Japan

Question 0

What is the main island in the center?

Answer 0

Honshu

Question 1

What is the main island in the north?

Answer 1

Hokkaido

Question 2

What are the two smaller main islands that are in the southwest?

Answer 2

Kyushu and Shikoku

Question 3

What is the climate in Japan?

Answer 3

Temperate

Question 4

Where does the Japanese people tend to live?

Answer 4

Along the east cost especially in Osaka and Kyoto.

Question 5

How many times are farmers able to harvest rice anually?

Answer 5

Twice

Question 6

How many percent of the total land area suitable for cultivation?

Answer 6

20%

Question 7

True or False.

Japan is not prone to earthquakes.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True or False.

Volcanic soils are extremely fertile.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

When was the famous earthquake that destroyed almost the entire city of Tokyo?

Answer 9

1923

Question 10

What is the eighth-century chronicle that is known as Records of Ancient Matters?

Answer 10

Kojiki

Question 11

Who are the two ancestors of Japan that started everything?

Answer 11

Izanagi and Izanami

Question 12

Who’s descendant later descended to earth and became the founder of the Japanese nation and also known as the sun goddess?

Answer 12

Amaterasu

Question 13

Who are the first Japanese people?

Answer 13

Jomon

Question 14

It is the mixture between the Jomon people and the new arrivals.

Answer 14

Yayoi

Question 15

They are those who are driven out and the previous inhabitants of the area.

Answer 15

Ainu

Question 16

Who is the Japanese legend that is the divine warior?

Answer 16

Jimmu

Question 17

It is also known as clan.

Answer 17

Uji

Question 18

Who is the person who provided protection to the local population in return for a proportion of the annual harvest in each uji?

Answer 18

Hereditary Cheftain

Question 19

Who is the leading aristocrat ino ne of the dominant clan in the Yamato region?

Answer 19

Shotoku Taishi

Question 20

What kind of government did Shotoku Taishi create?

Answer 20

Centralized Government

Question 21

What is the so-called taika reforms?

Answer 21

Great change

Question 22

What council was established after Taishi’s death that has over a cabinet of eight ministries?

Answer 22

Grand Council of State

Question 23

What became popular among aristocrats, who endowed wealthy monasteries that became active in Japanese politics?

Answer 23

Buddhism

Question 24

After Taishi's death, which clan continued the centralized government?

Answer 24

Fujiwara Clan

Question 25

It is the tax-exempt farmland.

Answer 25

Shoen

Question 26

What period did Shotoku "lead"?

Answer 26

Heian Period

Question 27

What period did Fujiwara "lead"?

Answer 27

Nara Period

Question 28

What do you call the general in the tent-government?

Answer 28

Shogun

Question 29

Who is the first shogun?

Answer 29

Minamoto Yoritomo

Question 30

What do you call the tent-government and centralized government?

Answer 30

Bakufu

Question 31

Who is the emperor of the Mongols that demanded tribute from Japan?

Answer 31

Khubilai Khan

Question 32

What do you call the divine wind that saved the japanese people from the Mongols?

Answer 32

Kamikaze

Question 33

After the Kamakura shogunate was overthrown, what family supplied the next shogun and attempted to continue the shogunate system but failed?

Answer 33

Ashikaga Family

Question 34

What do you call the noble families who control vast landed estates that owed no taxes to the government or to the court in Kyoto and relies increasingly on the samurai for protection?

Answer 34

Daimyo

Question 35

It is the civil conflict that lead to the virtual destruction of the capital Kyoto and the disintegration of the shogunate system.

Answer 35

Onin War

Question 36

What year/s did the civil conflict or Onin War occur?

Answer 36

1467-1477

Question 37

Who were the people who ceased total authority/control and are independent lords?

Answer 37

Powerful aristocrats in rural areas

Question 38

It is a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.

Answer 38

Feudal System

Question 39

Who among the common people are responsible for collecting taxes and has tax-exempt?

Answer 39

Local Offical

Question 40

Who among the common people has limited freedom and had to pay taxes?

Answer 40

Peasants

Question 41

Who are those peasants unable to pay taxes therefore they became landless and later on become slaves?

Answer 41

Genin

Question 42

They are the lowest class and was compared to the untouchables of Indus.

Answer 42

Eta

Question 43

What you call the wooven mat that common people use?

Answer 43

Tatami

Question 44

Who are the people who believe in magic to cure the sick and the like?

Answer 44

Shaman

Question 45

In the 3rd century, men are allowed to have more than 1 wife. What do tou call this?

Answer 45

Polygyny

Question 46

In this century men and women became not equal.

Answer 46

8th century

Question 47

True or False. | Men and women are still not equal afterlife.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

True or False. | All buddhists believes that men and women are not equal.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

True or False. | Aristocratic women are active and prominent at court

Answer 49

True

Question 50

What title did the Yamato ruler use?

Answer 50

Son of Heaven

Question 51

It is a new class of military retainers.

Answer 51

Samurai

Question 52

It is a strict warior code.

Answer 52

Bushido

Question 53

What is Bushido reffered to as?

Answer 53

Way of the warrior

Question 54

They destroyed the Song dynasty in China.

Answer 54

Mongols

Question 55

She was renowned for her literary talents.

Answer 55

Lady Murasaki

Question 56

They are the nature spirits.

Answer 56

Kami

Question 57

It is the religion in Japan that means the way of the gods.

Answer 57

Shinto

Question 58

This is the place where the national shrine was established.

Answer 58

Ise

Question 59

What are the two sectsof Buddhism?

Answer 59

Pure Land and Zen

Question 60

Another name for Pure Land sect.

Answer 60

Jodo

Question 61

It taught that devotion alone could lead to enlightenment.

Answer 61

Pure Land or Jodo

Question 62

It is the sect that is common among the aristocrats.

Answer 62

Zen

Question 63

It is the seated zen.

Answer 63

Zazen

Question 64

It is the common sect among the common people.

Answer 64

Pure Land or Jodo

Question 65

It is another term for enlightenment.

Answer 65

Satori

Question 66

It is the famous Japanese poetry.

Answer 66

Haiku

Question 67

What are the three parts of haiku?

Answer 67

Sogi, Shohaku, Socho

Question 68

It is the famous classical Japanese drama.

Answer 68

Noh play or No play

Question 69

It literally means pot scenery.

Answer 69

Bonsai

Question 70

It is the traditional form of suicide done by the samurai.

Answer 70

Seppuku or Hara-kiri

Question 71

The burial mound

Answer 71

Kofun