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WorksheetsJapan: Culture & History
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 17mins
Japan is an island nation located in...
East Asia
West Asia
South Asia
North Asia
How many MAIN islands Japan consist of?
3
4
5
6
What is the tallest mountain in Japan?
Mount Everest
Mount Fuji
Mount Sakurajima
Mount Kilimanjaro
The capital of Japan...
Nagasaki
Okinawa
Tokyo
Osaka
What is the largest main island in Japan?
Tokyo
Hokkaido
Honshu
Kyushu
Japan is an archipelago, which means...
A large peninsula
A sheltered group of islands
A long chain of islands
Mountainous islands
The red circle on the Japanese flag represents...
A unity circle
the circle of life
the Shinto concept of Kami
A sun without rays
The currency of Japan...
Yen
Yuan
Rupiah
Rupee
Japan's government is a(n)...
Absolute Monarchy
Constitutional Monarchy
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
The Head of Government in Japan is the...
Emperor
President
King
Prime Minister
The two main religions in Japan...
Hindu and Buddhism
Buddhism and Daoism
Shinto and Buddhism
Shinto and Christianity
Which religion believes that all aspects of nature have spiritual energy called kamis?
Zen Buddhism
Shintoism
Daoism
Hinduism
Japan's first civilization started 12,000 years ago and became known as the __________ culture.
Jomon
Yamato
Yayoi
Chinese
The period of time between the 12th and 18th centuries when the samurais ruled is known as...
the Japanese dynasty
ancient Japan
feudal Japan
the Japanese Renaissance
Shinobi is the Japanese word for ______, who existed about 600 years ago.
Ninja
Samurai
Geisha
Emperor
The women who are Japan's highly skilled traditional entertainers are called .....
dancers
geishas
samurais
performers
Can you wear shoes into a Japanese home?
YES
NO
Which of these pictures is a National sport in Japan?
Main food source in Japan:
Beef
Pork
Fish
Duck
Which of the following is NOT a typical Japanese food?
Sushi
Ramen
Pho
Onigri
The Japanese sided with _____ and _____ during WWII
Italy; Germany
United States; France
Great Britain; Germany
France; Great Britain
Hiroshima and Nakasaki were hit with the atomic bomb in...
1935
1945
1955
1965
Which country occupied Japan after WWII?
Great Britain
France
United States
Russia
What was the original Gojira, or Godzilla, supposed to represent?
wars
tsunamis
nuclear weapons
earthquakes
The strongest magnitude earthquake ever recorded in Japan happened in...
March 1991
March 2001
March 2011
March 2021
Tokyo is the most populated city on earth.
True
False
Manga stories are read from...
left to right
right to left
bottom to top
the upper left corner to the lower right corner
A popular slot machine game in Japan...
Pinball
Donkey Kong
Robotron
Pachinko
Before Japan's capital was Tokyo, it was...
Kyoto
Osaka
Nagasaki
Yokohama
Which Japanese island has the highest number of centenarians than anywhere else in the world?
Honshu
Kyushu
Okinawa
Hokkaido
The writing system, _______, comes from Chinese and uses thousands of different pictograms to describe meaning.
Romanji
Kanji
Hiragana
Katakana
True or False: Over 98% of Japan's population are ethnic Japanese, sometimes referred to as Yamato.
True
False
Maneki neko are symbols of...
good luck
dreams fulfilled
messages from spirits
ancestors who have passed on
