Japan for Business is a guide to getting your product or service into the Japanese market, primarily … Read More
Tips for the Japanese language
When visiting Japan, it can be a mistake to expect the locals to be able to speak English. Lobby staff at major hotels, especially in Tokyo and Kyoto will, plus at ski resorts, but elsewhere might be pushing your luck. To get by, use of a phrase book can be helpful, and to improve the chances of success with this some understanding of the Japanese language can be worthwhile. As with any language, a few handy phrases can be quite easily memorised. For those willing to take on something of a linguistic challenge, being able to count can be pretty useful, especially when dealing with money. … [Read more...]
Introduction to Living in Japan
Readers interested in scholarly presentations about Japan can select from an array of references, ranging from internationally renowned tomes to specialist books about the most obscure aspects of Japanese history and culture. Travellers wanting a thorough description of places worth visiting, staying at and eating in have excellent, highly detailed guide books and websites to choose from. There are also any number of publications about niche topics, each important in its own right, such as shopping and eating, pastimes including sumo and pachinko, linguistic quirks of the Japanese language, … [Read more...]
General Information About Japan
The country Japan is a crescent-shaped archipelago, extending 3,000 kilometres from top to bottom, and made up of four main islands: Hokkaido in the north, the central and largest island of Honshu, Shikoku to the south east of Honshu, and Kyushu to its south. There are about 2,450 smaller islands, the largest being Okinawa to the south of Kyushu. The capital of Japan, Tokyo, lies at 140 degrees east longitude, and 36 degrees north latitude, and is 7,830 kilometres from Sydney. Administratively the country is organised into 47 prefectures (ken). These are all broken down into a further … [Read more...]
Sport
The three most popular and visible professional sports in Japan are baseball, J-League soccer and sumo. Other popular individual participatory sports, in some cases seasonal, include angling, volleyball, long-distance running, cycling, horse racing, motorsport, athletics, tennis, table tennis, badminton, bush-walking, trekking, mountaineering, ice skating, swimming, skiing, tennis, golf, kendo, kyudo, (archery), judo, boxing, rugby union, basketball, handball and pro wrestling (puroresu). A look at the medals tally of recent Olympics shows at the highest international level Japan is … [Read more...]
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