| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Y | Currency | Yen | 93%
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| B | Most popular spectator sport | Baseball | 92%
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| T | Large sea wave caused by seismic shifts | Tsunami | 88%
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| E | Title of Akihito and Hirohito | Emperor | 86%
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| K | Robe worn on formal occassions | Kimono | 84%
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| J | Type of modern martial art | Judo | 83%
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| S | Traditional Japanese religion | Shintoism | 83%
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| G | Traditional hostess | Geisha | 82%
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| H | Island of Sapporo | Hokkaido | 81%
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| Z | Princess that Link must rescue | Zelda | 72%
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| A | Former prime minister Shinzo | Abe | 70%
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| I | Site of a brutal WWII battle | Iwo Jima | 67%
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| V | These machines contain almost everything you need | {Vending} Machine | 66%
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| U | Type of thick, wheat-flour noodle | Udon | 64%
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| F | Thin mattress on a foldable frame | Futon | 59%
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| P | What Pokémon is short for | Pocket Monsters | 46%
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| C | Business hotel with extremely tiny rooms | {Capsule} Hotel | 38%
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| L | Period of economic stagnation, 1991-2000 | {Lost} Decade | 36%
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| M | Most famous type of Japanese monkey | Macaque | 33%
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| O | Term for a Japanese hot spring | Onsen | 32%
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| D | Parliament of Japan | Diet | 26%
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| N | Stock market index | Nikkei 225 | 25%
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| R | Horror novel by Koji Suzuki | Ring | 25%
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| Q | Fire Pokémon of Ash Ketchum | Quilava | 13%
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| W | Animated biopic of aviation engineer, Jiro Horikoshi | Wind Rises | 9%
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