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1
Which author is considered one of the greatest masters of Haiku poetry?
Murakami Haruki
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Matsuo Basho
2
Yuzuru Hanyu was the first male Japanese athlete to win an Olympic golf medal in which sport?
Figure skating
Judo
Tennis
Swimming
3
Which Japanese baseball player was known as "Godzilla" in the US?
Hideki Matsui
Yu Darvish
Ichiro Suzuki
4
Who wrote the "Tale of Genji"
Higuchi Ichiyo
Murasaki Shikibu
Matsuo Basho
Natsume Soseki
5
Which month commemorates "Health and Sports Day?"
September
October
June
April
6
Which folktale is about a boy who goes to an island to defeat monsters?
Kintaro
Momotaro
Urashimataro
7
Where is Narita International Airport located?
Haneda
Tokyo
Chiba
8
Which two islands of Japan were recently connected by an underwater railroad tunnel?
Honshuu and Shikoku
Kyuushuu and Honshuu
Honshuu and Hokkaido
9
What do Nara and Kyoto have in common?
They were capitals.
They have sites designated as World Heritage Sites.
All of these.
10
Who was the first Japanese writer to earn a Nobel Prize?
Yasunari Kawabata
Ooka Shohei
Shiga Naoya
Natsume Soseki
11
Who was the second Japanese writer to earn the Nobel Prize?
Kenzaburo Oe
Ooka Shohei
Natsume Soseki
Yukio Mishima
12
Which country does Japan has ties regarding the "Northern Territories?"
North Korea
Russia
South Korea
China
13
Which is considered Japan's national sport?
Judo
Karate
Sumo
Baseball
14
Mount Fuji is located in which prefecture?
Between Tokyo and Chiba Prefectures
Between Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures
Between Osaka and Kyoto Prefectures
15
Which sport has a nationwide high school tournament held at Hanshin Koshien Stadium?
Baseball
Soccer
Sumo
Karate
16
Which has been an Olympic sport since the 1964 Olympic games?
Judo
Aikido
Karate
Kendo
17
Which author had a cat as the narrator of the book?
Natsume Soseki
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Shiga Naoya
18
The 1998 Olympic Winter Games were held in which area of Japan?
Hokkaido
Nagano
Fukuoka
Nikko
19
1. Which of the four major islands is Tokyo located?
Hokkaido
Shikoku
Honshuu
Kyuushuu
20
In the Nippon Professional Baseball league, the Tokyo Giants play in which league?
Pacific
Central
21
"Kitchen" is written by which author?
Banana Yoshimoto
Melon Yoshimoto
Orange Yoshimoto
Ichigo Yoshimoto
22
What year did Japan host the Olympics?
1964
1960
1970
1968
23
Which city has not hosted the Olympics in Japan?
Tokyo
Yokohama
Nagano
Hokkaido
24
What is Mount Fuji's elevation?
9,698 ft.
12, 388 ft.
6,444 ft.
10,476 ft.
25
"Rainbow Bridge" is in which Prefecture?
Tokyo
Osaka
Hiroshima
Kyoto
26
Who wrote "Botchan?"
Kawabata Yasunari
Natsume Soseki
27
Which author committed suicide by seppuku?
Yukio Mishima
Kenzaburo Oe
Haruki Murakami
28
What is Japan's population?
500 million
1 billion
35,327,000
127, 728,000
29
About what percent of Japan is mountainous?
70%
30 %
50%
90 %
30
Rashomon was written by which author?
Natsume Soseki
Haruki Murakami
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
