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| Current Japanese Prime Minister | a. Koizumi Junichichiro b. Fred the Prime Minister c. Konoye Fumimaro d. Miyazawa kiichi |
| Prime Minister of Japan after Hideko Tojo in WW II | Suzuki Kantaro |
| The "te" form of the verb matchimasu | a. matte b. matto c. mata d. mate |
| The largest of the Japanese islands is called what? | a. Honshu b. Shikoku c. Kyushu, c. Hokkaido |
| The particle "wa" is also called a what particle? | a. subject particle b. topic particle c. independent clause particle d. direct object particle |
| The novel "Shogun" is based loosely on the life of what English sailer to lived in Japan? | a. John Smitn b. Will Adams c. Francis Xavier d. John Blackthorn |
| Which of these famous Japanese authors "seppuku" in Tokyo in 1970 in public? | a. Natsume Soseki b. Doi Takako c. Mishima Yukio d. Oe Kenzaburo |
| The word "boku" is a word for "I" or "me" reserved for... | a. males only b. females only c. littel boys only d. little girls only |
| The particle "o" is used to shoe the relationship between what? | a. verb and topic b. subject and topic d. participle and clause d. verb and subject. |
| Miyamoto Musashi wrote what famous book in the 17th century? | a. The I - Ching b. The Analects of Confucious c. The Book of Five Rings d. Green Eggs and Ham |
| Kyoto remained the capital of Japan until what year? | a. 1185 b. 1066 c. 789 d. 1867 |
| The former name of Tokyo is what? | a. Kyoto b. Nagoya c. Edo d. Nara |
| What year is generally accepted as the year Buddhism entered Japan from China and Korea? | a. 1045 b. 200 B.C. c. 532 d. 1170 B.C. |
| Current Japanese currency is called what? | a. Won b. Yuan c. Dinar d. Yen |
| Japan is divided into how many prefectures? | a. 50 b. 47 c. 51 d. 45 |
| The word "Japan" is a perversion of the pronunciation of Japan from what language? | a. French b. English c. Chinese d. Dutch |
| True or False: Japanese verbs change according to your heirarchal relationship with the person to whom you are speaking with. | a true b. false |
| The largest organzined crime syndicate in Japan, the Yamaguchi-gumi, (Japan's mafia) is located primarily in what city? | a. Osaka b. Tokyo c. Kobe d. Yokohama |
| In Japan the most popular food to eat is what? | a. christmas sushi b. tea cakes c. chocolate d. Christmas cake |
| What emperor, whose real name was Mutsuhito, reigned in Japan from 1867 until his death in 1912? | a. Emperor Go-Daigo b. Emperor Showa c. Emperor Taisho d. Emperor Meiji |
