Fun Facts on Japan
May 18th 2006 04:54
Fun Japanese Facts?
Well, here you go
Japan has an incredibly high rate of smokers (about 60%), and cigarettes can be bought in venidng machines which can be found all over the place.
Apparantely the japanese word for four and death are the same. I wonder if the language works like English, because if so: "he is four" could have some unfortunate missinterpretations
Also, it seems that Japan has three systems of writing: kanji, hiragana, and katakana. I think they are all used for different things.
Adam
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Actually, I'll check it out and get back to you.
Adam
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1004497.htm
"The Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese word for "four" sounds very like the word for "death"."
So it sounds like both are true. At least if you consider that source to be reliable.
Adam
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in the future i would appreciate more facts tho
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The Japanese word for "9", kuu, also means "sorrow". That's why there are no rooms number 4 or 9 in Japanese hospitals or hotels.
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OMG just talk about the facts lol not that your gay and stuff! i mean come on guys!
But anyway:
Did you know: There are around 1500 earthquakes a year in Japan.
The numbers 4 and 9 are unlucky
and japan is about 70% mountains.
But honestly guys stop the gay stuff its so dumb!
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I live in Japan. Here's some clarification -
The numbers are
ichi - 1
ni -
san -
yon / shi - 4
go -
Four has two meanings - I don't know why, but "shi" comes from the verb "shinu", which means, "to die". Yes, they know it.
There are three writing systems - the kanji, which are chinese characters, hiragana, which are phonetic symbols (a bit like the ABC) and kanakana, which are different symbols for the same phonetics and are used for foreign words
Comment by Anonymous
I live in Japan. Here's some clarification -
The numbers are
ichi - 1
ni -
san -
yon / shi - 4
go -
Four has two meanings - I don't know why, but "shi" comes from the verb "shinu", which means, "to die". Yes, they know it.
There are three writing systems - the kanji, which are chinese characters, hiragana, which are phonetic symbols (a bit like the ABC) and kanakana, which are different symbols for the same phonetics and are used for foreign words
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Pokemon stands for Pocket Monsters, which is what they call it out here.
Laters, douche bags.