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When asked the question "where are you from", how do you usually interpret it?
Place of birth
Where you grew up
Ethnicity
Current location
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Nuance/Doesn't really consider it because multiple of the above are the same
Results/I am from nowhere
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Three ships: Byakuya Kuchiki/Tomoyo-hime (BLEACH x Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle), Kenpachi Zaraki/Kendappa (BLEACH x Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle), and HashiMito (Naruto)
Favorite color: Different shades of purple and blue. 💜💙
Currently consuming: Chocolate.
First ship: It kind of depends. I mean, I shipped Sting/Morning Glory from My Little Pony G1, but back then I didn't exactly know what shipping was. But if not, then Kisshu/Ichigo Momomiya from Tokyo Mew Mew.
Birthplace: Hospital.
Current location: In my bed.
Relationship status: Mentally dating a hot British Devil.
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25 Fun Facts about Japanese Culture
By Vivien Safi Chanda
Konnichiwa Seawolves! That was “hello” in Japanese. Not familiar with Japanese vocabulary or culture? I want to switch that one up by giving you a quick and fun way to learn as much about Japan as possible. Be ready to explore Japanese culture in 25 fun and interesting facts:
Japanese Geography
1. First of all Japan is not called “Japan” in Japanese. You already got tricked. Once upon a time people believed that Japan was the first country to see the sunrise in the East. Therefore, Japanese people call their mother land Nihon or Nippon which translates to the “Land of the Rising Sun”.
2. Speaking of the Sun (which feels so long ago us Seawolves could enjoy warm weather), Japan consists of over 6,800 islands. As you know, Japan is an island itself but all the small islands around it are part of the Japanese territory. The four largest ones are Honshu (island Tokyo is based on), Hokkaido, Kyushu, and Shikoku.
Let us talk about food
3.Most of you probably relate Japan to its cuisine (I mean who does not love sushi), but did you know that Japan has the third longest life expectancy worldwide! On average they live four years longer than Americans.
4.How is that possible with more than 3,000 McDonald’s in their country, making this the largest number of McDonald restaurants outside of the United States? Furthermore, Japan has around 5 million vending machines all over the place. These vending machines sell basically everything! Hot beverages, liquor, food, underwear, light bulbs, condoms, living crabs, and the list goes on! The only way I can explain their long life expectancy is the fact that…
5… Japanese are the population with the largest fish consume worldwide. To throw some numbers at you: 17 million tons each year are either imported into Japan or locally produced. Additionally, over 20% of their protein is obtained through seafood.
6.Apart from seafood Japanese are known for their love to ramen noodles. 5 billion servings of instant ramen noodles are eaten in Japan per year.
7.In order to enjoy their noodles as quickly as possible Japanese tend to slurp a lot. Slurping cools down the hot noodles and indicates that the food is delicious. If you do not slurp, you are being rude to the cook. So slurp up!
8.Finally, sushi. Who does not know it, who does not love it. Sushi has been around for quite a while now. It all began in China in about the second century A.D. where sushi was an easy way to preserve fish. In the early 17th century Japanese natives came up with the idea of eating raw fish with rice.
9.In order to enjoy all of these typical Japanese dishes around 25 billion pairs of waribashi (disposable chopsticks) are used in Japan each year which is equivalent to about 10 million trees.
Japanese Locals
10.I bet the Japanese “diet” - how I would call it - is the reason why Japan has the highest amount of elderly people living there. To be exact 50,000 people are over the age of 100! In other words they have more elderly people in Japan than children.
11.Due to the low birth rate compared to elderly people living in Japan, adult diapers are sold more than baby diapers.
12.Another thing Japanese have more than children are pets. Japanese tend to spoil their pets such as dogs more than they would with their own children. It is common in Japan to spend up to $250 or more for a “poodle pullover”.
13.Japanese are also very superstitious. Since the number shi (four) sounds similar to the Japanese word for death, they tend to avoid that number as much as they can. While it is common in the Western culture to sell sets of dishes of four or six, Japanese sets are sold either in threes or fives. Even tall buildings and skyscrapers skip the level four.
Tokyo
14.Speaking of skyscrapers. The Tokyo metropolitan area is the largest worldwide with 35 million inhabitants. In comparison, the New York Metro area accounts for “only” 20 million people.
15.Imagine the hectic space people in the Tokyo metro area face on a regular basis! This might be the reason why employers are so easy on their employees when it comes to taking naps, called inemuri, at work. Inemuri translates to “sleep while being present”. It is an expression - or a cultural Japanese practice - of being a hardworking individual who is successful and therefore, all public spaces are normal to take inemuris: trains, benches, cafes, etc.
16.Hard to believe a Japanese train would be a peaceful and restful place to take a nap at. Tokyo’s main train station Shinjuku is known to be the busiest in the world with 2 million people using public transportation (Penn Station has about 600,000 people passing through). At times trains are so crowded that additional railway staff pushes and crams people inside the train.
Fun Activities in Japan
17.Sounds like it could be exhausting at times, right? So what do Japanese people do to relax and enjoy themselves? One activity Japanese love in their free time is reading comics. Cartooning started in Japan in the 12th century, and today more paper is used in order to produce comics for consumerism than toilet paper in Japan.
18.Another thing Japanese natives love more than anything else is their smartphones. About 90% of all Japanese phones are waterproof because Japanese people rarely separate from their “technological love” (not even while being in the shower or bath tub).
19. The sport Japanese enjoy the most is baseball. Who would have guessed that!? Baseball is called yakyu and was introduced by an American teacher in Japan. Since 1873 yakyu is the most popular sport at Japanese Universities. They have two professional baseball leagues and even high school games are broadcasted on national TV as well as university games.
20.The one sport you probably would have associated with Japan is Sumo wrestling. You are not wrong. Sumo wrestlers are very popular in Japan. Besides the traditional Sumo wrestling there are different contests between Sumo wrestlers as well. One common contest is the “crying sumo” where wrestlers compete to see who can make a baby cry first.
Customs to consider
21.If all of these fun activities do not help to cope with their exhausting everyday lives, Japanese tend to drink a lot of coffee. This hot beverage is so popular in Japan that they import 85% of Jamaica’s total coffee production!
22.What do Japanese have with their revitalizing coffee? Probably a cigarette. It is hard to find a non-smoking area in Japan. Even restaurants allow people to smoke inside. This habit is, predominantly, in the interest of profit making politicians.
Last but not least...
23.If Japanese do leave Japan - which happens more often than people immigrating to Japan (98% of Japan’s population are born and raised in Japan) - they are likely to move to Brazil. Based on cultural and economic exchange, today, Brazil has the largest Japanese community outside of Japan (1,5 million Japanese) and vice versa. About 300,000 Brazilians live in Japan making them the biggest non-Asian ethnic group in Japan.
24.With its second lowest homicide rate in the world, Japan seems like a good place to move. Do not judge a book by its cover! Even though its homicide rate is very low, Japan is home to the “suicide forest” Aokigahara. This forest is the second most popular place in the world to commit suicide and is considered “the perfect place to die”. (Number one is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.)
25.You might consider moving (or visiting) Japan after all, especially if you have crooked teeth. They are considered attractive in Japan and women actually go to the dentist to achieve the so called yaeba (crooked teeth). Bai Bai braces!
Vivien Safi Chanda is an exchange student from Germany studying at SBU for two semester. Back home in Germany, Vivien is studying “Interdisciplinary American Studies” with an emphasis on African-American history. This summer she will be interning for a PR agency in Berlin, Germany before returning back to the University of Tuebingen for her senior year.
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