Exploring Japanese Culture and History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Michiko Maeda, the first Japanese actress to appear nude in a mainstream film, was banned from Japanese cinema for 42 years for disobeying a director.

Ken Okuyama, a Japanese person, designed the Enzo Ferrari super car.

in 1976, Japanese pink film actor Mitsuyasu Maeno carried out a kamikaze attack on multi-millionaire and ultra-nationalist leader Yoshio Kodama.

in Shinto, a gongen represents a manifestation of a buddha from India to guide the Japanese people to salvation.

the Nikolayevsk Incident, in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island.

the 1914–1944 Japanese presence in the Marshall Islands resulted in about 10% of the present-day islanders having some Japanese ancestry.

Katsuhiko Nakajima, a Japanese professional wrestler, represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office, is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history.

Bernardo the Japanese, a disciple of Saint Francis Xavier, is the first Japanese person known to have set foot in Europe.

Japanese mathematician Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962.

Japanese manga artist Seizō Watase worked at an insurance company for 16 years before retiring to work on manga full time.

Japanese author Kodō Nomura, who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan.

Japanese pop R&B singer-songwriter Mai Kuraki's 2009 album, Touch Me! became her first album in five years to top the Japanese album chart.

Arishima Ikuma, Japanese novelist, published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public.

Japanese film critic Nagaharu Yodogawa did not miss a single appearance in his 36 years as the host of TV Asahi's Sunday Western Movie Theatre until a week before his death.

Exploring Japanese Culture and History

1 When was Isoroku Yamamoto born?

2 Although the islands were already abundant with resources for hunting and dry-rice farming, Yayoi farmers created more productive wet-rice ________ systems.

3 The Jōmon people were ________ hunter-gatherers, though at least one middle to late Jōmon site (Minami Mosote (南溝手 ?), ca.

4 What branch is Hiroo Onoda in?

5 What is Satoshi Tajiri known for?

6 The Japanese people (日本人, Nihonjin, Nipponjin ?) are the predominant ethnic group of ________.

7 What was Tadanobu Asano's birth name?

8 There is also a small group of Japanese descendants living in Caribbean countries such as ________ and the Dominican Republic where hundreds of these immigrants were brought in by Rafael L. Trujillo in the 1930s.

9 The term "Japanese people" may also be used in some contexts to refer to a locus of ethnic groups including the Yamato people, ________, and Ryukyuans.

10 When is Takeshi Kaneshiro's birthday?

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