hELLO jAPAN!
Internationally, Japan is known as a super hub booming with massive amounts of the latest technological marvels. Over the last few decades, Japan
has blessed us with the newest PlayStation consoles, popular anime franchises,
and food both incredibly unique and at times bizarre.
If you're not an anime or manga fanatic, you probably didn't know that:
Geography
In America, schools usually teach us that Japan is a
small island a stone’s throw away from China and Russia; and is separated only by a sliver
of water named the sea of Japan. But just half of that is wrong. Compared to
the US, Japan is indeed a small island. Japan is an island comprised of thousands
of smaller islands, more than 4,000 in total. In size, Japan is roughly the same size of
California.
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language
In Japan, the national language is…you guessed it Japanese,
which is only spoken in Japan. But don’t let that stop you from hopping on a
plane and jetting across the nation for a couple bites of onigiri. Most
Japanese citizens have some English knowledge and are almost always more than willing
to help you. Very often, there is likely another English speaking
traveler ready to help you out as well.
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