Questions tagged [japan]
Questions about the State of Japan; geographical location, political philosophies, historical significance, religious beliefs, ethnic diversity, and etc.
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Were there Black people in Japan in 1600?
In Where Are The Black People in 'Shogun'? claims:
I don’t ask out of a desire to see representation when it wasn’t
historically accurate. I inquire because there were Black people in
Japan in 1600 ...
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Does Japan have 1.5 million people with severe social withdrawal?
Hikokomiri is a Japanese concept of severe social withdrawal:
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare defines hikikomori as a condition in which the affected individuals refuse to leave ...
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Is the Japanese government encouraging the young to consume more alcohol?
In many western countries governments have been issuing advice on how much alcohol should be consumed as medical opinion about safe consumption levels has become more stringent (see NHS advice here). ...
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Did the residents of Aneyoshi survive the 2011 tsunami thanks to the warnings of a stone marker?
According to Forbes:
In Aneyoshi, a small village on Japan’s northeastern coast, all the inhabitants survived the tsunami of 2011 by climbing to higher ground, following the warnings of a stone ...
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Is Japanese language "cleaner" than English in terms of spreading coronavirus?
I was watching a video from Abroad In Japan channel where Chris Broad, the creator of that channel talks about a TV show in which "experts" discussed about the reasons why number of cases of ...
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Did a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament prize card sell for $2 million USD?
I recently learned about a prize given out for the first ever Yu-gi-oh tournament in Japan in 1999, a stainless steel normal monster Black Luster Soldier. In numerous online english-language articles,...
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Can cremating bodies cause black rain?
There is speculation that the mysterious black rain that Japan had a few months ago was from China cremating bodies, and in particular, mass cremations from coronavirus victims.
7 News: Coronavirus ...
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Are there only 1,200-1,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in India and Japan, as of March 30, 2020?
According to Coronavirus (COVID-19) map, as of March 30th there are only 1,263 confirmed cases in India and 1,866 in Japan.
Meanwhile, there are already 142,000 in US, 9,661 in South Korea, and 41,...
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Is the Dunning-Kruger effect reversed in Japan?
Wikipedia seems to claim so citing a single study:
The study "Divergent Consequences of Success and Failure in Japan and North America: An Investigation of Self-improving Motivations and Malleable ...
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Was Japan required to open its semiconductor patents to the US in a 1989 "deal"?
In a question on politics.SE the following snippet from a South China Morning Post article was quoted:
This was followed by a second five-year semiconductor deal in 1991, in which Japan agreed to ...
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Did WWII Japanese soldiers engage in cannibalism of their enemies?
This Cracked article claims that Japanese soldiers in WWII would eat prisoners of war.
The article claims that there were a number of documented cases of Japanese soldiers engaging in cannibalism:
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Does forest therapy (Shinrin-yoku) improve the immune system?
According to shinrin-yoku.org, forests help to improve the immune system, including the part that fights cancer:
But in the past several decades there have been many scientific studies that are ...
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Do Japanese crows use traffic to crack nutshells?
In a BBC article, its contended that:
In a Japanese city, carrion crows have discovered how to eat nuts that
they usually find too hard to tackle. One method is to drop the nuts
from height on ...
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Are these claims about Japan’s health system true?
The series of claims in the image below has been getting shared around Facebook and are posted from the "Illuminati Exposed" page.
The claims are in the image but I've listed them here
100% of ...
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Are more than 40% of millenials in Japan virgins?
CNN claims that a survey conducted by Japanese government claimed that 42% of men and 44.2% of women between 18 and 34 are virgins.
I'm not exactly doubting about the survey but more about that the ...
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