Life's rarer knowledge is called cold knowledge in China, but in Japan it's called bean knowledge (まめちしき)
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1. There are really, really many shrines in Japan, and it's said that there are more shrines in the country than they have convenience stores.▋ 2. The Torii of shrines? Tori? originally referred to ? chicken? Similarly, ? Yakitori? , or chicken, which is a barbecue chicken restaurant.
▋ 3. Japan's national treasure is the crested ibis, which is a bird this time. Our country often sends ibis to Japan.
▋ 4, the survey shows that 57.3% of Japanese people can not show their face, need a lot of make-up, which is ranked first among the 40 countries participating in the survey. There is a soil for cosmetic products to be so developed.
▋ 5. The base color of all ベットボトル (plastic beverage bottles) is colorless and transparent.
▋6, all the bottles with ? わ? cars that begin with ?わ? are all レンタカー(rental cars), rented.
▋7, if you take a taxi in Japan, do not touch the door of the car, usually the driver will give you a direct opening or the car itself will automatically open, if you go to open the door with their own hands, will be considered by the driver of his profession as blasphemy.
▋8. Passengers who make the cab dirty, such as vomiting or generating garbage, will have to pay a cleaning fee and a fine.
▋9. Cars in Japan unconditionally give way to pedestrians, so you don't have to worry even if you encounter unguided roads with no traffic lights.
▋10, according to the current law in Japan: the same remarriage after divorce, the man can get married right after the divorce; but the woman has to wait for half a year before remarriage, because of the fear that the woman is pregnant with her ex-husband's child.
Japanese law states that a child born within 300 days of divorce belongs to the ex-husband, while a child born after 200 days of marriage belongs to the current husband, so even though the rules are very detailed and even controversial in terms of human rights violations, there is still a period of time within 200 days of a woman's remarriage when she is outside of the definition of the law.
▋11: In Japan, wreaths are sent for weddings and new business openings. In Japan, wreaths are sent for both weddings and funerals, but in different colors and styles. Wreaths for joyous occasions, bright colors, mostly warm tones. Wreaths for funerals are colored in black and white.
Friends before sometimes send desktop wreaths as a small gift to express blessings, is the mini wreath. These wreaths for celebratory events are usually very bright red and the largest is 4 meters high. While wreaths used for funerals are predominantly white and black, the difference is still significant.
▋12, in Japan, only 100% pure fruit juice, the package can appear fruit cut photos. 5% more than 100% below the juice, the package can only have fruit but can not be cut. 5% below the juice, the package can not even appear fruit.
▋13, Japanese minors can not go to buy cigarettes, even if it is bought on behalf of can not. Our country's children often go out to help their dads buy cigarettes, but in Japan is completely unworkable, you must show identification before you can, Japan also sells cigarettes vending machines, but also to brush the ID card to obtain the qualifications before you can buy cigarettes.
▋14, Tokyo Disney staff will not say "welcome" to visitors, because visitors will have no words to answer, so the staff say "hello".
▋15, are the cola cakes made with Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
Actually, it's neither. Japanese colcannon is a fried food from France, comparable to our empanadas and croquettes. The food is called ?croquette? in French, and came to Japan as ? croquette?
Because it is similar to the Chinese word ? Cola? is similar in pronunciation, it was translated as a cola cake, but it's not really halfway related to cola.
▋16, Japanese tofu is not tofu, it is also known as egg tofu, lactone tofu, in fact, eggs as the main ingredient made, because the texture is similar to tofu, very smooth and tender, so it is known as Japanese tofu, but in fact, there is no relationship with the tofu soy. But the flavor is really good~
▋17,? Tianjin rice? It is a self-made Japanese cuisine and has nothing to do with Tianjin.
▋18, near Otaru in Hokkaido, there is a small city called America.
It's worth noting that Japan does have another place called China, to be precise? China place? , which includes Tottori, Shimane, Hiroshima, Okayama and Yamaguchi prefectures, and is a relatively large and important area for Japan. However, this pirated version of ? America? is a very small town located northwest of Otaru, Hokkaido.
▋19, Shizuoka Prefecture has a place called ? Shinkansen?
▋20, the Japanese city of ? Osaka? Originally written as ? Osaka? , pronounced "おざか" or "おさか", but later because of the saying of the 8th Rengen Ru Shonin of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji Temple in the Muromachi period that ? It was later changed to ? The name was changed to "ōsaka" (ōsaka). ōsaka (おざか)?.
Some people later felt that the name ? It was thought to be an unlucky character, with the word "坂" (坂) being used to describe the city. It was changed to "坂" (坂), which means "against the land". It was eventually changed to the current name of Osaka (大阪). Osaka?
▋21, often seen in Japanese dramas? Ltd. What is it?
Actually, it means our joint-stock (limited) company.株式(かぶしき) means share, equity, stock; 會社(かいしゃ) means company, limited company, which was later followed by the Koreans.
▋22. When a restaurant serves a meal to a guest, according to common tradition, rice is placed on the left hand side, and miso juice on the right hand side. The food must be placed with the rice on the left and the miso soup on the right, and it is a practice of worship if it is reversed.
▋23: Why are most Japanese onigiri triangular?
The reason why ancient Japanese made onigiri triangular was to honor the god of the mountains, because the triangle resembled the shape of a mountain.
The reason onigiri are still made in triangles today is because they look bigger than other shapes and it is easier to pinch the rice together, making them easier to transport and arrange.
▋24, there is a dish in Japan that is not available in China, which is fried maple leaves, also called red leaf tempura. Our country general maple leaves are swept to the trash can by the sweeper, but in Japan can be served on the table, and is said to have a history of 1300 years. In fact, it is a very famous snack in Kansai region, in which red leaves are salted for a year and then coated with sweet flour and deep-fried. It's true that everything is tempura in Japan!
▋25, Japanese hot drinks bottle cap is usually orange, the reason why the orange cap is designed specifically to distinguish between bottles that can always keep warm, this kind of packaging bottles will not be deformed even if they cool down.
▋26, Japan will line up to eat KFC at Christmas, the main reason is that when Christmas was introduced to Japan, the Japanese people do not have turkey to eat, when KFC see the gap in the market, take the opportunity to issue ? The main reason is that when Christmas came to Japan, there was no turkey for the Japanese people to eat. s advertisement, and the Colonel KFC and Santa Claus have a slight resemblance to each other.
The tradition of eating KFC on Christmas Day has continued. In addition to this the Japanese eat strawberry cake on Christmas Day.
▋27, newspaper? Asahi Shimbun? s? Shin? is a typo with an extra horizontal character, which was made up by choosing four characters from Ouyang Xun's calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty.
▋28. The Japanese character for Yoshinoya is short at the top and long at the bottom.
▋29, JR's full name: Japan Railway Company Limited in the iron, in fact, deliberately written as a typo. Iron = Jin ga lost う, in order to avoid this inauspicious, written as such, so the Japanese people are also very superstitious.
▋30, Japanese law states that a man can get married at 18 and a woman at 16. But [child sex trafficking? Pornography Prohibition Law ]児童買春? The Pornography Prohibition Law prohibits sex with a child under the age of 18. In Japan a 16 year old high school girl gets pregnant out of wedlock and the father of the child is 17 so it's not illegal.
▋31, Doraemon is a full citizen of Kawasaki City. People get special resident tickets and everyone in Kawasaki knows that~
▋32, hello kitty is not a cat and doesn't have a side, crayon kitty doesn't have a front.
▋33, from the point of view of surveying, the capital of Tokyo is the center of the city [Nihonbashi], the distance to Tokyo indicated by road signs throughout Japan is actually the specific distance to Nihonbashi; the distance to Osaka indicated is actually the distance to Osaka Castle.
▋34, in Japanese restaurants want to pay the bill can be indicated by hand gestures. The gesture is to interlace your fingers and make an "X" to the waiter. The waiter will know that you want to pay. But nowadays it's usually the Japanese older men who use it.
▋35: Take it seriously! In Japan, the history of pulling a hook goes back hundreds of years, and the act of pulling a hook means that if a promisor doesn't keep her promise, she's going to be forced to lose her pinky finger. Note to all you hook lovers out there, hook pulling is to be taken seriously!
▋36, Japan has a very interesting phenomenon called ? Narita breakup?
Narita Airport is the largest airport in Japan, so many newlyweds or couples traveling on their honeymoon will choose to depart from here. Due to the various problems they will encounter during the trip, some couples choose to break up as soon as they arrive at Narita Airport on their way back, which is then known as the Narita Breakup.
▋37, Japan's overseas movies are released later than China's, which is a strategy of Japanese studios.
For example, at the time, Ice Princess was released about three months later than overseas, and Crazy Animal City was released a month and a half later than the U.S. and China.
The reason was that Japanese studios needed to observe the box office of the movie after its release overseas before deciding whether to introduce it or not, and it was also easier to use the overseas box office results in their promotions. Like "All American No.1" or something like that, the Japanese eat that up?
▋38, the last emperor's birthday is December 23, is the national wishing day; if the emperor passes away, the next emperor's birthday will be the new national wishing day, but the already established December 23 wishing day won't be canceled, but will be changed to another name, the current Midori day, Showa day, in fact, are the birthdays of the former emperors.
And so on, as long as you can live long enough, sooner or later, all 365 days of the year in Japan will become wishes days.
▋39, if you go to Japan to attend a concert, it is best to also buy a support towel
Besides the support stick, support banner, in neon there is also a very unique support peripheral? Support towel (used to wipe sweat or waving are ok). And the support towel is different for every concert, so if you bring a concert style from a few years ago, you'll be insanely envied by everyone (the feeling of being a Genghis Khan fan).
▋40, when eating, for example, when one person uses chopsticks to separate a large piece of food, in China, another person can take their own chopsticks to hold the other side, and the 2 people piece pinch away. But in Japan, two people can't use the same chopsticks to hold the same piece of food.
▋41. In Japan, you can tell the amount of pure fruit juice by looking at the pattern on the juice package.
If the pure fruit juice content in the juice is less than 5%, there can't be pictures of real fruits on the package; for the content of 5%-100% (not included), there can be pictures of fruits on the package, but they can't be cut up; only 100% pure fruit juice can be packaged with pictures of cut up fruits.
▋42, Japan is not all the food has a bounty of flavor period, salt, sugar, ice cream, etc. ...... They can be sold without marking the flavor-appreciation period.
▋43. Don't just ask Japanese girls for their phone numbers! For many Japanese girls, exchanging phone numbers is a super sacred thing! Rounding up equals confessing, and rounding down again equals tying the knot! Marriage! So be careful!
▋44, the little man on the green escape sign is a Japanese design. in 1972, the Japanese government held a competition to design an emergency exit sign, and a designer named Toshifumi Koyamatsu was selected from more than 3,300 people.
In 1982, this green logo was changed by Yukio Ota, a professor at the University of Fine Arts, and began to be popularized in public **** places within Japan, and later became the internationally accepted emergency exit sign, which is used today.
This "ピクトさん"'s life is a cup of tea, because he has to appear on all kinds of warning signs, so he often gets bitten by dogs, falls, gets hit by cars... Later, because he was so pitiful, the Japanese even became a special association for him and published a book called "ピクトさんの本", the brain can really be.
▋45, Japanese stores often have paintball is to mark the robber, when there is a robber, throw a in his body, used to mark.
▋46, Japan was the first country in the world to film Journey to the West, which was broadcast in 1978, eight years before China's 86th version of Journey to the West.
Japan's Sun Wukong was played by host Masashige Sakai, in which the Tang Monk was played by actress Masako Natsume, but instead of setting the Tang Monk's gender as female, he was played by an actress as a male.
▋47, china in English besides ? China? means ? china? The meaning of the word "china" is the same as the word "porcelain". The same japan in addition to have? Japan? meaning, there are? Lacquerware? meaning.
This is because in the eyes of Westerners, the Chinese are good at making porcelain and the Japanese are good at making lacquer. Now in order to differentiate, for example, when chatting with a Japanese person at the root, you have to use capital letters to start Japan for Japan and lower case for lacquer.
▋48, although Japan's population is only one-tenth of ours, but Japan's toilet paper usage is the world's first. Because there are many people with hay fever allergies in Japan, a lot of toilet paper is needed in the spring.
Also Japanese businesses often distribute paper towels on the street, and they print advertisements on the paper towel packages to promote them, which is a common marketing method in Japan. So cumulatively, Japan uses the most toilet paper.
▋49, it is illegal to dance late at night in Japan, according to the customary business law, you can only go up to 1:00 at night at the latest, and don't go past 1:00.
▋50, the Japanese people attach great importance to blood type, like people superstitious constellation, Japanese society also exists? People are divided by blood type? s phenomenon. Japanese people usually think that B and AB type selfish and eccentric, like A type of serious and patient, O type of generous, that these two blood types are more kind and better to get along with.
▋51, is the girl wearing a yukata or a kimono?
Wearing a yukata is the perfect attire for watching fireworks. The easiest way to tell if someone is wearing a kimono or a yukata is to see if the person is wearing socks? You must wear socks with a kimono, you don't have to wear socks with a yukata. Likewise it's okay to wear a kimono without underwear, but not without socks.
▋52, tipping is not accepted in Japan, and tipping is considered rude behavior, even insulting. If you tip a Japanese person, it may cause misunderstanding and perhaps chase you down to try to give you your money back. This may be because Japanese people have come to view providing good service as ? a matter of course?
▋53, it costs more than 1 yen to make a 1-yen coin in Japan (probably around 2-3 yen), which floats when thrown in water. And the tree design on the front of the 1-yen coin is actually a fictional plant that doesn't actually exist.
▋54, Japan's banknotes and coins are issued by different units
The banknotes are issued by the Bank of Japan (the central bank of Japan), and the official name is Bank of Japan Notes. Coins, on the other hand, are issued by the government, and the country of Japan is printed on the coins.
Both were issued by the government during the Meiji period, but were later separated due to over-issuance leading to severe inflation. Note that the JGB is an independent organization, meaning that the power to print money is in the hands of the Governor of the JGB. Of course the government can put pressure on the Bank of Japan to print more, and the current BOJ governor, Haruhiko Kuroda, was originally a close confidant of Abe, so the Bank of Japan still listens to the government more these days.
▋55, Japan has one of the highest adoption rates in the world, with more than 80,000 legal adoptions recorded each year, of which 98 percent of the adoptees are young males in their 2s and 30s, and the number of adopted adults is even higher than the number of children, and the adoptions of adult males are generally son-in-law adoptees (むこようし), which is what we call ? Mukoyooshi. Mukoyooshi. Mukoyooshi.
▋56, Japan specializes in recycling small yellow book mailbox, called the white mailbox (white ポスト), probably the Chinese people know terrier. It is specializing in recycling harmful books for young people, cough cough, to prevent adults from throwing small yellow books were picked up by children. Anyway, we see that you do not just throw the letter inside ha~
▋57, Japan is a pet country, dog owners must give their dogs a rabies vaccine once a year, and will be on behalf of the completion of the vaccination? The dog? word stickers are prominently displayed in the entryway to remind people who are afraid of dogs of ? This home has a ? Woofers? and also to inform the surrounding area that it has been vaccinated, a sign that is common in Japan.
▋58, in the gynecological hospital there is also an interesting service, checkups feel embarrassed to be called by their own name, in filling out the information to ask about the condition, there is a place to write a substitute name after your real name, if you write, the doctor will call your substitute name.
▋59, cherry blossoms are not all grown on trees, there are also grown on the ground. For example, this one is called ? Shiba 桜? The variety of cherry blossom is called "Shiba-zakura". Shiba? There are? Grass. which means cherry blossoms that grow on the ground.
▋60, Japanese people like odd numbers, most of all 3 and 7, and dislike even numbers.
They think 4 and 9 are unlucky because the Japanese pronunciation of 4 is ? shi (shi)? and ? shi? is the same pronunciation.
One pronunciation of 9 is ? ku? which is the same as? く (ku)? is pronounced the same. They don't like even numbers, and red envelopes can't be wrapped in even-numbered sheets because even numbers are divisible by two, which means they want the couple to separate and the relationship to break up. Red packets are usually wrapped 30,000 or 50,000 dollars.
This is the same as China? s traditional concept of "good things come in pairs". s traditional concept is still very different.
▋61, Japan? Subway pushers (押し屋)? is a profession, they are responsible for the subway rush hour, push passengers into the subway, the door can be closed in time. This is enough to prove how crowded the Japanese subway during rush hour. It's a physical job, but they don't make a bad living, earning 2.5-5 million yen a year, which is equivalent to 120,000-250,000 yuan.
▋62, Japan's subway is very, very punctual, so the commuters are pinching time to go to work. The news reported that once a train departed just twenty seconds early, and the train company in Tsukuba, Japan, posted an apology. If a delayed train makes you late, the train company will also issue a delay certificate to prove that it was not a personal reason for being late.
▋63, the level of attentiveness of services for people with disabilities. The platforms and access roads at all stations are covered with blind alleys in eye-catching yellow color. Those who need a wheelchair to get around can take the elevator, and at individual stations without an elevator, staff place equipment that allows wheelchairs to go up and down at the stair railings and escort them all the way to the door.
When the train arrives, the staff lays a board between the platform and the tram, pushes the wheelchair up, and places it in a special place on the tram for wheelchairs. The staff at the station where the train gets off are contacted to inform them of the door of the train and the time to get off, and when the train gets off, someone will lay the board and help him push the wheelchair, and then the local station staff will help push it down to exit the station.
▋64, Japan is a country of cherry blossoms. the country of the cherry blossom? , but the chrysanthemum is the highest status, is a symbol of wealth and can be said to be Japan? National Flower? (and no explicit provisions), in Japan, although there is no law formally established national emblem, but customary Japanese Imperial family crest? Sixteen-petaled eightfold chrysanthemum pattern, i.e., the chrysanthemum coat of arms is widely recognized as the national flower. The chrysanthemum coat of arms is widely used as a representative national emblem of Japan, such as on Japanese passports.
▋65. Under current Japanese law, the statute of limitations for the death penalty is 25 years, which means that even if you have committed a crime that can lead to the death penalty, if you are not caught within 25 years of the filing of the case, you will not be able to be punished even if you are caught or if you turn yourself in after 25 years.
▋66, current Japanese law does not directly designate the location of the capital city, but in a general sense the Tokyo metropolis is the capital.
From the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, the administrative center of Japan was in Edo. 1869 (Meiji 2) the Japanese emperor and the Restoration government moved from Kyoto to Edo and renamed Edo as Tokyo, an event that Japanese history refers to as the ? This event is referred to in Japanese history as the "Establishment of Tokyo as the Capital" (making Tokyo the capital of Japan). (making Tokyo the capital of Japan).
It has been more than 100 years since Japan's administrative functions were completely transferred to Tokyo in 1871. Although there is now also a ? the debate over whether the capital should be Kyoto or Tokyo? , Japan's Capital Construction Law, enacted in 1950, had declared the capital status of the Tokyo metropolis, and after the law was repealed in 1956, the subsequent Metropolitan Area Preparation Law designated the Tokyo metropolis and the surrounding area as the center of Japan's political, economic, and cultural ? metropolitan area?
Please see that the metropolitan area of the TV stations that have been reporting on the recent outbreak means Tokyo, not Kyoto. So it is almost pointless to continue the debate of whether the capital is Tokyo or Kyoto, the capital is ? Tokyo? can be considered an ? unwritten rule?
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