JAPAN

Japanese Foods

Have you ever wanted to know all about

Japanese foods? I will tell you about

Japanese diet, staples, and about their

meals. Have you ever wondered what

meat and potatoes were like in Japan?

This paragraph is all about the most

complex and some of the simplest

meals. Japanese food is an interesting

topic.

This will tell you about Japanese diet,

staples, and meals. The Japanese diets

are based on rice and noodles. Japanese

people eat three meals a day. While

breakfast and dinner are heavy meals,

lunch is a lighter meal. Tofu is used a lot

and can be served hot, cold, sweet,

salted, solid, or liquid, and is a Japanese

staple.

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Meat and vegetables are popular here,

and in Japan. Gyudon is a bowl filled

with meat, and nikujaga is a lot like meat

and potatoes. Wasabi is like Japanese

horse radish. Grated daikon is shredded

radish and is used a lot in salads. Lots of

vegetables are marinated and deep fried

in age-batashi.

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This paragraph is all about complex and

simple meals. Okonomiyaki is a lot like a

pancake with your favorite toppings.

Tsukemono or umeboshi are pickles, and

are served with practically every

traditional meal. Rice porridge is called

okayu or kayu in Japan, and is served a

lot in breakfast. Hiyayakka is chilled tofu

served with various toppings.

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Know you know all about Japanese

foods. You learned about Japanese diet,

staples, and meals. You learned about

Japanese meat and vegetables. You

learned about simple and complex

meals. You now know everything there is

to know about Japanese foods.

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Sports have been important to the

Japanese for more than 1,000 years and

more people are starting to do them,

here some Japan is known for. Japanese’

favorite team sport is baseball; in which

Japan have really good players. Sumo

wrestling is a sport Japanese have been

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The most popular team sport team sport

in Japan is baseball. Baseball in Japan is

played at all levels including elementary,

high school, adult social clubs, to the

major leagues. There are 12 professional

baseball teams, six in the Central league,

and six in the Pacific league. The teams

in each league play about 140 games

each during the season, at the end of

which the two

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Martial arts still thrives today from

people still practicing it today.

Traditional martial arts include judo,

kendo, karate-do, and aikido. Martial art

has different levels in all the types of

forms it has such as judo or kendo. Many

popular leisure activities, such as sumo,

judo, and kendo are important to the

Japanese. Martial arts

are really important

to their culture.

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Sumo is Japan’s national sport and has a

history of more than 1,000 years. As it

used to be held as a way of giving thanks

for harvests. Sumo is two large men up

to 594 pounds try to throw each other to

the ground or out of the small dirt ring.

A sumo wrestler or also called Rakish

weighs over 286 pounds. Sumo wrestling

is still done today Since Sumo wrestling

has been practiced a long time and has

become as it was

1,500 years ago.

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important are sports fans to Japan and

how are some players treated? Over

15million fans attend baseball games

each year. Since Japan’s own

professional soccer league. The league

founded in 1993 and soccer has won

more and more fans in Japan. The best

baseball players are treated like stars,

like top athletes all over the world.

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Culture and Religion in Japan

The culture and religion in Japan is

fascinating. It has a wide verity of close

to religion. Now I’m going to tell you

about it.

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Do you want to know the top two

religions in Japan? Well if you do I’ll tell

you. The top two religions in Japan are

Shinto and Buddhism. In the world 2% of

the population worships Buddhism. For

Shinto 0.02% of the population worships

it. In Japan religion does not play a big

role, but Shintoism and Buddhism is big

there.

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The culture in Japan is amassing and I’m

going to tell you some facts about it.

Traditionally Japanese dress for men,

women and children is Kimono. Also the

Japanese culture favors rice. For their

music they use Shanison and Koto to

play it. Also, historically, Japanese

architecture was influenced by Chinese

styles. The main material was wood.

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Here are some more facts about culture

and religion. Japan does cultural

performing arts such as Kabuki, Hon,

and Kyogen. Another traditional thing

they do is tea ceremonies. Traditional

Japanese meals are named after the

number of side dishes. That was some

more facts about religion and culture.

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Japanese tea ceremony

Now let’s recap the most important

facts. 2% of the world’s population

worships Buddhism. 0.02% of the world

population worships Shintoism. Finally

kimono is the dress for men, women,

and children. That was some facts about

culture and religion in Japan.

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JAPAN’S

TECHNOLOGY

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Have you ever wondered about

Japanese technology? Find out about

their electronics and robots. Learn about

the super computers and education. See

the business and trading they do.

For one thing, Japanese technology is

complex and very interesting.

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Today robotics, or computer controlled

mechanical devices, is a hot field in

Japan. Many personal robotics products

such as robotic pets can be seen

throughout the country. In the Aibo

electronics store in the Ginza of Tokyo

they feature computer dogs. In the

1980’s Japan was internationally known

as an exporter of entertainment

products. Manufacturing.

Technology said it planned to develop a

“green” super computer that used snow,

ice, and underground water for cooling.

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Japan has tough times when it comes to

computer research that’s efficient and

education with proper technology.

Tokyo universities have been accused of

having rundown equipment and out of

date curriculums. Super computers are

used for earthquake simulations, climate

modeling, nuclear research, weapons

development, and testing. Tokyo

institute of things insist to hold it up.

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Countries around the world always trade

and do business with Japan, but

sometimes those countries face

consequences. Japanese sells most of

their goods cheaper than the west does.

United States and Great Britain complain

that Japanese are unfair and make it

difficult for countries trying to sell goods

there. Many Japanese companies show

little respect for the peoples or

environments of the countries from

which they import resources. Japan has

its own problems in economy so they

don’t have time for other countries.

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Japan is a thriving yet advancing

country where technology is their

slave. Japan has always tried to find

new ways to advance in technology

for a long time. Japans economy is

consisting on technology to hold its

self up. As Japan grows so will the

technology and still Japan remains

strong.

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