Surprising facts of Japan

    Surprising facts of Japan

In Japan there are more pets than children.

• There is almost no immigration in Japan. The population is 98% ethnic Japanese.
• Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.
• Tokyo is the second most expensive city in the world to live in.

• It’s considered inappropriate to blow your nose in public.
• Japan consists of over 6,800 islands.
• Japan has a ‘suicide forest’. Called ‘the perfect place to die’, the Aokigahara forest. 

• 21% of the Japanese population is elderly, the highest proportion in the world. Japan has more than 50,000 people who are over 100 years old.

• Japanese trains are among the world’s most punctual: their average delay is just 18 seconds!
• Square watermelons are grown by Japanese farmers for easier stack and store. 
• The literacy rate in Japan is almost 100%
• Some men in Japan shave their heads as a form of apology.

• Japan has produced 15 Nobel laureates (in chemistry, medicine and physics), 3 Fields medalists and one Gauss Prize laureate.