been interrupted. The reigning Emperor Akihito today - a direct descendant of the first emperor Jimmu, Japan founded in 711 BC.
21 This year Japan celebrated in 2671.
22 The Japanese are always talking about food, and when they eat, then discuss how they like to treat. Dinner without saying a few times "oishii" (delicious) is very rude.
23 In general, the Japanese love of repetition. When do girls, this is considered to be kawaii.
24 In Japanese, is simultaneously used three kinds of writing: Hiragana (syllabic writing system for Japanese words), Katakana (syllabic system to record the borrowing of words) and Kanji (hieroglyphics). From the mind drives, yes.
25 In Japan, there are no guest workers. This is achieved by a simple law: the minimum wage, which is allowed to hire foreign workers in Japan, more than the average salary of a Japanese labor.Thus, for highly paid professionals in the way the country is still open, and unskilled labor is not a newcomer Damping salary locals. Solomonic solution.
26 More than half of the railways in Japan are private. Non-state carriers are responsible for 68% of all rail traffic of the country.
27 Hirohito was never removed from power after the war, he led the Reformation and propravil until 1989. Hirohito's birthday a national holiday and is celebrated every April 29.
28 Mount Fuji is privately owned. In sintaistskom temple Hong Seng remained donation of 1609, which gave Shogun mountain possession of the temple. In 1974, the authenticity of the dedication confirmed Supreme Court of Japan, and then had no choice but to transfer the ownership of the temple mount. Because ownership in Japan nezyblimo.
29 Japanese language consists of several levels of politeness: conversational, respectful, polite and very polite. Women almost always speak in a respectful form of language spoken by men.
30 Seven percent of the male population of Japan - Hikkikomori. Seven !!!
31 In the Japanese language in months do not have names, but instead shows the number. For example in September this 九月 (kugatsu), which means "the ninth month."
32 Before Japan opened up the west, the only word to describe the word romantic sympathy 恋 (koi), literally meaning "an irresistible attraction to something unattainable."
Japan 33 mono-ethnic country, 98.4% of the population are ethnic Japanese.
34 In Japan, prisoners have no right to vote.
35 In Japan, eating dolphins. Of these, make soup, cook kusiyaki (Japanese barbecue), even eaten raw. At the dolphin meat is quite tasty, with a clearly marked taste and completely unlike the fish.
36 In Japanese, there is practically no personal pronouns, and the words that are sometimes used as pronouns, are still at least one value. In Russian, for example, the pronoun "I" does not mean anything other than "I", and in Japanese 私 (vatashi I) is also a "private and personal"; 貴 方 (Anata you) - "my lord." Use "Anata" politely only when we first met, and then to the other party made contact by name or by position.
37 Tokyo is the safest metropolitan area in the world. Tokyo is so safe that six years old children on their own using public transport. It's fantastic actually.
Outside world 38 Japanese consider very dangerous and are afraid to travel. So familiar to Japanese once asked me not too dangerous it will be one stop in the area of Kensington Gardens in London.The most dangerous country they consider the United States.
Ninth Article 39 of the Japanese Constitution prohibits the country to have its own army and fought in the war.
40 In Japan, the academic year begins on the first of April and is divided into trimesters. Students learn from April to July, then September to December and from January to March.
41 In Japan, there are no garbage cans, since all the trash is recycled. Waste can be divided into four types: glass, burned, processed and burnt debris. Each type of waste are taken on a certain day and it can be disposed of only by strictly allotted numbers. For violation of procedures largest fine in my house is one hundred thousand yen (about a thousand dollars).
42 On the streets of the urns as well not at all, only special tanks for the collection of bottles.Illustrative example of what clean where no crap.
43 In Japan, a very low pensions. Maximum social benefits needy elderly is 30,000 yen, it's somewhere hundreds of dollars. Mandatory pension insurance as not, it is assumed that every Japanese itself should take care of their old age.
44 Godzilla (Japanese Godzira) is not a random name. This portmonto word "gorilla" and "Kudzira" (whale). One can only guess how they have crossed that turned reptile.
45 In Japan very expensive transport, the cheapest metro ticket will cost 140 yen (50 rubles).
46 In Japan, always the first to serve men. The restaurant leaves man first order, and bring him to the first drink. The shops always start with a healthy man.
47 The Japanese drive big cars. City car is impossible to meet, even in Tokyo close, but a lot of jeeps.
48 For all the time in Japan, I did not see any toilet without heating stulchaka and with less than 10 Nuber buttons. A recently discovered that I have a toilet at home can make a sound of flowing water to cover, uh, own sounds.
49 In Japan, everyone knows that Hello Kitty was born in England.
50 In Japan, categorically not taken a tip. It is believed that as long as the customer pays for the service assigned to the price, he remains with the seller on an equal footing. If the customer tries to leave extra money, he thereby devalues provides the service / product snizvodya equal exchange to handouts.
Over 51 year life in Japan, I have never encountered racism against themselves. In my opinion, it's very cool.
52 Japan the best country in the world.
53 The Japanese MTV goes the popular TV series Usavich, cartoon about two rabbits, Putin and Kiriyenko, trying to survive in a police state.
54 The age of consent in Japan - 13 years.
55 Japan three times England. Area of 374,744 km ² Japan, England 130,410 km square kilometers.
56 Japan is often cited as an example of overpopulated country. In fact, the population density of Japan only 360 people per square kilometer. This is less than in England, where per square kilometer 383 people.
57 In Japanese, the word "wrong" and "different" are designated by the same word 違 う (Cigala).
58 In Japan, accustomed things that twenty years ago seemed to be the future, and now leaves the country retrofuturistichnoe experience. Automatic doors in the cab machines that sold everything from fruit, to soups, to the wearing of pants. Trains fantastic shape and ridiculous fashion. All this is very cool.
59 The Japanese word 御 来 光 (gorayko), describes the rise as seen from Mount Fuji. In Japan many capacious words.
60 Hitler admired the integrity of the Japanese nation and called them "honorary Aryans". In South Africa, the apartheid era Japanese only were not affected in their rights, as they were considered "honorary whites."
61 In Japanese phones integrated emergency alert system of the nation. When there is some cataclysm, all phones triggered a loud signal (even if the sound is disabled) and an error message explaining what happened and how to behave.
62 In Japan, there is no looting. If you enter in Google "looting in japan", it can only be found tens of thousands of startled foreigners who can not understand why the Japanese do not loot the empty house.
63 The Japanese almost do not speak English, but using a fantastic amount of Anglicisms. Alex Case tried to make a list, counted more than 5000 words, and he was tired to continue (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) This Japanese pronunciation distorts them so that we can not hope to understand them, or that you will understand if you pronounces the word with the original accent.
64 Few people know that the word "wool", "Pollock" and "iwashi" borrowed from the Japanese.About the "tsunami" and "typhoon", think they know everything.
65 The Japanese also is borrowing from the Russian. Words イ ク ラ "ikura; caviar "and ノ ル マ" Norum; the norm. " There is still a funny expression "ヴ · ナ ロ ー ド" "woo people; to the people ", it is inherited from Alexander II.
66 In Japan, there is the death penalty. Last year in Japan, eight were executed criminals. In the last two executions attended by the Minister of Justice of Japan.
67 In Japan, the lowest homicide rate and the lowest rate of violent crimes per 100 thousand. Among all the analyzed countries. Here, the highest life expectancy in the world.
68 Tokyo is one of the largest gay areas in the world of Shinjuku Ni-chome-. There is the biggest concentration of gay bars in the world.
69 Japanese and Chinese characters are one and the same. There are regional differences in Chinese characters and more in a simplified form, they are written differently. But knowing Japanese can understand the general meaning of the Chinese signs.
70 Instead of a signature in Japan pose a special name stamp hanko. This print is in every Japanese, and it is used many times a day. Yet it can be bought in any store.
71 Japan is the only country in the world, where the criterion of delay is considered minute train abroad.
72 In Japan, it is considered impolite to open a gift in the presence of the giver. Thank him, and then set aside to open alone.
73 The Japanese believe that people should be able to hide the pain behind a smile. There is even a saying 顔 で 笑 っ て 心 で 泣 く (Cao de varatte kokoro de Nuku; smile while suffering inside).
74 The Japanese nation is very fond of people. If they are doing something, you tend to complete authenticity. So, in all French bakeries Japanese inscriptions are in French. The Italian zhelaterii ice cream will be signed in the Italian and Spanish restaurant menu is in Spanish. In English, while there will be nothing. Sometimes it seems that for them it's just "another European language."
75 In Japan, strictly blyudёtsya ownership, so here there are dozens of companies with more than a thousand years of history. Eg hotel Hoshi Rёkan continuously operating since 718 years. She manages the same family for over 46 generations (sic!).
76 Tanuki - Japanese wayward beasts, werewolves, bringing happiness and prosperity. Their eggs - a traditional symbol of good luck. In the canonical very happy tanuki area of eggs must be equal to 8 tatami, it is 12 meters. In case of trouble, they bear their punishment. The studio Ghibli is a wonderful cartoon about them Pom Poko, look.
77 Two-thirds of Japan is covered with forests. In Japan banned Commercial felling own forest, but it consumes 40% of the wood that is produced in tropical forests.
78 for 10 years, from 1992 to 2002, Japan was the largest donor of international aid in the world.This is the way to all who are now gloating over the Japanese disaster.
79 When the conductor enters the next express train wagon, it certainly removes hat and bows, and only then begins to check the tickets.
80 In Japan, failed a third way, which we have long been looking for and can not find. Here is a unique organization of society: on the one hand completely Western rule of law, on the other distinctive culture that lives not only tradition, but is constantly evolving. I do not understand why no one in Russia is studying the Japanese experience.
