Trivia quiz questions with answers about Japan
What is the largest city in Japan by population?
Answer: Tokyo.
What is the highest mountain in Japan?
Answer: Mount Fuji.
What is the name of the Japanese currency?
Answer: Yen.
What is the national sport of Japan?
Answer: Sumo wrestling.
What is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding
called?
Answer: Origami.
Who is the current Emperor of Japan?
Answer: Emperor Naruhito.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional theater
form?
Answer: Kabuki.
Which Japanese city is known as the "Venice of Japan"?
Answer: Osaka.
What is the name of the largest and most famous fish
market in Tokyo?
Answer: Tsukiji Fish Market.
Which Japanese car brand is known for producing the
240Z, Skyline, and GT-R sports cars?
Answer: Nissan.
Which city is known as the cultural heart of Japan?
Answer: Kyoto.
What is the name of the Japanese tea ceremony?
Answer: Chanoyu.
What is the Japanese word for "cherry blossom"?
Answer: Sakura.
Which Japanese company is known for producing the
Walkman?
Answer: Sony.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional
dance
form?
Answer: Noh.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional costume?
Answer: Kimono.
Which Japanese author wrote the book "Norwegian Wood"?
Answer: Haruki Murakami.
What is the name of the Japanese bullet
train?
Answer: Shinkansen.
Which Japanese dish consists of raw fish served over
rice?
Answer: Sushi.
What is the name of the Japanese art of flower
arrangement?
Answer: Ikebana.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional puppet
theater?
Answer: Bunraku.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional
swordsmanship?
Answer: Kendo.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional drumming
ensemble?
Answer: Taiko.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional incense
ceremony?
Answer: Kōdō.
Which Japanese video game company is known for
producing the Mario and Zelda games?
Answer: Nintendo.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional footwear?
Answer: Geta.
Which Japanese city is known for its Atomic Bomb Dome?
Answer: Hiroshima.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional puppetry
art?
Answer: Karakuri.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional
calligraphy?
Answer: Shodo.
Which Japanese company is known for producing the Prius
hybrid car?
Answer: Toyota.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional pottery?
Answer: Yakimono.
Which Japanese city is known for its annual snow
festival?
Answer: Sapporo.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional sword?
Answer: Katana.
Which Japanese director is known for making the movie
"Seven Samurai"?
Answer: Akira Kurosawa.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional puppet
theater featuring small puppets?
Answer: Kugutsu.
Which Japanese city is known for its deer population?
Answer: Nara.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional
architecture style?
Answer: Washitsu.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional craft of
folding and dyeing fabric?
Answer: Shibori.
Which Japanese company is known for producing the
bullet train?
Answer: Kawasaki.
What is the name of the Japanese traditional game of
strategy played on a board?
Answer: Go.
