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- A can of Coca-Cola costs more than one dollar US
from a vending machine.
- Japanese people, in general, can't drive very well.
- Restaurants in Japan (including many fast-food
places) give you moist towels or wipes before or with your meal.
- At many businesses in Japan, they offer alcohol
to the employees after six pm.
- It is usually mandatory to give a landlord a gift
of money of $1,000-$2000 when moving into his apartment building.
- On Respect for the Aged Day, tobacco companies
will hand out free cigarettes to the elderly outside of train
stations and department stores.
- The Japanese love corn, sesame seeds, and mayonnaise
on their pizza.
- There are no 24 hour ATMs in Japan (closed on holidays
and many only open during normal bank hours).
- Many Japanese teachers think that Japanese parents
are lazy.
- The green traffic light is called "blue".
- Slurp your soup.
- Newspaper editors make their headlines so as to
not attract attention.
- KFC is the place to be on Christmas Day.
- Japan has about 1,500 earthquakes each year.
- In the Japanese language, it is considered rude
to say the word "no" directly.
- It is nearly impossible to become a naturalized
citizen of Japan.
- You can smoke just about anywhere.
- Japanese people take a hot bath every night, some
do not have showers installed in their bathrooms.
- There is no insulation in Japanese homes' walls.
- Japan has roughly 200 volcanoes.
- It is considered rude to show signs of affection
toward a loved one in public.
- When you go to a funeral or a wedding you must
take a gift of money.
- Three words: "heated toilet seats".
- In Japan, flower arranging is an art.
- The new generation of Japanese people are not as
short as Westerners think.
- You can buy batteries, beer, wine, condoms, cigarettes,
comic books, hot dogs, light bulbs, and used women's underwear
from vending machines.
- Many Japanese people eat rice with or for their
breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Never stick your chopsticks upright in your rice.
This is an old Japanese custom and is what is done when food is
offered to the dead. When it is not an offering it is considered
to be a very ill omen.
- In Japan you will find cars by the names of "It's",
"Let's", "Sunny", "Perky", "Gloria", "Move", "Toppo", "Lepo" and
"Dump".
- McDonalds employees will run outside to give you
your drive-thru order.
- The Japanese visit shrines and give eachother money
for New Year's.
- It is impolite to tear the wrapping paper off of
a gift.
- Japanese junior high school students do not need
to pass any of their classes to graduate. Education only through
junior high school is compulsory.
- Young women will hand you toilet paper outside
of train stations.
- There is almost no vandalism in Japan.
- Gas station attendants will bow as the car pulls
out of the station.
- It is socially acceptable to pick your nose in
public and urinate at the side of the road, but you cannot blow
your nose in public.
- Approximately 85% of Japanese people have never
tasted turkey.
- Japan is about the size of California and has half
the population of the entire United States.
- Snowmen in Japan are made of two large snowballs
instead of three.
- It will always take one to two hours for a pizza
to be delivered.
- There is at least one vending machine on every
corner.
- All you ever wanted to know about the world's largest
phallus festival can be found here.
- It is not uncommon to pay $2 for a single apple.
- The sun is red in Japan and the country itself
is referred to by Japanese people as "the land of the rising
sun"
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