1. What Is the Name of the Largest Island in Japan?

Japan round

1. What is the name of the largest island in Japan?

2. What is the name of tallest mountain in Japan?

3. What is the name of the second largest city by population size in Japan?

4. What is the colour of the circle in the middle of the Japanese flag?

5. What is the ethnic religion of Japan?

6. What does the Japanese name for Japan ‘Nippon’ mean?

7. What is Japan’s biggest spectator sport?

8. What is the Japanese name for the bullet trains that transport large numbers of people from city to city in Japan at speeds of up to 320km/h?

9. Where was the capital city of Japan for over 1000 years before it moved to Tokyo?

10.What is the name of largest company in Japan?

11.In a rank of the largest countries by population size in which position does Japan appear?

12.What is Japan’s population size to the nearest 5 million?

13.What is the name of Japan’s prime minister who hails from a famous Japanese political dynasty?

14.Like the UK, Japan is a constitutional monarchy but who is the head of state in place of our King or Queen?

15.Japan is ranked in the top 15 of countries according to the percentage of the country covered in forest. To the nearest 10% what is the percentage of forest cover found in Japan?

16.Japan is ranked third in the world for the number of operational Nuclear Power reactors it possesses at 48. However since 2011 it has not produced any power from any of them. What caused them to shut down all of their nuclear reactors?

17.How many Summer and Winter Olympic Games have been held in Japan?

18.Japan has an issue with an ageing population but as of February 2015 to the nearest 5% what percentage of Japanese people were aged over 65?

19.In the Japanese Alps near to Nagano there are some very famous hot springs at Jigokudani. But why are they not used by humans anymore? 20.In Japan vending machines are a popular way of buying a range of products 24 hours a day. Rounding up to the nearest 500,000 how many machines are there estimated to be in the entire country?

Japan round – answers

1. Honshu

2. Fuji

3. Osaka

4. Red

5. Shinto

6. Sun origin (accept commonly called the land of the rising sun)

7. Baseball

8. Shinkansen

9. Kyoto

10.Toyota

11.Tenth largest country by population size

12.125million (127million the total)

13.Shinzo Abe

14.The Emperor

15.70% (67% is the total)

16.Fukushima nuclear disaster – due to the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011

17.3 – two winter games in Sapporo and Nagano and one Summer games in Tokyo

18.25% (26% is the total) 19.Macaques (or snow monkeys as they are sometimes known) use them to warm up during the cold winters and have become a tourist attraction

20.Any answer from 5.25 to 5.75 million allowed (5.5 million is the total)