General / Demography

Question 1

How many prefectures are there in Japan?

Answer 1

47

Question 2

Population of Japan? What rank is that in the world? What percent of the worlds total?

Answer 2

127 million
(10th in the world)
1.7% worlds total

Question 3

Period that lasted 250 years before the Meiji?

Answer 3

Edo period

Question 4

Size of Japan? What percent of the global land mass ?

Answer 4

Approximately 380,000 km^2.

0.3% global land mass

Question 5

Largest /Smallest Prefecture

Answer 5

Hokkaido / Kagawa

Question 6

Largest profit making company in Japan?

Answer 6

1- Toyota

2- SoftBank

Question 7

What are the islands of Japan?

Answer 7

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa, and more than 6000 smaller islands

Question 8

What is Japan’a current unemployment rate ? (2003)

Answer 8

About 5%?

Question 9

How many babies born in 2015?

Answer 9

1 million

Question 10

What is the average life expectancy at birth of Japanese person?

Answer 10

84 years

Question 11

What occupation is most popular amongst elementary school children boys and girls? High school?

Answer 11

Baseball - Chef

National Bureaucrat - Cabin Crew

Question 12

What perfect of 5th graders attend juku?

Answer 12

33.3%!

Question 13

How many Waseda students ?

Answer 13

43,440 undergraduate

8,636 graduate

Question 14

What is Japan’s 3 largest universities?

Answer 14

#1 Nihon University (70)
#2 Waseda University (44)
#3 Ritsumeikan University (36)

Question 15

Which company is most popular amount Japanese university students?

Answer 15

Dentsu

Question 16

How many hours do Japanese people sleep?

Answer 16

7 hours 50 min

Question 17

What percentage of Japanese people believe in G*d?

Answer 17

16.4%

Question 18

Average age to marry for Japanese men and women?

Answer 18

Men - 31

Women - 29

Question 19

What percentage of Japanese people get married via arranged marriage?

Answer 19

1%

Question 20

How much money is spent on wedding ceremony?

Answer 20

4 million yen

Question 21

Birth rate?

Answer 21

1.4

Question 22

How many cats and dogs are there?

Answer 22

9. 9 million cats

10. 4 million dogs

Question 23

What percent of employees recurve annual salary of 10 million yen or more?

Answer 23

3.8%

Question 24

How many consecutive days for holiday do Japanese people take a year?

Answer 24

9.2

Question 25

Japanese 2nd favorite country?

Answer 25

Switzerland

Question 26

Least favorite Japanese country?

Answer 26

North Korea

Question 27

How many Japanese people went overseas last year?

Answer 27

16.21 million people

Question 28

How many foreigners came to japan in 2015?

Answer 28

19.74 million

Question 29

At what age can Japanese people begin receiving pensions?

Answer 29

65

Question 30

Largest cause of death?

Answer 30

Cancer

Question 31

Where is Japan located?

In terms of degrees

Answer 31

20 degrees to 45 degrees north latitude

Question 32

How long is Japan?

Answer 32

3,200 Kilometers

Question 33

World Tourism Ranking Top 5

Answer 33

France, USA, Spain, China, Italy

Question 34

Top 5 to & from Travel

Answer 34

USA, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand